/int/ - International

>>5336 If you want broken children, yes

>>5322 I'm a few years older and never looked back. Kids can drag you down, too. It depends on the kind of life you live I guess. Do you have long-term goals and plans?

No monis, hurting liver, can't do my projects.

>>6996 It’s truly liberating to stop thinking about money, everything you truly need to have a rich life is inside of you

This is the official 7000 GET thread! So exciting.

>>7001 No, I dedicated it to wojak

>>7002 I will haunt your dreams tonight.

>>6999 I'm content but I suffer.

Seems I developed a severe allergy to superglue (cyanoacrylate) after repeatedly using it since 2022. One whiff of the stuff and my nose is clogged up for days and I get cancerlike coughs. In a way I'm glad I finally found out what the culprit is, but now I need to find a viable alternative.

>>7233 Araldite?

>>7234 Yes, probably some 2-part epoxy. Gonna go to Jumbo tomorrow and test out some.

>>5244 Trying to get a Job. CEOs tell everyone bullshit about how there's no Fachkräfte, which means they only hire cheap assholes, if they even hire anyone since: 1. You're told that the mails you send out to employers have to be the most creative and unique shit ever to stick out compared to the competition, but you have to like write a shitton of those, and overthinking that shit only holds you back. 2. Then you write the most creative, most employer-dick-sucking, most narcissistic shit ever to sell yourself to the slavers and with or without AI, it gets filtered out by some other AI that identifies AI (which mean, use ONE wrong fucking word and you're out). 3. You have to deliver the best, most professional non-AI portfolio ever, like you're fucking Michelangelo, for a job where you do nothing but prompt, and everyone doing this acts like a super creative marketing genius for not doing shit. 4. Somehow you're surrounded by assholes at Jobcenter seminars who are ignorant and don't do shit, yet they instantly get callbacks for a single fucking job application, while your 10 applications get ignored. Also, if you get rejected and ask for the reason, you don't get one, which is Germany's retarded as fuck nazi brain mentality of not speaking about flaws. 5. Yet you get treatened like an parasite if you're tired of that shit and have enough of fighting over the next job that fires you because they're getting broke, like everytime. Meanwhile you know some BWL asshole getting a higher wage in his first job than you've ever gotten in 17 years, then he acts all high and mighty for never having to try hard in life, and he constantly fucks up at his job and isnt fired, ever. God damnit. First comment when I invited him over was "This place is smaller than expected." Holy shit Bernd never get "friends" they are a waste of your time.

>>7256 You sound very bitter. It's understandable, but don't lose all hope.

>>7290 I was highly motivated, its like a switch turned after I binged The Walking Dead, woke up and was like "What the fuck am I even doing, I have zero purpose to society."

>>7311 Are you applying for open positions or are you cold-calling companies? Do you know people working in the field you're looking for?

>>7311 I see. Purpose doesn't have to be a lowly wage job, so in that regard you're flexible. Even cleaning litter in the forest gives purpose (but no money).

>>7363 Cleaning litter in the forest gives more purpose than most jobs, tbh. At least more than mine.

neighbours don't remove their washing from the communal washing machine when it finishes

>>7394 Neighbours don't leave their laundry in the common washing machine for longer than necessary.

>>6913 > Kids can drag you down. Yes, but they usually are a source of fullfilment. > Long terms goals and plans Honestly, just the typical monetary shit. Saving up for retirement / investing, making sure my significant other is safe should someone happen to me, house, cars, hobbies, etc. But at the end of it, it's kinda pointless, since everything ends with us, and there's simply no one to inherit any of our stuff. I hate the idea to give it to the government and then have that redistributed to some Klimersörgels or worse -- such as Ärzte and Ingeneure from North Africa and the middle East...

>>7394 Buy your own washing machine... They don't cost much.

>>7398 where would I put it?

One time, someone took my wet laundry out of the dryer to dry their own clothes. So, I put their laundry back in the washing machine in a "rinse only" program and put my laundry in my apartment for fear of further escalation.

>>7400 In a 1x1x1 metre space.

>>7402 With a fresh water and a drainage pipe behind it and space in front of it, ideally in a room with a drain on the floor in case of a malfunction. My apartment doesn't have that.

>>7401 You're one evil motherfucker

>>7403 Don't Europeans put them in the kitchen?

>>7405 Some do, some don’t, but I have it in the kitchen

>>7405 Europe is a quite diverse continent. In Switzerland, communal laundry rooms "washing kitchens" in the basement are common.

>>7407 Sound's rather bolshy to me.

>>7408 I don't understand. My dictionary tells me that bolshy means rude. How can a room be rude?

>>7409 Bolshevik. ie it sounds like communism.

>>7410 Buying a washing machine you use every 2 weeks for 3 hours sounds incredibly wasteful.

>>7411 It's actually quite convenient. I can do it whenever I want and I don't have to travel and I can do other things at the same time.

And I don't have to come in contact with poor people.

>>7412 We don't consider walking down 2 flights of stairs "travelling" and the people who live in the same house as you commonly have a similar level of wealth as you. So you only meet poor people if you're poor yourself, at which point you'd be a hypocrite to complain about that.

>>7416 It's travelling compared to not leaving the house. If you lived in a house with rich people they would have their own maids to wash there cloths let alone washing machines... And also, I can hate poor people even if I am poor myself.

>>7417 >And also, I can hate poor people even if I am poor myself. Seconded, but rich ones are equally dumb assholes. Just hate everybody.

>>7420 Statistically untrue.

>>7417 >It's travelling compared to not leaving the house. Maybe I wasn't clear, but the washing kitchen is inside the house. At most you see your neighbours in the hallway. You just mumble "grüezi" and that's it. >If you lived in a house with rich people they would have their own maids to wash there cloths let alone washing machines... I don't live with people that rich, but also if I did, I'd have my own maid and the whole debate would be moot.

>>7422 SO you mean apartment building not house I think? You will have to leave your apparent to go and wash your cloths. Exactly, you live with poor people that can't afford washing machines or maids.

>>7421 Care to demonstrate? >inb4 IQ test scores >>7420 Most people are retarded thoughtless cattle running on auto mode, but that doesn't mean everyone belonging to a specific wealth group is dumb or smart. I'd say the middle class are the dumbest, actually. Either evil or lucky aloof geniuses do exist among the wealthy, albeit extremely rare; it's more common to find a truly intelligent person among the really poor, even if perhaps grossly undereducated, reason they might appear less intelligent to you. >>5244 Trying to get a job in tech. I'm studying CS in uni and as everyone keeps saying: finding jobs is supposed to be very easy in the last few terms before graduating but if you graduate without relevant experience it's near impossible. But of course, even if I wasn't autistic as fuck, the job market right now is in shambles due to the AI craze. I do have a job but it's total BS and also legally I don't actually have a job. Also doesn't help that I'm pushing on 30.

>>7514 What else would you use other than IQ? Or the fact that people who are smarter will obviously do better in life on average and so make more money.

>>7515 It's people who are more social and who have 'people skills' who do better, not necessarily the smartest ones.

>>7529 There are many traits that can assist people but somebody who is smart and social will do better than somebody who is just social. But also there are many people who achieve a lot while being quite anti-social, because they are focused on their work and ambitions and not on going out and socialising.

>>7529 >>7530 It's not just people who are more social, but who fall into a specific demographic. It's been widely known by now that IQ tests have strong cultural and personality-based biases. If you have ever taken a test or seen questions in those tests it slowly becomes more evident. The biggest issue is that this isn't just your standard test where you answer and it's either right or wrong; but someone else, maybe many people, maybe not, looks at your answers and gives you an arbitrary score based on their own opinion. But not only that, in many cases and specially wealthy people will spend money on a test to assure them that they're smart, oftentimes the people with strong financial ties to the institution. Combine that with the previous point and now you see there's a clear conflict of interests. Would you like the test if it came out and they called you an idiot? If you were one of the people who invests in that company or donates to that organization, would you keep doing so? Most people have fragile egos, and rich people, as a normal consequence of their social situation, even more so. And finally, just look at yourself. Do you think you are the same level of intelligent every day at every hour? Do you not have times where you think, do or say a thing and then question yourself? Don't you have days when things just don't seem to come out right and nothing makes sense, and then other days when everything seems so simple? Obviously intelligence fluctuates. So it's a really hard sell to say that you can just sit down at a time and a place within a specific context and you're going to get a an accurate score. But rich people have another problem. Even if they're smart or are born smart or are taught to appear smart... they dumb themselves down over time as they wield the power that money and status gives them. They use money or threats to avoid having to think about stuff and they become accustomed to just not using their brains much.>>7530

>>7669 I agree it has issues but it's the best test we have. Rich people don't get dumbed down by being rich... It obviously takes more brain power to manage a company than it does to flip hamburgers. And I don't think intelligence is changeable to a serious degree anyway. Yes, on different days people might be smarter and such but it would be all within a certain range. People aren't going to be intelligence and then become stupid because they took a vacation for a year or something.

>>7673 >It obviously takes more brain power to manage a company than it does to flip hamburgers. Two problems with that. 1. Rich people pay others to manage their company, or, if they're rich enough, "manage" their company while paying or using their position to threaten other people into fixing or at least taking the blame for their constant fuckups, then they lie so much and with such conviction that they start living that lie; suddenly, they don't have to actually think anything through, if they have an idea they just demand that idea be realized and when it doesn't work or can't be fulfilled or creates more problems they just tell themselves it's not their fault and demand as well it be fixed. For example: I had a boss once who would regularly spend more money bribing lawyers to avoid paying taxes than what it would've taken to just pay an accountant and the taxes properly. And he's not the worst, nor the richest, I've worked for or met. But more often than not the richest will literally just pay someone else, often multiple people, to make all the important decisions while they are nothing more than a figurehead who also takes home the biggest check home (those are actually the smart ones, even if they'll act dumb when confronted). 2. people who flip burgers don't use their entire brainpower to do their burger flipping job. Like the taxes guy? He has literally no hobbies, no interests, and no topics of conversation besides whats most immediately relevant to the goings on of his business. Except for rich people gossip, what's needed for him to network for the promotion of his business. And even other rich people hate him because he has nothing to bring to a social interaction except promoting his business. Burger flipper guy might as least have 1 other thing going on in his life. >People aren't going to be intelligence and then become stupid because they took a vacation for a year No, but people are going to act stupider if they're, for example, nervous or anxious, if they haven't slept well, If something upsetting happened to them that morning, if they're ill or hungry, or not interested in the test, etc. And sure, maybe you don't feel like these or any other number of things could affect IQ test scores significantly, but how could you know? > it's the best test we have. The best... but for what, exactly? For giving you a number with no real meaning that you can make fun graphs with, yeah. For actually telling how smart people are, specially to find trends in populations? nah. Only one curious trend I find in IQ is that people who care a lot and claim to trust IQ tests more tend to be conservative older demographics, yet these same people also complain about how all young people are ignorant imbecilic retards for generally disagreeing with them on social and political issues or having different interests and skills. Yet the real trend in IQ is that younger people consistently score higher with each passing generation.

>>7680 >1 That's the difference between an owner and a boss. I have no problem with bosses making more, as long as the ratio is a reasonable amount. They do have more responsibilities and do other things. Owners, i.e. "my grandfather founded this company 100 years ago so i deserve the biggest cut" are a cancer in society. From a market perspective, they are a liability to the company and from a fairness perspective, they do nothing so they should also get nothing. >>7669 I once did an IQ test as a kid and one of the questions was to find as many advantages of a soft-cover book over a hard-cover book. Good luck for children from families with no books. I only remember that i answered price and weight, which were directly from my own experience. My parents let me choose a book for up to 10 bucks. If the hardcover is 11, i might get the soft cover for 9. And from carrying books to school, I knew to appreciate the lightweight ones. Does it make me more intelligent that my parents had the money and education/interest to buy me books? Probably yes to a fucked-up degree, but that's not what should be tested in my opinion. Otherwise they could just test the income of my parents and make that part of the test as well. I would've failed the question about advantages of smaller boats for example. My parents don't own a boat and i never will. A rich kid might have overheard the parents talk about boat parking fees rising for long boats or some shit. Or maybe you need fewer staff to drive the boat around. I think IQ tests should test the performance in completely new circumstances. Nothing where growing up in a particular class is an advantage or disadvantage.

Having to live with Niggers.