>>25553673
R: 39 /
F: 8
> there was no russification in USSR!
< tertiary education was entirely in russian
> b-b-b-but how can you make a Latvian and an Uzbek working in chelyabinsk understand each other?
< Why do they need to understand each far away from their homelands?
> reeeeeee nazi xoxol liberast!!1!
Literally every time when sovok tries to refute the colonial nature of ussr.
>>25553861
R: 34 /
F: 6
its very clear the era of humanitarian wars, moral foreign policy, rules based order is ending. 1989-2025. We now enter a multipolar world in which countries will be competing blocs, a world where might makes right and the big fish eat the little fish.
Everyone seems to have realized it except the EU and the UK.
>>25553556
R: 43 /
F: 11
I hate cockholes because they devolved the meaning of freedom. There is no freedom in Ukraine. Human hunters catch men on the streets and throw them into meat grinder. Journalists are disappearing. Internet is controlled. People are not allowed to speak their native language. The nazi salut became the official salut. Propaganda and lie is everywhere. and they say that they are fighting for freedom. They deliberately mismatch freedom with independence. They speak like they are already democracy but not the most corrupted country in Europe. Pigs should allowed to talk about freedom. Don’t touch this this word with your nazi mouths. Don’t dare speak about freedom while you are nazi cockholes from an authoritarian fail state.
Russia-NATO war is inevitable at this point
R: 306 /
F: 76
Recently Putin divided Western military district into two: Moscow and Leningrad districts.
What he do it for? Simple. Because it's attack Baltic states from two directions. Moscow district will strike though Belarus to Latvia and probably Poland isolating Baltics from NATO. Leningrad will strike Latvia and Estonia. Don't forget Putin has nuclear weapons in Belarus.
>Ha-ha, russian are dying in thousands in Ukraine, what are you talking about?
Yeah, don't forget that the amount of military personnel in Baltic states is less than 50.000. Russias military reserve - 25 millions. It took 16 days for Russia to defeat Georgia.
War will spark in this year.
Why?
1. West hesitates. Hungary opposes NATO, Scholz is afraid to provoke Russia, republicans block aid.
2. US elections. Trump. They're not gonna fight for 1.5 million of people living in Baltic.
3. NATO supply shortages.
4. Russia is in a state of war. Constantly from now on.
5. Putin has only one strategy - raising the stakes.
So, Bernd, prepare for war. Buy your own gear, weapons, take care of your body, health, teeth and so.
War is inevitable.
If you disagree you're either an idiot or a russian agent.
Mobnik finally got big news
R: 305 /
F: 49
Guess what? Yeah I'm alive, but that's not it. Brief summary:
We moved from Robotyne to the Mariinka direction. You might heard of Pobyeda, a tiny village with lots of fighting. The situation there was and is extremely hard even by our standards. Our command sent people to the village itself, they got killed, vounded and eventually evacuated. Thanks god I wasn't one of them. Then we started building a defensive line on its outskirts. The pidors allowed us to do it for some reason despite their full control of the sky. I helped load logs onto an m113, unload them on site and dig the trenches. People died during that process as well, but in smaller numbers.
But then our company computer guy got demobilized, so I took his place. It was an awful job and a shitshow, but I managed.
But wait, there's more, and it's the main part. After a week or so I got an offer to go to a rear unit from my m8, and I gladly took it. It seems like they offered it to everyone who had served since the creation of the brigade and didn't commit any fuckups aka СЗЧ, drunken misconduct, etc
Long story short, I'm lying on a shitty bed somewhere in western Ukraine right now. I'm not sure for how long they'll let me stay here and do some silly duties, but I think I got at least a few months before they throw me to another combat brigade.
So, happy ending of the mobnik saga?
>>22777956
R: 178 /
F: 40
Imbecile nephew thread
Two years ago that retard I can't believe that we are relatives by blood already was punished by a school principal, but I settled the problem. He said in the patriotic education lesson that V and Z symbols means Vladimir Zelensky and yelled Slava Ukraini. On Friday the fool wrote a little poem in English class, something like
...45 000 of bravest men
Who died in vain
On empty wastelands of Ukraine
An English teacher she was employed during my school years and we are kinda frens wrote me in socials and told about it, saying that she must tell a principal about it, but she pretends that poem doesn't exist.
How can I explain my relative stop doing this shit? I know that it was based according to KC, but I don't want that retard will be conscripted just after he graduated from school for his behaviour. His teachers are almost 100% pidorashkas and they are already watching him carefully.
>>19285583
R: 359 /
F: 59
The concept of "god" is so alien and unnecessary to me I don't understand why people even introduced it. Not to mention it's totally groundless. It's like believing in Santa Clause or the bogeyman. People should be embarrassed to admit they believe in such things.
Emigrating-
R: 160 /
F: 41
I have a job offer in Norway. Its roughly the same salary (~90k) in Oslo. I am undecided.
After spending so much time on KC I am convinced that Germany is a shithole that is doomed to fail and we will either all be replaced by arabs or a civil war will happen.
However, its still my home country. Should I really emigrate? I have a good job and salary here and most importantly, is Norway even better than Germany, or am I just delaying the inevitable by another decade with leaving this shithole?
Pls help Norge Bernds ;_; How is life? Whats Oslo like? I am already at A2 in Norwegian and lived abroad for 2 years, so its less about moving somewhere else, but this time a full emigration because of problems which might actually not be that serious but I fear /b/ has warped my mind
>>19287666
R: 100 /
F: 8
Can't get over the fact my gf has fucked other men, when the post nut clarity hits I feel disgusted towards her being just a cum dumpster, how can men marry with such feels?
>>19288026
R: 114 /
F: 24
Wagner chief Prigozhin tells Zelensky to abandon 'encircled' Bakhmut.
Ukraine, you have fucking lost.
On the etymology of Jareth, from the film Labyrinth (1986): [2nd take]
Bernd
Tue, 25 Feb 2025 00:04:50 GMT
No. 25506136
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The name Jareth was an invention between Jim Henson, Brian Froud, Dennis Lee and Terry Jones for the movie, but I can’t find anything that specifies which of the four actually came up with the name, although Terry Jones was the main draft writer for the script. After some light research, it is suggested that Jareth is a compound name between Jared and Gareth. https://www.behindthename.com/name/jareth, https://www.ancestry.com/first-name-meaning/jareth. One thing that’s repeated but never substantiated, is that Jareth means “gentle”, but I couldn’t find anything to substantiate this claim. This is in conjunction with a bunch of other low quality information, or just blatant misinformation surrounding it.
https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h3382/kjv/wlc/0-1/ Jared (ירד), hebrew for “to descend/descender” https://www.abarim-publications.com/Meaning/Jared.html, is the name of the son of Mahalaleel, and is the father of the second Enoch as mentioned in Genesis chapter 5. The Anchor Bible Dictionary (1992), by David Freedman, says such on the etymology of Jared: “Explanations for the name Jared include: the Hebrew word for “rose” (Noth IPN, 231); the Akkadian word for “servant,” (w)ardu (HALAT 2: 416); the Arabic word for “courageous”; the Hebrew root, yrd, “to descend.” Noth’s analysis is possible, but it lacks parallels. While the use of the Akkadian (w)ardu in personal names is extremely common, the word does not appear in W Semitic. There is a replaced by the root ᶜbd, which is rendered abdu in cuneiform. The suggestion of an Arabic cognate also reaches outside of the W Semitic world for a comparison. On the other hand, the Hebrew root, yrd, “to descend,” does appear in W Semitic personal names.” Pg 644 (volume III)
The James Strong Exhaustive Concordance (1990), pg 120 of the Hebrew dictionary, states the following on the root word of Jared: “yarad, yaw-rad’; a prim root; to descend (lit. to go downwards; or conventionally to a lower region, as a shore, a boundary, the enemy, etc.; or fig. to fall); caus. to bring down (in all the above applications): - (come, go, etc) down {340x}, descend {18x}, variant {2x}, fell {2x}, let {1x}, abundantly {1x}, down by {1}, indeed {1x}, put off {1x}, light off {1x}, out {1}, sank {1x}, subdued {1x}, take {1x}. Yarad means “to descend, to go down, come down.” (1) Basically, this verb connotes “movement” from a higher to a lower location. (1a) In Gen 28:12, Jacob saw a “ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.” (1b) In such a use, the speaker or observer speaks from the point of destination, and the movement is downward” toward him, and the movement is “downwards” toward him. (1c) Thus one may “go down” below or under the ground’s surface: And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up” (Gen 24:16). (1d) The speaker may also speak as though he stands at the point of departure and the movement is away from him and “downwards.” (1d1) Interestingly, one may “go down” to a lower spot in order to reach a city’s gates (Judg 5:11) or (1d2) to get to a city located on a lower level than the access road (1 Sa 10:8)–(1d3) usually one goes up to a city and “goes down” to leave a city (1 Sa 9:27). (1d4) The journey from Palestine to Egypt is referred to as “going down” (Gen 12:10). This reference is not a movement in space from a higher to a lower spot; it is a more technical use of the verb. (2) Yarad is used frequently of “dying.” (2a) One “goes down” to his grave. Here the idea of spatial movement is present, but in the background. (2b) This “going down” is much more of a removal of the world of conscious existence: “For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. The living, the living, he shall praise thee...” (Is 38:18-19). (2c) On the other hand, “going down to the dust” implies a return to the soil—i.e., a return of the body to the soil from which it came (Gen 3:19). “All they that go down to the dust shall bow before him...” (Ps 22:29). (2d) There is also the idea of the “descent” of the human soul into the realm of the dead. When Jacob mourned over Joseph whom he thought to be dead, he said: “For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning” (Gen 37:35). (2e) Since one can “descend” into Sheol alive as a form of punishment (Num 16:30), this phrase means more than the end of human life. (2f) This meaning is further established because Enoch was rewarded by being taken off the earth: “And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.” (Gen 5:24); he was rewarded by not having “to descend” into Sheol.
Like with Jareth, it has been repeated, yet never substantiated, that Gareth means “gentle”. If I had to guess where this comes from, it is likely from poor phonetic translation. The first recorded instance of the name Gareth is from Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d'Arthur (1485), the brother of Sir Gawain, and the main character of Book VII. Sir Kay refers to Sir Gareth as Beaumains: “I shall give him a name that shall be Beaumains, that is Fair-hands” Pg 178. “My name is Gareth of Orkney, and King Lot was my father, and my mother is King Arthur’s sister, her name is Dame Morgawse, and Sir Gawaine is my brother, and sir Agravaine and Sir Gaheris, and I am the youngest of them all.” Pg 193 (Book VII).
It also says here https://nightbringer.se/the-legend-of-king-arthur/arthurian-characters/b-persons-in-the-arthurian-legends/beaumains/ that Beaumains shares a connection to “Fair Unknown” whose name was hidden and then revealed to be Gunglain, A son of Sir Gawain and Blanchemal the Faery (Blanch means bleach. Emal is supposedly a suffix to indicate a process https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/emal, so her name would translate to Bleacher). This is also supported by the book “The Great Book of King Arthur & His Knights of the Round Table” (2022)”, by John Matthews, which contained a chapter titled: The Adventure of the Fair Unknown. Called Libeaus Desconus by King Arthur, and his quest to the Desolate City and his fight with the enchanter, Mabonagrain, there. “I tell you now that your true name is Guinglain. You are the son of Gawain and Blachemal the Faery” Pg 97. However, it should also be noted that in the chapter “The Wedding of Gawain and the Lady Ragnall”, it says that Lady Ragnall was the mother to Gunglain. “Gawain and Ragnall were joyful together thereafter and in due time the lady bore a son whom they named Gunglain” Pg 305. He also meets a princess called White Hands on his adventure. “This place is a dreadful place. Within it lives a damsel of great beauty called the Maiden of the White Hands. She is schooled in the seven liberal arts, knows the mystery of the stars, and the ways of enchantment." pg 92. Her appearance in the story is pivotal to the plot, as she is the love of Guinglain, and behind all the events of the plot: “Then she confessed that she had always known Guinglain would come, that he would leave her and return. Indeed, the whole of his great adventure had been her doing. She it was who had sent Helie to Arthur’s court to ask him for help. It was her voice that announced his true name after he had braved the serpent’s kiss. ‘You see, my love I have been waiting for you this long time’” Pg 100. This indicates some symbolic connection between the two subjects. Either way, this has some symbolic connection to Gareth’s story in Malory’s work, and Fair Unknown and White Hands are both connected to the meaning of Gareth and his nickname of Beaumains. However, I’m unable to find anything at all on the name Guinglain, so there I’m completely unsure of any meaning. Here https://www.behindthename.com/name/gareth it proposes that the origin of Gareth can be either Gwrhyd (valor), or Gwairydd (hay lord). However, when I look for the suffixes of “hyd” by itself, the definition seems less sure. When I look for hyd, all I can find is the prefix hydr https://www.etymonline.com/word/hydraulic, which is derived from a Greek origin, not Welsh. However, on this site https://wtname.com/gareth/ it asserts that “gar” means “spear” and “et” means “hand/rule”, and that Gareth descends from gwalch. “It is derived from the Welsh words “gwalch” meaning “hawk” and “ur” meaning “hand” or “rule”. Therefore, the name Gareth can be interpreted to mean “spear rule” or “ruler with a hawk-like vigilance”. Although the site lacks proper citations for these claims, it asserts the “reth” of Gareth to mean “rule”, which corresponds with “rydd” meaning “lord”, which reassures me that the name relates to rulership. As for the first syllable, Gar is straight from the old English Gar (ᚸ ), which comes from old Germanic Gebo (X) of the elder futhark runes. I’m also reminded of the name Edgar, which means “great spearman”, or “great gift”. https://www.behindthename.com/name/edgar “Derived from the Old English elements ead "wealth, fortune" and gar "spear"”. So from that I’m reassured that gar is Anglo-Saxon (which is Old English), and means “spear”, and reth, which comes from Welsh “rydd”, means “hand/rule/lord”. Gareth would then be itself a compound of Welsh and Anglo-Saxon, and means several things: “spear in hand”, “spear ruler”, “spear lord”. It could even have a meaning like “gift in hand”, “gift ruler”, or “gift lord” based on the older definitions. This also coincides with Sir Kay’s nickname of Sir Gareth being Beaumains, which also refers to the hands, which is enough to make me confident that this is the correct meaning.
If I take this into consideration, I can thereby assume that Jareth, as a compound, means “descended lord”, or “lord of the descended (underworld)”. The Labyrinth that Jareth rules over as the Goblin King is the Underworld, the realm of imagination, which can only be entered by traveling south (aka: descending). This also ties into the Hebrew use of descent into Sheol, which was the underworld. However, I also noticed an alternate interpretation in the name. If I separate the syllables of ja and reth, I wouldn’t actually have Jared, I would simply have “ja” (יָהּ) https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h3050/kjv/wlc/0-1/, which phonetically is a contraction used to refer to God (as the starting syllable of Jahwey/Jehovah (יְהֹוָה)) https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h3068/kjv/wlc/0-1/. Therefore, one could also read it as “God is LORD”, this is relies on the phonetic similarities, rather than etymology. There is an even more subtle translation of this interpretation, which is “God’s hand”, which I won’t explain. What I can decipher is a name with two meanings of interpretation simultaneously. You can take either interpretation, or both.
As an ending thought, this word is a strong example of the lingual connection between Hebrew and Welsh that is often overlooked, but that’s a much more intricate topic to get into. If anyone reading, especially those with a better understanding of Hebrew or Welsh than me, wants to provide more insight to this, please share.
Bernd
Tue, 25 Feb 2025 02:34:58 GMT
No. 25506591
if you steal something that's not being used, while inconvenient to the owner at some point, actually increases productivity, and if the owner had the same mindset as the thief, and stole one when he needed it, no productivity would be lost.
stealing to destroy or sell for money is bad. Stealing to use is acceptable.