/lounge/ - sushi social

this is nice board

>>17156
>>17136
Please remember the guidelines. Sushigirl (especially /lounge/) is a place for comfyposting and kindness. If you're still running on the pessimistic ethos of 4ch and places like it then you might be better posting over there. Uncomfyness isn't welcome here.

>>17157
Exactly. Kindness costs nothing.

>>17883
If kindness costs nothing why aren't more people kind?

>>17888
Because life is painful and people hate themselves/others. The only way they can justify these feelings is by treating others like garbage.

>>16292
>>16294
Took me long enough but I finally finished it. I made them a house, too. Now I want to fence this area and make a second house for when they grow up.

>>16291
Might as well update on the kitchen too, it's nice to see how different it looks.
It's been a busy summer, but we're close to finishing all our projects!

Replaced seven old slat vents with rusted out screens with new grate vents. They got some fancy temperature controlled open/close mechanism on them, we'll see how that works out. Would have been a trivial project except that the siding was installed hanging over the vents so I had to cut out some sections.

>>17024
I didn't know primitive survival posted on sushigirl!

>>17023
>>17024
That is seriously impressive and cool!
Love the ducks they're cute

I think it's undeniable to come to the conclusion - if you do any sort of retrospective and introspective thinking - that we live in the time of kali yuga. "the age of quarrel and hypocrisy"
Everything appears fine and dandy to you, especially if you happen to live in a secure working or middle class environment. But you probably never stop to ponder exactly whose sacrifice and backs are broken from the oppressive nature of capitalism which provides that security for you. To be honest, it is quite selfish to say "we live in the greatest age known to man" when you are perfectly aware that the so-appearing flourishment of our civilization is only made possible through exploitation of the less fortunate. Ultimately though this myth most likely arises not only from your own dishonesty but also ignorance. I would recommend you at least read Rene Guenon or David Bentley Hart

>“But I don’t believe in the myth of progress. If he literally means that we have emerged into a period moral superiority in every sphere, I mean, yes, Western industrial societies flourish and they look after their own, they’re also complicit in many more discrete violence’s, violence’s that are hid from everyday view, wars that are not fought on their own soil, exploitation of other peoples, their resources, their economies. The use of…cheap labor in China to mass produce products to give us a level of material comfort that allow us to look after one another. Yes, we have altered the way in which we go about enacting our violence’s, we have drawn in our borders a bit, and we do in modern societies have functioning welfare states that are somewhat more provident toward our own, but the notion that we’re better off now morally, that morally we’ve advanced in an unambiguous way, and in every sense, and because we’ve thrown off religion, as if religion existed in the abstract and we’re a single monolithic reality, or as if religion were to blame for the atrocities of the twentieth century, which is the age of the great march forward of the secular national state as a project, I think it’s just a wild over-simplification, and a dangerous one, because I think it allows one a degree of a moral complacency and optimism not warranted by history….”

>“It’s a realist view to recognize that just because we tell ourselves that we’re morally superior to our ancestors when you actually get down to the ways in which our society isPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

I wanna decent holiday to relax & recharge..

>>4636
People just don't know where to look for information and learning resources in general. While it is true that most books and scientific articles are behind a paywall, there is a considerable amount of solutions to get access without paying anything (pirate libraries are ironically the largest libraries in human history).
Yet, most people are not aware of these solutions since they have a biased perspective about how one makes a business out of a web service. That being said, maybe these solutions wouldn't exist if they suddenly become mainstream.

>>17869
True. Also True. True. Yeah that's the problem: I'm stuck trying to figure out how to pull a salivary stone out when I can't even make cereal.

>>4817
Here, take this with you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAFHQobvqXI
>>4818
Yeah don't do that please also that's not even a real place.

I have dreams that are either about romance, architecture, or night terrors that I'd rather not get into because uncomfy. Usually the romance and architecture ones seem to merge. I had a dream recently about being in this mansion on the water intentionally shaped like a boat where I would have nice, cozy times with this girl I really like and been talking to (outside of dream). We would cuddle in the night, and occasionally invite our friends over for karaoke and movies that were projected on this huge living room screen and make nice dinners in the kitchen together. It was really surreal but I honestly loved the dream and have been cherishing it in my head for some time since I had it.

>>17845
That sounds wonderful, I hope this warmth stays with you.
Many years ago I had a dream like that, and every once in a while something reminds me.
Even now, the strength of feeling it evokes amazes me.

>>17860
Me again, I guess I was thinking about that dream, and how I'd explain it to someone.
I realised to explain the feeling fully, I needed to explain a little about someone in it, and in exploring that I realised it was a feeling I'd carried with me more than half my life, and never mentioned.
So here you go rolls, the rambling secrets of an insufferable fool.
We met in the first year of high school, which where I'm from means around 14 years old.
We grew to be pretty good friends, and in time I developed pretty strong feelings for her. I didn't think she was interested, and I valued the friendship, so I kept it to myself.
Over time we drifted apart, took different paths in life.
She ended up dating an exceptionally dull classmate, at the time it was a bitter feeling, but I moved on.
Through talking out those feelings, and some similar ones in return I ended up very close to her then best friend, now one of my closest friends.
We both moved away to study, and drifted further still. We met up a few times after that, but she wasn't the person I once knew.
The last time we spoke she was utterly preoccupied with money, and virtue signalling to her fancy new friends. The dull classmate had dumped her, and she was now dating a guy with very wealthy parents, and who was absolutely smitten with her, but had all the personality of a damp paper towel. She was telling me how great everything was going, but it felt so forced, so unnatural.

I'd been going through a bit of a low patch myself, and I sort of expected the meet up to bring back some pangs of youthful yearning, of tragic unrequited love.
But instead it was just sad. To see the wonderful little weirdo I used to know leading a life I know she would have once found abhorrent. Aspiring to things I don't think she really wanted, and settling for easy conveniences over following her passions.

>>17861
Sometimes I wonder, what if we had got together all those years ago? I doubt it would have lasted, but perhaps it would have set her down a different path. Perhaps could have held on to the wonder and beauty she used to see in the world, and made peace with who she was, instead of reshaping herself to another's mould.
But back then I didn't really know what was coming, and the suspicions I had I didn't really credit.
I'd have been going against what I thought was best for her then in persuit of my own teenage horniness.
And if things had gone my way from the start, might I have ended up the same way? For sure my experience back then shaped who I am today.

It's all very presumptuous of course. I've no good reason to believe I know what's best for anyone. But what I wouldn't give to find out what might have been.
In recent years I've come to realise she's probably pretty autistic and didn't really know how to make sense of her feelings and others advances back then.
The life she was living when we last met was perhaps a mask she adopted to fit in with the people she saw as successful.
I hope it's not that simple, I'd much rather believe she really is happy with what she's got. But it's hard to believe…
And of course, that was years ago too. Perhaps she has moved on, and found herself. That would be the best outcome.

That's kind of what the dream was about. It came to me a few years after that last meeting.
There has been some kind of apocalyptic event, I don't know what exactly, but there was noone around but the two of us.
We were working on a farm, planting potatoes and digging channels for irrigation. It was hard work, the sun was fiercely hot, she was complaining constantly and I was finding it harder and harder to put up with.
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>>17862
Apologies for the blog post, I typed the whole thing on my phone in the tiny reply box. It was so long (or perhaps so self indulgent) the server wouldn't accept it in one go.
I don't really know why anyone would want to read it, but I do know one of the things I love most about this place is reading the little pieces of themselves others share, without any real reason or reward.
Touching fragments of humanity, floating in a big cozy soup.

But, finally, I have made it back on topic.
The last dream I can remember started with my next door neighbour climbing in my bedroom window to ask me where I got my alarm clock because he really liked the sound. I explained it was from Lidl, and I'm not sure if they still sell them. I offered him mine, but he declined. We both had a cup of tea, I let him back out the front door and went off to work.
It seemed a perfectly casual interaction at the time

Good night
Sleep tight
For the Future

Zzzzz…..
I must sleep and rest well.

To sleep, perchance to dream

Dream of tanks

Dream a little dream for me..

>>17776
>>17778
Learning the blocks of a language is good to start. I think sushis are recommending phrases because languages are a tacit knowledge like learning to swim or dance or play a video game where you need to be "in" the language to learn new stuff through it. I've learned in my own experience that comprehensible input and immersion are the absolute best way to acquire a language.

>>17776
>i was going about it all wrong then
Nobody's wrong because nobody knows how to study and nobody teaches you, I suspect educators proactively truncate our early learning abilities. You learn how you learn as you go, in effect, learning.

>>17776
>i'll be flying in to Tokyo
Enjoy the stay there. What in Tokyo are you interested in?
https://www.timeout.com/tokyo

>>17795
besides the obvious of going to Akihabara i'm really interested in the food, the city sights, the nature, honestly just kinda taking in the culture in general. one of my favorite aspects of travel is experiencing how people from all across the world live their lives. might sound a bit lame but i'm excited to even just take the trains and walk the streets and appreciate the differences that native Tokyo residents experience daily. really puts into perspective how big the world is! as an American i'd love to try and chat up some locals but from my experience most places (including Japan?) are weird about talking to strangers so i'll have to act with tact and hope i can stumble upon someone less reserved.
>>17778 >>17779 >>17788
fair enough. i seem to be doing just fine with learning individual words and grammar so i was surprised the sushi said to focus on full phrases. i don't think it's a bad idea though, i'm going to make some flashcards of common phrases i can think of or maybe sentences that accentuate the differences in English and Japanese grammar. i've been watching youtube videos on comprehensible input which helps with this as well. a mix of both full phrases and individual building blocks is probably how i'll move forward.

>>17683
I've learned absolute pitch (for C, D, and E)!!!
They said it was impossible, that I was "practically tone deaf", but I did it! Look at me now!!! HAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAH

The way I see it, compassion is the existence of strength combined with the will to use it for good. A person that is only nice to people who are stronger than them and could hurt them isn't compassionate, they are a coward. A compassionate person is kind to others that they are stronger than and could easily hurt for gain or ignore for convenience. This extends to animals and children as well. Even if you don't consider yourself to be very strong or influential, there will always be someone or something below you. A compassionate person doesn't just allow the weaker to survive, they go out of their way to help those who are weaker than themselves and give them the same fighting chance at life that they themselves have.

>>14445
You gotta have trust.

>>14592
And put your faith into something strong.

Showing compassion for the reprehensible can be a strength. Showing genuine compassion for people society hates or loves to shit on is hard.

>>6375
compassion is beauty
beauty shall save the world

>>7250
Overcrook club its back for whoever its interested the mods said they're still working on it but i posted there and its working.

>>15209
How do i get there the old domain gives an 404

>>15776
Its 404 for me now too its been 2 days

>>16160
Maintnence, its back now

>>7250
Bicycling, bicycling. La la laaaaaaaa.

>>15484
Just read it, listen to the original songs, and listen to the albums made for the show honestly. It's really sad it turned out the way it did but for a lot of people, it felt like the actualization of characters they helped establish as fans, so there's lots of nostalgia.

>>15488
moar like mekaku shitty actors amirite

>>15488
that's more or less what I remember of it as well

>>15484
I enjoyed it

>>5830
You better believe it…

>>14576
dont go nocturnal if possible

>>5327
I try to go to bed by 12PM. Naturally I'm a night owl so I like to stay up at night because it's so peaceful so it's a good time to reflect and so on… But I also find that waking up early can be empowering and makes me want to be more productive, because mentally I feel like I'm "ahead" of everyone else because they're sleeping while I'm already up and ready.

Cold is making me sleep earlier…
ZZZZZZZZZzzzzzz

>>5534
>9AM
>4PM
That's been roughly my sleeping pattern for the past 5 years now. Sometimes I end up awake between 1:30 and 3:00. Before that I was at 6AM to 2PM for around 19 years. Things certainly seemed more balanced with the 6AM to 2PM schedule I had. I barely ever get to experience sunlight anymore unless I force myself to stay up all day during a day off which kills all of my energy for almost the entire next work week. I ironically try to powernap during my lunch breaks half of the time and skip meals a lot to attempt to balance anything out as well as to maximize my free time when I can.

>>14577
with working 1st shift i normally sleep from 11pm to 7am on the weekdays. my gym closes at noon on Saturday specifically so i sleep usually from 1am to 10am or so on Friday into Saturday. Saturday into Sunday i sleep basically whatever i want since it's the only day of the week i can stay up late and sleep in late. catch me laying in bed until 3pm on Sunday mornings lol.

i used to work night shift for a couple years but honestly i think i prefer the more normal schedule of 1st shift. i feel more like a functioning human being when i wake up early in the day lol.