/lounge/ - sushi social

>>24106
>I like the virtual TV network idea, though. Fake-out old timey ad breaks are a nice touch.
thanks, glad you like it. also, not all the channels are fake. seven of them are real live tv channels from around the world.

we even have a channel that is a CCTV-like setup with real security camera feeds from all over the city of Detroit (where most of our community is based)

forgive me if you already knew all that but i noticed lots of people often dont realize theres a channel guide or how to browse the other channels on the TV site lol

Why does FL Studio use so much complicated terminology for what is essentially "this is how you have an effect stop/start mid song"? I just recently learn its not called effect automation but enable automation. I've been noticing weird stuff like this and complicated controls in a bunch of "industry-standard" stuff like DAWs and Adobe products. I have a conspiracy theory that its to make learning programs difficult to maintain a level of prestige and sell courses or justify college kids learning them in school. Because if you think about it, thats a great way to cross sell.

Why do people flirt with me? Why do people try to ask me on dates? I just want to read manga. The 3DPDs are trying to distract me from the quest God gave me at birth: playing DnD and DnD adjacent video games. I will not allow any 3DPD to make me feel bad about being a drow lover!!!

>>24179
might be part of it, but I think another part is "the guy who coded this thought it was a good name and the existing users are accustomed to it now so we're going to keep using it even though it doesn't make sense."

>>24180
the literal definition of suffering from success

>>24083
Thank you for warning me about this. I'll keep this in mind.

>>24021
>>24083
You might know the "canary in the coal mine" idiom.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/canary_in_a_coal_mine
>the gases would kill the canary before killing the miners, thus providing a warning to exit the tunnels immediately
That's the "extreme danger", because the point where you notice something is wrong could be past the point of no return.

>>23925
What constitutes safety training?
>>24021
What mines exist around me fill the mainshaft when they're finished with concrete to seal it off. I think it's a shame and needlessly restrictive/wasteful, if they are to do anything it would be cooler if they flooded it, presuming the conditions of the mine don't toxify the liquid. Then it could at least be used for scuba diving (certification required as well as backup lighting both on-person and through generator-switch if safety concerns must be appeased) and at most be used in an attempt to create a subterranean waterbody ecosystem by introducing suitable fauna in the right order. Alternatively, a more pragmatic use would be to convert them to bomb bunkers whether for people or for crucial goods, the elevator and venting infastructure already exists if the mine is manned, and having more of them can't possibly be a bad thing.

>>24162
Very rarely could you deliberately flood a mine, it's not like minecraft where rocks prevent all water from entering or exiting the hole, there's usually a groundwater connection and the mine will naturally flood up to the groundwater table once the mining company stops pumping out the water. Mines (like caves) can also temporarily flood to higher levels during rainstorms which is another thing that can make them dangerous to explore.

Additionally, depending on the geology of the site, the mining may expose sulfide minerals which will quickly acidify water, and may expose heavy metals which will also readily dissolve in said acidified water. Or salt mines will be so saline that almost nothing can live in the water. They generally do not make for good aquatic habitats.

You could use the areas above the high flood line for storage or something I guess. The issue becomes maintaining the equipment for safe access.

>>24164
I didn't think of the porosity going both ways, which considering the weight of water above the table, yeah, would cause recess. Although maybe there'd be a chance for intake to exceed outtake in wetter locations. Thankfully the solubility of something in water allows it to be pumped out, so maybe troglohaven could still work, since it doesn't depend on a stable water level, but the effort and time wouldn't be done for the novelty unless the soluble resource was efficiently attained that way. I imagine this would likely extend to any use, but maybe some agro-industrial use of a resevoir could carry enough incentive for a wet use to have merit. For dry use, How difficult would it be to permanently seal? If the pumping is generally done out of practacaility as opposed to neccessity I would think you could have foresight on future conversion and seal it from the start. I wonder if the pressure differential far enough down could be useful for anything. Because similarly, part of the appeal of converting it for storage/shelter use is also that it's very stable in temperature.

This isn't really a reply and more of a restatement; but given the variety of incentives of using things underground along with difficulties/expense in excavating, and that the severity of issues with doing so are contextual, even if it doesn't work in most circumstances there's enough potential incentive for repurposing to be considered, such that sealing it in a way that impedes future repurposing is still dumb even if an immediate use doesn't seem practical. Only in an area where the subsidence of the mine is an issue would it seem wise. Although, in retrospect they probably just seal the entrance most of the time, which would be boring but not worthy of the same distaste.

Also your pic reminded me of hearing about how some ant's construct their hills in ways to deal with flooding, would you by chance know of any interesting information sources related to them or other crafty bugs?

I am hereby committing to one hour of meditation daily for two weeks, excluding Fridays, sessions can be split or not. Since I have so much trouble keeping a routine of any kind I figure this is a good start

i want to learn painting so want to do at least 1 hour painting a day..

>>24126
What would you paint? Sometimes I want to paint leaves and small insects.

I spend too much time online, for a week I would like to stop playing video games and spend one hour a day reading

If you have to write down a commitment here, at an ib, you're not serious about it at all.

>>23459
it took me about a minute looking at everything but the tower trying to figure out where that is

Yeah

Cursed by design

>>24174
this is cute

I like Top Gun…

浪浪山小妖怪/Langlang Mountain's Little Monsters

I havea weird taste in movies, I basically only care about the color, framing and sound. Picrel is from Daytrippers (1996) that I wateched recently. If you had shown me this picture before knowing anything about the movie I would've been hooked immediately, don't even care about the plot at all.

Dungeon Soup's CHAOTIC GOOD BARBARIAN

>>17393
Rosetta is an awesome movie. I highly recommend checking the other works from the directors too. La promesse was one I really liked too.

I typically mix vodka with more vodka. My liver (and my stomach) isn't too happy about this. I would personally recommend water with less ethanol in it if you plan on mixing drinks.

Mocktail time. Slam every drink without alcohol together. I'm partial to the Brasilian Guaraná Antarctica drink though.

>>23886

Ooooh, you bring back memories sushi

I used to mix vodka with water whenever I didn't want to spend money on soda. Life changing experience, let me tell you

Id pour around 3 or 4 cups of 50% vodka and 50% water, and that would get you going for at least a few hours

>>24137
Making a limonade with syrup + lemon juice, but instead of soda using tonic water, it feels like a real fkin cool cocktail

>>23393
Jager with red bull if you're a deadass like mee

>>20144

April of last year, I was looking a bit puffy. I'm 163 cm and I was pushing 63 kg. I know 24 is a healthy BMI, but I wanted to look better. I was a year into uni and the Freshman 15 was not kind to me lol

Anyway. I got this fancy Bluetooth scale from Walmart that tracks your body fat %. That's the real number you want to look at.

>But I'm not sure how to get rid of the belly fat.
What I did was go on a mild calorie deficit, did 30 minute bodyweight workouts at home every day, and measure myself on the scale here and there. I'm now 53 kg. Not really muscular tho. More skinny lean - like a homeless crackhead, or Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver - but I view it as an improvement. Hope this helps sushi. best of luck

>>24052
>I got this fancy Bluetooth scale from Walmart that tracks your body fat %
How does this work?

>>24054
it takes a core sample

>>24067
I am even more confused, I get nothing relevant to "body fat core sample" outside of some X-ray methods that I am pretty sure are not built into consumer products.

>>24069
That looks like a large razor for big hair.

it's not my birthday but i'm posting anway(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)

Another roundabout across the sun.
May I get very drunk this night

it's Sakura's birthday…

I turn 33 today! My life's not in the best spot, but that's been true for a while, and I feel things are finally beginning to pick up now.
I can't quite pinpoint the cause, but I've finally got a good routine down, and it doesn't take too much time like previous routines. I'm actually reaching a point in the day where it's time to send out some job applications and do some errands rather than getting bogged down in the to-dos I've planned to run beforehand. I'm very happy with my progress and new-found budding stability. It seems I have a reasonable reason to hope for the future.
Getting a full-time job. Moving out and supporting myself. Joining communities. I feel ready to attempt to really enter society now. Maybe at my next birthday, things'll be really different! I look forward to seeing what the future holds!

>>22516
How strange. Was this really me, just a year ago?

Many things can happen in a year. I have left my dead-end airline job to be paid reasonably well for writing strange spells in unorthodox languages full of parentheses. I've made friends with likeminded people, that I feel that I can rely upon. I am learning things, and building things. I have something resembling a routine, and some sense of progress. If this gambit works out, then we're laying the foundation for things that might outlive us all. If not, hell, at least I'm having fun.

But not all is rosy. Our family is drifting apart, and, although this is natural and probably even rather late, I feel like I'm not nearly as bothered about it as I should be. I have lots to do, and yet there is ennui. Daily life is calm, and yet I find that I am easily irritated. I am learning, I am making an effort, and yet I feel like I will never catch up to what I should've already known. "No matter fast you run, you will never catch up to those who have been running for their whole life." But, most importantly, there is this nagging feeling, this background noise, rearing it's ugly head on the idleness between daily life, telling me that none of this is quite enough, that I am not really happy, that something in what I am doing is wrong, that there is something that I have missed.

But let's not dwell on that too much, for the time being. It is supposed to be a happy day, after all. This is one of my favorite songs, I hope you like it too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEFsBYlXI3A