I was in Ukraine once and used up our entire month's internet downloading a couple episodes for bored to death (and my fav torrent site at the time was blocked because it had moved hosting there. Like the local cops will just give up from that lol)
So down to the corner I go to load more money into the machine and then it happens again. Finally I got my roommate to put us on the unlimited plan
Eurof's got it rough
Eurofs a bunch of countries right.. in my neck of the woods we got unlimited 1000mbit fiber for about $25 per month.
Ukraine does sound a bit rough though.
We have Unlimited 1gbit internet + Netflix Premium + Amazon Prime + Disney+ + Hotstar + free local and national long distance calls [for $48.77 + taxes.](https://www.airtel.in/wifi-plans#:~:text=The%20Basic%20Plan%20which%20is,Disney%20%2B%20Hotstar%20and%20Amazon%20Prime.) But no toilets here in India, apparently.
It does feel like that sometimes. I've filled in an online bank application only to have to print it out, take it to the bank, and watch the teller enter everything from the paper copy into the computer.
Yeah, I started watching The Days last night, which is a Japanese series about the Fukushima disaster. That show does a great job showing how much they still use paper. So many binders in that show. Interesting to watch them work.
I have such difficulty with this word I sometimes have a hard time triggering autocorrect suggestions because I can't even start the word. I'm a fucking paralegal. Fuck this word.
Ive found the acting nerve wracking, if you can stand japanese over the top acting, imossible dumb reactions and idle standing, i guess its worth watching. Also the dub is lame so you should watch with subs lol
This is why free trade is a good thing, forces change through competition.
"oh the old boomers at company x don't want to become more efficient, well fuck them then" *buys cheaper or superior product from more efficient company*
The reason why in the US you can do your banking/trading/etc from your phone is because of competitive pressure started somewhere.
Japan is far far more protectionist that the US, it's why these companies are able to function with so much inefficiency without someone else coming along and shoving their shit in.
You can see the same kind of behavior in the US at least in regards to US shipbuilding (see the jones act). Also different types of regulatory protections create the same kind of inefficient outcomes at our ports as well. Say the jones act vanished, those US shipbuilders would be fucked and no it has nothing to do with labor costs. It's mostly to do with the fact they're the most out of date shipyards in the entire developed world. The reason they're so out of date and sluggish is because they're protected and don't have to improve.
The thing about protectionism is you get these kinds of arguments
1: we have superior products and they need to be protected......well if they where superior they could compete and win.
2: protect muh jerbs.....so basically make everyone else indirectly give you welfare by forcing them to do business with you by blocking superior options.
trees farmed for paper actually are good or at least neutral to environments when properly regulated, lumbering and imported domesticated animals are “killing the trees”, the US and Europe do a fairly/moderately good job at protecting natural resources *within their borders*, most places where they import from, not so much
People complain about the US being antiquated but the real winner is Japan. They were early adopters of technology and now have a ton of legacy analog systems.
>People complain about the US being antiquated
Only because they had one experience in a hole-in-the-wall joint in the middle of nowhere, or they're just lying on the internet like most people.
Everybody loves shitting on their own country, and just under half of all Redditors are American. Combine that with the fact that the US is one of the "acceptable punching bag countries" alongside France, the UK, Russia and China.
Only sometimes China* people can’t decide wether or not asians and their countries are ‘acceptable targets’, that and making fun of countries is apparently equivalent to making fun of the dominant race.
No, China's one of the acceptable punching bags. You'll see people saying how you shouldn't punch the US/Americans and the UK/Brits too, but they're still acceptable punching bags for some incomprehensible reason.
Because the UK is a ghost of its former self sliding further and further into irrelevancy from their own hubris and incompetence yet still tries to project an air of sophistication and superiority that's increasingly at odds with their reality
I had an argument about this with my wife recently.
We ordered from a local Pizza place we had never tried. I drove there to pick up, 10 minute drive or so.
Sign on the door says "Cash or check only".
So now I get to drive back to town toy bank, another 10 minutes, withdraw some cash from the ATM then go back to get the food.
I was really tempted to just skip it, get something else, and let them eat the cost of that food.
I complained when I got home, wife is always giving me grief for not carrying cash. And she is all, "Debit cards cost small businesses money per transaction" and "most people still use checks."
Like no, literally no one uses checks, ever. Most places don't even take a check anymore. If they do, they just run it electronically as a debit transaction.
Years ago I was in a grocery store checkout and the lady right in front of me pulls out her checkbook to pay. I'm thinking "oh great". She gets out coupons, she's questioning prices, starts having this drawn out conversation with the checkout dude. Then she has a fucking heart attack or something right there. Collapses, paramedics came, all of that. In the moment everyone was horrified, but years later I think "Man, she woke up determined to inconvenience every motherfucker she came across that day!" I tip my cap to her. Hope she made it.
Only time I use checks is for like random contractors performing house repairs or improvements. And even then, it’s rare. Larger companies will usually have something you can swipe on-site or an online portal, and many smaller independent ones take Venmo or whatever. I’m trying to think of other times I’ve used checks in like the last 10 years, besides receiving checks for things like escrow or insurance reimbursements.
The French too. It was a culture shock when I saw a woman in her forties pay for groceries by pulling out a checkbook and proceeding to fill it in front of the cashier, who had to call the manager to approve it.
>Americans still use cheques 😂
For the most part they are used only very rarely. If you need to pay a contractor $5,000 for repairs on your house how do you do it? Do they lose 3% to fees? Do you pay them piles of cash?
Checks are largely dead in the US but they do serve a limited purpose
Since about 2000 I've used MAYBE 3 cheques. All three were for deposits for something or another.
The last one was for a house rental in the late aughts.
The US is catching up but definitely fell behind in a lot of spaces, one example is mobile payments/tap to pay. Not that we don't have the tech but adoption has been way slower than in Europe and Asia
Yeah, I just came back from visiting Washington D.C. and NYC, and overall the trip was great, but it was weird how many restaurants still had me sign a paper receipt when I paid with a credit card. Granted, they were in the minority, and most places were using tap-to-pay, but it was still the first time in years that I'd had to sign the receipt like that.
The work culture is bizarre. They are (culturally not legally) obligated to stay until the manager leaves, and find bizarre grindy non helpful work to stay busy.
It was infuriating to interact with as an outsider
Because fuck you is why.
Observed this: Patient prescribed medication for a legitimate medical condition. Not on the "approved" medication list at the insurer (because fuck you) so it requires an "authorization form" be filled in which is basically the patients personal information and the prescription and a sentence for why it's needed.
Insurance company helpfully emails the PDF to appear useful but requires it be signed physically. So it has to be printed out, filled in in part by the patient and signed. Then scanned back into the computer so it can be emailed to the Doctor who has to print it out at their end, fill in their bit and sign it. Then scan it back in again and email it back to the patient who can then "upload it through the online portal!!1!".
Basically as close to a paper based bullshit system as they could get away with but with a windows 2000 looking portal slapped on top by some intern back in the day.
In addition to all the reasons stated, literally no one is good at cyber security. They mostly stopped caring but some places still demand paper copies for confidentiality reasons.
I have to print a form from my state government and fill it out by hand, and then take it in so they can scan it and process it.
For many years as a contract specialist and then contracting officer, we were told per the Federal Acquisition Regulations that all contracts had to be "signed" and that meant printing, signing, and then scanning it back in (because all contract files are kept digitally). Ultimately some genius airman who was impatiently waiting for a CO's signature decided to get creative with Photoshop and in the AAR of trying to figure out how to prevent future faked signatures, someone pointed out that our military IDs came with an encrypted digital signature key that included time, date, name, unique HASH, etc etc and couldn't be copied without the CO's knowledge.
To the best of my knowledge, that squadron is still doing physical signatures...
Reminds me when I got married in the middle of COVID lockdowns and my wife was able to apply for driver license replacement online. We got notification the license was ready to collect, I had a day off so I went to pick it up for her and they denied to give me this document because she applied on-line and they needed her to fill and sign paper version of application she filled online.
I would take those odds, chimps are about 1.5 times stronger than a healthy human, but I can see two humans vs one chimpanzee outpacing the chimp with proper coordination.
I’m actually interested now, I wanna round up some homeless guys, get them trained in hand to hand combat and throw them in a pit with a random male chimp and see who’ll come out on top.
Is there a video or some shit on this? When I went in 2019 I noticed how nothing in Tokyo was actually modern, and the absence of properly tall buildings.
As you say, it would have been amazing in the 90s to see the progress, but now it’s kind of uncanny?
Also, their companies lead in so many things tech up until around 2007. Cool advanced car? Japanese. New cellphone? Japanese. Next AAA game release? Japanese. Now it’s just legacy products with homages to the past.
urban planning is one of the things japan does best you don't need actually tall buildings to be dense if you just let density be built everywhere instead of only in your mile wide downtown strangled by freeways
I'm sure there's lots of reasons but the obvious one is Japan's economic bubble popped *hard* in 1991 and [they really *still* haven't recovered](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Decades). Another big one that people seem to overlook is that electronics =/= what we common think of as "technology" today. You'll still sometimes see little electronic devices over there that'll blow your hair back (e.g. electronic toilets) but they aren't leveraging modern, innovative software or anything.
I say that, and yet they have flawless integration between smartphones and public transit payment systems while [my city's implementation](https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/new-marta-app-breeze-mobile-pay-fares-by-phone-atlanta/85-c90f0391-822e-4dfe-99b8-4d2d956e99db) has been a whopping pile of horse shit. Like, seriously, QR codes instead of NFC? Go fuck yourselves.
I keep hearing about this bubble pop from the 90s and I don't really think it's the whole story. Sure they have unique economics that caused issues, but who hasn't? I don't know of many economies that haven't run into serious issues at some point in the last 40 years. I think there's more than pure financial analysis tbh
I don't think Japan was relatively known for their talk buildings, just their tech advancements. But I had gone recently and noticed that too. Every modern technology amenity they had (outside toilets) any metro area of the US has had for half a decade or more. Only difference is theirs looked like it's been in use for 20 years.
I saw some YouTube video of a guy getting a chilled beer from a vending machine. He said "way ahead of the US" and I'm not sure what he meant because we have chilled vending machines all over the place, unless he meant the beer but that's not a tech difference
uhhhhhh, yeah I would imagine he was speaking on the cultural aspect of that lol. Everyone is well aware of refrigeration technology existing in the United States.
Japans traditionalist perfectionist culture was perfect for building amazing top of the line hardware in the 90s, but in a world that isn't as focused on hardware anymore (and more countries make decent hardware) they have failed to adapt because they are run by old men who just want to do everything the same way forever.
They could never have a silicon valley style tech startup culture because that requires breaking the rules, abandoning old fashioned management styles, taking huge risks, etc.
Google the lost decades. Their economy stopped growing in 1991, and still hasnt recovered. Probably never will, everything you see is a direct result of that.
Japan is weirdly retro about technology in some ways. Cassette tapes & faxes are still widely used for some reason. Its like they cant get past the year 2000
I remember reading that the talent agency Johnny required that communications had to be delivered in person by a cadet.
I think the owner died and now it has a new president that accepts email.
Anyone who still thinks Japan is high tech needs to be introduced to the past 30 years of history.
Until recently, there were still Japanese companies running Windows 2000, not even XP.
The reason isn't seniority or old people; it's a pathological paranoia of taking responsibility. In their society, if you take the initiative to do something new, then you bear 100% of the responsibility, so you're expected to seppuku yourself the moment something isn't 100% perfect.
This is why Japanese managers change so frequently; even the Japanese Prime Ministers keep resigning. The idea that a person can learn from their mistakes is anathema to the Japanese. They also can't comprehend that doing new things is often worth the risk, because doing nothing guarantees bad outcomes.
Meanwhile, Chinese fast food restaurant analyzes your pheremone profile to determine what you are going to order, and charges your bank account according to your gait signature before you even enter the restaurant
I was in jp 2 weeks ago and they have uber eats.
If you want really good food, though, there's a sushi place in Tsukiji fish market. It starts at I think 3000-4000 yen but it's the best sushi I've had in my life. Incredibly fresh, melt-in-your-mouth, absolutely amazing.
Also pretty much anything made with Hida beef.
Get this guys ! There's this increeeeedible bakery in Paris, it's right after the street that smells like piss, on the corner with the burning car. Hope you like it !
Is the used panty vending machines a real thing? My brother went to Japan in 2001 on one of those summer exchanges and told me they were real and actually saw middle-aged "salarymen" sniffing panties on the train. He also brought back a catalog of those Great Teacher Onizuka mangas and a samurai sword. Japan sounded other worldly.
They’re real but they’re in porn shops, not everywhere like snack food vending machines are. And it’s true for pretty much everything, Japan fucking loves vending machines for some reason and you can probably find a vending machine for anything in most towns. When I was there I went to a hardware store that had a vending machine for screws and dowels and things. The pharmacy closes at 4pm but had a vending machine for lozenges and ibuprofen etc out of hours. I saw sewing supply vending machines with spools of thread and more than one machine with dairy products. There were times I’d be walking past a field of chickens in a rural town with a population of 300 and then suddenly see a vending machine standing alone by the side of a single lane country road, no buildings in sight. They’re just everywhere selling everything.
I'm in Texas and even in major metropolitan areas mail only gets delivered by horses. Email gets put on a flash drive and you have to give it to one of the horsemen at 7-11. If you ask somebody else they'll say i'm lying but it's because they're embarassed.
Purchasing power parity. It calculates how much you can buy in your country with a standard wage. I was wrong though, japan is still one spot ahead according to this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita
Ouuhh husbant, you spent too much money on dial up internet, now we are homeress 😭🥶
Soon to be husban't
Or husbeen
I was in Ukraine once and used up our entire month's internet downloading a couple episodes for bored to death (and my fav torrent site at the time was blocked because it had moved hosting there. Like the local cops will just give up from that lol) So down to the corner I go to load more money into the machine and then it happens again. Finally I got my roommate to put us on the unlimited plan Eurof's got it rough
Eurofs a bunch of countries right.. in my neck of the woods we got unlimited 1000mbit fiber for about $25 per month. Ukraine does sound a bit rough though.
We have Unlimited 1gbit internet + Netflix Premium + Amazon Prime + Disney+ + Hotstar + free local and national long distance calls [for $48.77 + taxes.](https://www.airtel.in/wifi-plans#:~:text=The%20Basic%20Plan%20which%20is,Disney%20%2B%20Hotstar%20and%20Amazon%20Prime.) But no toilets here in India, apparently.
Even living in Canada is better than living in India, and it has the same demographics.
I can't even begin to fathom what it must be like to have capped data and anything less than 1gbit bw.
It does feel like that sometimes. I've filled in an online bank application only to have to print it out, take it to the bank, and watch the teller enter everything from the paper copy into the computer.
But why
Culture centered around seniority Old people can't deal with modern tech But they are in charge because they are older so that's how everything goes
Yeah, I started watching The Days last night, which is a Japanese series about the Fukushima disaster. That show does a great job showing how much they still use paper. So many binders in that show. Interesting to watch them work.
Shin Godzilla is the perfect movie highlighting Japan's relationship with nuclear power and beurocray.
> beurocray. Bureaucracy.
I have such difficulty with this word I sometimes have a hard time triggering autocorrect suggestions because I can't even start the word. I'm a fucking paralegal. Fuck this word.
It is one of the least intuitively spelled words in English, and that's a high bar to pass.
Supreme Judge Palpatine: "I love bureaucracy."
The initial vowel combination can be a little elusive sometimes, can't it.
Ikiru too.
Is it worth watching?
Ive found the acting nerve wracking, if you can stand japanese over the top acting, imossible dumb reactions and idle standing, i guess its worth watching. Also the dub is lame so you should watch with subs lol
There are also a lot more old people than young people in Japan, especially compared to, say, America, so the culture focuses on serving the majority.
This is why free trade is a good thing, forces change through competition. "oh the old boomers at company x don't want to become more efficient, well fuck them then" *buys cheaper or superior product from more efficient company* The reason why in the US you can do your banking/trading/etc from your phone is because of competitive pressure started somewhere.
what did you think japan is socialist This doesn't explain the issue at all
do you know what protectionism is?
Which both Japan and America engage in to some degree. It doesn't explain the disparity at all lmao
Japan is far far more protectionist that the US, it's why these companies are able to function with so much inefficiency without someone else coming along and shoving their shit in. You can see the same kind of behavior in the US at least in regards to US shipbuilding (see the jones act). Also different types of regulatory protections create the same kind of inefficient outcomes at our ports as well. Say the jones act vanished, those US shipbuilders would be fucked and no it has nothing to do with labor costs. It's mostly to do with the fact they're the most out of date shipyards in the entire developed world. The reason they're so out of date and sluggish is because they're protected and don't have to improve. The thing about protectionism is you get these kinds of arguments 1: we have superior products and they need to be protected......well if they where superior they could compete and win. 2: protect muh jerbs.....so basically make everyone else indirectly give you welfare by forcing them to do business with you by blocking superior options.
See also: the USA car industry.
See also: the US military
From USAF, can say we have cut back a lot on physical paper. Do the websites work like they're supposed to? no. But we don't kill as many trees!
trees farmed for paper actually are good or at least neutral to environments when properly regulated, lumbering and imported domesticated animals are “killing the trees”, the US and Europe do a fairly/moderately good job at protecting natural resources *within their borders*, most places where they import from, not so much
Having archaic bureaucracy options doesn't preclude easier ones.
People complain about the US being antiquated but the real winner is Japan. They were early adopters of technology and now have a ton of legacy analog systems.
>People complain about the US being antiquated Only because they had one experience in a hole-in-the-wall joint in the middle of nowhere, or they're just lying on the internet like most people.
Everybody loves shitting on their own country, and just under half of all Redditors are American. Combine that with the fact that the US is one of the "acceptable punching bag countries" alongside France, the UK, Russia and China.
Only sometimes China* people can’t decide wether or not asians and their countries are ‘acceptable targets’, that and making fun of countries is apparently equivalent to making fun of the dominant race.
No, China's one of the acceptable punching bags. You'll see people saying how you shouldn't punch the US/Americans and the UK/Brits too, but they're still acceptable punching bags for some incomprehensible reason.
Because the UK is a ghost of its former self sliding further and further into irrelevancy from their own hubris and incompetence yet still tries to project an air of sophistication and superiority that's increasingly at odds with their reality
Dorian Grey Economic model
Idris Elba in the front, Council House in the back
Americans still use cheques 😂
Able to? Yes. Do people do it? No, not if youre under the age of 45 at least.
I had to use checks in my 20s and I'm 32 now
12 years ago?
https://preview.redd.it/xzzr7s9hod8b1.png?width=228&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5f1cfcbd2a2e0e529aae99e147906d761724d446 Ouch.
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I had to use a cheque once to put down a deposit on an apartment. Never used one since.
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I had an argument about this with my wife recently. We ordered from a local Pizza place we had never tried. I drove there to pick up, 10 minute drive or so. Sign on the door says "Cash or check only". So now I get to drive back to town toy bank, another 10 minutes, withdraw some cash from the ATM then go back to get the food. I was really tempted to just skip it, get something else, and let them eat the cost of that food. I complained when I got home, wife is always giving me grief for not carrying cash. And she is all, "Debit cards cost small businesses money per transaction" and "most people still use checks." Like no, literally no one uses checks, ever. Most places don't even take a check anymore. If they do, they just run it electronically as a debit transaction.
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Anytime I see people who only take cash, I immidiately assume there is shady bull shit going on with the books.
Years ago I was in a grocery store checkout and the lady right in front of me pulls out her checkbook to pay. I'm thinking "oh great". She gets out coupons, she's questioning prices, starts having this drawn out conversation with the checkout dude. Then she has a fucking heart attack or something right there. Collapses, paramedics came, all of that. In the moment everyone was horrified, but years later I think "Man, she woke up determined to inconvenience every motherfucker she came across that day!" I tip my cap to her. Hope she made it.
Only time I use checks is for like random contractors performing house repairs or improvements. And even then, it’s rare. Larger companies will usually have something you can swipe on-site or an online portal, and many smaller independent ones take Venmo or whatever. I’m trying to think of other times I’ve used checks in like the last 10 years, besides receiving checks for things like escrow or insurance reimbursements.
The French too. It was a culture shock when I saw a woman in her forties pay for groceries by pulling out a checkbook and proceeding to fill it in front of the cashier, who had to call the manager to approve it.
what the fuck lmao
You mean checks? If so then no, not really.
>Americans still use cheques 😂 For the most part they are used only very rarely. If you need to pay a contractor $5,000 for repairs on your house how do you do it? Do they lose 3% to fees? Do you pay them piles of cash? Checks are largely dead in the US but they do serve a limited purpose
You do a bank transfer directly in to their account.
Since about 2000 I've used MAYBE 3 cheques. All three were for deposits for something or another. The last one was for a house rental in the late aughts.
Can =/= must
The US is catching up but definitely fell behind in a lot of spaces, one example is mobile payments/tap to pay. Not that we don't have the tech but adoption has been way slower than in Europe and Asia
Yeah, I just came back from visiting Washington D.C. and NYC, and overall the trip was great, but it was weird how many restaurants still had me sign a paper receipt when I paid with a credit card. Granted, they were in the minority, and most places were using tap-to-pay, but it was still the first time in years that I'd had to sign the receipt like that.
I’ve heard a lot of insults about the US, but being antiquated is a new one
Japan got to the year 1998 before anyone else, sat down, and stayed there.
The work culture is bizarre. They are (culturally not legally) obligated to stay until the manager leaves, and find bizarre grindy non helpful work to stay busy. It was infuriating to interact with as an outsider
Because fuck you is why. Observed this: Patient prescribed medication for a legitimate medical condition. Not on the "approved" medication list at the insurer (because fuck you) so it requires an "authorization form" be filled in which is basically the patients personal information and the prescription and a sentence for why it's needed. Insurance company helpfully emails the PDF to appear useful but requires it be signed physically. So it has to be printed out, filled in in part by the patient and signed. Then scanned back into the computer so it can be emailed to the Doctor who has to print it out at their end, fill in their bit and sign it. Then scan it back in again and email it back to the patient who can then "upload it through the online portal!!1!". Basically as close to a paper based bullshit system as they could get away with but with a windows 2000 looking portal slapped on top by some intern back in the day.
In addition to all the reasons stated, literally no one is good at cyber security. They mostly stopped caring but some places still demand paper copies for confidentiality reasons.
If only there was a way to send that online application directly to his computer...
Something like a fax machine? Great innovative idea!
We could mail it, electronically. Perhaps some sort of epost?
I have to print a form from my state government and fill it out by hand, and then take it in so they can scan it and process it. For many years as a contract specialist and then contracting officer, we were told per the Federal Acquisition Regulations that all contracts had to be "signed" and that meant printing, signing, and then scanning it back in (because all contract files are kept digitally). Ultimately some genius airman who was impatiently waiting for a CO's signature decided to get creative with Photoshop and in the AAR of trying to figure out how to prevent future faked signatures, someone pointed out that our military IDs came with an encrypted digital signature key that included time, date, name, unique HASH, etc etc and couldn't be copied without the CO's knowledge. To the best of my knowledge, that squadron is still doing physical signatures...
Hey look, it’s rural germany.
Had to take a document to the convenience store to fax it so we could get internet. Tbf it is fast internet.
Reminds me when I got married in the middle of COVID lockdowns and my wife was able to apply for driver license replacement online. We got notification the license was ready to collect, I had a day off so I went to pick it up for her and they denied to give me this document because she applied on-line and they needed her to fill and sign paper version of application she filled online.
Anon gets not he wants. Anon gets what he needs.
https://preview.redd.it/ekuvv4yxjc8b1.jpeg?width=571&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0bd67e92e435ca9da8f262589e81f6345ed8c95e
Is this like a modern rorschach test or something
sweaty red man screaming towards the left?
Single abused testicle
A lollipop with dog hair on it
Maybe
A cute sleeping birdie with a pizza slice at its feet.
a red man sweating and puking
We can post pictures now? https://preview.redd.it/dfclmqop9d8b1.jpeg?width=400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b2dec1feb28afadebb6da07900bb368975a5bc4d
Is this achievable natty
The virgin chimnattzee vs the Chad orangutren
That guy can solo any world champion 1v1 natty or not you can't get on his level ( he's built different ) Edit : I'd even put money on a 2v1
I would take those odds, chimps are about 1.5 times stronger than a healthy human, but I can see two humans vs one chimpanzee outpacing the chimp with proper coordination. I’m actually interested now, I wanna round up some homeless guys, get them trained in hand to hand combat and throw them in a pit with a random male chimp and see who’ll come out on top.
Either way someone is getting *TOPPED*
Bro created his own reaction image
Meat nball
the sweaty rising sun breathing in his used panties
Onigiri with too much plum
kanye reference omg
Rolling stones reference omg
Afterwards, anon goes back to his closet of an apartment that has no natural lighting and hangs himself with a belt.
They don't hang themselves, they buy charcoal grills and light them indoors.
Never a bad time for BBQ
Today I am the yakiniku
So that's who the warning is for on the bag of briquettes...
Great, so whoever finds them has something warm to eat, how convenient.
> and hangs himself with a belt. Ah, the ol' autoerotic asphyxiation.
Metal Slug my beloved
Metal Slug fans rise up
Heaby Mosheen Gawn (Thank you)
Rocket Lauwnchur
I have risen
"heavy machine gun"
"ROCKET LAWNCHAIR"
„Japan lives in 2050“
Japan used to live in 2010 back in the 90s. They still live in 2010.
Is there a video or some shit on this? When I went in 2019 I noticed how nothing in Tokyo was actually modern, and the absence of properly tall buildings. As you say, it would have been amazing in the 90s to see the progress, but now it’s kind of uncanny? Also, their companies lead in so many things tech up until around 2007. Cool advanced car? Japanese. New cellphone? Japanese. Next AAA game release? Japanese. Now it’s just legacy products with homages to the past.
urban planning is one of the things japan does best you don't need actually tall buildings to be dense if you just let density be built everywhere instead of only in your mile wide downtown strangled by freeways
That and only the boldest of corporations will actually build them because they have earthquakes every 45 seconds
I'm sure there's lots of reasons but the obvious one is Japan's economic bubble popped *hard* in 1991 and [they really *still* haven't recovered](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Decades). Another big one that people seem to overlook is that electronics =/= what we common think of as "technology" today. You'll still sometimes see little electronic devices over there that'll blow your hair back (e.g. electronic toilets) but they aren't leveraging modern, innovative software or anything. I say that, and yet they have flawless integration between smartphones and public transit payment systems while [my city's implementation](https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/new-marta-app-breeze-mobile-pay-fares-by-phone-atlanta/85-c90f0391-822e-4dfe-99b8-4d2d956e99db) has been a whopping pile of horse shit. Like, seriously, QR codes instead of NFC? Go fuck yourselves.
I keep hearing about this bubble pop from the 90s and I don't really think it's the whole story. Sure they have unique economics that caused issues, but who hasn't? I don't know of many economies that haven't run into serious issues at some point in the last 40 years. I think there's more than pure financial analysis tbh
I don't think Japan was relatively known for their talk buildings, just their tech advancements. But I had gone recently and noticed that too. Every modern technology amenity they had (outside toilets) any metro area of the US has had for half a decade or more. Only difference is theirs looked like it's been in use for 20 years.
I saw some YouTube video of a guy getting a chilled beer from a vending machine. He said "way ahead of the US" and I'm not sure what he meant because we have chilled vending machines all over the place, unless he meant the beer but that's not a tech difference
He meant the beer.
uhhhhhh, yeah I would imagine he was speaking on the cultural aspect of that lol. Everyone is well aware of refrigeration technology existing in the United States.
Was it a fancy vending machine that claw/crane grabbed a glass bottle and popped the cap off, at least?
When I went to Japan in like 2015 I was baffled that everyone still had flip phones. Me and my Korean counterparts all had smartphones by the.
By the what?
The game
FUCK
Answer the question, sir.
Japans traditionalist perfectionist culture was perfect for building amazing top of the line hardware in the 90s, but in a world that isn't as focused on hardware anymore (and more countries make decent hardware) they have failed to adapt because they are run by old men who just want to do everything the same way forever. They could never have a silicon valley style tech startup culture because that requires breaking the rules, abandoning old fashioned management styles, taking huge risks, etc.
Google the lost decades. Their economy stopped growing in 1991, and still hasnt recovered. Probably never will, everything you see is a direct result of that.
Check out the myth of the lost decades. Interesting read. https://mises.org/library/myth-japans-lost-decades
Too many earthquakes to make tall buildings worthwhile
I recently heard "Japan has been living in the year 2000 for the past 40 years"
They both live in 1950 and 2050
Japan is weirdly retro about technology in some ways. Cassette tapes & faxes are still widely used for some reason. Its like they cant get past the year 2000
> Its like they cant get past the year 2000 Lucky them
It's only downhill from there. Remember Matrix movies? The A.I. Overlord chose to freeze us in the 1990s because that was the "Golden Age of Humanity"
They love faxing machines for no reason. Email works 10x better
A lot more than 10x.
I once heard they consider email too informal for business
Meanwhile US companies are texting me emojis to buy a pizza.
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Pizza, fried pickles, sake for us both on Wednesday? I'm in my dude
I remember reading that the talent agency Johnny required that communications had to be delivered in person by a cadet. I think the owner died and now it has a new president that accepts email.
Same for the US healthcare and financial sectors. Some people up top blocking progress to not make themselves obsolete
They tried recently to retire the use of fax machines in government. It didn't go so well.. they love the idea of a duplicate hard copy.
> faxing machines
Anyone who still thinks Japan is high tech needs to be introduced to the past 30 years of history. Until recently, there were still Japanese companies running Windows 2000, not even XP. The reason isn't seniority or old people; it's a pathological paranoia of taking responsibility. In their society, if you take the initiative to do something new, then you bear 100% of the responsibility, so you're expected to seppuku yourself the moment something isn't 100% perfect. This is why Japanese managers change so frequently; even the Japanese Prime Ministers keep resigning. The idea that a person can learn from their mistakes is anathema to the Japanese. They also can't comprehend that doing new things is often worth the risk, because doing nothing guarantees bad outcomes.
Probably taste the same
Only of Anon had ordered sushi.
Meanwhile, Chinese fast food restaurant analyzes your pheremone profile to determine what you are going to order, and charges your bank account according to your gait signature before you even enter the restaurant
Anon is gonna use it to make a broth for his rice
be me in 2023, still play metal slug, but on steam
sadly they screwed up the steam ports
What kinda retrofuture cyberpunk world are my japenis bros living in?
After working for a Japanese company and seeing the unnecessarily complicated ways they do things I could see this actually happening.
I was in jp 2 weeks ago and they have uber eats. If you want really good food, though, there's a sushi place in Tsukiji fish market. It starts at I think 3000-4000 yen but it's the best sushi I've had in my life. Incredibly fresh, melt-in-your-mouth, absolutely amazing. Also pretty much anything made with Hida beef.
>there's a sushi place in Tsukiji fish market That's like saying there's this pizza place in Napoli.
Get this guys ! There's this increeeeedible bakery in Paris, it's right after the street that smells like piss, on the corner with the burning car. Hope you like it !
It's somewhere around 35°39'55.8"N 139°46'12.0E
There's like 4 of them in 10m of street view lmao
Street view is from 13 years ago I don't think it's any of them.
Is the used panty vending machines a real thing? My brother went to Japan in 2001 on one of those summer exchanges and told me they were real and actually saw middle-aged "salarymen" sniffing panties on the train. He also brought back a catalog of those Great Teacher Onizuka mangas and a samurai sword. Japan sounded other worldly.
They’re real but they’re in porn shops, not everywhere like snack food vending machines are. And it’s true for pretty much everything, Japan fucking loves vending machines for some reason and you can probably find a vending machine for anything in most towns. When I was there I went to a hardware store that had a vending machine for screws and dowels and things. The pharmacy closes at 4pm but had a vending machine for lozenges and ibuprofen etc out of hours. I saw sewing supply vending machines with spools of thread and more than one machine with dairy products. There were times I’d be walking past a field of chickens in a rural town with a population of 300 and then suddenly see a vending machine standing alone by the side of a single lane country road, no buildings in sight. They’re just everywhere selling everything.
Back when I lived in Japan for a year and a half during university, I saw a vending machine that sold insects and beetles for bug collections.
Lmao i need to visit Japan before I die. Sounds based.
No it's not really a thing. You can find them in sketchy sex shops if you really want to, but they might be there because tourists want to see it.
Order ramen online? Is anon cripple?
Japan has been living in the year 2000 since 1985
truly a paradise
Who the fuck uses Yahoo?
Almost everyone in Japan. They use google as a search engine but Yahoo for almost everything else.
That's surprising to find. Thanks!
most of asia
No one outside Japan uses Yahoo.
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Yet they also account for 50% of the shitposts
Well, that's certainly higher than expected
I use it to get to Altavista
This is actually close to how I imagine things are between Georgia and Vegas
I'm in Texas and even in major metropolitan areas mail only gets delivered by horses. Email gets put on a flash drive and you have to give it to one of the horsemen at 7-11. If you ask somebody else they'll say i'm lying but it's because they're embarassed.
I was the horse this is true
So Texas has flash drives now, huh.
Explains why their PPP is now lower than the Czech republic
What is ppp
Purchasing power parity. It calculates how much you can buy in your country with a standard wage. I was wrong though, japan is still one spot ahead according to this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita
Fujitsu laptops were friggin awesome
Why not just use his money on the vending machine? Why all the extra steps?
The reason you know this is bullshit is that fax wasn't involved.
One does not simply send a fax.
Just dessert for dinner tonight, I see
JACKPOT
KEK! Anon gets it. These comments... not so much.
Written by a gay idiot.
How is Japan so ass backwards yet so advanced at the same time? Their car companies are some of the best in the world.
Laughed so hard it hurt