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by suction 5y ago
That's just one of many Japanese xenophobic myths. Like they're saying the Yakuza only recruits Korean-Japanese people. Or whenever you tell a Japanese person you saw someone behaving badly in Japan, their first reaction will be &
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by suction 5y ago
If he was a fauxtaku he'd be better off. I fear he's the real deal.
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by suction 5y ago
Yes, but not automatically and immediately as far as I know.
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by suction 5y ago
I once worked in a non-tech company and was tasked with finding new hosting infrastructure for their web apps / sites. I proposed two dedicated servers from Hetzner for about 350 EUR / month. Instead of being happy about the small
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by suction 5y ago
I am not aware of an automatic and immediate adoption of an EU member state's rulings for the whole EU. Headline seems wrong, but maybe what it means to say is that such an adoption is 100% sure?
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by suction 5y ago
No I didn't. I was talking about Game Centers. I guess you're a too far gone Otaku to even tell how creepy the places you think of as "iconic" are.
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by suction 5y ago
The whole entertainment sector in Japan that caters to nerds aka otakus is very much not enticing to normal people. It's very seedy, and run by crime syndicates.
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by suction 5y ago
Wrong. Game centers, aka arcades, are run by organised crime as well.
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by suction 5y ago
I mean if that's normal to you I guess you're not aware of the reputation they have among normal Japanese people.
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by suction 5y ago
I didn't, dude.
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by suction 5y ago
I was talking about "Gehmu Sentah", aka Game Centers being horrible. Pachinko is Pachinko, not an arcade. I'd appreciate a less patronising tonality, especially because you are wrong in saying that in Japan, Pachinko and Arca
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by suction 5y ago
Strange, on the PC I sometimes use, there are only icons, no text. I have to hover of each one to see the name, but it already breaks down for long names.
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by suction 5y ago
I've visited plenty of arcades in Japan, and they were all horrible. Sure, the games were interesting, but they are sad and sometimes creepy places. Smoking is allowed in there, and with Japan's well known tobacco abuse problem, w
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by suction 5y ago
Feedback Hub indeed seems to be useless - because it is designed to act as a sink hole. Yet the topic the author of this article and apparently hundreds of others are describing as a show-stopping miss of Windows 11: The ability to see open
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by suction 5y ago
What's with the nerds' fascination with Japanese culture? And those do's and don'ts are either wrong or hopelessly outdated.
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by suction 5y ago
You did you own research, it seems.
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by suction 5y ago
I just can't imagine that the train operator isn't aware of this. Why is it allowed to go on for days / weeks, or even months? If they know where it happens, what's the holdup? Just waiting there in a hiding spot until t
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by suction 5y ago
This seems like a crime that could be very easily stopped.
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by suction 5y ago
Never mind, just figured out what you're doing here - reading your comment history, you're basically Hackernews' resident quack doctor giving dangerous, unscientific advise. Good luck with that.
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by suction 5y ago
Thankfully, as has been proven by non-modern medicine, that 5g of Taurine every day has zero side effects.
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by suction 5y ago
Interesting, but still quite a reach to make the claims you did above, no?
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by suction 5y ago
This and most other mags sometimes present good starting points to do further reading, but someone who only reads magazines and thinks they even got the gist of some topic doesn’t know what they don’t know. Which is dangerous.
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by suction 5y ago
Japan does not have a system of law. They were forced by the US after WW2 to pretend they care about these things, so they just looked what other countries have, translated it, and from then on they were able to show anyone who asked "
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by suction 5y ago
I think being a country of law, which Japan is decidedly not, is a must-have for G7 membership. I'm not American and have never set foot in the US, so don't take my criticism of Japan as some sort of "America #1" cultura
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by suction 5y ago
An ad hominem attack was expected, I reckon you're a Japanophile with rose-tinted glasses?
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by suction 5y ago
It's substack - authors expressing veiled admiration for Nazis is par for the course on there.
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by suction 5y ago
The key difference you seem to be missing is, in very simple terms, that organised crime in the West is universally accepted as a negative thing and the people who perpetrate it need to keep their identities and operations secret. While in
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by suction 5y ago
Also, a source for the claim that the Yakuza groups have officially known headquarters: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2017/...
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by suction 5y ago
I'd say a country where anyone could look up the headquarters of a crime syndicate in the phone directory or on Google Maps hasn't actually done much to constrain their ability to operate.
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by suction 5y ago
> the West also had its fair share of organised crime That's missing the point: Which is that in Japan (and maybe other East Asian societies), organised crime isn't even seen as crime, and the people perpetrating it aren't

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