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[–] 173 points 1 year ago (5 children)

% per 100k? This person is making a valid point, but it's undermined somewhat by the fact they've clearly fucked up something.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That's what I figured they meant.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Yeah, but those other stats are raw numbers. Okay, we have a higher number of unhoused people and food-insecure people, but we also have a higher number of people, period. If you wanna make a point, it has to be per capita. I like how the first stat got this right, but the others did not.

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    [–] 113 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Fuck proselytizing religions. No, I won't join your stupid fucking cult. Fuck right off.

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Do you want to talk about Satan?

    We enjoy sex, responsible drug use and rock and roll.

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    [–] 95 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

    I do not trust any stats that come out of Japan in terms of homelessness. If there's a statistic that's embarrassing for Japanese society, you know damn well they're gonna try to cover it up with technicalities.

    In Japan, the legal definition for someone who is homeless is: "those who use city parks, riverbanks, roads, train stations and other facilities as their place of stay in order to live their daily lives."

    So that doesn't include living in your car, living in insecure housing, living in shelters, or living in internet cafés, of which in 2020 there were about 15,000 'net café refugees' in Tokyo alone.

    Sooo yeah, Japan can claim to officially have a super low homeless population, because they've narrowed the definition so much that you have to literally be sleeping on the street for it to count.

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    [–] 61 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    07%

    This is why punctuation is important.

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    [–] 53 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I just woke up, but I don't think the unit should be percentage per 100k people. Otherwise, I agree with the statement though.

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    To be fair there is also the suicide rate.

    Also what the fuck were they expecting, Japan to be some Christian paradise?

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    First time I've actually taken the time to look it up. People talk about Japans high suicide rate but apparently it's not that much higher than the United States? So less murder, more food availability and just a slightly higher suicide rate?

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    When people don't have murder, homeless, ramped theft, they need some boogie man metric for the crier to report on.

    And for Japan, the marginally higher suicide rate along with low population growth are it.

    Of course the low rate of Christianity as well.

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    [–] 37 points 1 year ago* (10 children)

    correlation is not causation, the reason why they have less murders is probably not Christianity (for example they have way stricter gun control)

    edit: after rereading the post I don't think the other person is tryng to argue that Christianity is causing murder and whatnot, so ignore above paragraph

    also wouldn't it make complete sense for Japan to have way less Christians since they were isolated for so long and have their own religious beliefs

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    [–] 31 points 1 year ago* (14 children)

    What's going on with the math here? Percent per 100'000?

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    [–] 27 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I guess not having many Jesus cult members helps

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    [–] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Given the confluence of weeb culture and the alt-right (think incels and “traditionalists” with anime avatars, right-wing gamers pointing to Japan as a high-tech conservative utopia untouched by wokeness and such), it was inevitable that sooner or later someone would try to imagine a Japan that goes to Latin Mass.

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    [–] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Some people are shockingly stupid, even though I've spent my entire life finding out how stupid people can be.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I worked in retail for a decade, and have been in IT for past 12 years. Mostly help desk. Mostly medical.

    The advanced degrees these people have is astounding, but the lack of common sense is terrifying.

    Like, these people are cutting into other people to fix shit? They can't tie their own shoes, and the concept of a power button on a computer is too much.

    This is the same person. Hopefully he has retired or died by now, cause those were his only real choices at that age.

    Seriously, his assistant tied his shoes for him. She probably had advanced degrees of her own. And she had to tie an old man's shoes on the daily.

    Maybe there something to have such a laser focus like medicine specialties really does rob people of their common sense.

    Tie? Shoe? No, but that artery is about to retract or some shit.

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    [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    Heartbroken because it should be 0%?

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Japan also has a terrifyingly high conviction rate, something those Christians would cream themselves over.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Admittedly, ignorance respects no particular faith. That said, Christianity does seem to have quite the stranglehold on it.

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    I don't think she's really sorry about their heart

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