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[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 172 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 118 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)
[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 38 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's what I figured they meant.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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.

[–] parody@lemmings.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

Ya might be a good point but it’s a distracting mess

Thankfully we already know a little bit about both of our situations so we get the gist

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[–] ThePiedPooper@discuss.online 113 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

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

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 43 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Do you want to talk about Satan?

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

[–] ThePiedPooper@discuss.online 16 points 2 weeks ago

All hail Satan!

[–] Nelots@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Are the uh... maggoty cum farts optional or?

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[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 31 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Fuck all religion. No I don’t want to reject reality to play make believe.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 24 points 2 weeks ago (22 children)

Naw, my religion is cool. I'm a Satanist. We accept reality as revealed by science.

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[–] RedFrank24@lemmy.world 93 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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.

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

yeah they also fail to acknowledge the suicide rate or the amount of overtime or purchasing power of avg wages.

I'm not making any statements on any countries other than japan. but I'll add a message to american weebs: STOP FETISHIZING JAPAN

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[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've lived in three different major Japanese cities and see fewer people sleeping rough in a year than I can see in an hour in either Europe or the US.

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[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 15 points 2 weeks ago

They cover it with Hideo Kojima

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[–] EldenLord@lemmy.world 61 points 1 week ago (9 children)

07%

This is why punctuation is important.

[–] bampop@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Never mind that, what does "07% per 100K" even mean? As far as I can tell that evaluates to 0.0000007 or 7 per 10 million

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[–] thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 52 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 41 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Not only that, 07 > 5.7, I assume missing a decimal point. Their heart is in the right place, their keyboard is all over the place.

[–] serenissi@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

Probably this person studied in america /j

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[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 51 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Your unhoused numbers are wrong. Those are the official "sleeping on the streets" numbers, which is not the same thing. First because they're official, and therefore almost certainly undercounting, and second because they exclude all of the situations where people don't have houses but are kinda not exactly in a cardboard box.

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[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

To be fair there is also the suicide rate.

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

[–] ryan@discuss.online 29 points 1 week 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?

[–] aramova@infosec.pub 17 points 1 week 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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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

Portugal has entered the chat

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[–] webpack@ani.social 37 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 weeks ago

Also, Christianity was banned for quite awhile.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

A Japanese guy used a 3d printed gun to undermine a christian cult in Japan.

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (14 children)

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

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[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 29 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

5/7 with rice

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I guess not having many Jesus cult members helps

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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 19 points 2 weeks 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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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] HenryDorsett@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week 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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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 week ago

Heartbroken because it should be 0%?

[–] don@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 week 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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[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] KatakiY@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you measure the us conviction rate the same way the commonly quoted 99% conviction rate in Japan is calculated ours is actually higher.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conviction_rate scroll down to the Japan entry for the source. Sorry don't know how to link it directly lol

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[–] catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 weeks ago

Is there something wrong with her heart? Maybe she needs to go see a doc... oh, wait nvm. We'll just pray the pain away for her.

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