This is the first news about Americans doing something smart in a little while. Great job!

Remember when we used to talk to the producers of the used panties?

We probably don’t have the workforce to replace since we won’t open up to immigration lol

Methinks you are romanticizing a culture you don’t live in by only seeing the positives you like.

That’s kind of an insulting assumption as I’m Japanese and live in Japan. So while I may have a biased opinion, I wouldn’t say it’s romantisizing.

In fact, I’d say you’re the one that seems to be making assumptions based on snippets of our culture that you see on the internet. The weird vending machines that sell letters from your pretend grandma to used panties aren’t found everywhere you go — they’re in specific locations for the novelty.

Also having regular vending machines for drinks and food doesn’t exactly contradict my point. The vending machines are more for the customers’ convenience. They’re not installed specifically for removing human contact. Yes, we lose human contact as a result, but it’s a tradeoff to better serve customers whereas most companies that deploy AI support agents probably do so to save a buck.

Sorry about the rant.

I’ve heard\read there are many racist, paternalist, hierarchical and collectivist traits,

We definitely have all that!

Also, I found it interesting that someone mentioned how you used “collectivist” as a negative feature of Japanese culture. While it certainly could be, it’s actually nice to see when people are genuinely wanting to help each other. The problem is our hierarchical culture where some shitbag on top takes advantage of our collectivist mindset for their own gains.

*Everyone else is working unpaid overtime, why can’t you?! *Almost nobody being worked overtime is going to say that. Workers will take it for the good of the imaginary “team” because some manager convinced them it’s the right thing to do. Luckily, probably thanks to my Canadian upbringing, I’ve always been able to say no to ridiculous shit like this. That, and I work for myself, so the only ones who boss me around are my wife and kids.

Edit: Whoops, maybe collectivism isn’t the right word for what I found to be positive after reading your other comment. Sorry, but I hope you got my point.

It might actually be China. All the robots I see here are the one with the cat face and I’m pretty sure that’s where they come from. We don have remote control robot cafes where people with physical/mental disabilities to serve you using avatar bots which is cool!

Japanese people tend to make a big deal out of the “human touch,” especially when it comes to service, so I can see how companies aren’t jumping on to the hype. We’re also pretty slow to adopt change.

Oh and maybe the shit exchange rate makes it expensive to use the service as everything is pretty much foreign tech.

So it’s just what pre-LLM bots have been doing, except it probably spews more toxic fumes and wastes more electricity than ever before.

I’ll diagnose him as a Nazi then.

Maybe it’s the video format, presenter, or the fact that nobody ever thought one is better than the other so it’s not even interesting info.

It helps with translating. My job is basically double-checking the translation quality and people are essentially paying me for my assurance. Of course, I take responsibility for any mistakes.

And nothing of value was lost.

Wtf? You arent taught this? I learned it growing up in Canada and my kids are too, here in Japan.

I had just watched a video about they need lead as well? Is that true?

But, but, they’re been blasted. Didn’t you see in the article? Surely, they’ll stop this behaviour this time.

??? The thing is on the right side of the pic. Your image is up side down.

Edit: oh.duh, the two horizontal slots. I’m a dummy. Sorry.

Perfect since he’s being invited to Russia now. They can share their know-how of sinking ships.

Thank you kindly!

In this situation, a user on lemm.ee would have to export their settings and create a new account elsewhere, right? Do their comments and post histories get exported too? I joined Lemmy only a month ago; this is the first time seeing an instance go down, so I’d appreciate it if someone here could clarify that.

Same for me, sorta. I have to dualboot Windows and Linux because I just can’t seem to fix the jankiness of my gaming experience on the latter. I wanna make a full AMD build but I not really a good idea to splurge in this economy.