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[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 180 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Lol the pressure, "are you going to pass or shall we keep the station open one more year?"

[-] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 36 points 1 month ago

That is not a thing in most of the world.

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

Passing grades? Where is it not a thing?

[-] Lyra_Lycan 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I believe they refer to forms of education other than the one you took, in which the student, upon failing to meet standards, continues to the next curricular year instead of taking the same year again, and remains at the lower tier of class education. Example, based on alphabetical grades: An F or a U in English Lit does not result in the same English lessons being taught again next year. It just means an F or a U. Leaving school with no grades above a D (or a 3 for modern UK grades) is possible.

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Maybe, but it's such a strange interpretation. It seems obvious that the top comment was referring to the student not passing a grade. Why assume that they are talking about something else where the concept doesn't apply?

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

Well obviously “most of the world.” What world are you from not passing grades?

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

What? I've had people in my class who didn't pass (in Germany).

[-] wildcardology@lemmy.world 48 points 1 month ago

Other students also rode the train but Kana is the only consistent passenger.

[-] jimjam5@lemmy.world 39 points 1 month ago

日本、恋しいなあ。

I miss being there 😔 Came back to the states cuz I missed family and was guilt tripped, and even before rapist convicted felon got to power I was longing to return.

The sentiment is only growing stronger to return to a place that makes sense and feels right. Japan is by no means a perfect place/country (they got bad people who do bad things there) but there was a lotta good that I witnessed just like this every day. Heavy sigh.

[-] BigBenis@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

From an outsider's perspective, Japanese culture seems to foster a mutual respect for one another as well as for one's community and environment.

On the contrary, America seems to idealize treating people with contempt unless there's something you would want from them. Our society is very transactional and if you have nothing of interest to show for yourself then you have no worth to anybody and deserve no respect.

I know this is all a big generalization of two societies consisting of millions of people and this isn't to say that everybody behaves the same way across both societies. But when you have a general behavior across a society then it's no surprise that a significant portion of that society will adapt that behavior.

[-] SparroHawc@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 month ago

There is significantly higher pressure to conform to societal norms there, including misogynistic views on a woman's role and a more stratified social hierarchy - but there's also a belief that government exists to support society instead of existing to support moneyed interests.

[-] three@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago

Don't forget the xenophobia.

[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 32 points 1 month ago

Why close it though? In Slovakia we have a few train stops with stop on request. The train only stops there if there's someone at the stop, or if someone presses a stop button in the train.

[-] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

Reading some articles. It's a bit muddled because it's a viral story from a foreign country. But what I am confident in saying.

Low usage, this station in particular only had 4 trains a day. Three one way, one the other (the service the student took)

Three other stations closed at the same time, on the same line. One of which only had 2 trains stopping.

There is also the way Japanese train routes are run.

[-] 4shtonButcher@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 1 month ago

If only all the "freedom loving" idiots noticed that enabling all members of society to be mobile regardless of physical abilities, place or wealth, is true freedom for a society.

Being enslaved to a metal box on wheels clearly isn't freedom.

[-] Zenith@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago

It’s not everywhere but school bus service is fairly prolific in the US, lots of very rural routes that only serve one child/one family, obviously it would be better if we took all public transport more seriously but school busses definitely go way out of the way for students

[-] 4shtonButcher@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago

Imagine if school buses didn't exist and someone suggested them today. They'd be cursed as fucking commies and and ridiculed.

[-] DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah I think improving public transport should be #1 priority but capitalism would suffer. I mean we gotta sell shit cars and keep that industry alive.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 27 points 1 month ago

I need proof. Someone have a link to an article backing this up? The internet is full of lies.

[-] LadyButterfly@lazysoci.al 20 points 1 month ago

I'd already googled there's a few. Please remember to stay wholesome

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[-] MetalMachine@feddit.nl 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

We could have this, instead we use our money on endless wars and send it to foreign nations (Israel)

[-] bieren@lemmy.zip 22 points 1 month ago

In the us, they would have made her drop out of school.

[-] Brickhead92@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

And then fined her for doing so.

[-] modus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

And then sent her to jail for not being educated enough to have a job to pay the fine.

[-] Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 2 points 1 month ago

The US is really where the Outerworld's is a documentary of, the only difference is that it is in space. But Robbie Williams is also not a money, but he was displayed as a monkey in Better Man so I guess is can still be an accurate documentary.

[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 11 points 1 month ago

Hahahahaha! They think there's public transportation in the US!

[-] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Giving that she's Japanese, they would have deported her.

[-] Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

On the other hand, found out yesterday, my step son's school bus will no longer able to pick him up at my house next year after 2 years of riding the bus. Neat

[-] SparroHawc@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

Is there at least a stop within walking distance? I had to hoof it two blocks all through elementary school to catch the bus. It was through low-traffic residential streets, but still.

[-] Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I can see where I was confusing.

School district was rezoned. Not sending busses to my area. He'd have to switch schools for 8th grade to get a bus or I'll have to find a way of transportation.

I walked a mile to my elementary school. Had to walk a block or two for my middle school bus.

[-] SparroHawc@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

Ahhhh yeah, that would do it. :/

[-] shplane@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

ITT: people who have no clue how a train route works

[-] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 17 points 1 month ago

rather than be mean, because not everyone is an expert in Japanese rail infrastructure, can you explain why?

[-] shplane@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

You’re right, my previous comment doesn’t quite follow the wholesome theme here.

Many commenters are under the impression that the train is leaving the station solely to pick up this student, drop her off at school, and then travel back to the station. That would make sense if it was a taxi of some sort and she was the only passenger. However, trains in Japan have long routes, multiple stops, and pick up many, many passengers along the way. Keeping this stop for this student might add a few minutes to the total time it takes the train to run its full route but in no way is it a dramatic waste of resources and time that some people here are claiming. I’ve ridden on trains in Japan with hundreds of passengers that traveled hundreds of miles. Sometimes a train would make a stop in a rural area to pick up a few folks and other times we’d stop in a major city and pick up dozens of people. If one of those rural stops were nixed, I (as an existing passenger on the train) would barely notice a difference (maybe save a few minutes on my route), but I would bet the few folks who depend on that stop would be severely inconvenienced and struggle to find alternative means of transportation.

[-] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

so it was a stop on the route.

still meaningful that they took into consideration that's there's one student who uses that stop.

most countries wouldn't even consider people, just look at the profit margin and do cuts off regulations allow it

[-] noxypaws@pawb.social 10 points 1 month ago

meanwhile Shizuoka Prefecture held up maglev construction, pushing back completion by 7 years because they've been begging for a Shinkansen stop for their airport forever, maybe, as "believed by some political analysts". the actual stated reasoning has been concerns about environmental impact around construction.

not that I'm informed enough to take a side on that issue, beyond just really wanting to ride a 314mph/505kmh train someday!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C5%AB%C5%8D_Shinkansen#Shizuoka_Prefecture_dispute

[-] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

I love her scarf.

[-] RayOfSunlight@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Okay, this is gonna sound Unwholesome, but the reality is that this happens because of the fall of the natality in japan, she was the only student in the school.

[-] Jack@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 month ago

Nope: "along with more than 10 schoolmates at 7.15am." The Straits Times "On boarding the train, Kana takes her seat amongst her schoolmates who got on board at earlier stations. Most of the passengers, indeed, are students at the Engaru Highschool. " The Online Citizen

Also, reducing human overpopulation is a good things because human overpopulation is the biggest cause of anthropogenic climate change (compare it to other causes), and the root cause of it. It's also the root cause of the anthropocene extinction event and of that becoming a mass extinction event, and of factory farming, and of industrial fishing, and of habitat degradation and destruction, and of unsustainable pollution, ...

[-] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

humans civilization existed for over 10 thousand years, modern capitalism has existed for a couple hundred and is literally destroying the planet.

smart person online: "If we have to choose between Coca-Cola or a liveable planet, I choose exctintion, you know, instead of actually hurting the handful of billionaires who are destroying the planet"

[-] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

The fall in human population is happening at way too slow a pace to help the environmental crisis. At the same time, it's happening at way too fast a pace that it's going to trigger multiple social crisis' around the end of the century.

[-] princessnorah 1 points 1 month ago

Bold strategy to double-down on the antinatalism after the recent terrorist attack by a hardline antinatalist.

[-] SparroHawc@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Overpopulation combined with the inefficient resource consumption of modern society. If our resource usage per person reduced at the same rate that population increased, it wouldn't be a big deal.

Also that graph is ridiculous. If there was one less child born per person alive, there would be zero children being born in most developed countries (it takes two people to have a child, which would mean two less children per couple). Of COURSE that would result in a drastically reduced carbon footprint, because we'd die out.

[-] giotheflow@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

we'd die out.

Don't get my hopes up

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

That seems inefficient. And unrealistic.

[-] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 29 points 1 month ago

World be damned if people do good things even at their own loss

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 month ago

It sends an important message if you zoom out: you can rely on the train for your lifestyle and don't need a car.

When we cut trains from the least efficient places, we force those riders into a cycle of car ownership. When they move, they'll still have the car. It chips away at the edges of the network until all that's left are trains between major stops, where there's no shade, and whoopsie some days the train just doesn't come at all and you'll need to take rideshare.

Don't become like us.

Sincerely, an American on a late train to work right now

[-] ChanchoManco@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The sad part about this story is that the station closed, so if the next year there are other students they won't have the option.

[-] Taalnazi@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Would be terrible if we actually cared about people before the Almighty God of Profit!

[-] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

One of the worst myths about capitalism is equating profit with efficiency.

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