[-] yuurei@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago

I agree that this story depicts one of the beautiful aspects of human nature. It also sheds light on what has been lost in the process of modernization.

However, when I actually try to imagine myself living in that society, I don’t feel like I could survive in it. I guess it's a typical Japanese response.

[-] yuurei@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 hours ago

Reading the comments made me realize a couple of things.

  1. When I said it sounded "exhausting," I wasn't really talking about the physical work of moving the sofa. I meant the effort of maintaining the relationships behind it. In many cases, the pizza isn't really the reward. From a Japanese perspective, sharing a meal with someone can actually feel like the more demanding part unless you're very close. Sometimes, even with close friends, it can feel like a bit of an obligation.

  2. I think we have a different idea of what "neighbors" and "friends" mean. For many people in Japan today, neighbors are essentially strangers. There are probably still rural communities where neighbors help each other, but that's much less common in cities. As for friends, we generally don't rely on them for everyday necessities. Of course we're happy to help our friends when they need it, but friendship itself isn't expected to function as part of the infrastructure of daily life. We don't stay friends because we need each other. We stay friends because we enjoy each other's company.

[-] yuurei@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 hours ago

We pay professionals to move it. It cost about 50$ - 100$.

[-] yuurei@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

That's true. Japanese residential streets really are that narrow, if not narrower. You could argue that's why parking enforcement is necessary, but if the police ticketed every car that stopped briefly to load or unload furniture, nothing would get done. Long-term parking is another matter, but a temporary stop like that usually isn't something people worry about getting fined for in Japan.

[-] yuurei@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

It feels like something that has been lost in today's society, and unfortunately, it seems difficult to regain it at this point. I don't know where this difference came from.

[-] yuurei@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Your comment resonates with me.

[-] yuurei@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

That's interesting. I always thought Europe was more relaxed about things like that. In Japan, at least, you're generally allowed to stop temporarily while loading or unloading furniture, so this surprised me.

[-] yuurei@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 day ago

As a Japanese person, my first reaction was, "That sounds exhausting." I'm genuinely curious, though. Is this something most Americans enjoy, or is it one of those social expectations that not everyone is actually comfortable with?

[-] yuurei@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Why not try promoting the Linux desktop as a platform that makes it easy to use AI bots?

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My comments about JoJo in Reddit are hidden because I got shadowbanned.

Reddit requires users to accumulate karma before they can fully participate. In practice, this means that your ability to post depends on receiving upvotes from other users.

However, after observing the platform for some time, I don't think highly upvoted posts and comments are necessarily the highest-quality ones. Original or intellectually sharp ideas often receive less attention than opinions that simply reinforce what the majority already believes.

The incentive structure seems to reward social conformity more than intellectual quality. People often upvote content not because it is the most insightful, but because it provides the comfort of agreement and reinforces a shared worldview.

As a result, Reddit's reputation system tends to filter out unconventional or challenging ideas. While it is effective at surfacing popular opinions, it is far less effective at identifying high-quality thinking. In that sense, the platform's design systematically favors consensus over insight.

I hope Lemmy grows into a community that values thoughtful, high-quality discussions.


I'd like to leave comments here that was hidden on my Reddit.

Unpopular opinion: I don't like how abstract the later Part 6 stands are.

Reality in fiction is not measured by how closely it resembles the ordinary world we experience, but by how deeply it approaches the truths of humanity and the world itself.

Whether one finds the bizarre Stand abilities in Part 6 appealing is ultimately a matter of taste. However, to conclude that their strangeness diminishes the work's sense of reality is to misunderstand the kind of reality Araki seeks to achieve.

The reality Araki pursues is not the superficial imitation of the real world. Rather, by portraying abilities and events that could never exist in reality, he reaches toward truths about human nature and the world that reality alone cannot fully express.

I was rewatching Part 4 and...i wish this event had more impact on the story

There is also a way of drawing by choosing not to draw.

Part 4, in particular, shows that we can perceive only a small fraction of what happens in a town. What the reader sees is nothing more than a series of fragments. Yet behind those fragments lies a vast network of untold events and unseen lives that remain outside the frame.

One of Part 4's central themes is precisely this: allowing us to sense connections that are invisible, yet undeniably real.

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My comment about "JoJo's Bizzare Adventure" was removed by Reddit. Then my account has been shadowbanned.

r/StardustCrusaders - Is her soul made up of many tiny plankton souls that are arranged to look like her body?

My comment was:

Although Father Pucci's ability physically created F.F.'s body, it was Jolyne and her companions who created F.F.'s soul.

Before this scene, DIO and Pucci discuss the hypothesis that Leonardo da Vinci was a Stand user. Countless people are drawn, day after day, to paintings and sculptures that simply stand on display. That attraction has continued across centuries, transcending both time and death. Even DIO and Pucci remark that they have never encountered a Stand with such overwhelming power.

In other words, something that would seem impossible in the fictional world of JoJo is actually happening in the real world. Stands are a fantastical device, but what they ultimately point toward is not fantasy. They represent extraordinary human abilities that truly exist in reality. Revealing these seemingly impossible capacities of human beings is what JoJo's "hymn to humanity" is all about.

The portrayal of F.F.'s soul stands as one of the series' greatest expressions of its hymn to humanity.

yuurei

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