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[–] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Christianity is a vile, violent, and horribly divisive religion. Its also a pedophilia cult.

[–] EldenLord@lemmy.world 61 points 2 days ago (9 children)

07%

This is why punctuation is important.

[–] yannic@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago
[–] bampop@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days 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

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

0.07 x 100 000

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 31 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (11 children)

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

[–] peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

I was really wondering about that phrasing. So weird.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's what you have to use because they have fewer people per capita. It's basic math.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

But usually, you have total numbers per 100k and that's the percents. % is parts of hundred, no matter what.

[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago
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[–] RedFrank24@lemmy.world 95 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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 39 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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 18 points 2 days 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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[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 168 points 3 days 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 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (7 children)
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[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 43 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 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 2 days 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?

[–] 13igTyme@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Here's another in case you didn't know. People always talk about working in Japan to be brutal and constantly work long hours the entire week.

Data says otherwise. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/average-work-week-by-country

[–] aramova@infosec.pub 17 points 2 days 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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[–] ThePiedPooper@discuss.online 112 points 3 days ago (33 children)

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

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 43 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Do you want to talk about Satan?

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

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[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 51 points 2 days 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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[–] thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 53 points 3 days 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 42 points 2 days 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.

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[–] don@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 days 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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[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago (6 children)

I guess not having many Jesus cult members helps

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[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 2 days 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 2 days 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 2 days ago

Heartbroken because it should be 0%?

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