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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 17 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (4 children)

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

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 10 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 6 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago

Yes, there just shouldn't be a percentage sign. It's not a percentage. The value is probably around 5 something per 100k.

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[–] EldenLord@lemmy.world 53 points 1 day ago (2 children)

07%

This is why punctuation is important.

[–] bampop@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (5 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

[–] EldenLord@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The "%" is unnecessary, yeah. I‘m guessing she meant "0.7 homicides per 100K citizens per Annum"

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[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago

Not even sure what year this is from cause the murder rate in Japan is .23% per 100,000 as of 2022.

Interestingly the United States is at 5.7% per 100,000 as of 2023.

Relevant Wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate

And as of 2022 it looks like the Christian population of Japan has declined to around .96% of the total population.

[–] don@lemmy.ca 14 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Admittedly, ignorance respects no particular faith. That said, Christianity does seem to have quite the stranglehold on it.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

That's because you see more of them. Or at least what passes for christian in the US. Rest assured that the others are more than keeping pace.

[–] Karrion409@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

I don't view christianity as a real religion tbh. Maybe way back when it was but nowadays it's just a way for fragile suburbanites to justify their victim complex and bigotry.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

That's how most "real" religions are.

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[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 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 26 points 1 day 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 3 points 10 hours 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 12 points 1 day 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.

[–] JargonWagon@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They probably just saw Silence and think it's a result of the persecution of Christians back in the 1600s.

To those prepared to reply with "but that's not what it is", I'm not saying it is.

[–] RedFrank24@lemmy.world 82 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 34 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 14 points 1 day 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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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 1 day 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 13 points 1 day 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.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 14 hours ago

Also in IT. Complained last week about a guy who is a lawyer who was befuddled by needing to reset his password for an online service. Dude! How can you not have this skill by now?!

I was utterly forlorn. And a bit angry.

[–] bunnyBoy@pawb.social 6 points 1 day ago

I have the exact same experience. I explain health benefits to people for multiple different companies across the US. The number of airline pilots who see a 'forgot username or password?' button and just don't know what that means, or type their username in the password field and vice versa, even though they're clearly labeled, is insane.

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[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 46 points 1 day 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.

[–] BussyCat@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

To be fair though it’s the ones living on the street that people choose to hate on as much as possible

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I guess not having many Jesus cult members helps

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[–] ThePiedPooper@discuss.online 106 points 1 day ago (6 children)

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

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Do you want to talk about Satan?

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

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 points 21 hours ago

Anybody who rebels against the biblical god has the right idea.

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[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 31 points 1 day ago (24 children)

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

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

5/7 with rice

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 157 points 1 day 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 108 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)
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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 day ago

Heartbroken because it should be 0%?

[–] thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 51 points 1 day 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 1 day 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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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 16 points 1 day ago

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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