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No they're not stop making things up. Most Japanese people and families cannot afford to travel. Wages in japan have not risen since the 90s and have actually gone down with inflation.

https://nbakki.hatenablog.com/entry/Changes_Wage-Workers_Sal...

It sounds more to do with correlation vs causation people who are more likely to greet others could have a variety of different factors in their lives making them feel less isolated. One of them unironically states that it helps with the Career Wellbeing of an individual which is indicative that it doesn't really do that.

Those aren't NEETs but rather unemployed men unable to continue working often they're construction workers who's bodies give out. Since they are unable to be retrained in the Japanese system they often end up destitute and homeless. Along side recently divorced women unable to re-enter into the workforce it's two issues that are occurring simultaneously. There are some forms of resources for the women but the men are often left abandoned.

13% of Americans are NEETs in comparison to 3% of Japanese it's not an Asian or Cultural issue it's a systemic one.

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

This doesn't really show much besides the fact that for many European Countries they don't suffer from the same form of income inequality as we do. Note that Japan is ranked 15 yet is one of the worst examples of this. The Social Index tells nothing of the lives of the people in these countries.

In Japan you have to be admitted into a high school program and from their the trajectory of your life starts. All the way into the College process. It's not a fair system yet it's ranked 15.

Europe never abandoned it's "Elitist Discrimination" instead they build it into the foundations of the education system. It's a different model that instead relies on the fact that for most Europeans their lives are often decided when they born. While most Europeans receive some form secondary education they are pipelined at a young age into roles based on various factors that they are in no control of. It's not better than our existing system but it's not exactly the same.

Instead in the European model while Alumni is not considered, those Alumni have a generational advantage that often makes it so that these children end up in the same place as they were born. In the same way it can be very difficult for children born into lower class families escape from the preset paths in life that they are given.

For most jobs real wages haven't gone up at all adjusted with inflation. Others have mostly gone down in wages, most specifically service type jobs which are critical for basic needs. When you can't afford to live why bother?

That's it's problem it never really want any further. It's just a generic rpg game. Which is fine for a lot of people, but it wasn't a world. It didn't feel alive or real. Nothing really connected to each other. It was a linear narrative with a simple set of endings. Don't get me wrong there's nothing wrong with it. It's just not anything new or really good. What some of the developers promised was a universe a world that was alive, it wasn't that.

There was no human connection besides in the same NPCs. No real drastic changes and nothing that would necessitate what would immerse you into a cyberpunk world. Just a high budget linear AAA title.

Yep. This is pretty well said.

Sometimes I read these threads and see a lot of parents who seem to think that their child inherently loves something but to me it sort of looks like it's more of a forceful grooming. The word usage of some of the top comments is well very interesting... Children tend to not really be excited for things but show interest because their parents do. Honestly, it's abusive.

I feel as though this isn't that surprising when you realize that for most municipalities police forces are revenue generators. Meaning that their main job is in increasing the funding of the precincts they belong to by issuing tickets to traffic violators. You could go a step forward and say they are systemically incentivized to target specific groups due to them being perceived as outsiders but I think a lot of police precincts still enforce broken window theory.

It's true there are but even these examples are in my opinion too small scale. I had hopes with the reboot of Cyberpunk 2077 but it was largely a miss. It had the cybernetics but not anything else. Personally I think that when Cyberpunk is done well it acts as a metacommentary of how our world runs the people that are often left behind and the stories of others.

Communities for this just don't exist. And they won't. The lives of the average writer in every part of the world just hasn't gotten better, you need groups of people working on things, not just experts but people who can interpret and work together on things. And it doesn't exist. A market could exist but there's no one willing to invest in a venture like this, talking about these complex issues and the lives that people live. A living world. Well, I doubt anyone's really interested.

That's where things tend to become more complicated. It's dependent on what you're writing and when it's occurring. It's a big leap from retinal displays and discrete leds to full on eyes. Neuroprosthetics especially the Bionic eye are a more complicated. There are biological and technical factors that play a part. Often this is ignored but you kind of can't really do that.

Personally I don't think Cyberpunk as a genre has died but rather that it had failed to adapt, by the early 00s we weren't as sure as to how technology would progress into the future and many of the existing assumptions they had made were wrong. Publishers were tending to become less interested in continuing it as many parts of the writing world sort of just began to shift to a field of disrepair.

With science fiction as a whole as a genre sort of just wavering off, the problems with writing a systemic whole and how authorship works making it impossible for any progress to really be made. Comic books as well during this period began to waver off sales slumping as progressively all genres have begun to collapse.

I know that several artists and writers are barely even struggling to get by. Essentially being screwed by the industry they had trusted to take care of them. Neil Gaiman talked about it, how he was paid $40 dollars per comic at times. Those rates are still the exact same today, not exactly 40 dollars but not livable. The same happened to Clarke's World and various other science fiction magazines like Asimov. I'd argue the genre did not die, the entire writing community supporting it has died.

Yeah that's true. Though usually I see more of a retinal display but that's also more of a times piece sort of thing. Carrying around goggles is also kind of makes you really stand out. Google Glasses were pretty interesting in the early 2010s. Realistically for a netrunner, you aren't even really coding while you're at the location, Mr.Robot does a good job with this but in a different way.

I always felt that a lot of the aesthetic choices in the cyberpunk genre have been subject to scrutiny as the genre aged. Things like black leather outfits to punk rock. The overall tone of cyberpunk as a genre has always been a favorite of mine. But that it hasn't really changed too much in the decades that came. Instead derivates instead of additions and adjustments to the core cyberpunk genre.

The Cyberdeck itself is well gone a bit off the rails, personally I think a more modern rendition work be more about discreteness it would provide in contrast to a conventional notebook, along with it's utility purposes. But the more modern renditions still heavily favor brick like designs which is fine, sometimes I wish the genre would change. Personally I think the addition of virtual reality and it's inclusion since early on in the genre was a mistake by authors who at the time didn't have an understanding of what the cyberspace really was. This is getting long but if anyone wants to talk I'm all ears.

It sounds more like an excuse to continue to output oil while doing absolutely nothing to stop the further degradation of out environment.

Too many animations. Probably loading in a lot of custom js. Honestly keeping it simple is probably the best bet it already looks pretty generic for these kinds of sites the animations don't really help. Often the goal for those is subtle which is why people spend a lot of money on ux designers to do just that. Overall it's fine but some stuff should probably just be removed. Your site isn't really accessible but that shouldn't matter for your userbase.

Huh I'm always skeptical of anything that goes viral on twitter, usually theyre marketing campaigns looking at individual youtube videos most dont even have ~25k views. Personally, this looks like a lazy attempt at fake advertising when nigeria does not even have a large twitter presence. As most nigerian are not even online. Nor are they at the level of educational attainment to find anything of remote value from these lectures. The responses in this post as well point towards fraudulent and fake responses in the hopes of generating likely funding for a technology sector in a region that isn't ready for one.

That's true.

Though, I've always hoped to play a more realistic version of Game Dev Tycoon. Which might sound weird to say. Just going over what it actually is and how people are often worked to their core. Kind of like Darkest Dungeon but yeah.

Oh wow, these developers take this seriously.

Well I guess a suspense of disbelief is always important for these games. But it does make you wonder how many people will legitimately think they'll be able to run a small business by playing this game.

Heh. I can't tell if this game is satire or not.

https://youtu.be/l8zQ3piJpqs?t=289

Note: From the blog itself.

I remember reading it having to do with diet. But as trends such as "super foods" grow and the obesity epidemic expands into south america, these trends likely aren't going to last. As staple foods in latin american countries see the price of their foods increase. And the shifting diets towards unhealthy alternatives that are priced cheaper than said goods.

The irony to call Asians white when most Asians that have migrated recently come from predominately South Asia and are dark/darker skinned.

Yeah. Copyright laws in Japan are extremely strict. I would not be surprised at a complete ban on this. This is just a fluff piece like a lot of ads coming in recently.

Yep. Nonprofits are broken by design. Sometimes you see egregious forms of corruption like this other times as things grow larger in scale, administrative fees, nice vacations or group events for leadership. Honestly, non-profit status doesn't mean anything. Charities have become an extension of what they originally were just places where people go to make money while "fixing" problems that governments were originally designed to deal with.

How easily problems such as child hunger and homelessness could be solved but the reality is that often it isn't simple, in the US requiring federal initiatives that the current state of our government has enabled this corruption. I don't intend on going political but often it becomes a problem of the commons where people believe they deserve more than others and often you'll see this prop up on forums like this. Where people who make more on average, often due to working in tech, think their opinions on matters are worth more even without the expertise or knowledge to come with it.

That aside, funding for programs is often non-uniform based on what cities actively need to deal with and often the friendships of individuals rather than on any real form of reasoning. We live in a plutocracy and these are just the side effects.

This happens due to the fact that working in IT what you see instead is that individuals they deem inferior are not hired. Racism is a very big think in both Asian and American Culture. In systems such as the University of Texas we see outcomes for Hispanics that receive degrees in technology. They just don't get jobs. The results of it are easily translated over for other ethnicities with the notable exception of African Americans which Texas surprisingly has very few African Americans and even less with a bachelors degree or higher.

It tells us a lot firstly that there is a limit to the amount of minorities that are hired every year and that it's artificially set by a group of people systemically due to varying biases, often a sense of superiority. I could list the two groups that actively participate in this but doing so is pointless.

No. People have tried to use Grammarly for this. Using Chat GPT as a linter for writing is a terrible idea and I wouldn't suggest anyone use it. I wouldn't be surprised if Chat GPT hallucinated suggestions and problems in writing. For business writing on the other hand, maybe. For basic things it could be helpful. But it might cause a lot more unnecessary confusion. While looking as though you understand more than you do. What I mean by this is that instead of being confused as a misinterpretation by a secondary language speaker. Instead it will look as though you intentionally meant to say something someway. This sounds vague, because there are lots of issues that could possible occur. And this is the worst one I could think of off the top of my head.

We see some people already using it to automate certain sections such as emails in their life, and well.. Good luck. It could easily write something you didn't want it to or say something you didn't mean because you didn't look closely at what you were writing. There's a lot of terrible consequences of this technology and to call it a productivity hack is well, not ideal.

This is a bias, the people you interacted with that shared their results and told you that they found a job reinforce your believe in the rate. But the reality is that often, the ones not finding opportunities do not talk about not finding opportunities.

The professors I knew openly told me and our classes how the system worked. And that the majority of individuals will not find a job. There are too many new graduates to new positions. Many of them were fellows and board members of the ACM. I was active in the student group and got to know these people and the outcomes. These guys often share results and data they collect privately with other researchers. And people are failing at an alarming scale. But you won't find those people on this site, and you wouldn't because of the main demographic of this forum.

It's not. It's often due to under reporting. And sometimes the blatant falsification of data. But you don't really need to do that when only a small percentage of individuals reply to your survey. And thats how you get a high placement rate. You also need to understand that for the hundreds of thousands of CS, IT degrees that are awarded each year only a few thousand jobs exist at the entry level. You see reports of hundreds of thousands of job postings but the vast majority are just repeats of the same listing.