LadyButterflyshe/herLove this!
hauiSince this is a wholesome community: please make yourself a picture of japan and how it treats children.
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ZDLI do so love block bait that so clearly identifies itself.
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besmttWhataboutism
By that logic, if I post something positive about russia, hamas, trump, etc. you cant engage me because it is whataboutism?
This post says - entity in japan does good for child. I say, japan is infamous for their treatment of children, please read, this paints a wrong picture.
Make it make sense.
You have got to be kidding me. 7 upvotes too for this?
Lol the pressure, “are you going to pass or shall we keep the station open one more year?”
That is not a thing in most of the world.
Passing grades? Where is it not a thing?
Well obviously “most of the world.” What world are you from not passing grades?
What? I’ve had people in my class who didn’t pass (in Germany).
Lyra_LycanI 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: 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 is possible.
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?
Would have been cheaper to just buy her a car
I’d assume the train passes past the station either way, so it’s just a matter of stopping or not.
She probably has a yearly/minthly ticket, meaning no one needs to actually be tzere at the station. The train just comes, stops and goes. Doesn’t seem like too much of an added cost.
We’re making a lot of assumptions here.
Especially the American car people.
Yeah it’s a real stretch to assume that the train follows the same tracks every day
Given the chaos that occasionally happens to my local public transport, I could probably say this statement unironically.
Fair enough. But I also have experience living in Japan and using the trains daily. Each line is set and scheduled and if it was a minute late it either broke down entirely or there was an actual emergency. Commuter stops are also really quick, like a minute or two. It’s honestly really nice
I’m sure! Don’t worry, I was just making a joke about how bad the trains are for me locally. It’s not uncommon to see trains skipping the entire CITY because they’re behind schedule.
Haha that’s insane, wow
Cars are inefficient, they can carry much fewer people and are also a lot more polluting.
Also, they are dirty and you need to watch traffic. In train you can study, read, actually develop instead of being miserable.
Not to mention you need to buy gas, schedule & pay for maintenance, etc.
Yeah nobody needs to pay for train maintenance, we all know it’s free! /s
The infrastructure for it is already in place
So you’re telling me that running, staffing and maintaining a train is more environmentally friendly than 1 electric vehicle?
The train is already being ran, staffed, and maintained. The only difference is the cost of applying brakes as this stop and then restarting the engine. So you should be comparing having all passengers buy a vehicle instead of just this one student, or only the cost of stopping the train at this station.
In a vacuum, as a one time deal, developing from scratch? Probably no.
If you already have a robust train infrastructure? Depends on a length of a run, but it will be yes in more cases than you think. Trains are incredibly efficient.
If you already have a robust train infrastructure? Depends on a length of a run, but it will be yes in more cases than you think. Trains are incredibly efficient.
They’re not running an entire train line for her. They’re making an extra stop on an existing train line.
The train was already there
Right but now is it more environmentally friendly or efficient to maintain, staff and run a train for one person? Give her an EV and everybody wins
Except for wherever they sourced the lithium from, but ok.
🤦♂️ like arguing with a bot
There’s been like a dozen ppl pointing out the basic flaw in your logic (train is running anyway, just makes a 1 minute stop), but you ignored them all to focus on the one dumb comment about lithium sourcing.
The train station is unmanned and largely un-maintained. It’s just a dirt platform. The only thing the train has to do that it wasn’t already doing anyways is stop and start again, which consumes fewer resources than a separate EV driving all the way to the next nearest stop.
The train already had about 10 students who got on at previous stations also going to her school. She was the only one at that particular stop. Her parents already has a car, and they use it to drive her for 5 minutes to the train station, the train then takes 1 hour to get to where her school is.
“There’s only one train heading away from the main city of Asahikawa toward Engaru High School each day, so Kana’s parents make the five-minute drive to the station in time for her to catch the 7:16 a.m. train every morning, where she’s the only regular passenger waiting on the elevated section of land serving as a platform. The journey to school takes almost one hour, giving Kana time to read, listen to music or study during test time.
When Kana boards the train, there are about 10 other passengers, mostly other students, inside.” allabout-japan.com/en/article/1540/
Obviously the train goes to multiple stops on its route. For there to be one more stop is not the equivalent of a personal train sent only for her and no one else.
being downvoted by idiots who think running a train is more environmentally friendly than 1 EV.
Well, in this case you’re the idiot for not realizing the train was already on this route and was just making ONE extra stop to pick her up.
Other students also rode the train but Kana is the only consistent passenger.
That seems inefficient. And unrealistic.
OmegaWorld be damned if people do good things even at their own loss
Would be terrible if we actually cared about people before profit!
InternetCitizen2One of the worst myths about capitalism is equating profit with efficiency.
explodicleIt 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
The sad part day this story is that the station closed, so the next student that needs it can’t use it.
I need proof. Someone have a link to an article backing this up? The internet is full of lies.
I’d already googled there’s a few. Please remember to stay wholesome
Awesome. Thanks!
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.
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, …
Remote Hokkaido train station stays open for one high school girl? Perhaps not
HOKKAIDO - There is only one high school girl who uses the remote Kami-Shirataki Station in Hokkaido, Japan, but the station has been kept open for her till she graduates, goes a Facebook post by Chinese state broadcaster CCTV on Friday (Jan 8) which has gone viral. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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.
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. Of COURSE that would result in a drastically reduced carbon footprint, because we’d die out.
we’d die out.
Don’t get my hopes up
Norah (pup/it/she)Bold strategy to double-down on the antinatalism after the recent terrorist attack by a hardline antinatalist.
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”
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.
BigBenisFrom 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.