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[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 68 points 2 months ago

What the hell is "failed to gentrify" supposed to mean?

[-] Llituro@hexbear.net 23 points 2 months ago

it is possible to work on the internet and power lines without digging up the sidewalk

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago

And the earthquakes that happen every week or so are much less likely to damage those lines

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

I don't think this is true? Surely not? Tokyo has underground railway and that's fine.

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

I imagine those are built more robustly than a buried copper or fiber line

[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago

I'm guessing Japanese has a term for the process by which small towns and exurbs got absorbed into Tokyo, the word roughly translates to gentrify, but it doesn't quite work.

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

Very charitable interpretation

[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago

Always my first assumption when I see something very goofy written by a person who isn't speaking their native tongue lol.

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago

I assumed it was a cracker expat because reddit but looks like you might be right

[-] gueybana@hexbear.net 58 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That’s ‘failed to gentrify’?

That is what a gentrified street in my city looks like lmao

[-] regul@hexbear.net 53 points 2 months ago

Yeah. Not to be all "X, Japan", but I have to imagine the roughest neighborhood in Tokyo is still walkable, populated, accessible to transit, not a food desert, etc.

[-] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 41 points 2 months ago

No, every street corner in Tokyo has street fights where people do pro wrestling moves, hit each other with bicycles, and roll bowling balls at each other's feet, according to the most realistic video game ever made.

[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 19 points 2 months ago

Like a dragon?

[-] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago

every urban design NEEDS to have a gaudily dressed man with one eye to jump you from the sewer with a baseball bat majima-everywhere

[-] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

You forgot about how he fights by break dancing.

[-] ihaveibs@hexbear.net 42 points 2 months ago

This is nicer than any city street in America

[-] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 28 points 2 months ago

Is that supposed to look bad? It's a very clean city street, decent houses on the side, I don't see what I'm supposed to complain about?

[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 25 points 2 months ago

How am I supposed to drive my Ford Childkiller through this street? There's no way it could fit!

speech-top

frothingfash

[-] sexywheat@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'm very sorry sir, I meant to say that you have a DODGE RAM 3000 CHILEDKILLER, my mistake!!!

[-] PaX@hexbear.net 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

bait

Edit: I looked at the poster's history very briefly, it's not bait desolate

This the poster if you wanna try figure them out: https://old.reddit.com/user/Gmellotron_mkii

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[-] sweatersocialist@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago

bro what the fuck lmao

[-] Jenniferrr@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago

Wow I'm not getting my eyes blasted with visual advertisements, I've never lived in a place like that

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