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SB_90s t1_j28gcop wrote

Been to Japan and they have all sorts of weird, futuristic and cool stuff as part of their public infrastructure because it's not always built by the lowest bidder and/or to save cost, and money is actually spent to maintain it once they're in service. The lack of that mentality, as well as higher rates of unnecessary vandalism, is why a lot of Western countries can't have nice things like that in public.

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Soviet_Beer t1_j28phnh wrote

And then you go in one of their offices and see a line at the fax machine xD

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Teledildonic t1_j29jc9t wrote

And the bags of candy that are 50% plastic wrapper by volume.

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justthisones t1_j2c4glj wrote

Lately I’ve been watching bunch of walk videos from Japan, especially from Tokyo and what you said is extremely visible. Plenty of stuff that’s absolute marvel to look at concidering the amount of people. Some of the busiest streets seem so ”clear” and clean that you could almost lick the pavement. It looks almost impossible. There’s also loads of different type greenery and lights everywhere that are clearly being kept tidy too.

Here it’s so common that even decent projects are very quickly left to rot without proper maintenence. It’s such a shame.

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