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   blood cat (witchling@social.xenofem.me)'s status on Sunday, 08-Oct-2023 18:39:03 JST blood cat
   hot take but the only reason everyone is so "ah japan so futuristic" is because everyone saying this remembers all the things they see in futuristic dystopian sci-fi movies and applies it to the "hypes" while only remembering the futuristic, never the dystopian side of it.
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     MondoBizarrro (mondobizarrro@social.xenofem.me)'s status on Sunday, 08-Oct-2023 18:39:01 JST MondoBizarrro

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     @nyx @witchling fax machines are still super common in japan iirc
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     @witchling a lot of it is also basically a lingering cultural legacy Japan had in the 80s in the west where everyone was terrified it was going to get ahead of everyone with their tech industry and be unstoppable. but that pretty much collapsed after the bubble popped and Japan experienced its "lost decade(s)" where ironically they in general are way less willing to embrace modern technologies e.g. in their offices where a lot of stuff is still written by hand
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     rei (sun_eater@hidamari.apartments)'s status on Sunday, 08-Oct-2023 18:39:17 JST rei

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     @witchling i used to associate Japan with advanced technology when i was a child cos of what i saw on TV but, for some weird reason, i only remembered this association now after reading your post
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     ??? 妛彁 :xf_nyxsigil: :xf_nyxdisapproving: (nyx@social.xenofem.me)'s status on Sunday, 08-Oct-2023 18:44:12 JST ??? 妛彁 :xf_nyxsigil: :xf_nyxdisapproving:

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     @Mondobizarrro @witchling there still common here too 💀
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     @Mondobizarrro @witchling working in IT, I have had to fix fax machines on multiple occasions lmao
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     MondoBizarrro (mondobizarrro@social.xenofem.me)'s status on Sunday, 08-Oct-2023 18:44:26 JST MondoBizarrro

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     @nyx @witchling wow
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     r o w . ᚂ (rowb1t@social.xenofem.me)'s status on Monday, 09-Oct-2023 00:14:01 JST r o w . ᚂ

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     @nyx @Mondobizarrro @witchling yeah they're still considered the most "secure" method of sending certain legal documents for some dumbass reason. pretty much every office in amerikkka still has at least one.
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     @rowb1t @Mondobizarrro @witchling it's probably similar to the situation with printers where the major players are companies that have been around a long time and whose customers are largely companies whose products have nothing to do with technology. so basically no one has any idea what's going on to begin with and the companies that make and sell fax machines have absolutely no incentive to do anything other than encourage blatant lies about their product
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     r o w . ᚂ (rowb1t@social.xenofem.me)'s status on Monday, 09-Oct-2023 00:15:20 JST r o w . ᚂ

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     @nyx @Mondobizarrro @witchling pretty much. plus the work force at-large is still made up of computer illiterate types. people forget that roughly half of millennials didn't start using the internet or even computers until their teens and don't know enough to contradict the boomers above them, and zoomers haven't really been in the workforce long enough to be in a position to do anything either. we're probably stuck with these damn things for another decade (or two).
     
     although i guess the same could be said for countless other technologies that are coasting by on inertia alone.
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