• parpol@programming.dev
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    2 months ago

    This is what happens when a country doesn’t have the freedom to roam rights that most European countries do. You can’t just enter wilderness or climb mountains here. You can’t swim in lakes all willy nilly either. It is probably what I like the least about Japan, but that’s just the way it is. It is their culture, not mine.

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      2 months ago

      i like japan on a lot of stuff but one thing that encapsulates their society is when i visited their convenience store and there seems hundreds of “rules” plastered all over on the register. i keep hearing the native says it like “a nail that sticks out will get hammered down” and after visiting there, i understand…