Japanese government is losing money because people stopped drinking alcohol
The Japanese government are just parents concerned that their son spends all his time in his room watching anime and playing video games, so they keep trying to encourage him to get drunk and get laid. Also they're fascists
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They also hope to perhaps find ways to use the metaverse to generate the sort of bonhomie that would traditionally lead to opening a bottle.
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bonhomie? someone knows wordsEvery time it's mentioned I do get the urge to drink myself into a stupor, so. Perhaps the Japanese are onto something here.
Japan’s health ministry said it had not co-operated with the tax agency on its contest but was in close regular contact with it over alcohol and health issues. The ministry added that it expected the campaign to be mindful of the “appropriate amount of alcohol consumption” that would avoid major health problems.
Lmao, suuuuure it will.
People in Japan are burnt out on following COVID protocols, so the government has mostly given up on trying at this point outside of token measures. HOWEVER, if COVID cases start rising after they reopen the borders to tourists (to allow people to take advantage of their weakened currency to go on tourist spending sprees and bring in billions of dollars in desperately-needed revenue), the same citizens that will say "oh well, nothing to be done, COVID is here to stay" will then raise absolute fucking pandemonium if COVID cases rise even mildly after the borders open, because dirty foreigners "brought" the disease into the country.
Japanese xenophobia is fucking wild. It's stuck in the 1950s with how harebrained and brazen it is. You watch any YouTuber of note that moved to Japan, and every time housing discrimination, people ignoring them even when they speak Japanese, or general refusal of service comes up, they all get real clammy and dismissive about it, but it's obviously a huge problem.
Japanese xenophobia is fucking wild. It’s stuck in the 1950s with how harebrained and brazen it is. You watch any YouTuber of note that moved to Japan, and every time housing discrimination, people ignoring them even when they speak Japanese, or general refusal of service comes up, they all get real clammy and dismissive about it, but it’s obviously a huge problem.
Japanese media empire is terrifying, like they genuinely had the whole world brainwashed to view them as this heaven on earth. I mean America also have a massive media empire, yet most pro-America VOA types still occasionally jokes about Americans being fat, uncultured, and trigger happy.
sounds like a good decision that definitely will not result in the govt losing more money in long term
i spent a summer working in japan about a decade ago. like out in the country with a group of guys my age (late 20s/early 30s). everyone smoked like chimneys and drank like fish every evening, which ratcheted up big time on the occasional "the big boss is taking us all out" nights.
those were back in my "i drink a bottle of wine a day" days when i still smoked sometimes and i was the only guest/US guy, so i joined in. but they were crazy. i came across as Mr. Reserved because i never got sloppy. like i tried to explain that, in the US, you can't just get so shitfaced that you fall asleep at a bar, on the street or otherwise in public. you will get in trouble with the law. their minds exploded when i explained about dry counties.
anyway, i personally tapered off big time several years ago and basically went dry around covid. i've maybe had 6-7 alcoholic drinks since 2020 started and almost all of those were in a 2 week period when i was on vacation. it doesn't seem to have hurt me, lol. maybe the kids these days are onto something.
I went dry same time too, I definitely had a problematic relationship with alcohol to put it lightly. It was one of the healthiest things I've ever done for myself and it's been way easier to stay sober now - also, no one seems to care anymore if you drink or not which is either just an aging thing or post-covid thing (I think the former).
yeah, you're right that not-drinking has not been remarked upon. i also kicked tobacco ( i was at about 1 a day) when covid hit. but i ate like an idiot and was fairly sedentary for that first year, so it was kind of a wash health wise with all the new things to be stressed about.
since then i've been putting effort into re-starting and maintain good habits with regards to activity and nutrition and it's gone fairly OK. it's pretty wild how many good decisions one can make at the beginning of the day when one isn't cringing through a hangover, so i'm trying to build on successes when i see easy opportunities ("bored? take a walk!"). i think i would be in a much darker place if i was like "eh, fuck it" about my health at this point.
people generally guess i'm 7-10+ years younger than i am, though i credit that to my immature disposition as much as anything.
Please stay in a drunken stuper and not realize how fucked up our fasc to neolib culture is.
