StarrWulfe (JLGatewood)

@hypertown
It’s gotten better but only because the translation algorithms are better. But the rabbit hole gets deep real quick too.

@hypertown

It has gotten better since the days of me posting various “Engrish” I would see that were posted officially on wayfinding signage in places like Tokyo and Shinjuku stations, Haneda Airport, rest areas along the national expressway system and so forth.

@agitatedpotato yeah, no doubt those are factors indeed, especially the mental health one.
Wife made a succinct point at how much more stressful life in the States is in general with regard to the “keep up or die” lifestyle we have here and I feel it’s a major contributor.

Miss one paycheck or slip on a bar of soap in the shower and wind up with a $20000 hospital bill and cause several years of worry and paranoia (as an example). Other places in the world don’t have to deal with that, hence they also don’t have the mental illness rates we do
(Again simple example for a complex variable just for illustration purposes; don’t flame pls 😉)

So is it just mass shootings in the top places for murders overall going down or just in general or…

I certainly *feel* like I didn’t see as many in the news this year but then again 1/4 of the year has been consumed by a mass genocidal rampage half a world away and its definitely sucking up all the media attention…