Monday, May 18, 2020

Japan is so freakin high tech they got like robots serving you at banks and shit.

Maybe but not really. Consider, for example, they still use cash a ton. Like in 2020, they're just now pushing people to try to use cards more. Uhm... yeah. So China is way ahead of them there. And just so you know, their Wi-Fi sucks. Like it sucks ass. Everywhere you go here and I'm talking Tokyo, not the sticks, they have FREE Wi-Fi signs but then you try to connect and you can't. It's annoying as hell. Pro Tip: 7-11 always has great free Wi-Fi. Starbucks in Japan has shit Wi-Fi especially in Shinjuku. FamilyMart has pretty good Wi-Fi but you have to register with your email first (a lot of places make you do this in Japan... you don't have to do it in China and the Wi-Fi is a million times better in China). Japan's FREE Wi-Fi app sucks and doesn't work (even my wife discovered this). Ok, rant over. So sure, they have robots at banks to greet you and amazing space-age toilets ("space-age" doesn't make any sense right? since that was like the 1960s so a bit dated now but everyone describes the damn toilets this way). Really, they're amazing washlets and I can't believe us savages in the US don't have them (neither do the Chinese but hey they're still developing... I spent some time in China in case you're wondering why I compare the two). But sadly, you learn after being in Japan for a while, they're not really that high tech. No androids here. No amazing sex dolls (yet... come on Japan! I'm rooting for you). No giant mechanical kaiju you can playfully wrestle with before it maniacally crushes your bones (sorry, I'm a loser). Their shinkansen do kick ass though and they have tons of auto-open doors so never mind. I take it all back. Japan rules.

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