• I heard that he wrote that song after visiting an underground mall in Japan. How gnarly was that mall, that it made Jamaroquai write a song about technology being fucked up?

    • NONEOP
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      35 days ago

      Japan is in the 23th century already

      • udon
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        64 days ago

        In tech: maybe

        Other than that it often feels like 1950s America

        • @spookex
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          24 days ago

          Even in tech, there are things that probably haven’t changed in the past 25 years

          • udon
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            14 days ago

            True, but I give them the fax machines in their public offices and floppy disks on trains because the service works. I’d rather have it this way than switching everything to the newest ipads and breaking the service on the way.

            • @spookex
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              03 days ago

              True, it’s a lot of paperwork and not the most efficient, but I can trust that it will work

      • JackbyDev
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        4 days ago

        In the Japanese zodiac it is the year of the Linux desktop.