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I guess their documents are in the cloud now...

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[–] Talaraine@fedia.io 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But they were recovered when a beautiful girl helped him pick them all up, starting a life-long love affair.

[–] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

She didn't speak his language, but that cannot stop love.

[–] Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

But the fact she was a foreigner did.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Recording everything using paper. How very Japanese.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How else were they going to get everything stamped?

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago

This is the most Japanese problem I've seen today and I live in Japan.

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bureaucracy. Bureaucracy never changes.

[–] MxM111@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.

[–] TigrisMorte@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

That's how all of Kansas lost theirs, or so I'm told by this Dorothy girl over here.

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 year ago

I love the photo used in this article (also the thumbnail here)

[–] quaddo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m surprised spreadsheets and fax machines weren’t somehow involved.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's what could be the 'new' digital process.