Comments by "Bionickpunk" (@Bionickpunk) on "Life Where I'm From" channel.

  1. Brutalism has a very specific design philosophy and intent, and even political approach in how buildings are constructed. In Brutalism, while you would have utilitarian aspects in their desgins, a lot of buildings experimented with shapes, textures, and layouts, so much so that some Brutalist buildings can look truly futuristic, geometric, downright beautiful. Some even incorporate greenery both on the building and around it through public green spaces. Brutalist builings also tend to be imposing, greater than the person observing them, concrete monuments of engineering. They are also distinct decade differences and differences between countries Brutalist buildings, but all sharing the common core principals of design. Mostly used for apartment blocks and secular buildings, not for individual homes as concrete used for individual homes tends to stray more towards other modernism architectural styles instead. Okinawan homes look more like eclectic or vernacular mish mash of different things, not exactly adhering to Brutalist design philosophy. To me Japan never really had brutalist buildings, going more for its own concrete building styles like Metabolism, and these vernacular styles seen in Okinawa and many other across Japan.
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  2. I agree, the proper solution should be improving the rail network and public transit, not EV cars or scooters. Less battery waste and traffic problems.
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  3.  @thomasreese2816  "nearly" is not completely, battery waste is still a major concern that hampers it from being eco friendly, on top of the electric sources used to power those batteries. Also mining lithium for batteries creates huge environmental problems in many parts of the world that are not worth it just so that Lee and Chang in Taiwan can feel good while riding their scooters.
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  4. Not necessarily true. I see a lot of middle aged and older people holding bars.The young ones are mostly in the party or tourist trap areas.
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  5. Hopefully Okinawans win in their fight to remove all the US military bases from their islands.
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  6. Dude is a pillar of the community.
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  7. These buildings definitely do not have a style to them, the loose term would be vernacular buildings, or some are eclectic as they use traditional elements with mish mash of modern whatever they think of.
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  8.  @Alicia-ag  Well our own unique bar culture is part of country˙s traditions for centuries. A place where you drink, eat, listen to live music. Even some of the most pivotal events in our people´s history started in these types of locals, since it was a popular gathering spot for people from all walks of life and classes. The relative age of the waiters and bartenders is way older than in more westernized bars and pubs. So yeah, Europe has a far more diverse third space culture than you are personally familiar with.
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  9.  @li_tsz_fung  I disagree on the aspect that brutalism is not good for exterior; Most of the time Brutalism with Greenery can look pretty nice actually. It all depends on the architect and if they payed attention to how the building would look like, which is pretty much the case with any architectural style. Modernist buildings are make or brake depending on the architect and how much care you put into their aesthetics. When they go cheap, they look and/or are really cheap, but when you put in effort, they are amazing. With Okinawa in this video, it seems that most buildings went for the most efficient cost effective approach to modernist design, ultimately looking bland if not for the few personal touches people put on the buildings like the lions or drawn signs. US military occupation probably didnt help since it most likely shaped some of the design aspects like the car dependency and window bars.
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  10.    Probably fairly quickly. A lot of them would move to bikes in the first instances until a proper railway network is established.
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  11.  @mindstalk  Yes, many college dorms are also inhumane. You are not making your point sound any better.
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  12. America needs to first start fixing the urban design mess done by car companies, return dense mixed use zone planning, and bring back public transit such as trams and other rail networks....otherwise any eco friendly solution wont work in there.
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  13.  @lainiwakura1776  Hardly conformist since everyone customizes their living spaces, as seen with the many different terrace and window styles people put on those buildings afterwards.
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  14.  @MelGibsonFan  Except thats not really what Not Just Bikes preaches for if you watched all of his videos. He advocates for better quality of life. It just so happens that cycling, public transit, walkable cities, better land use, and more greenery is what leads to a better quality of life. Cars and cities designed primarily around them dont do that. Those that only lived in car centric areas probably never experienced better alternatives, dont know any better....and Americans are famously stubborn and ignorant of the outside world so its no surprise why his patience is wearing thin in recent videos.
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  15. No way, most of America is not New York City.
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  16.  @LTL_king  I wouldn't want to live in US suburban hellscapes or Japanese capsule size apartments. Two opposite extremes, no thank you.
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  17. This is the Japan I want to see and meet, the friendly neighbors open for socializing that partake in a mutual third place.
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  18. While these look cute, they seem like novelty items that can and have been done better with other kitchen appliances (those you have already showcased in your past videos). Plus the more you have these the less convenient it is to store and use them all.
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  19. Absolutely not, they have space in abundance. What they really should focus on is how to properly use that space instead of wasting it on large suburban sprawls and highways cutting neighborhoods in two. Best approach for them is copying European cities and transportation infrastructure. That includes trams, buses, metros, bike lanes, pedestrian walkways. European urban planing is more humane than East Asian.
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  20. Wearing masks while dealing with flour may actually prove useful, cause the small particles of flour in the air can cause you to sneeze. Happens to me all the time when making bread.
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  21. For real, they are like mini fortresses.
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  22. The most sustainable solution is to return a natural food chain by introducing the deer predator back, aka wolves.
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  23. Probably the same reason why they dont have an advanced central heating system, earthquakes.
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  24.  @ac1888  I already proposed the solution, improve public transportation so that private motorbike and car use is reduced. You also cant read cause I didnt say anything against electrification in general, but reduce overall use of private vehicles since that will reduce the production of electric batteries and waste associated with them and the waste of old vehicles. Reduce the amount of junk you create by making more efficient public services that more people can use at the same time it takes 50 motorbikes to bottleneck a street. It also reduces the need for parking space cause people are using public transit. For any other place that public transit doesnt cover, bikes and ebikes should be the mode of transport. ebike batteries are smaller and produce less waste, plus if the battery dies you can still pedal like a normal bike, you are not dead on the street like you would be with a motorbike.
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  25.  @krollpeter  The two parties are both the problem cause they bend down to the car industry.
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  26. My city has bike paths separate from pedestrian and car paths, so you can easily ride with no issue. The problem is truly only when you have to deal with car only roads.
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  27. I dunno, for work lots (so long as they have a bathroom) its fine, but looks like a nightmare for living spaces.
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  28. Make sure it has covers for the back wheel and chain.
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  29. To be fair, most of Japan seems disability unfriendly.
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  30. What, you don't like Food ASMR?
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  31. Rather have proper public transit like trains, metro, and trams before EV scooters.
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  32. Its a shame that Japan has such zoning and housing laws, where houses decrease in value and often get torn down cause of it. They lost a lot of traditionally designed homes this way, replacing it with houses with ugly random and chaotic designs, overall leading to most views of Japans neighborhood looking like richer favelas. The most beautiful parts of Japan are those where architects take care about the harmonious look of the building with its surrounding, as well as take care of the buildings design to have some architectural worth put into it, as well conserving existing architecture from being torn down or restoring it after disasters.
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  33. Yeah whats with the stair handles being cut off when they reach the ceiling? Also the doors are too narrow.
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  34. Too bad their produce is so darn expensive that normal people cant buy it on a normal basis. For them its ether expesive high quality stuff, or none at all. There is no affordable range.
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  35.  @mindstalk  No, Japan has little to no bike infrastructure, not unlike The Netherlands, largely due to his loose zoning laws, and pedestrian walkways double as car roads, which wouldnt pass in the US, especially not in the most crucial transitional period. Also American cities use to be like European ones before the car craze, with rail infrastructure and all, so naturally they should gravitate to what they once were. Many city areas still retain their historical city centers, zoning, and layout. Should expand that city design to other areas that were ruined by car infrastructure and car centric planning instead of trying to reinvent the wheel with an equally extreme city planing design from East Asian countries.
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  36. The survey is unreliable since it includes a very limited number of cities. It's easy to get result bias.
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  37. I think Tokyo would be lower had they included more cycling cities in those surveys. My city for instance has better bike infrastructure and use than Tokyo and yet its not on the lists cause the survey wasn't done there. These surveys are as good as the amount of cities they include.
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  38.  @LifeWhereImFrom  Well hopefully you had someone else drive you guys home 😄
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  39.  @mindstalk  Perhaps when you grow up you will learn to accept that other people dont like some things that you do.
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  40.  @danielpedersen1688  I dont think you truly understand my comment. I wasnt talking about sorting recyclable material, I was talking about waste that isnt recyclable even after recycling other materials from the old battery. And by replacing cars/motorbikes with electric cars/electric scooters, you arent fixing the environmental problem, you are just creating one in a different way. Not all battery components are recyclable, and the extraction of new battery components causes untold environmental and ecological damage, destroying soil and water while also rendering large chunks of wilderness a giant dead hole. The best solution is to reduce private vehicle use by building more sustainable and reliable public transit.
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  41. We dont have sake sold in my country. The first time I tried some was in a Japanese culture club where someone imported it from Japan. I can definitely see how someone could get drunk from it very quickly, cause its deceptively mild in its alcoholness when you drink it, you dont feel like you are drinking an alcoholic drink.
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  42. Electric trains and trams are far better than EV cars, scooters, or bikes, since they are directly connected to an electrical network, and dont produce a lot of battery waste. Seems like Taiwans solution should be to expand their rail trainsport, so that people dont have to use cars or scooters so much.
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  43. Not much of a nice view to be honest. Quite ugly looking neighborhoods on top of the whole culture of privacy leading to fortress like walled up homes.
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  44.  @ligondesenuts769  This video clearly shows that its not necessary, and yet here we are.
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  45. I think it's just high brow behavior wanting to promote the drink as this luxury item, where you have to feel every texture and smell of it like wine people do.
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  46.  @Kizarat  Obesity and junk food is freedom, healthy bodies and healthy food is communist /s
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  47. Its very easy to beat US when it comes to quality of living, but dang using Japan is just too brutal of a move, the US never stood a chance.
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  48. So much snow. Havent seen that much in two decades, we only get one or two days of snowfall during January and February, and the snow doesnt last long.
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  49. They ether not drink much or get stoned. You should see some of those Shibuya meltdowns where people get absolutely hammered from alcohol.
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  50. Whats the difference between a Japanese small town and a village?
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  51. Or Earthquakes. It can't be easy or safe going down those tight narrow spiral stairs when in a hurry.
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  52. Brutalism was mostly the best image when talking about socialism and communism, and as such you would see such architecture in countries that had socialist or communist movements. Japan spearheaded metabolism during the time its economy was at its peak.
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  53.  @opart  Not necessarily. Metabolism is orderly in compressed space, like a bee hive, Brutalism can sometimes achieve this but what sets it apart is less inorganic sharp angles and visual appearance. Despite the contrasts, both styles complement each other and take from each others core elements. Brutalism had international spread, while Metabolism was primarily a Japanese architectual movement. There were plans in Yugoslavia to design entire parts of Skoplje in Metabolism-Brutalism architecture mix during the 60s, but that sadly never happened to its full extent.
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  54. Brutalism architecture can be quite beautiful in the hands of a proper architect and engineer team. Japan is not known for beautiful brutalist buildings, it has however metabolism as a good subsitute.
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  55. Think more places need less of "in-your-face" advertisements, maybe not to the extreme that Kyoto does (where you barely or dont see the businesses at all), but certainly not the eye sore that Tokyo does (flashing bright lights are an epileptics worse nightmare). A middle ground is needed.
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  56. So how do they deal with old scooter batteries that are no longer able for use? How well do they recycle the battery material and is the eco cost of recycling lower than with gas versions?
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  57.  @thomasreese2816  I dont see any canopies at those charging stations that are not slap next to a building.
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  58. 17:42 The plant is not feeling so well.
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  59. Then the steam would just get out from the bento box and water will drip down.
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  60. That's the neat thing, you don't. These are too small for any real furniture, even if you moved it disassembled Ikea style.
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  61.  @LifeWhereImFrom  I just wonder what kind of furniture would fit in these apartments? Seems like most are already refurbished to maximum space, besides general stuff like devices and clothing racks.
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  62. Most people here are just positive about it cause it looks like a theme park novelty and because it's Japan, good for a wacky video. I doubt they would last long living in such tight spaces. It would actively triggers some form of claustrophobia.
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  63. ​ @mindstalk  I rather they put a small green space than an attempt at tight urban planning putting people in spaces like sardines. Maybe for you thats normal, but not for me, you should accept that. To me it is a theme park novelty and to many watching these video it will remain as such. What do you think that there is an influx of people going to Japan to live in these apartments when they have far easier to migrate to, better housing options, and more compatible countries to go to? Be real. Who are you to get in my way of saying whats humane and what isnt? You think sardine homes are humane and would gladly subject people to it cause "its cheap and affordable". There are ways to make cheap affordable housing without doing this to people, but I guess thats far above your perception cause "cool quirky Japanese housing wow" overrides any common sense.
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  64. I would not put it in a freezer. Regular fridge sure, the riceballs are nice and firm that way, but freezer will just make it into a block of ice.
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  65.  @harvestmoon_autumnsky  Just look at Yellowstone.
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  66. Biggest rule of riding bikes is to let it age, chip its paint and rust a bit so that its no longer appealing to thieves.
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  67. Why not just introduce wolves to Japan again? Is there no Japanese wolf in captivity or a wolf variant that would work for Japanese islands?
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  68.  @brianlynchehaun7079  I would more associate it with fruit or honey based spirits, but less antiseptic towards your throat. Far more sweet than wine (which to me also had that bitterness on top of the sweetness of the grapes).
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  69. Perhaps introduce level parking lots for scooters in high traffic areas.
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