Japanese city loses residents’ personal data, which was on paper being transported on a windy day

https://soranews24.com/2024/04/26/japanese-city-loses-residents-personal-data-which-was-on-paper-being-transported-on-a-windy-day/

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

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Talaraine@fedia.io · 36 pts · 2y (2 replies)

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

ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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

Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 2y

But the fact she was a foreigner did.

ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca · 28 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Recording everything using paper. How very Japanese.

AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 2y (1 reply)

How else were they going to get everything stamped?

Justas@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2y

*faxed

runswithjedi@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 2y
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NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social · 20 pts · 2y

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

magnetosphere@fedia.io · 8 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Bureaucracy. Bureaucracy never changes.

MxM111@kbin.social · 10 pts · 2y

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

TigrisMorte@kbin.social · 7 pts · 2y

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

AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 2y

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

quaddo@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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

Rentlar@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 2y

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