Nah, a normal person would have said ‘inspired by Lenin’. OP is either dumb as rocks or AI.

Joseph Stalin was a communist leader inspired by Leon Trotsky

Obvious factual error in the first sentence. Sigh. They don’t make nazis like they used to.

Yes, and it’s the sort of mumbo jumbo that got 150 schoolgirls killed. Don’t get me wrong, normally I’m all for freedom of religion, but if the US ever looks funny at your country, YOU HAVE TO DROP EVERYTHING ELSE AND GET THE NUKE. Sadly, it’s the only language they understand.

I think it’s less ‘fix’ and more ‘make irrelevant’.

In a society that doesn’t care too much about gender, crossdressing stops being anything of note.

Similarly, if you think about a cyberpunk society through a Marxist lens (or use a bit of common sense), you quickly see the flaw in the premise.

All peak shows. And while you can say that Lain and Utena are a bit niche, how is no one streaming Sailor Moon or GitS? That’s free money!

Smartphone chargers / smartphone to computer cables are technically male (USB-A) to male (USB-C).

Has the Waters above the firmament ocean a surface? And whats above that surface?

‘How about we explore the area above that surface later?’

The ‘north-east’ or ‘seven sisters’ - they are poorer, culturally distinct, and politically ignored. Also the terrain is hilly and forested.

electric cars release more CO2e than fossil-fuel cars

India’s grid was about 37% renewable in 2020. I’m seeing estimates of 46% renewable as of now, but those aren’t official. So that conclusion is very unlikely. What is possible is that EV subsidies might be encouraging people to buy electric cars instead of petrol bikes, which could increase emissions.

If this is true, would it also be true for coal-to-electricity trains vs more straight fossil-fueled trains?

No, because diesel locomotives are actually diesel-electric - the diesel power is used to generate electricity, which then turns the wheels. So electric locos are simply replacing the very heavy, noisy and dirty diesel engine with a stationary power plant that can be located somewhere remote, much more efficient and does not need to be dragged along with the train. (They are also faster and more powerful, which is probably the bigger reason for electrification.)

Where’s Jiankui He when you need him?

Padoru Bocchi

Ethiopia already banned petrol cars earlier this year.

But characters don’t have to be uniformly light-skinned to be pretty or make money. Fate has dark-skinned characters, and Fate is not exactly known for its moral standards. And miHoYo has generally not been afraid of breaking social taboos.

Anyway, I’m just disappointed that the region which should have darker characters has only one character darker than the palest biscuit. Maybe I should have seen this coming, oh well.

Oh, you mean the face? That’s definitely possible, but as another poster said below, they want the characters to fit a certain beauty standard so players will pay up. That restricts things a bit.

That’s a hard problem to solve. Genshin has, let us say, 100 characters. Making a separate model for each character, as well as the animations to go with it, would make the game size even bigger than it is. Instead they have five or so models, and all the characters are made with palette swaps, smoke and mirrors. (And if you do certain specific actions in the game, you can get the smoke and mirrors bit to glitch, which is fun.)

The characters are supposed to be Latin American / West African, not European. And while of course those countries have very light-skinned people, they also have a lot of dark-skinned people, which isn’t reflected among the characters.

I’m not vegan, although I agree with most of their arguments, so I can’t be self-righteous about it.

saying that everyone who doesn’t agree with you is equivalent to slave owners and fascists.

Since English is not your first language, I apologise if my wording was confusing. My point was that accepting whatever is seen as normal, or refusing to make a choice, is itself an action, one that says that you agree with your society’s ideology.

No. Their veganism is actively selected by them based on their subjective beliefs about animals being basically human.

Or maybe a general opposition to violence, or a concern for the ecological impact of domestic animals, or a fear that it could cause the next pandemic.

My lack of veganism is not based in ideology.

This is a weak argument. Based on your abortion example, I’m guessing you are from the US or southern Europe. So, you might know of the Confederate States of America and/or Fascist Iberia / Italy. In those places, were there not people who did not consciously support slavery / fascism, but went along with it because they ‘did not have an ideology’? How would you judge them?

Further, on your not having an ideology, do you support the eating of humans? Monkeys? Cats? Dogs? Which animals are haram to you, and which ones are halal?

No. Their argument is based on applying their subjective beliefs that I don’t share to my actions and as such by definition not sound.

Do you believe that racism or sexism is wrong? Do you think a racist or sexist person would share your belief? Are you not, then, applying your subjective beliefs that they don’t share to their actions?

We judge others based on our moral standards, not theirs. To someone who sees the killing of an animal as a great sin, your actions might therefore seem wrong.

If your diet includes meat, you are most likely causing the death of an animal. If you believe that killing animals is wrong, then it follows that eating meat is also wrong. As to what is more wrong versus what is less wrong, that varies from culture to culture and age to age. Perhaps they believe that killing an animal is almost as bad as killing a human. Their argument is sound; it is just based on different axioms than yours.