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I usually download Eurovision, as the politics isn’t new… Just more apparent.

Maybe find a Eurovision community and ask about alternate viewing methods? I’m sure there are other ways to watch live, which if you’ve got a gathering is the way to do it.

SOAS is an amazing community of students, often organising amazing speakers and events - even when university administration is rallied, as is almost universally the case, againt them.

And sadly still currently are in much of it.

Aye, only Protestantist Christianity (if it can be called that) and mormonism are worse.

The True Church of our Lord Father is Ethiopian Orthodoxy.

There’s a surface level understanding that racism is bad.

But that’s seen as having no impact on holding strong, negative, stereotypes about other ethnicities and cultures.

And tends to be, in many cases followed up with “it’s not a prejudice/racism, it’s a fact!” =(

Sadly there’s a lot of anti-African, anti-South East Asian, anti-Japanese & Korean, anti-Turkic, antisemitic, sentiment floating around in general in the PRC.

White man who lived in China here chiming in.

The racism, or at least prejudices and a lack of understanding that cause racism, are very real.

Asia benefited from being near the top of the racist hierarchy of lies that Europeans instituted in the 19th century and also mostly learn about Black people from Hollywood films. (There’s also a really odd trend of New Right and crypto-fash talking points getting popular and spread around Chinese social media.)

In China at least, dating is seen as valid only in the path to marriage, and family and kids is an expected and socially impressed upon goal. To the point where plenty of women in China have kids they don’t want because of familial and social pressure.

At the same time, Asian society is very colourist which combined with having ingested the racist hierarchy somewhat and only really knowing Black people and culture from Hollywood isn’t a great start.

Rounding it off, I China at least is a desire for in group marriage. Foreigners are seen as a risky choice, who could leave and don’t share the same cultural values (regardless of the truth of it).

White people get more of a benefit of a doubt, but there’s still pressure against a Chinese-White relationship. I’ve heard of plenty of families putting pressure that ens inter-ethnic relationships, and there is definitely more pressure against Chinese-Black relationships. (Both cases also, sexistly, exacerbated when Chinese women, foreign man.)

Don’t think this is anything new or not know, sadly.

If the family is supportive, things work a lot better - unsurprisingly. But with Asian value of family, if the family are openly against it, it’s very unlikely to work out.

I thought it was a common first name because of all the fooling around in the Cyberdog dressing rooms?

Until a bunch of unknowns and uncertainty are added because no-one knows the future.

And they almost always assume that their actions won’t lead to a decline in users, too.

I appreciate the choice made over X-ray fish, Xantops, and Xerus.

Going hard, and I wonder what other letters have.

No, the age of America is over.

The Trump preaidencies aren’t a radical break from the past, he’s just an unveiling of it’s darkest, ugliest, impulses and the logical conclusion of its ideals.

Maybe European mainstream leaders can convince themselves to get back into bed with US imperialism, as we benefit from it so much, but US in the eyes of the people never recovered post Iraq II, and across the whole world the US is now primarily seen as the demagogic bully that it is.

The US must learn to get along with its neighbours and treat other nations and people with respect.

Suicide only stopped being a crime in many parts of the world recently… Euthanasia is much larger step beyond that.

Let’s give things time.

Other guy did a good job on the main points, but I’ll add something I saw in a study on a kind of bird in the US:

The birds realised cigarette butts had an antibacterial effect, and made efforts to collect and use cigarette butts in their nest building for eggs and chicks.

Learning and making use of novel materials.

I think you’ve focused on the extraordinary conditions of the protagonists, and ignored the features of the world for normal people.

Most people do not battle their pokémon regularly.

Pokémon are partners, not slaves - and the people who treat their pokémon as objects are consistently bad and harmful of society. And you’ll note that this is an area that villainous teams focus on.

There is a lack of poverty, healthcare is free, education is free, and there isn’t hunger or homelessness.

Society works to support each other without the profit motive. Except for those who push into competitive battling, and criminals.

The thousands of years old tradition from non-Abrahamic Persia, (in fact a proto-IE region with shared religious rites with Slavic, Celtic and Germanic Europe), predating not only the splits of Christianity into Eastern Orthodox and Other, but of Christianity actually existing, doesn’t show it was a Pagan tradition?

What else do you call non-Abrahamic religious rites?

(And apparently new evidence has since backed up Bede’s account of Pagan Oestra in the British Isles, too.)

There have been more discoveries since Grimm boys, and despite earlier scepticism scholars are now mostly accepting that there was an Eostre diety worshipped in Europe around the Spring Equinox.

New findings and archeo-lingustics have supported Grimms and Bede, so the existence (culturally) and worship of Oestra (or however your 1000BC Celto-Germanic language spelt it) is now generally accepted by scholars (and anyone who isn’t pushing an anti-intellectual, and often antisemitic, “war on Christianity” agenda).

Ah, to live in the non-capitalist, non-comoddified pokémon society where most things are done for social good rather than self gain.

Good, we should have an ideology and let that influence the governments we choose (while we are forced to have any) and the actions that they undertake on our behalf.

You’re not wrong, but I’ve also seen people calling Pluto-Charon binary dwarf planets.

But yes, the IAU tends to only pin down definitions when one is becoming unworkable - in this case the ever larger numbers of trans-Neptune objects that were potential planets.

The arbitrary cutoff size being to ensure continuity of the scientific consensus in popular awareness when I was a child isn’t a stupid rule.

Not even when a larger kuiper belt object is found.

Not even, when since mass is the primary means of estimating size until we fly a probe out there, we estimate a smaller but much with much more mass object to be larger and we debate a 10th planet yet again.