I'm not sure what you mean by "crackly bubbles". Many plants (possibly most of them) use electrochemical signaling, which at the very least resembles the hormonal system in animals. The simplest animals are definitely less complex, neural processing wise, than the most complex plants -- consider for example sponges (literally no nervous system of any kind) vs. the venus flytrap (capable of rudimentary counting; the trap only closes when the hairs are triggered a certain number of times within a certain timeframe).
There's also tons of animals whose nervous systems aren't at all similar to that of humans. Insects and arthropods for example don't really have a brain, just lumps of ganglia that do some rudimentary processing, and unsurprisingly most people don't really consider insects to be capable of having any kind of meaningful sentient internal experience.
At times of peak production yes, but it's an apples to oranges comparison because solar and wind do not produce 24/7. They therefore either need grid-scale storage, which isn't accounted into their costs because it doesn't currently even exist at the necessary scale, or supplementary load-following base generation. Nuclear is the cleanest option by far for the latter.
Matrix.org is really slow, but I'm on a smaller home server and things are generally fast enough. While it doesn't make your point any less true (there are still times things are far too slow), you might want to try finding a smaller home server if you currently use matrix.org.
It also works for Hatsune Miku and Kasane Teto. It didn't use to work for Akita Neru but looks like they added that after people pointed out they forgot her lol.
The online shop thing is just usual YouTube sponsor stuff (though it's more self-promotion since he runs the store, it's some charity thing), and he sometimes plays Connections at the end of vlog videos like this.
The PRC does employ censorship, but this is directed against that which undermines socialist construction, including liberal and pro-capitalist narratives.
So in other words not everybody in China can freely express their opinion on political and social topics. Glad we agree on this objective fact. Now what, except for people not answering polls honestly and/or being brainwashed, explains 86% of Chinese respondents responding that China has freedom of speech on political and social topics?
Not all states commit genocide forced re-education or run a draconian nation-wide internet censorship program.
In fact the latter point is a pretty good example of how these polls you're using as a source are not reliable. The substack article you link says that
When given the statement “Everyone in my country can freely express their opinion on political and social topics”, only 18% of people in China disagreed (compared to 27% in the US).
It's a well known phenomenon that people raised under authoritarian systems with heavy thoughts control will frequently answer the "socially acceptable" thing even on anonymous polls -- this is what the state has trained them from birth to do. Another effect that explains the incongruity in e.g. a larger proportion of Chinese respondents thinking their system is democratic than French respondents is that words like democracy do not mean the same thing in China as they do in France.
A white horse walks into a bar.
"You know, we've got a drink named after you", says the bartender.
"What, Eric?", says the horse.