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.
Lots of trees there. That place still looks pretty nice in the summer.
A quick web search had someone say it's Yaroslavsky District, Moscow and while I'm not entirely convinced (having trouble matching the photo to a map), in the summer it will probably look similar to the photo of Yaroslavsky District on Wikipedia.
I'm not sure it did. These ghouls don't care who's in charge and whether or not they're an insane fascist, as long as the economy keeps chugging on and the rich keep getting richer. Their "values" are exactly those of whoever is in charge. Scare quotes because the only thing they actually value is money.
Mostly no disagreement there, though I want to say that chimps do not go to war out of cruelty. Chimps go to war because they live in scarcity and it increases the war gene's odds of survival.
In the past this was also the primary reason humans went to war. In modern times we have invented many new reasons, but usually even those do not boil down to simple cruelty (though there's many cases in history where one could argue cruelty was the primary motivation). Usually war wields cruelty as an instrument, not the other way around.
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.