Yeah, racism in europe is largely stereotypes directed at whole groups that are rooted in truth but grossly overblown, eg “black people just want to commit crime”, “arabs want to install sharia”, “east asians want to eat your dog”, “indians want to outgrow the native population” and other nonsense.

If you ask the huge majority of the people who are saying these things if they interact with people in these groups, they’ll say “yes, but they’re some of the good ones” not realising it’s only a tiny fraction who aren’t, but also accepting that race doesn’t automatically make you anything.

Comparing that to the US where (from what I’m aware of) there’s both “I refuse to even speak to members of xyz race because they’re subhuman” and “xyz race needs all the help they can get because they have such a tough time” it seems so hard for individuals to just live a normal life in the US?

European racism is casual compared to even everyday American racism, even considering the likes of AfD

You could say the same for Palestine and yet a lot of the same people who criticise China and Russia love to praise Palestine…

I think a lot more of it is based on either who is the aggressor or a deep rooted hatred of the west depending on whether or not you’re a tankie

If you can, put things on the walls - you can get cheap paintings from charity shops, posters etc

I can’t help but feel soap making itself wouldn’t be as much use as why/when to use it?

Mixing oil with the ashy water (which is as simple as soap’s gonna get) is reasonably easy to do and so useful that even without a civilisation people would probably be doing it either through discovery or by keeping doing it?

I think things like “how to build a wooden bridge so it will hold a laden cart and not fall down” are more likely to be lost without civilisation while still being incredibly useful (although I can’t say I’d be very good for that)

I might add a section on refrigeration methods like zeers or wind towers/yakhchāls if the civilisation would be somewhere hot and dry, otherwise maybe something on using rivers for powering looms, mills etc.

1000 bugs isn’t that big, especially when it’s the same bug surfacing in different ways or bugs you either barely notice or look past (but do notice, eg an alignment issue on the ui)

Pay a bunch of tax on it then wonder what to do with my extra 580€ a month

Who uses RARs who doesn’t use 7z though?

I think using anything other than deflate zip for things like sending to teachers or whatever isn’t very wise, and if you’re not then you won’t need to apologise anyway

I appreciate it’s a big state but unless you’re within a couple of miles from the coast in Northern California it is unreasonably hot for a significant portion of the year

For 3, I thought weed just didn’t affect me too strongly as I am well aware of drugs affecting different people in different ways (if I have a coffee I can’t sleep until around 14 hours after), but if not everyone has the right enzyme? Is there a way to induce it or something as I don’t fancy putting shit that doesn’t belong into my lungs but also see the relaxing properties of weed could be nice

However that’s an issue with the legal system rather than anything else and could also exist without capitalism - it’s possible for the legal system to be dominated by any powerful entity from corporations to the state to unions depending on the political system, and if you don’t have enough sway within one of those powerful entities then tough luck

Copyrights and patents
Used to collect the products of another person’s labor

If you ask me it’s the exact opposite… Copying someone else’s work with no benefit to them removes a big driver for innovation.

This also only really applies with corporations - you could in theory have everyone be self-employed in a capitalist society