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Which is entirely seperate from having a grasp on how much money it is you're borrowing and how hard it will be to pay back

The first paragraph of the article answers that... it discourages healthy weights and recommends dangerously low calorie diets.

They don't even have that, they just have seperate bins for cans and bottles and people use them, and the only public places to throw away trash are in convenience stores. Which tbf exist like every 400m.

There are exceptions but generally people just keep the city clean because they want to (and social pressure).

Bottle/can deposit system can do a lot to make bins less full though. Japan just doesn't seem to need it.

Yes but also there are some diseases where I'd take death by shredder over slowly wasting away

Honestly this sort of thing happening is extremely rare. In reality either the story/environment gets sacrificed to pander to some audience to make more money, or the game is from the ground up built to support that political message.

What also happens is devs deciding that they'd rather have diversity than trying to emulate some real historical setting in their unrealistic fantasy world, which for some reason gets people crying too, but has nothing to do with pushing a political message and rather just changing the expectation of white male default in western games (and probably pandering to the sensibilities of the majority of their audience to make more money).

It's not wrong that the complaints about "woke" are mostly precisely about this perceived lowering of quality for some agenda or pandering, it's just that that is rarely what's happening. Like this whole idea that some people like to push that if not every woman in your game is conventionally attractive, it's "woke" and you're "ignoring your actual audience". When usually these games have a ton of hot women (and men) anyway because they're fully aware many people like playing hot characters, they just have other options too.

I feel like this still slightly misses the problem. I couldn't give less of a shit whether they do or don't make money from my data, I care that they are tracking so many things for that purpose that I can be identified and many lifestyle habits are visible, which is a problem when the data ends up with someone who wants to use it to spy on me. Which probably has never targeted me specifically, but my data is almost certainly in a tool capable of this. Because this happens frequently.

Of course this happens because they want to make money from it and sell it, but even if they only want it to idk customize my feed to make me like their website more and it never leaves their server, I'd still have to worry about data breaches. Or just someone else taking over and deciding that selling it is great, actually.

And even though I have decided that I personally don't really care enough to deal with the downsides for quality of life, that doesn't mean I don't want this to stop via legal means.

Sadly unlikely because it's rooted in biological differences (mainly hormones), so on average there will be sex-based differences. I'd love it if people stopped stereotyping because of that but I doubt itll ever happen. Maybe we can at least get rid of the idea of gendered hobbies and such, but even then most people want to identify as part of a group so there will likely always be some association.

I knew about the gap but... no indicator either??? Are they at least locked so the worst case scenario is thay awkward moment where you try to open a locked bathroom stall?

I'm planning on visiting next year so I guess I'll see the reality of it. Maybe I'll have to avoid public toilets even more than usual lol

As a german I have never seen this but whichever country is doing that has things figured out.

To be clear we do still have proper stalls, it's just that bathrooms are always gendered unless it's a really small place that only has one toilet in the first place.

Solely going off their burger patties (haven't tried other stuff) I wouldn't call beyond realistic, though it is very tasty (imo moreso than actual beef). It definitely doesn't taste the same though.

I think there's also a cultural issue, some people at least here in germany still consider it weird if you order the vegan/vegetarian version of anything, especially if you aren't entirely vegan yourself. If that sort of pressure exists it's also less likely for anyone to try plant based alternatives, no matter how good.

Depending on what games you play it's anywhere from unusable (games with incompatible anticheat) to flat out better than windows even ignoring all the surrounding bullshit. But many of these gsmes with anticheat are among the most popular games in the world, so there's plenty of reason not to change just bc of those for a lot of people.