There's a clear cause:

If you're talking about unit 731 and the nazis then there was very little, if anything, scientifically valuable there.

They had terrible research methodology that rendered what data they gathered mostly useless, and even if it wasn't, most of the information could have been surmised by other methods. Some of the things they did served no conceivable practical or scientific purpose whatsoever.

It was pretty much just sadism with a thin veneer of justification to buy them the small amount of legitimacy they needed to operate within their fascist governments.

Thankfully we have auto-crossover nowadays.

Dracula Flow guy does say he skinned a guy alive for trying to steal his Amazon package, so it seems like something he might do.

Good, hopefully the plastics will eventually replace the gray matter entirely.

It was cooked up by Milton Friedman, one of the grandfathers of American free market libertarianism.

The whole impetus of UBI was to eliminate traditional social services because, it is argued, there's no way that a government institution could be as efficient or effective as a free market.

And make no mistake, even modern proponents of UBI such as Andrew Yang propose funding it by hollowing out existing social services.

Like, yeah, UBI is better than having literally no social support at all, but the fact that its seen as this ultra-leftist idea, to the point that we apparently can't even conceive of how it could possibly "not be left enough", is an indication of how far right mainstream politics has shifted.

The right to free speech and the right to peaceably assemble hasn't been respected at any point during US history.

Not immediately after the country was formed when they signed the sedition act into law.

Not while people were protesting for abolitionism.

Not while people were protesting for women's suffrage.

Not while people held demonstrations while on strike.

Not during the cold war and red scare.

Not during the civil rights movement.

Not during the George Floyd protests.

They're not going to start now.

People are allowed to write fanfic and make fan movies and whatnot. The line isn’t crossed until money changes hands.

This is completely wrong. A company is fully within their rights to issue you a cease and desist for fan works. Some companies, like Disney and Nintendo, do this all the time (though sometimes people are able to fly under the radar).

If you see a free fan game or fan work of anything it's completely at the mercy of the company that owns the IP. If it's not taken down it's either because the company is cool with it, not aware of it, or can't be bothered to deal with it.

EDIT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_issues_with_fan_fiction

People really have no idea how overbearing IP laws are. Technically even recordings of people playing video games (let's plays and the like) could be infringing. This hasn't been extensively argued in court because most game companies don't want to deal with the PR backlash that forbidding let's plays would cause (in addition to the free advertising they get). Though, once upon a time that didn't stop Nintendo from using YouTube's copyright system to claim videos of their games.

https://www.ign.com/articles/2013/05/16/nintendo-enforces-copyright-on-youtube-lets-plays

https://www.slaw.ca/2024/02/07/lets-plays-a-copyright-conundrum/

I would add Project Gutenberg and Open Street Map to your list.

https://xkcd.com/963/

Fortunately I haven't had to open it in a very long time.

When people think about Rome they usually imagine the roads and the aquaducts and not so much the crucifixions and the slavery.

There is already a Chinese EV that uses a sodium ion battery, the JMEV EV3.

It's a tradeoff of range vs price. The EV3 only has 155 miles of range, but thanks in part to its sodium ion battery it costs only $9220 new. Which is a price that will probably drop even more as more sodium ion plants come online and economies of scale kick in.

EDIT: even if your commute is 40 minutes long, driving 60 MPH the entire way, that range is enough to get you to work and back using a little more than half your charge. Given that it's also generally cheaper to charge an EV than pump gas, and there's less maintenance costs, I think there's absolutely a market for such a car.