If they use Firefox sync, you are most likely only protected by the Firefox terms for anything synchronised

They must have known it would push you to Linux

I don’t have a problem with the character, just the way she was written especially in the second film, I didn’t watch the third. And that film was terrible. The plot was bad, all the characters were bad, their adherence to star wars space stuff was bad

I don’t know if the writers were bad at their job or whether they were required to change it

The bit I didn’t say was I meant such a character in a hero’s journey style story

It works in that genre. The main guy in Nobody also was pretty good from the start. The fast and furious flicks also don’t do a great deal of character development

Those all have characters presented as good at whatever the movie is about

84ishness suggests grey hair

If the worst happens there are many instances to choose from, and it seems easy to get your preferred username

I think that’s it. I was taught how to project my voice, how to use an authoritative tone and it has helped me get leadership roles. It’s a skill, and it’s a skill that any leader ought to have, in a film, at least.

Both men and women can do it, but you need to learn and I haven’t seen nearly as many girls trying to learn it as boys

Your comic book examples with one woman on a team of mostly men are probably due to the audience for conic books having been almost exclusively boys. I suspect the one woman was indicative of the market share going to girls

I wonder if umbrella academy’s gender balance was due to the power archetypes being perceived as gendered

Funny thing with books is you can tell whether the intended audience is men or women by the cover art, but the art is (perhaps was) all aimed at women because they don’t find a significant number of men buying books, the man’s wife or mother buys them for them

So books aimed at men have cover art aimed at attracting women buying for a man.

Who complained about the female led movie Alien (93% audience rating on rotten tomatoes)?

I think the issue is that the movies aren’t written well. Rey in the third trilogy never saw a challenge she couldn’t master on the first attempt. A story about a character born perfect and never faltering isn’t fun

I recommend against being an early adopter. I’m a bit worried being a slightly late adopter of folding phones – I waited for pixel 9 – since I have already warranty replaced the two month old phone once for a complete failure of the internal screen (they said it was water damage, I replied with their water resistance rating)

They grow, build themselves out of carbon from the air. Live for a while (300 years for my local trees). Die, rot, release the carbon into the air; or they burn and release the carbon into the air

At best you replace forests we have destroyed and pull the same amount of CO2 out of the air as destroying those forests put in a hundred or more years ago. The main cause of carbon in the air is burning fossil fuels, so it won’t help much.

If you’re growing trees somewhere they could grow without special help (extra water, fertilizer) you’re definitely growing trees humans removed in the past

You can do it by cutting down the forests you’ve grown, and regrow them over and over again and storing or processing the wood so it never rots

Expensive or not, the cheapest option is renewables. Coal plants in Australia have closed down, unable to compete with solar and wind. We now export our coal to China

Problem the first: carbon capture is too expensive

Problem the second: when you do carbon capture you get CO2 gas

I’m starting to like the idea of growing forests, cutting down those forests, cooking the wood to charcoal activated carbon (in solar furnaces perhaps) and storing near pure solid carbon

Renewable energy being the cheapest energy really, really helps

Carbon capture being expensive is unfortunate. It would be nice if we could cheaply use fossil fuels and keep the carbon out of the biosphere, but we can’t, so we should just use renewable energy, and big countries can also use nuclear until we run out of fissile material

But you need to cut those trees down and place them somewhere they won’t rot

Sink them to the bottom of the deep ocean, but trees famously float

Leave them in deserts where the dryness will suppress rot, but damage the desert habitat

Dump them in peat bogs, but there aren’t enough

Perhaps it would be best to cook them to charcoal, it releases some carbon into the atmosphere, but it would leave some solid, inedible to anything carbon that can be dumped in any old mine, but that’s expensive

Also if you dump the whole trees in whatever way, you also dump whatever nutrients are in it

Our previous progressive government lost its next election over a price on carbon

It’s too easy for right wing politics to cast it as “your electricity prices will go up; fuel will get more expensive; you won’t be able to afford to use your gas heater in winter”

It’s a difficult policy to get, you need a party brave enough to implement it in their first weeks in power so people see it doesn’t hurt by the next election

I can’t say I have had that problem. I think you need to put force behind your nails to scratch it, my nails aren’t kept short either

If it’s folded while in your pocket or bag, why do you need hardness? Do you plan on folding a phone with sand on the screen?

On that note, I don’t think I’ll take my folding phone to the beach on my upcoming holiday