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The idea that anything is impervious to criticism if the person criticising can't offer something better is bizarre. Its perfectly fine to criticise something.

I don't know enough about the inner workings of Hollywood to comment on the idea that Marvel is a big part of the Hollywood ecosystem aside from thinking that I'm pretty sure movies - great movies - existed before Marvel started making movies and that its surely a concern that Marvel have so much power that their failure affects smaller movies from being made. That doesn't sound healthy at all.

Only Brits or BBC International viewers will know this character but Catherine Cawood from Happy Valley.

And obviously Ellen Ripley, Dana Scully and Sarah Connor.

His lies/alternate reality are not so much believed as embraced - the people who support him already loathe and hate the things he's talking about. All he's doing is lending them legitimacy. Most people are, by and large, reactionary and seek out things and people that confirm their own beliefs. Nothing here is new apart from the scale of it and the new technical ability to increase that scale.

Spoiler: he is.

I pay Bitwarden the tenner a year as I have no reason to distrust them and they're definitely providing a more reliable, securer service than I can self-host.

I also do an encrypted export once per week and store that export to an encrypted cloud based service and an encrypted USB stick. Takes 2 minutes.

Bandcamp is still OK for me and I listen to some fairly obscure stuff.

Just to offer a heads up - there's a new solution/site which is currently in Beta but is backed by good people (musicians). It needs an influx of music diversity (lots of metal at the moment) but if it gets that when it comes out of beta then it could very well be a good Bandcamp replacament - Ampwall

In case we don't think its that good, it's there to put us right.

A fascist party coming to power.

Led by a man who wants to call himself Chancellor.

In Austria.

I grew up where the canal holiday industry was a big employer. Quite a lot of the staff used to work on towed barges in their young day. Legging is definitely how they got through tunnels. Barge poles are used to fend off after being moored up or to prevent collisions in narrow stretches. Once the barge was out the tunnel they'd throw a line to someone on the towpath and hitch back on to the horses.

Specsaviours

We do tell people. For example, when you get off the train at Reading station it clearly says "Welcome to Reading".

A is definitely the lesser of two weevils.