MartianSands

I can't imagine what they're referring to when they claim his books are sexist. I'm pretty sure as many protagonists are female as male, and a significant fraction of the characters have no gender at all.

Of those who do have gender, it's not at all unusual for them to have changed genders once or more in their lives, and the only time I remember anyone making a fuss of it is as part of Genar-Hofoen's character arc in Excession, wherein he is shown to have grown as a person by doing exactly that.

Can anyone point out an example of what the author might be thinking of? I'm genuinely baffled

There are plenty of legitimate reasons to hate Musk. Bashing spacex's safety isn't one of them, because falcon 9 has the best safety record in the history of orbital launchers. They launch astronauts all the time, and have never had a single mishap in a manned flight. They're even the people who are going to rescue the astronauts stranded by Boeing's screw-up, which I suspect makes them the only spaceflight organisation which is going to have safely landed more people than they launched.

Also, a fuel leak doesn't imply something wasn't fastened correctly. If that were the case it would have been leaking on the launch pad. Much more likely something was damaged by vibration or heat during the flight

Ironically, cardboard and cardboard derivatives would have safely burned to ash and been scattered in the upper atmosphere. There's have been no reason to close the airspace if that were the case

Because printers (of the kinds you're likely to find on the consumer market) don't make dust in any significant quantity.

They make fumes, which are an entirely different kind of hazard and need different precautions

True, that should have occurred to me. That's what I get for not touching a compiler since the Christmas holidays started

That's easy. The 2038 problem is fixed by using 64-bit processors running 64-bit applications. Just about everything built in the last 15 years has already got the fix

Using that fix, the problem doesn't come up again for about 300 billion years

That's not been my experience. Every time I take a link to share from the app it includes tracking which I need to remove

I disagree. It's perfectly possible to hold an internally consistent view that it's wrong to execute a prisoner, both because there's no reason to do so (the prisoner already being imprisoned) and because courts get the decision wrong too often (and/or because the courts aren't trustworthy), while also believing that it's acceptable to kill under other circumstances

The vast majority of people celebrating the death of the United Healthcare CEO would have been perfectly happy with him being stripped of power and imprisoned, but that wasn't ever an option so the only thing available is death. There's also some evidence that his death has actually made a difference, in the form of other health insurance companies chickening out of unethical policy changes.

In the case of these prisoners, they're already safely behind bars. It's also, broadly speaking, much more likely that they aren't guilty of what they've been convicted of (although I don't know anything about these particular cases). We also have evidence that the death penalty doesn't have the effect on crime rates which proponents claim it does, so it's different in a whole bunch of ways

You understand that they were at war for a long time before they managed to sweep Assad and his forces away, right?

The final sudden advance may have come virtually overnight, but they've been fighting since the Arab spring in 2011

It's bad because it's dangerous. If something happens and you can't pay the mortgage any more, then the idea of a mortgage is that you can always just sell the house to settle the debt instead.

If you get into negative equity though, then even if you sell the house you could owe a huge amount of money and have no way to do anything about it. An under-control debt could turn into a crippling debt overnight.

I suspect the real reason politicians care, though, is because that's the one scenario in which the lender might lose money. They prefer their customers being able to pay their debts (theoretically)

Stories about events we can identify in the archeological record, probably. Forest fires, major battles, geological events, things like that which can be used to line the stories up with specific real-world events