The FCC regulates closed captions on over the air broadcast television.

They’re not going to regulate the Internet streaming services.

I have never seen Uno played that way. If a player plays “reverse”, then the order of play switches from counterclockwise to clockwise or vice versa. The effects of the previous player’s card still land on their usual targets.

Okay. But then the thumbnail is clearly showing some power transmission lines? Too many insulators for low power data, and data typically doesn’t come in 3-phase.

To be more specific, there’s a strain of white Christian nationalists that believe the book of Revelation predicts that Jews will rebuild a third temple on the Temple Mount site and resume animal sacrifice before the rapture or any other end-of-days event can occur.

To these people, activities that make that outcome more likely are laudable expressions of faith. There’s even a group that is trying to breed a perfectly red heifer in Texas, because apparently you need to sacrifice a perfectly ritually “clean” and unblemished red heifer in order to properly kick off a new temple.

This is the case in nearly every state in the USA that uses machines. The big exception is Louisiana.

The lowest geographic place in the United States is Badwater Basin in Death Valley. It’s altitude is -282 feet. That’s a negative altitude.

What does that mean? It means that Badwater Basin is below the 0 altitude level, which we have chosen to define as “mean sea level.” We could have chosen a different altitude too be zero, but we didn’t.

If there is a pathway from the sea (at Mean Sea Level) to Badwater Basin, then the water will flow to the basin, because it would have a lower potential energy in the basin.

Voltage is potential difference. It is always the difference in potential between two different points. But like altitude, we often don’t say one of the two points out loud because it’s a common reference level.

A positive charge in a vacuum will gain speed (kinetic energy) moving from a higher potential to a lower potential, because its potential energy goes down. It doesn’t matter whether it’s going from +9V to +5V versus 0V to -4V. The change in potential is the same.

Adding on to this…

The “rest mass” is so important to physicists because it is an invariant quantity under relativistic transformations. Think about kinetic energy. Kinetic energy is a form of energy, and therefore a form of mass. But different observers at different velocities can look at the same object and come up with different kinetic energies for it. But “rest mass,” the mass it would have at rest, is something everyone can agree on.

Finally, as the battery on the scale example demonstrates, photons make their own gravitational field from their energy. Since photons make gravity, they can (theoretically) make black holes. "Kugelblitz" is the name for a black hole that has been composed of only photons.

would require so much energy that it is (for now(?)) impossible to achieve.

It’s not just excessive quantities of regular energy. These schemes all require negative mass-energy or other exotic forms of energy. We have no theory of physics that predicts the existence of these forms of energy, and we don’t know how they would work.

Physicists who write papers about these things use neutral, professional language, like “exotic matter,” to describe this stuff, but it’s really pretty firmly in the realm of magical make believe.

I don’t know anything about it, but it seems like this game might not be equipped with BFG 9000.

There had to be a balance in editorial content

This rule was was the Fairness Doctrine, and it was in effect from 1949 to 1987. So it’s fair to say that Reagan got rid of it.

if the station supported Candidate A, Candidate B had to be allowed equal time.

This is a different rule called the Equal Time Rule, and it’s still in effect today.

Recently this rule was in the news when Stephen Colbert interviewed Senate candidate James Talarico on his (now concluded) show, without offering the same interview time to Talarico’s primary opponent Jasmine Crockett. I believe in the end the interview was cut from the over-the-air broadcast to comply with the rule. (The interview segment was published on YouTube, which is not subject to the rule.)

In this specific case, your phone exchanges radio signals with a cell tower, and then the cell tower transfers your data requests onto the wires.

This headline sounds like the start of a decent Bond film.

When I was a kid, MS and LA were #50 and #49 in all of these kinds of lists. It amazes me to see all these other states racing to tank their scores down to the bottom.

On the US census, “hispanic” is not a race; it’s an “ethnicity”. So your daughter will be faced with the choice of selecting a “race” and then also choosing “hispanic” or “non-hispanic.” Many other surveys use the same scheme.

How your daughter makes these decisions is up to her. As a social construct, race is what we humans make of it. 100 years ago, Irish and Italians were often not “white.”

Likewise, Chernobyl reactor 4 suffered its mishap in 1986. Reactors 1, 2, and 3 remained operational and on the power grid. Reactor 2 continued to operate until 1991; reactor 1 until 1996; and reactor 3 until 2000.

The fuel wasn’t completely removed from reactors 1-3 until 2013. Just to give you all some idea about the timeline of nuclear decommissioning.

Without the monocoque, I doubt it can pass modern crash safety tests. Nor is there any safe place to install air bags.

Allegedly, Outlook doesn’t handle intermittent broken connectivity very well when you’re trying to configure it initially. Such as when your gateway is handing off between TDRS and the fricken Deep Space Network.

IMAX film is twice as wide as standard film. 70 mm instead of 35 mm. The IMAX film platters are physically ginormous. All that extra film gives you a bunch of extra resolution compared to regular film.

The first catch is that “IMAX standard” may not be real IMAX. I don’t know exactly what that means. Perhaps it could even be digital projection that aims to be comparable to IMAX in some ways?

Second catch is that a lot of films that are shown in IMAX theaters were not actually shot on IMAX originally. If a film was shot on 35mm, say, and then printed onto IMAX, you don’t get all of the resolution benefits, and you may also get letter boxes or pan-and-scan because the aspect ratio isn’t the same. IMAX cameras are massively more expensive and logistically difficult than regular film cameras.

Usually in these stories, Batman or whoever leaves behind enough evidence to support a successful prosecution, along with the tied-up bad guy.

The vigilante broke the law to gain evidence, so all the evidence the vigilante obtained would be thrown out,

That’s actually an interesting situation. The fourth and fifth amendments put restrictions on the government, not private vigilantes. So if the cops just happen to find evidence in plain view, there won’t be a direct constitutional reason to suppress it.

Now if the local prosecutor has a pattern or practice of deliberately turning a blind eye to the unlicensed private investigators that routinely supply them with illegally obtained information, there’s probably a claim there. But it’s a lot more complicated to make that case than a straight-up 4th amendment case.

They don’t like the U.S. either, as they believe that they are an imperialist power that wants to take advantage of the Middle East. That is one reason that the United States deems Iran an enemy.

In 1953, the CIA and MI6 effectively ended representative democracy in Iran when they backed a coup d’etat that deposed Iranian prime minister Mohammed Mosadegh. Mosadegh had tried to audit the books of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (which later became a division of BP).

The 1953 coup resulted in the Shah of Iran, Reza Pahlavi, ruling autocratically and with heavy support from the United States. This status continued until 1979, when an Islamist revolution deposed the Shah and installed the Islamist government led by a clerical Supreme Leader that exists today.

In 2013, the CIA released declassified documents that showed that the CIA planned and carried out the 1953 coup using all kinds of abhorrent tactics, including bribery of public officials, astroturfed paid protesters, and false flag operations.

So hopefully that explains why the US is “the great Satan” to Iran, and why Iran keeps spouting “death to USA” rhetoric.