The standard anonymous sex is male. Using "she" when the subject is not known to be female is confusing and is not proper English. It exposes your conscious bias.

Furthermore, the author of TFA is Matthew Braga, a male name.

The video was obviously edited. Bad or boring parts didn't make it to the final cut.

Fireworks are quite bright. I've photographed plenty with 100 ISO film.

Argh! Now I can't get rid of the image of adult blue whales fired 500 feet into the air.

The Charles River is over 1500 feet wide near MIT. If a firework were aimed at the shore, there's a good chance it wouldn't make it.

Humans aren't motivated by logic.

Of course not. Logic, by its very nature, cannot be a motivator.

Instead, they use logic as a tool to satisfy their emotional needs.

That's understating the use of logic.

No tool suits every problem.

Logic adds value to the understanding of all problems.
The gist of the sum of your statements subtly undercuts the value of the human mind. What is your motivation?

Old CFLs (Lights of America) were separate ballast, and the ballast was good enough (if you were lucky) to last through 4 bulbs. They lost in the marketplace because of higher initial cost, and the difficulty in finding replacement bulbs was another disadvantage.

With LEDs, the LEDs and their heatsinks are the expensive part and the part most likely to fail. Separation of ballast from LEDs does not make economic sense.

Incandescents don't like shock or vibration, especially when they're turned on.

The "closely held" test is pretty meaningless, since the majority of U.S. corporations are closely held.

It's more important to look at how many people are affected. According to https://www.census.gov/econ/smallbus.html more than half of the employees in the US are employed by companies with more than 500 employees, which excludes almost all "closely held" corporations.

Sure, there are a lot of "closely held" companies, but most of them are pikers.

The fact the it is called MayDay is all that is needed to determine its political orientation.

who said anything about revoking the First Amendment?

A large group of Democrats in the United States Senate are currently working on repealing the First Amendment and replacing it with something weaker and less explicit.

It has long been thought that the political right is the major force behind censorship, a notion reinforced by the attempts, some successful, to prohibit anti-religious and grossly sexual material. Prohibition of political communication is increasingly the realm of the political left, and it is far more dangerous.

If you strip a corporation of its assets its value goes to zero. You thereby strip its owners, the stockholders (which may include me) of their property. That severely impacts my individual liberties.

Please think before posting.

Consider freedom of the press, since it is more obvious and physical that freedom of speech. Freedom of the press means that the government may not interfere with printing and distributing books, pamphlets, posters, newspapers, bumper stickers, etc.. Government must not destroy printing presses, prevent printed material from being transported, regulate presses or printing businesses in a manner different from other businesses, threaten the owner of the press or his employees, or prevent him from receiving or spending money for the production of printed material, or regulate such monetary movement. Printing is not free, and the dissemination of ideas in print cannot be separated from the money needed to print.

Douglas Adams was an absurdist more interested in jokes than political reality; relying on him for accurate observations is an error.
The president is powerful enough to roll over the opposition of any single person. Wise enough, not necessarily, but surely powerful enough.

Every president for the last century has grabbed more power than the one before him

Sorry, you're off by 15 years. Harding and Coolidge reduced the power of the government; not until Hoover in 1929 did the relentless trend to tyranny begin.