Maybe I would have found it after spending all day browsing, but this was a great answer.

I have probably learned more things useful for my (mechanical) engineering career by coming across things other than that which I was looking up for the job.

The vast majority of self-identified liberals and progressives do not know who Foucault is nor believe in his theories.

Thinking that most of what you claim in those lists is based on reality is the unreality.

Your numbers seem a little out of date. If you include those who self-identify as bisexual, gay, & lesbian together you get more than 8% of the population, mainly due to the number of the younger generations identifying as bisexual. Even without including bisexual, you get more than 3% of the population identifying as gay or lesbian.

A corporation is comprised of people, the corporation should have the same, not fewer rights as a person does.

OK. As soon as you eliminate the limited liability of the shareholders, giving those people comprising the corporation the same responsibilities as other people, then we can talk about the corporation comprised by people having the same rights as a person does.

Interestingly, the biggest influence on long-term (100s of millions of years) global climate is the positions of the continents, which plate tectonics are directly responsible for.

To your point, though, isostatic rebound has long been known and accounted for in local histories of shorelines. Plate tectonics do not, however, affect sea level appreciably.

I was born in the 50's. I remember everyone in the early-mid 70's saying we were entering another ice age and we were all doomed!

I was born in the 50s. Either you're remembering wrong or you were listening to the wrong "everyone".
I remember global warming being discussed as early as the late 60s. (I was too young for any of that earlier)
The Milankovitch cycle theories were getting refined and stories about them and scientific debates about the rate of change approaching glacial maxima periods were popularized in the 70s due to some extreme cold winters in the US. But most scientific papers about the climate were still supporting the theory that continuing to pump CO2 into the air would lead to a global increase in temperatures.

I mean the movie theater doesn't take any risk to speak of from movies . . .

I believe that, on the contrary, for the typical movie theaters they don't get enough in box office receipts to pay for operating costs and overhead. If they can't get enough people buying their overpriced concessions, they will go broke like the theater nearest me.

And with the time frame for exclusive theater distribution got shorter and shorter . . .

Even decades ago, this is often what kept me out of the theater. I would see a promo for a movie I might like to see, but by the time a week or two went by before I had a chance to go see it, it wouldn't be in the theaters anymore. And most of the movies actually in the theaters at any given time weren't really capturing my interest. Now the (multi-plex) theater nearest me is shut down, vacant, and sad looking.

The linked graph is labeled as kWh, so doesn't directly reflect peak demand for winter vs summer.

. . . it remains a staunch reality.

It might be a reality, but I don't think "staunch" is the right term for it.

Lightning doesn't have to travel to the ground, it can travel cloud-to-cloud or within the same cloud ithout reaching the ground. Cloud-to-cloud lightning is more common than cloud-to-ground.

I did the same, for a year and a half. I looked at it as a step towards retirement, but I was a little surprised just how much of a difference that extra day off made.

Looked it up and the one-lane road is closer to 600 feet, but that's mostly public road, so, no I can't just put a shack at the end of it, it wouldn't be on my property.
Also, when I first moved here I had cable with Comcast, or whatever they were calling themselves 20+ years ago, and lost the signal. They said it was a problem on our end, and I'd have to pay for a new underground cable, routed around the garage and into the back rather than under the driveway. Along with other problems with Comcast, that was going to be very expensive. So I got Direct TV installed for free, instead. (Not the best, but fine for cable at the time)

Rural could mean 1/4 mile from the road to the house. That was a case for a friend of mine, for phone and electric before the internet was common. And for me, in a small town, it's about 1,000 feet from the main road with fiber down the 1-lane street to my house, to which they won't install fiber.
Also, trenching isn't done that much, directional drilling is the efficient thing nowadays.