Both ran without preceding ads. At both, just before the films started, I was thinking the theaters were awfully empty. Then, about 20 minutes in, people started coming in.

Aaak. I think it was. That'll teach me to work off of decade old memories...

Well, it probably won't teach me.

While you are broadly right, the Department of Energy has (AFAIK the only) classified materials that the President has no control over. Energy has "Restricted Data"–nuclear weapons information that's classified by law under the Atomic Energy Act, not merely deemed classified by the President under Executive Order 13526. Restricted Data can only legally be declassified by the DoE after thorough review, not by an Executive decree.

It's why the DoE has the legendary and totally misunderstood "Above Top Secret" Q clearance–you can have all the TS/SCI clearances you want, but by law you need the DoE's specific to see their secret stuff.

there is no control on an aircraft that if it goes to max deflection capable of breaking an airframe. The worst control surface going hard over is the ruder. it will make the plane yaw to one side them pitch over.

See American Flight 587; also Maneuvering Speed.

lucky 10,000!

Time to go down the Panspermia rabbit hole!

That the primary motivator towards forcing the sale wasn't the algorithm as such, it was the probability that the PRC would use TikTok as a propaganda tool.

The Republicans aren't conservative in any sensible meaning of the word. They are radicals. The Democrats are far more conservative than the Republicans these days.

Lots of medical workers, especially in rural hospitals, are on H1-Bs.

I never stopped coming in to the office. Before that I worked in industrial automation, and that work couldn't be done remotely either.

"diesel engines are known for being especially difficult to start in cold."

When I was in the Army in Korea in 1985/86 one of the duties on the duty roster was to start every vehicle in the motor pool every 4 hours and run it for half an hour to keep it warm. Nothing like getting up at 0200 on a Sunday morning to spend an hour in the motor pool.

but not just any old plastic, rather specially made stuff that doesn't shed or leach anything into the water. When I was a baby chemist 25 years ago it was all ultrapure tin containers, but things seem to have changed since then.

Yes, buying. I lived in Cedar City Utah and first encountered Linux in a RedHat 2.0 beige box at a gaming store in Red Cliffs Mall in St George. Probably in 1994 or 5. Came with a couple of manuals, a boot floppy, and a CD. Had the 0.95 kernel. Getting dial-up configured was interesting since the ISP only knew about Trumpet Winsock... Then leaving it running for a few hours in the evening to update everything.

Within a week I was at the local BN buying O'Reilly books.