USA in police uniform kicking Iran: Stop resisting! Stop resisting!

It shouldn't be possible for signal to go down.

Voting third party is not a wasted vote, even if the third party won't win. It's playing for the long term. In a first past the post system, the two parties are kept in balance by political alliances and gradual evolution of the platforms. (Yes, a major party can die, but it doesn't happen often.) If one of the major parties sees that a third party is attracting a lot of votes, they might be inclined to shift their party platform in that direction, to recapture some of those votes in the future.

We should just scrap the tax system altogether, and just tax land, natural resources, pollution, and intellectual property protection.

How is that broken thinking? You have the power to quit your job. You don't really have the power to change congress.

There are some situations in which you don't want to compress a file, so it really should be software control over it, even if the calculations are done in hardware.

The movies of the human indoors and at night look terrible compared to what can be achieved with a cheap phone lens and sensor.

Zone plate would limit you to one color and cost a lot of intensity. According to the journal article, it is a Multilevel Diffractive Lens (MDL), and the authors distinguish it from a Fresnel lens, claiming it is 100x thinner and corrected for the entire bandwidth, unlike a Fresnel lens. The MDLs use subwavelength scattering elements, but I don't fully understand how it works.

The fastest, cheapest, possibly most effective (depending on how you define effective) solution is to buy some politicians and change the law.

Or you could just buy the game online.

It was never about states' rights.

this legislation was paid for by the tobacco industry.

Sure, energy costs money. But pollution (associated with energy production) doesn't cost money (to the user). So, energy doesn't cost as much as it should cost with externalities included, and people are more inclined to use incandescent bulbs than they would be.

Actually, pretty much every good has externalities associated with it, so having no regulation at all is a good way to turn the Earth into a trash heap. You can argue about how much regulation is worthwhile though.

But companies don't have to raise teenagers to hire them.

This isn't antagonizing Russia, but releasing them. Also, the US nukes aren't pointed at Russia, but at anyone in the world. We don't live in a world of two superpowers.