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Not remotely covered by the system generator but I have snagged the physicist about it and got them talking because this is a fun question so:

Earth's magnetic field is in microtesla so even a pretty little increase will have an effect

Anything that involves moving electrons around will be affected - in power transmission, for example, electrons aren't moving all that fast but the charge is travelling at about two thirds the speed of light.

An electromagnetic wave (like light or radio waves) is half in the magnetic field so if your background magnetic field is strong enough you'd get something happening, but whether that's a block or an amplification is a question for a different kind of physicist.

Exactly how the magnetic field increase affects your signal transmission is out of field for either of us sorry.

My instinct is to say that actually the magnetic field probably wouldn’t do much provided that it’s constant or roughly constant with time; light is a pair of oscillating electric and magnetic fields, but because of the principle of superposition, light can still travel through electric and magnetic fields because the oscillation remains, it’s just that the ‘zero state’ shifts. That is, instead of oscillating between, say, positive and negative 35 nanoteslas (ie the strength of the magnetic field due to sunlight at the surface of the earth, according to this Reddit user (https://www.reddit.com/r/askastronomy/comments/1m96yjo/solar_magnetic_field_strength_at_earths_surface/) (I. Don’t want to do the math right now.)), it would oscillate between, say, 20.003 and 19.997 microteslas. However, this is exactly what happens on Earth, and we can still get sunlight and radio waves. Basically the same thing would happen on this hypothetical planet; the only way it would interfer with light is if it were also oscillating on a similar timescale- which is to say on the order of around a trillion times a second. This can’t happen due to a spinning metallic core, but if the planet were putting off blackbody radiation due to heat, I could conceive of that being sufficient to ‘jam’ some frequencies. However I’m not sure if that would happen at the desired frequencies at reasonable temperatures. This may be a case where you need to apply a little bit of Artistic License and do it anyways.

her skills are abysmal = she is unskilled

This is the other part of the manga that Brotherhood absolutely truncated. Most volumes get 2 or 2.5 episodes to cover them. Volume 15 only got one episode (with a few short scenes moved elsewhere). And I suspect highly it had nothing to do with timing or pacing.

Because this is in fact the entire recount of the Amestrian military's involvement in Ishval and--for reasons I'd have loved to listen in behind closed doors to learn--the Brotherhood adaptation neutered quite a lot of it. And I specifically mean removing or toning down the more heinous things the military did, or offloading them to some nameless hegemony of 'horde of Amestrian soldiers' instead of how the manga actually handles it.

Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.

But I think FMA does also does an excellent job choosing when to not let Ed come out on top. We just had the Nina episode and now Ed is in the middle of processing his first "catastrophic failure to save someone" type of failure since attempting to bring his mom back. He's dealing with a low that's absolutely hampering his abilities and the tonal shift hits for me in the way that 1) he doesn't notice Scar's initial attack against him (Al has to pull him away) and 2) Ed absolutely freezes up just thinking "This is bad."

This is, perhaps, baby's first "someone is coming at you with the full, concentrated, explicit intention of killing you" and Ed is so genuinely out of his depth with it. He really does try. He gets immediately bested. He's staring at a situation where Al is directly in harm's way. And Ed just lies down to die like a dog...

My Blood; My Brother’s Halo

Roy Chappell Episode: 2x14 The Three Strikes Job Character: Eliot You got drafted in the sixth round right out of high school. Had a cup of coffee in the royals organization. Then you bounced around the minors, you bounced around the world, and, as we can see here, you made a very popular commercial for an energy drink in Japan.

Debbie Dreiling Episode: 2x02 The Tap-Out Job Character: Sophie Say what you're saying is true. What exactly are you telling me? That you don't need him. He's a middleman. You need me. My, my, what a little shark you are. Are you sure we didn't have lunch at the Ivy last week? Just trying to make you feel at home. Little Midwestern hospitality and all. You hungry? Because they serve a mean chicken-fried steak here. No. I'm fine.

Kristi Connelly Episode: 1x06 The Miracle Job Character: Sophie Kristi. How did you know what to do in there? Oh, that. I’m a reporter. You have to understand, reporters, we're lazy by nature. All we want is a story, a narrative. And if you don't like the story they're writing, just give them a new one. They’ll thank you for it.

Sophie reuses the same alias in The Scheherazade Job: I appreciate your time, Ms. Connelly. But I am skeptical that I could benefit from public relations. Oh, I prefer the term "Perception Management". Perhaps you'd like to see a reference from one of my recent clients, the leaders of Uzbekistan or… Myanmar. Those are two of the world's most notorious dictators. Whom I am rebranding as effective CEOs, leading their countries into the 21st century, just as I can rebrand you as a force for good in your own country.

Kenneth Crane Episode: 3x06 The Studio Job Character: Eliot Hi, I'm Kenneth Crane. And, uh, I'm gonna sing a song… I'm gonna sing… sing a song I wrote about… the road not traveled. I been meaning to tell you, this, uh, Kenneth Crane? He is blowing up on Twitter. He's got a fan page and everything. It's a pretty good picture, too.

Lionel Gitt Episode: 2x14 The Three Strikes Job / 2x15 The Maltese Falcon Job Character: Nate Lionel Gitt -- he's a real estate developer. Does a lot of shopping centers.

Mina Episode: 4x01 The Long Way Down Job Character: Sophie Uh, excuse me. Do you know who I am? Oui. But do you know who I am? No. W-we've never met. Huh. Vraiment? Mount Rainier. We have the hot toddies. "Oh, Mina, come to my tent. I'll warm you up." No? You don't call me? I don't have your number. Vraiment? "Oh, Mina, you type it for me. I'm too drunk to touch the little buttons."

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

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So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.