I've been noticing this thing for years ever since I upgraded to Windows 10, flag emojis are displayed as their ccTLDs written in regional indicator symbols. Is there an explanation for as to why this is the case?

I noticed that when trying to photograph stuff just below the surface in both sea water and fresh water, what comes through the lenses are just incredibly blurry and full of color fringing while what i see with my own eyes look perfectly normal aside from the refraction effect. Even when using a super telephoto lens (equivalent to 900mm) I can still make out more detail with my naked eye, so something is going on that I'm not understanding.

Is it just me or are there a lot more contract roles available rather than full time roles??

I'm trying to find another job with higher pay and the stability a full time role provides, but I'm seeing lots of 6 month or 12 month contract roles being advertised. It is also harder for me to get to the interview stage for full time roles.

No idea what's happening, can someone explain this to me?

When I was younger, I used to pick skills up fast, but now I struggle to learn anything new. Why is that?

Also, how can I improve my learning skills?

I've seen people saying its due to cloud seeding is this true?

When paired with itself, nitrogen has three bonding pairs and one lone pair, so to covalently bond, it forms a triple bond.

Carbon has no lone pairs and 4 bonding pairs if it were to be covalently bonded to itself. So why does it not form quadruple bonds?

Shouldn't out oceans be foaming hard?

In places like houses or schools or work you usually see air vents placed on the walls but almost never the floor but why? Due to gravity doesn’t it make sense to also add one to the floor as well? Since air is guaranteed to go down but if there’s not a lot of air flow the walls air vents would get significantly less airflow?

In times when ticket prices are disproportionately high, why can't this be regulated better? Can't the official ticket vendors also create a website, similar to TicketSwap, where tickets can be resold but without allowing the original prices to be increased?

eli5:How was he able to make parodies of other artists work without getting buried in lawsuit?

Have recently been working with an LLM and can't wrap my head round now it's calculating token usage per query. Thanks!

I’ve read the Wikipedia page and I’m still not really following.

Could someone explain in simplified terms who/what/when/where/why/how?

Was it simple Sunni vs Shia, or old tribal alliances? I’m just not following. Please help.

I’ve always seen people saying “if you have built up mucus in your lungs then drink this or that” but I never really understood that how can a liquid that goes down your throat help to clean/fix/heal your lungs?

and i’m not only referring to mucus that was just an example

For context, let us consider something that would be disconnected from a network to prevent syncing with the internet.

Some Podcasts I will listen to have localized ads in them, does everyone who downloads the podcast in a certain city/region get the same ads?

Was looking at the news reports about the floods in UAE and wondering why a desert so vast with little to no vegetation just absorb all the rainfall?

Like when ppl say don't wash your yard or car with a hose. Isn't the extra water or for that matter all water either seeping underground and adding to groundwater table or being evaporated into nature to be recycled? In both cases the water will be filtered enough to be potable....

Hi! I have a sack of rice but I’m confused if its nutritional value indicate an uncooked rice or cooked rice? It says here that its serving size is 100 grams and the calories per serving is 342 kcal but is it like 100 grams of UNCOOKED rice or 100 grams of COOKED rice? Thank you sm!

What is exactly API and why we call it like that? I am learning web development, and always come across APIs. I would love to learn it through an analogy.