There are definitely people who care about those differences. There are even a few actually changes in footage, making some 1.1

Go look at some of the sites that cover all the changes

When articles like this talk about people who are worried about preserving the original they mean original. There are a bazillion copies of the VHS version out there.

By "the original" you mean the non-special edition.

But interesting to note that the true theatrical versions were never released on VHS. By the time it was released on home video, small changes had already started to be made. Pretty common for a lot of movies.

For example, the opening crawl was changed for A New Hope after 1981 to refer to it as "Episode IV". The original theatrical version didn't say that. There were also changes to accommodate the poor technology that would be used to play them back in homes, like brightening certain scenes.

So stupid and fake. Guy in an unbuttoned shirt being the stereotypical trust fund bro. Handheld camera conveniently already running and pointed right at the action. r/whyweretheyfilming

She's worth $28 billion. Unfortunately she will miss $100 million like the rest of us would miss $50.

Destin at Smarter Every Day and Steven Mould seem like solid guys, and content similar to Tom Scott if you haven't seen them.

If that's real, that would be after he was struck, right? The bullet is to his left, and he was shot from his right

They did it once, then did it again and not only is it still just a fine, the fine didn't even go up. Given inflation since then, the fine actually went down in real terms.

That'll teach them for sure! /s

I initially read that as "Florida scrambles to get retired teachers to return to combat."

Which isn't really wrong either.

"Delaying"

I think that's the basic premise of the Star Trek hypospray. Pressure pushing in medicine rather than a needle.

They'd still be appalled and try to stop him given their strong moral code. And given that they'd be at full strength they'd probably find a way to stop him and reverse things faster than they did in OTL

It's been done before (though not intentionally at first), at the Salton Sea.

And the results weren't that bad (granted possibly a smaller scale than some are imagining when they forecast doom).

https://www.ppic.org/blog/the-troubled-history-and-uncertain-future-of-the-salton-sea/

But the problem is any deserts are deserts for a reason: lack of rainfall and/or natural inflow from rainwater upstream. The result is that you have to keep pumping in tons of water and/or rely on agricultural runoff which is nutrient-depleted and usually full of chemicals.

Read the rest of the linked article for what's going on with that one.