Are there any justifiable reasons that it’s okay to be on speakerphone in public?
I once saw this question asked on the other site, and there was at least one good response. It was from someone who used a hearing aid, and said that for whatever reason, using the phone normally next to their ear resulted in the audio being garbled and difficult to understand, but using the speaker held a few inches away was fine, so that's how they preferred to use it.
U.S. flag code dictates that flags remain lowered for the 30-day period from the death of a former president. But that code isn’t mandatory, so once he becomes president, Trump could technically override it.
So I gather the answer to your question is "yes, but also no".
In most restaurants I saw there was no wall in between.
This was my experience as well. I can still see it today in some older restaurants that haven't been renovated in years, where there's an area of the dining room with a much higher ceiling.
Couldn't they just move .io to a different category?
Specifically the issue is that two letter TLDs are reserved exclusively for countries/governments. So far only one exception has been made to this rule, .su for the Soviet Union. So another exemption is certainly possible.
I'm pretty sure she's from California? Unless you're being metaphorical or something.