From the article:

The pipe’s unexpected elevation from the ground occurred at a sewer construction site where workers had been connecting an existing sewer line with a channel designed to hold excess rainwater to prevent flooding.

The pipe was being used as a retaining structure to keep the surrounding soil from collapsing during the operation, officials said. A short time earlier, workers had drained water from the pipe, which may have caused the empty apparatus to float, they said.

“I ain’t no chicken, ‘n’ I gots the truck nuts t’ prove it!”

Ambassador Mollari: Tell me, is there anyone along our border with whom we are not currently at war?

Lord Refa: We need the room to expand.

Ambassador Mollari: Only an idiot fights a war on two fronts.

Only the heir to the throne of the kingdom of idiots would fight a war on twelve fronts.

Babylon 5 - Ceremonies of Light and Dark

Do they mandate the use of MS Authenticator specifically, though?

The option to add that restriction is definitely there, but it’s worth checking your account settings to see if it’ll let you use a different MFA option.

That’s a birb.