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Here's how to install Play Store and other Google apps on Windows Subsystem for AndroidWSAGAScript is a tool that lets you easily patch the Windows Subsystem for Android to install the Google Play Store.Windows Subsystem for Android is finally here. What's more interesting is that you can unofficially try it right now — even if you're not enrolled in the Beta channel of Windows 11. In case you're not happy with the mandatory Amazon Appstore integration, you should be happy to hear that the app sideloading process isn't difficult either. It is also possible to install a third-party Google...

Here's how to use Windows To Go and Rufus to set up Windows 11 on a PC that doesn't meet its requirements. Windows 11 system requirements specify that it needs UEFI, Secure Boot and TPM. Many old computers are powerful enough to run Windows 11. Yet, they cannot install the OS because of these requirements. Windows 11 refuses to install and displays the message "this PC can't run Windows 11". There is a way to bypass these requirements and install Windows 11 on any powerful computer, even if it is old. The process is quite simple as well. Unlike earlier...

Deep fakes are often very humorous but can be scary when you realize that you cannot trust what you see with your own eyes on any video these days. https://youtu.be/THOXG-5rSk8

The “climate hell” mentioned in the run-up to the latest COPout conference by the excitable Mr Guterres, Sekjen of the United Nations, is not a happening thing. As the New Pause in global warming lengthens inexorably, month by month, real-world global warming departs more and more visibly from what was and is predicted. Yet the Thermageddonites, flogging the dead horse like a bull in a china shop even though the emperor has no clothes, are ignoring the elephants in the room. Their latest wheeze is to point out that the real-world global-warming trend in the third of a century since...

Historians will mark the low point of Pax Americana in the Middle East by several rather brutal humiliations that American prestige has undergone under President Joe Biden’s presidency. Examples would include having phone call requests by the US president declined by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in March last year and mass media pictures of the impersonal fist-bump between Joe Biden and de facto ruler and Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed Bin Salman (or “MBS” as he is familiarly called) in July. The US president had come to Riyadh with a begging bowl but failed to convince...

Last year, California took a step that riled plenty of RVers. A new California Air Resources Board (CARB) rule essentially hit the off-switch on RV generators. While not outright banning small (less than 25 horsepower) generators, the state severely tightened emissions restrictions. The reaction was quick. The lynchpin of the RV generator industry, Cummins, announced it would no longer sell LP and gas-fired Cummins generators in California after the end of 2023. The backlash was swift. RV industry talking heads issued immediate warnings. If the regulations stuck, the RV industry would lose a million dollars in sales in the Golden...

The best 3D printers have become more affordable, and the 3D printer market is growing at an explosive rate, with new brands and styles of printing making an appearance each year. Where many 3D printers used to be huge, expensive machines, developments in technology and production now mean that many of the best options you can buy are increasingly affordable and can sit on a desk in your home without needing dedicated workshop space. As more products hit the market, the choice of 3D printers that cater to all sorts of user needs and budgets expands. While having more options...

A jury on April 7 convicted a U.S. Army sergeant who shot dead a man wielding a gun at him during a protest in 2020. Sgt. Daniel Perry, working for Uber, traveled to Austin in July 2020 for work. A Black Lives Matter protest was happening the same night. Perry, after turning down a street, found himself surrounded by protesters. Garrett Foster, one of the armed protesters, was openly carrying an AK-47. According to Perry, Foster motioned with his gun for Perry to lower his window. Perry fired after Foster began to raise the rifle toward Perry, defense lawyers said,...

Users report that read speeds from SSD have dramatically reduced after the newest Windows 11 update (Windows 11 Version 22H2 - KB5023706). While the few reported events were thought to be localized to the ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 1 TB SSD, the issue is found to plague other manufacturers and can be fixed after uninstalling the update. Windows 11 update slows SSDs during data transfers; Microsoft aware of the problem The newest Windows 11 update, which has the codename "Moment 2," is downloading to PCs starting today, with updates to quality of life and the integration of the ChatGPT-based Bing...

As an actively practicing clinical cardiologist for many years in three different communities, I knew about myocarditis. I just never saw it. Quite literally, I recall seeing ONE young woman who presented with a picture of acute congestive heart failure, and her echocardiogram study revealed a big and poorly contracting heart. Such a condition is diagnosed as an idiopathic congestive cardiomyopathy, which basically means the heart is enlarged and functioning very poorly, and you have no idea why. After treating her with traditional measures for congestive heart failure, she started getting better. To my great surprise, after six to nine...

Plans for FTX and creditors to demand information on dealings would duplicate the work of the independent examiner who has yet to be appointed, the U.S. trustee said. Proposals for FTX and a committee of its creditors to subpoena founder Sam Bankman-Fried, his immediate family and senior staff of the bankrupt crypto exchange have been opposed by the U.S. Trustee, a branch of the Department of Justice dealing with bankruptcy. The plans, set to be discussed at a Wednesday hearing, would duplicate any independent examination of the exchange’s downfall, U.S. Trustee Andrew Vara said in a legal filing made Thursday....

ISSAQUAH — On a busy holiday shopping day at Issaquah Commons, some shopping carts had gone rogue. Three from Target were left in a coveted empty parking spot. One from Trader Joe’s was inexplicably outside the doors of REI. Another, unlabeled, was sideways on a grassy mound. There may have been cart chaos within the retail area, but the buggies wouldn’t go much farther beyond the expansive parking lot. Some, affixed with locking systems or metal poles, didn’t even make it out of the store. That’s by design: In early 2022, Issaquah began holding large retailers responsible for their carts...

Despite ‘fact’ checkers’ best efforts to dismiss it as normal, the number of people in this group who died suddenly between January and April 2022 was 1,696% above the historical monthly norm. Is this the deadly combo that’s causing it? STORY AT-A-GLANCE Over the past two years (2021 and 2022), more than 1,650 professional and amateur athletes have collapsed due to cardiac events and 1,148 of them proved fatal Damar Hamlin, a 24-year-old Buffalo Bills football player went into cardiac arrest on live television after making a tackle during a January 2, 2023, game against the Cincinnati Bengals. Team trainers...

From the comments, Peter Sepall, "Great interview with Steve Kirsch. For anyone interested he has a channel here on rumble called Stkirsch. I knew from the start that they were lying about the vax being safe, not because I knew it was unsafe, but because I knew they couldn't know that it was. How could anyone know that a new medical procedure would have no long term consequences? Applying simple informal logic to life and not just going along with the crowd, whatever the crowd, can have profoundly liberating and health preserving results.

A team of nine experts from Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and other top universities has published paradigm-shifting research about the efficacy and safety of the COVID-19 vaccines and why mandating vaccines for college students is unethical. The 50-page study, which was published on the Social Science Research Network at the end of August, analyzed Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and industry-sponsored data on vaccine adverse events, and concluded that mandates for COVID-19 boosters for young people may cause 18 to 98 actual serious adverse events for each COVID-19 infection-related hospitalization theoretically prevented. The paper was co-authored by Dr. Stefan...

Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), also called myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), can leave sufferers feeling tired, even after sleep, and may lead to problems with memory and concentration. CFS cases have exploded during the COVID-19 pandemic and some doctors are using novel methods to treat the condition—including ivermectin, which was called a “wonder drug” for human health before the pandemic. Nearly 80 Percent Report Post-COVID CFS A recent questionnaire-based study found nearly 80 percent of patients with COVID-19 had one or more persistent symptoms post-infection, and 58 percent met the case definition for ME/CFS. Another analysis showed CFS is most common in...

COVID Boosters Trigger Metastasis Patient after patient in stable remission are now suddenly experiencing an explosive relapse Oncology doctors are sounding the alarm – the COVID boosters appear to be triggering metastasis. Patient after patient in stable remission are now suddenly experiencing an explosive relapse, triggering the appearance of new tumors just days or weeks after being forced to have a booster. STORY AT-A-GLANCE Cancer rates have increased since the introduction of the COVID shots and is now one of the top three leading causes of premature death among younger adults — a trend that in turn is driving down...

General Michael Flynn is taking a radically different perspective on the Russia/Ukraine war than the controlled corporate media and the corrupted political class of the West. Flynn, who was President Trump’s national security adviser before becoming the victim of a deep state conspiracy, appeared on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast where he described why he believes Russia is winning the war against Ukraine. “Russia has achieved all of their objectives, and they’ve always called them limited objectives, and they’ve achieved them, and they’re now exposing…biological labs that have been in there for a long long time, and sadly they’re all...

Due to a process known as ‘immune imprinting,’ which handcuffs your immune system, we could well be facing the ‘dark winter’ President Biden warned would befall us. STORY AT-A-GLANCE Scientists warn repeated COVID boosters may result in lowered immunity through a process known as “original antigenic sin” or “immune imprinting” Original antigenic sin describes how your first exposure to a virus shapes the outcome of subsequent exposures to antigenically related strains. The end result is that you become increasingly prone to symptomatic infections Data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirm that people who got two or...

The Kremlin has earned a record profit from oil although its invasion of Ukraine has continued for more than three months, triggering a set of punitive measures. Russia reports a drop in its exports to the European Union, but sells more to some alternative markets, notably India. Record-breaking oil prices mean more money to the Russian federal budget, also to sponsor the invasion of Ukraine. Oil-related revenues will edge up as the Russian finance ministry is planning to raise an export levy. Of all oil-producing countries and their allies, Russia had the biggest oil output in May. Oil and condensate...