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I really hate it when that happens.

If you find even a sympathetic biography of Biden... he was a skinny kid who was small for his age with a stutter that other children made fun of. One of his nicknames was “Joe Impedimenta”. He was afraid of basically everything. He has a history from childhood of exaggerating, fabricating, and plagiarizing stories from others. He is the ultimate loser who managed to lie his way into a position of authority.

How awful to be at greater risk of suffering from the impacts from an imaginary problem. These idiots have been caught red handed multiple times jiggering data to convince the public that $Trillions need to be transferred into the pockets of leftist organizations and individuals to “save the planet”.

“Diversifying marine biology and climate science”, from the article.

“Climate science” has devolved into a lefty religion. I doubt that it will make any difference if people chosen for their ethnicity and lifestyle and not their “qualifications” will make any difference. I am fairly sure that marine biology is heavily influenced by lefty nonsense as well.

We went to the Dennys near our home recently... The prices were now basically the same as a normal restaurant. It was more expensive than the closer Applebees which has more tasty entrees. The restaurant was nearly empty. The manager was lamenting to us that they are no longer Denny’s without the cheap prices. He said that they were going under quickly, but with the high wages that they were now required to pay in our area there didn’t seem to be a solution.

Once the catalytic converter warms up most of the CO in new cars is converted to harmless CO2 and water vapor. But when the car is cold even new cars are still producing CO.

I once went on a call where our naked “patient” ran out of his house and into his garage and started up a lawn mower. The police had just arrived because he started out by pulling out a gun hidden in his couch and trying to shoot me.

The police sergeant asked if the lawn mower exhaust would kill him. I correctly predicted that he would give himself up long before losing consciousness. But your typical lawn mower probably produces more CO than most newer cars because of incomplete combustion and no catalytic converter.

Very interesting! So you are an expert on VR headsets? To me as an actual user they seem very similar to other VR and augmented VR headsets. You appear to be falling for typical Apple marketing hype. It reminds me of so many other “revolutionary” products that Apple has introduced.

I purchased a Samsung “smart watch” to use with my cell phone two years before the “Apple Watch” came out. When Apple released their watch my Apple fan boy buddies started bragging about how amazing they were. What a laugh that was! Samsung was already on their 3rd or 4th generation and was much more capable at that time.

I researched this a bit since posting. Others are working on ways to get existing simulators to work with them.

https://www.reddit.com/r/VisionPro/comments/1balkxq/i_fly_microsoft_flight_simulator_on_vision_pro/

Once you get used to VR goggles most people can wear them a lot longer than an hour without any unpleasant side effects. I doubt that few if any "other users" are telling people anything other than to limit their usage until they get used to them but I am sure that there are many who will never have the chutzpa to pay their dues. In our society any level or form of discomfort is considered to much too bear by many people.

I consider this warning to be like so many others written by lawyers to legally protect the company not the users. Most people recognize these warnings for what they actually are and this has nothing to do with their level of intelligence.

The VR headset that I purchased, the Meta Quest 2 is currently selling for $199. In our state it costs over 50% less than the sales tax on the Apple Vision Pro. Despite being bulkier than the Apple device it hasn’t given me any black eyes, but depending on what it is being used for it can cause a bit of nausea. It is difficult to wear glasses and put it on, but the way that the optics work I do not need to wear my glasses with them.

For the price it does provide some very unique experiences. It has 1832 x 1920 Resolution Per Eye. with 60, 72, 90 Hz Refresh Rate. The Apple has 3,391 x 3,391 Resolution Per Eye with the same refresh rates. I do not sense much if any pixelation while wearing them depending on what they are being used for.

I use it mostly for flight simulators. The aircraft in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 and X-plane 11 and 12 have extremely realistic interiors and when you are wearing the headset it looks and feels a lot like you are actually flying an airplane. You can look out the windows and easily keep track of the position of the airports to help with flying a proper pattern. Neither of these flight simulators are currently compatible with the Apple Vision Pro that I know of.

The patient has tooth decay? Fetch the leaches!

Suck on that Trump! Those chargers are worth at least $20! It is your turn to wear the bag at the next house.

You would have to know a lot about how the computer(s) that run the car work and how to program them. It would be along the lines of reprogramming the basic input output system in your desktop or laptop only more complicated with less publicly available software “tools” available and a much smaller base of individuals with this type of knowledge.

“Hybrids” are very complicated beasts, much more complicated than either electric or hydrocarbon fueled vehicles. This is especially true of the transmissions which have to take in energy from both the engine and the motor/generator. It would be more of a challenge than anyone who I know could take on... and I know some very adept people.

The actual way to do it would be to get another non-hybrid version of the same car - that had been totaled and try to transplant the engine, transmission, electronics, and other items into your dead hybrid.

But we all know that Putin cheated! He supposedly got 87% of the votes. This is impossible. We know from multiple infallible polls commissioned by Western Media that his approval rating among the Russian public has risen from 80% to at the most barely over 85% in the past couple of months. Putin barely pulled off this squeaker of an election! It is shameful.

These “Ukrainian” drone attacks against Russian infrastructure are acts of desperation. The chances that the drones are actually piloted by members of the Ukrainian military are about as likely as the Nord Stream pipeline explosions being from Ukrainian forces.

The scary part is that the Russians almost certainly know the actual origins of these attacks. If this does not stop what is going to keep the Russians from attacking Western infrastructure? We are truly teetering on the brink of WWIII and all that this really means.

Of course, the Zeepers here will be celebrating the escalation of hostilities up to and including the deaths of millions and possibly billions of people from the collapse of the world’s economy after satellite communications etc... go down.

Tell your hero and chief to allow Texas to defend her boarders... it’s not his country.

You had to go back two years to find a thread that you somehow feel shows that there are a bunch of what you label “Vlad-worshipers” or “Putlerists” here. Only there was no mention of Putin anywhere in the story about the largely historically based sermon. And it is also hard to say what the point of the post you used as an example actually was, “That's the way I see Russia too...” The author was likely being sarcastic, but who knows... there is not enough detail in his/her post to tell.

Your own profile page starts off with, “To the haters who come here to dig up info about me, happy hunting!” Then you go on to claim that you had “long service as a member of the US Armed Forces, particularly in combating Soviet aggression and terrorism”. But of course, you provide no details about when this service occurred or what branch of the military that you served in.

What we find in your posting history and your own description of yourself does not paint a pretty picture. And you last post to me was a good example. It was nasty, made no relevant points, and in general said a lot more about you than me.

Last night a very close friend who was a career soldier in the army helped me move heavy furniture up and down stairs. It bothers me when persons such as yourself living in some kind of fantasyland do and say things that reflect poorly on other people who actually spent their lives serving our country. My friend actually did go through a lot in the army... Based on your description of yourself and your posts this seems unlikely in your case.

Those of us who have put our lives on the line and actually faced real danger have a sense about those who are fakers. My own sense tells me that you are as likely to be a veteran of military style video games than actual service. You remind me of people who race past you in the carpool lane with tinted windows and no one else in the car with them. They shouldn't be doing it but somehow in their own minds they can justify it.

I don't necessarily blame you... none of us have enough information to know where you are really coming from and from the quality of your posts it could just be the following issue.

Sorry, your response was so bizarre that it is difficult to tell if it is all a joke.

Airforce General is appointed to the Biden Command Team

4 Star Admiral Rachel Levine says, "Welcome Aboard".