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My oldest daughter, who has a doctorate from Yale, is terrified of Trump.
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I’ve met more than my fair share of folks that fit the comment of your daughter. It seems that a conversation with these folks revolves around two questions... 1. What is it that you see is a problem followed by... 2. And what makes you think that is true?

Has anyone compared the different AI possibilities? Lately I’ve been using this one... seems to work reasonably well but I’d be interested in hearing about the experience of others. https://www.perplexity.ai/

After this past winter, the experience I had with several furnace repair folks put them well below lawyers....

Same with my father. He answers unknown phone numbers even though we have told him they just want his voice so they can AI it and scam him.
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Due to the ease with which these scams can be made by impersonating a voice, one can see why it will become essential to have a far more invasive 2FA (two-factor authentication).... not just where the second part is a code that gets sent to a cell phone but a verification that is directly connected to the person trying to do the verification i.e. attached to the person’s body.

Revelation 13:
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

There will become at some point a parallel economy.
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To some extent, that already exists.... perhaps a better way to word that is that “at some point the parallel economy will become that much more strengthened.”

Case in point, I have a choice in what clients I pick to work with and where they are located.... a little bit of research is all that is required to assist in making that choice.

BOYCOTT Sonesta Hotels!!!
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I won’t be staying at Sonesta after that chicken hearted act.
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Quite funny... Just because there are so many emails for travel related stuff, I have a separate email account for it. Anyway, within a few minutes of reading this article about the cancellation in Nashville, I happened to see that the Sonesta regular newsletter showed up. I promptly cancelled it and that prompted this reply....Let’s just say my comment was rather blistering.... I encourage others to do the same.

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Here at home, they say the court of public opinion has been mostly on their side.

“When we see people out in the community and they say, ‘fight the good fight, we’re behind you.’ That’s really refreshing,” said Wilson.....
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What a load of BS....

Might be fun to see the reaction.
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Might be? I think hilarity would be guaranteed! Perhaps add some sprays just outside the exits that would would lay down a nice layer of lubricant so that the perps couldn’t even stand up as they were scrambling to get out.

I think I’d like one for my car.... as long as it didn’t accidentally trip on while driving!

I called my doctor up and asked him if he could prescribe ivermectin to me... it wasn’t otherwise available where I live. He gave me a firm “no”... told me that he’s lose his license if he prescribed it to me. That right there told me all I needed to know about what was really going on.....

I’m not seeing any widespread outrage. Are any of you?
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“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they’ve been fooled.” ~ Often attributed to Mark Twain

This was downright treason the military brass pulled that day.
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Ok...no argument on that point. It is the clear definition of treason. The question of importance is what does PDJT say in the current campaign that he believes should happen when he gets back into office. He has already said he is fine with letting the crimes of ByeDone go by the wayside, didn’t he?

It’s one thing to think about what should happen in the future and it’s a other thing to campaign on it. The issue is what does he say that meets both the needs of justice and winning?

Don’t get an ideas, guys.... that thing is both toxic and GUILTY!!

OK. What is a ‘SWANA woman?’?
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Supposedly it is Southwest Asian and North African.... but what it really stands for is Solid Waste Association of North America.

Such is the nature sometimes when one is close to the edge of something... if it is a temperature issue, a few degrees might just push it over the edge. The problem with saying that though is i’m not sure how it ties into exactly what you are experiencing... moving it and finding it goes back to working again.

Anyway, there are several responses you got to your question and I suspect that a correct answer is in there.

A few possibilities come to mind.

I believe there will be an internal sensor that will shut it off if the pressure drop across a filter gets too high. If it is on the edge of shutting off, it might be because the filter is just too dirty but it might also mean that the sensor is flaky. I just found your model at this link and I see that this unit uses a HEPA filter… these are already much higher pressure drop than other types of filters. This by the way is the problem with all HEPA filter units….. there is often no way of knowing when the filters need to be replaced. There will be a pre-filter that is washable but the as for the HEPA filters, they can be cleaned by vacuuming them out but eventually they get to the point where the filter becomes internally clogged so that there is no alternative but to replace them. It’s a pet peeve of mine… the units should give an actual pressure drop reading as opposed to just some lights that give a vague idea as to what is going on with the filters. https://alen.com/collections/breathesmart-fit50 By the way, if you do need to change a filter, these lights likely need to be reset. Could there be something a bit flaky with this ‘reset method’? Having said this, this might be part of an explanation of why it shuts off but probably doesn’t adequately explain why it comes back on when plugging it into another outlet. However, it might be part of the explanation since it represents a control strategy that is purposed to shut the unit off…. Have you tried running the unit with no filters at all? Does it still do this unexpected shutdown thing when run without filters?

By the way, I see in the operating manual that your unit has an ‘ozone safe ionizer’ but it can be turned off and on. Does switching the ionizer on or off affect whether the unit runs or not? It needs to be kept as a possibility that there might be something in the controls for this part of the unit that are acting up. https://www.manualslib.com/manual/780439/Alen-Breathesmart-Fit50.html?page=5#manual

Along those same lines, the manual says that your unit has a feature where it in “Automatic Mode will use the SmartSen-sor Technology to adjust the speed of the unit depending on the amount of particles present in the air.” When it shuts down, is the unit set in automatic or manual speed mode? In automatic mode, there obviously are a bunch more sensors and controls that might have gone flaky…. By the way, on page 9 of the manual, it gives some specific instructions about cleaning the dust sensor that allow this variable speed fan to adjust to the desired speed. [How To Clean The SmartSensor - The SmartSensor uses an infrared light to detect airborne particles. After prolonged periods of use, dust can accumulate on the glass lens and affect the sensitivity of the sensor.] Have you done that?

Another possibility is that the motor might be running hot... there are quite a few reasons for that but depending on the design of your unit, the motor might have accumulated a buildup of dust over the years (even though it is located after the filter where the air should be clean) and now it can’t dissipate the heat and the internal thermal protector is shutting it off. You might want to look at that. I see that your unit has four speeds. Does it behave in the way you’ve described on all speeds?

As a related issue to the filter clogging up and the possibility that the motor is not getting adequate cooling, what is going on may relate directly to the type of fan that is used in this unit. These two types of fans that can get used and they behave differently with regards to power when the flow is reduced due to filter clogging. Specifically, the power will go down if it has a centrifugal fan and the flow was blocked off… it goes up if it has an axial fan and the flow is blocked off. I’m fairly certain that your unit uses an axial fan so a clogged filter will increase the power and make it run hotter…. You obviously can’t change the fan but knowing what type it is might at least tell you whether it is the type that is sensitive to taking more power and hence an increased level of heating that might shut the unit down. Reduced airflow has the secondary impact of heating it up even more since there is less air to cool it… Is there a build up of dust on the fan blades that is reducing the airflow? That obviously will contribute to the problem as well….

Lastly, are your units subject to voltage fluctuations? If it is, this might affect the speed of the fan and its power requirements (remember that power increases as the cube of speed so even a small difference in fan speed can have significant impact on the power). Do you live in an area of lots of wind turbines that might be coming on and off and affecting your voltage? Without getting into the details, it might just be the case that your unit is sensitive to voltage. These are really handy for measuring and to some extent, troubleshooting…. https://www.amazon.ca/P3-P3IP4400-Electricity-Usage-Monitor/dp/B00009MDBU?th=1 Plug this into your outlet and then plug the air purifier into it…. You can use this to monitor the voltage and amps and see what happens when you play with things like cleaning the filters, running it on different speeds, running it without any filters at all etc. to see what difference it makes.

By the way, on page 10 of the manual is this note… “I have an issue not listed in this manual. Please visit www.AlenCorp.com and send us a message or call 1-800-630-2396 during busi-ness hours. A customer service representative will respond to your inquiry in a timely manner.” Have you done that? You should only consider that as a last result because there is lots of other troubleshooting and things you can first.... and who needs to be hold for hours and then up talking to someone with an accent that can’t be understood. On the other hand, if there is something that is inherently flaky with your unit, you mind find someone honest enough to tell you that.

For pete’s sake leave them in the everglades.
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Good point. I was at a conference at the OCCC a few years ago..... was walking over one morning on the walkway leading from our rented condo at the Vista Cay and basically came around a corner and stumbled over one basking in the morning sunshine....

The call was probably made by one of their own to smear the right.
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Probably? I’d say undoubtedly.... even from my computer screen, I can smell the smoke from the embers of that modern day Reichstag fire...

I wonder why we have so many mentally ill people here?
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I don’t know why ‘here’ but at a broader level, one either recognizes the supremacy of God or Romans 1:28 applies...

Romans 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind....

I too anticipate the role of “aliens” in the great deception.
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Totally.... folks sometimes forget what Jesus told his disciples in what is called the Olivet Discourse. Everyone wants to know what the ‘sign of the end’ is, and while Jesus had much to say about the subject in this chapter, it’s worth remembering that the first thing he said could be basically interpreted to mean that the operative word is ‘deception’... in other words, if what we are seeing is that we are living in the ‘age of deception’, we are there.....

Matthew 24:3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?

4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.