I want to. I've been waiting for an acceptably priced HMD since they were available for many thousands in the late 90s.

Transmission line losses average only 7%

Perhaps such is the intention of our true overlords!

- Academician Prokhor Zakharov, "For I Have Tasted the Fruit"

WinKey+Tab is an alternate presentation of the standard Alt+Tab window. I don't find it particularly useful, but I imagine someone does. Perhaps when working with many similar windows?

Personally, the "gross" part about eating insects is that they're too small to easily remove the guts and other undesirable portions from. With a large mammal it's (relatively) easy to chop off chunks of meat and fat and not much else. Even if it's not particularly harmful, I don't want to be eating insect brains, indigestible exoskeleton, and guts with my small amount of insect muscle.

All that stuff in atmosphere is presumably part of a recap of the invasion of Earth.

Transmission losses in the US are only about 7%.

I've been reading several SF novels per week for over a decade. Some are certainly garbage, but with the extremely large selection available, there's no reason to pick those.

Precisely. One has to think long term and be willing to accept a few years of spoiling effects in order to induce the larger political parties to change their policies to what one prefers.

"The boundary between cold water and warm, the Thermocline, has been important to undersea warfare for hundreds of years of man's history. Now we have found away to harness that power for constructive purposes. Once what cloaked us can now feed us. Once what shielded us from death, now brings us life."

Captain Ulrik Svensgaard, "The Ripple and the Wave"

I found Lovecraft's cosmic horrors to generally be interesting aliens or alien artifacts. I always feel sorry for the Old Ones when I read At the Mountains of Madness.

I took that to be "internal hard drive". I have both local internal and over-LAN internal HDD backups.

Yes. You can buy cheap rolls of velcro strap marketed for use as plant-ties in the gardening section of hardware stores.