MKUltra was a secret government program that experimented on people using LSD and torture. The man who became the Unabomber was one of its victims.

COINTELPRO was a series of covert and illegal projects conducted between 1956 and 1971 by the FBI aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting American political organizations that the FBI perceived as subversive. This included feminist organizations, the Communist Party USA, anti-Vietnam War organizers, activists in the civil rights and Black power movements (e.g., Martin Luther King Jr., the Nation of Islam, and the Black Panther Party), environmentalist and animal rights organizations, the American Indian Movement , Chicano and Mexican-American , and independence movements (including Puerto Rican independence groups).

The Iraq War was predicated on “weapons of mass destruction” which the government knowingly lied about.

The United Fruit Company backed a coup in Honduras.

General Motors conspired to collapse the streetcar industry to gain a monopoly on public transportation.

Cigarette companies suppressed information on the health effects of cigarettes.

Oil companies suppressed information on the environmental effects of fossil fuels.

Purdue Pharma conspired to suppress the risks of Oxycontin and to expand the use of the drug to levels they knew would cause addiction.

My point is, there are true conspiracies all the time. The internet has made it possible for more people to know about it. Unfortunately it has also made it easier for false conspiracy theories to propagate

About 163 million out of 340 million people work. The rest are subsidized.

Anyone know what he is filibustering?

I guess I assumed that would include at least some limited rights to RvB.

Apparently one of the original creators got the license back from Warner Bros recently, so we might see it on again somewhere

While the whole series was still streaming, I watched Red vs Blue on a constant loop for years.

And the FAA head resigned on Jan 20th. I’m sure this will go well.

Trades. If you are a plumber or an auto mechanic you can make a killing. Doubly so if you own the business. If I had it to do over again I would get a business degree and then become an electrician.

Can’t own a gun, but controlling the nukes is just fine. Makes sense.

Good. Next question.

Always snap spaghetti in half before putting it in boiling water.

It would be supremely ironic if Mangione goes free because the prosecution can’t prove the terrorism part of the charge.

Cairo, IL (Population 1,505)

I recently got a Kia Niro and it has buttons on the wheel for most of the basic functions of the touch screen. Really handy

Myspace is still online.

I enjoyed that call exactly once, when I left Comcast for RCN.

“I’m calling to cancel my service.”

“Why?”

“RCN offers twice the download speeds for half what you charge. Can you beat that?”

“…I’ll switch you to cancellations.”

Yikes! Is that what it is now? I got it a decade ago for $5.

Sleep as Android

It’s just a really great alarm clock app, but with tons of other sleep tracking functionality. I’ve always had trouble sleeping through my alarms, but I never do with this.

Like it or not, the president represents all Americans.

Maybe they will have an upgraded version with a large rubber nose and a moustache.