When I see testimonials like this, I remember reading that CIA leadership wanted pawns who would convince enemies, under interrogation if need be, that the US had secret alien tech. They brought military personnel to Area 51, make them sign an NDA, show them a bunch of fake "alien" things and tell them it's real, it's top secret, and shut up about it. Some squealed to the press. I doubt this one psyop that leaked was the only time they tried this, there could be many variations. Is it more likely the CIA misdirects people, or that we are being visited by alien flying objects? There's more CIA shenanigans in The Devil's Chessboard by David Talbot.

Have you heard of the bullet cluster's implications for dark matter?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

A lot of voters can't either.

"Megan McArdle: Show me the victims of insider trading. I’ll wait."

https://www.sltrib.com/opinion...

Steve Jobs was exposed to cancer-causing "new car smell" every single day. In California, new cars had grace period to get license plates, and cars without plates could park in handicapped spaces without penalty, and Steve Jobs was a psychopath, so he had an arrangement with a car dealership for a regular new car without plates so he could park in handicapped spaces.

https://www.cultofmac.com/news...

Tangential issue: the number of _fake_ people enrolled in colleges is at an all-time high. Professors are saying 30% of their enrollees are no-shows, and their classes are under-attended from day-one. The fake enrollees are nation-state actors scamming the system and disappearing with whatever financial aid they can gets their hands on.

I don't know, after having seeing how the CEO acts on stage during product reveals, I can believe the bullshitting and censoring has his full support, or was his idea.

The relativistic effects on electron orbitals is limited to the increase of apparent electron mass with electron speed. It has nothing to do with gravity.

I would have expected a user with a UID as low as yours would have gotten used to gas cars in back in 1980.

Are you benefiting? I don't trust the information in the AI-produced videos now dominating my youtube feed. Product reviews are less trust worthy. Social media posts from AI are agenda-pushing and insincere, and swamping out the users. It takes prodigious energy to run this crapification of the internet.

If investigative journalism is individuals posting photos of a shot down airliner and everyone (everyone who wants to) can see the holes in the fuselage within 24 hours, then investigative journalism is alive and well. If it's a paid professional doing interviews with experts and putting it on the 6 o clock news or website a month later, that still happens, but not on as many things. My youtube feed is full of investigative journalism, I just saw one on the browser extension "honey" stealing commissions and cheating users out of the best online coupons.

I saw a youtube video showing the most iconic scenes in A New Hope are actually copies of scenes in older movies. I can't find the link (perhaps someone else can), but I did find this article which sums it up.
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/1...
Take a look at the side-by-side between star wars trench run and Dam Busters. Now imagine a 15 minute youtube video giving the same treatment to most other scenes you remember from A New Hope. By the time I was done, I realized that the movie critics that panned A New Hope were older, and had seen the prior movies.

Years ago stories leaked that there was smartphone app, and not a public one, that would do the same thing. It was so secret, journalists had to quote sources who were shown the app by a braggart.

The Himalayas get a little taller each year, as India collides with Asia. There's a bird species that have been flying over since the beginning. They have evolved into super high-altitude flyers. The height is now at the point where they must rest before the highest peaks and wait for favorable winds.

How does such a college grad get hired in the first place? Are employers not screening for this? Is there some way to fake this?