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The soviets altered the symptoms of mental illnesses to include questioning the state and reform operations. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatr...

It's interesting the emphasis on your mental health in this response from the cia.

Intelligence agencies know that discrediting and ruining the social credibility of someone (or "canceling") is much easier and more effective than offing them. When you have your arms deep inside the media it becomes trivial to do so.

Stay safe. And sieg heil the cia o/


Do you seriously believe that was a response, by the CIA, to this raving conspiracy theorist?


Hi anon, I’m Anonymous Oblivion from 1995. I was also known as miseryx. Come to EFNet, start with #2600 or ask the troll in Transnistria.

I hope you are a leet hardware hacker full of k-rad ideas, otherwise don’t bother.

My mind is beyond space and time, so perhaps meditate on some thoughts before you so carelessly insult people who are actually fighting for a better world and to implement Tikkun Olam.

Abracadabra?

https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/19/1976530_is-ron-pandolf...


Of course not. But it is fun to believe.


Affiliate revenue. The same reason they recommend all the other products on their site. It's advertising disguised as product reviews. You are a sucker if you believe anything an Amazon affiliate is telling you.


I have found their reviews very extensive, more than any other free alternative that covers so many product categories, and typically they match what you get if you purchase one of the products. You'd think having NYT behind them would lend some legitimacy, at least as far as it concerns outright fabrications. Typically I don't mind if their recommendations are sourced from just a handful of retailers in that case.

All that is to say, that's quite alright with me.


There are a dozen other humidifiers they can earn affiliate money through.

I have a low-end "Victsing" model and it works just fine (as evidenced by the hygrometer next to it), and isn't hard to clean. It isn't a complicated device to make.

(I have no affiliation with the manufacturer).


You don't know what affiliate deals they have with the manufacturer. Amazon pays a flat percentage.


This has been going on for at least a week. People have been sharing a link that blue screens anyone that views it. I'm keeping link previews and embedded media off permanently. This is the second severe security issue with discord in only a few months.


Keepass's website uses http because switching to https may hurt advertising revenue.


https://keepass.info/

Looks like it uses HTTPS to me.

What you're referring to is an old (fixed roughly six years ago), and highly misrepresented situation discussed here:

https://keepass.info/help/kb/sec_issues.html#updsig


What you linked isn't talking about the entire site. It literally says that the signature page is secure. But they don't mention the entire site being secure. I wonder why...

Here it is 3.5 years ago being hosted over http and not redirecting to https. It looks like they changed in 2018.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170907194943/http://keepass.in...


The "security issue" you're talking about was that the URL used to determine if there is a new version available was HTTP-only. People felt like this was a security concern because it was susceptible to a MitM attack. The author felt like this was a none-issue because Keepass did not self-update at all, the URL was only used to inform the user of a new version. So a successful MitM attack would merely inform the user of a new version.

New version of the software were served via mirrors and digital signatures for all versions were made available. Standard security practice for the era was to verify the digital signatures of software before installing it because so much software was served by third parties.

Also, this all happened before HTTPS was ubiquitous (the patch to force version checks to use HTTPS came in 2016). Most sites still served traffic over regular HTTP, with only logins and purchase pages using encryption.


I agree. We need to start instituting temperature checks at all businesses and mandatory mobile phone contact tracing. This would help reduce crime as well.


So you’re advocating for persistent surveillance of people? This approach doesn’t seem effective. Reducing existing underlying health conditions (obesity), improving surge capacity for hospitals, and domestic production for critical supplies all seem like better places to start.


The media is the propaganda division of the congressional military industrial complex.


Sounds like it none of your business. Speculating about the metal state of others and playing internet doctor is insulting.


Dead people generally don't have the need for a doctor.


It's honestly disgusting how people have made it into a game of trying to figure out who he was. Cutting him open for bone fragments. He died alone in the woods. Was there any reason to think it was caused by malace? No. Then fuck off and let him be.


It's not a "game."

Identifying an unknown deceased person so the next of kin can be notified is part of a normal death investigation, even when there is no foul play.

He seems to have made a positive impact on people who met him on the trail, which is why those people wanted to find out who he was. They wanted to give his friends and family closure.


Sure, you have a high sanctity moral foundation. Many others do not. To me, a dead man with no family ties is just a sequence of tissue arranged in a certain way. I will deal with it as I deal with bark or fungus. There is no person left.


There may have been family waiting for word of him. No one knew at the time.


If you repeat it enough times it becomes true.


Only if you're running a sweet and loving peaceful dictatorship with a nice dress code.


NSA is one of the largest employers of mathematicians. They look for flaws in crypto implementations.


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