And for a confirmed conspiracy led by a secret society of movers and shakers there’s Propaganda Due, a now-dissolved Italian Masonic lodge whose members (including future Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi) held high positions in Italy’s government, military, intelligence agencies, religious institutions, and news industry.

Many former members still hold a great deal of power even though P2 is known to have had journalists and dissidents assassinated, supported terrorists targeting their own citizens, and were plotting a right-wing coup (one that sounds a hell of a lot like what is happening in the US, for that matter).

It’s probably more accurate to refer to him as the father of modern surgery, but I was thinking of William Harsted, who - alongside many other innovations (such as championing anesthetics and sterile surgical environments, both of which are alarmingly recent inventions) - created the residency system that’s still used for training hospital staff today.

He demanded insane hours of his staff, which he was easily able to handle himself due to his cocaine habit, and which have been kept to this day (a law was passed attempting to cap it at 80 hours a week, but it’s widely ignored) because studies show that shortening medical shifts results in worse patient outcomes.

It turns out minimizing shift changes is critical - the doctors/nurses who’ve been observing the patient are more aware of what’s going on and can spot any changes in behavior or subtle warning signs of danger, whereas their replacements can only go by what’s on a patient’s medical chart and what they’re told during handover.

Download size: 200 MB

“Oh, maybe this will be quick and I’ll actually be able to play tonight.”

Download complete. Patching files: 0.0/200 GB

“Never mind.”

I believe I read that those kinds of hours (and worse) are pervasive throughout the medical industry because the father of modern medicine used cocaine to stay alert and was wired nearly 24/7, and successive generations kept his insane schedule because it resulted in better outcomes (for everyone except the one working).

It’s Denmark, they have a pretty robust welfare system that’s actually likely paying for this sort of program.

Though I’m not sure if refugees would be able to benefit from it since they’re probably not full citizens.

Oh, he 100% knows the truth. He just can’t say it since admitting it’s Ubisoft’s fault would lower investor confidence (and therefore affect his personal wealth). This is the standard “blame our failures on market forces outside our control” move that all CEOs of publicly-traded are forced to do.

The stock market was a mistake.

Don’t forget an anti-Clinton smear campaign going back over twenty years. She was, despite being objectively qualified, a terrible choice for a candidate. Republicans had decades of opposition research on her and zero compunction about making even more shit up for political theater (see the attacks over a personal email server even though it turned out their own opsec was 100x more lax, several hearings over Benghazi despite previous ones failed to find anything, or hell, even Bill’s impeachment that started as them going over the Clinton’s finances hoping to find a hint of corruption, then latching onto the affair even though Newt Gingrich, the one pushing these dirty tricks, was in the middle of an affair himself while his wife was dying from cancer).

It was yet another time Democrats ignored political reality to push someone who was at the top of their internal party hierarchy, and Republicans were more than happy to take advantage of their naïveté.

That’s basically everything from Occupy Democrats. They’re Facebook-tier meme cringe with a side of “how do you do, fellow kids?”

The sad thing is crap like this probably works better than actual logic.

He gets tons of flak for his heavy use of drone attacks - which is completely valid - but people usually ignore that:

• a) The reason we know those numbers is because Obama’s administration put strict reporting policies on drone usage in place that included strikes that weren’t even tracked under previous stats. A lot of those drone strikes were egregious, yes, but also are only public knowledge because he designed a system to be held accountable.
• b) Trump removed those reporting policies during his first term, then proceeded to order more drone strikes than Obama. Not saying that Obama’s good because Trump is worse, but the reported numbers are back to being fucking lies and those lies make Obama look worse.
• c) Drone warfare technology started coming into its own around when Obama was elected, and he was stuck with multiple unpopular wars and an openly hostile Republican opposition who would blame any American casualties on him, so of course he used drones more than previous presidents.

It’s fine, just list it as “cellulose” on the ingredients list.

(It’s not technically sawdust anymore after processing, but it’s still gross even though it’s food-safe.)

In a few decades the Tea Party, MAGA, and various formerly fringe conspiracy groups will be used as case studies for how an externally boosted and manipulated movement inevitably outgrows its handlers and blazes out of control, burning the hand that feeds.

Or maybe not. Nobody seems to have learned anything from all the other foreign-backed revolutionary groups that ended horribly, after all.

Alexander Acosta straight-up admitted that Epstein was an intelligence asset and that he torpedoed the initial case in 2008 at the request of higher-ups.

Of course Acosta ended up as a member of Trump’s cabinet, because his administration clearly needed yet another direct Epstein connection alongside Barr and Trump himself.

Even the applicator is all natural!

What am I looking at here? I’m guessing that’s weed?

To paraphrase an old tweet: “parentheses - for when every thought comes with bonus sub-thoughts”.