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Kennedy also accused several agencies under the Department of Health and Human Services — including the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services — of being “sock puppets” for the pharmaceutical industry.

Yes it’s remarkable how unchecked influence can be seen as corruption. Weird that it’s never happened before, or to any other part of this administration.

Their solution: sock puppets that they control directly.

T_mobile doesn’t force its users to get their credit card, or force them to use it, or force them to enlist their friends and family to get one.

If Big Tech has their way, all of these things and Andy Rooney will be yours in less than 60 minutes.

it doesn’t look like anything to me

1997 was peak for lots of things

don’t forget the fucking “Westboro Baptist Church”

All logical assessments aside, he’s probably got plenty in ill-gotten gains squirrelled away in Crypto holdings.

Watch him run for office, against Trump.

Religious oppression stifles education.

all you need is a work ethic and a time machine

I’m making a note here

Aaah, someone of culture, I see.

A Muppet Family Christmas had a great example of this. Fraggles give a “Fraggle Pebble” as a gift, and it gets re-gifted over and over.

a) yes

b) what I find really concerning is that they may have already figured out how to change people’s behaviour: what they think is funny, what they think is appropriate to say/do, where they want to travel to (if at all), how they feel about certain celebrities they like or dislike, what is believable or not believable, how they feel about certain politicians, who to vote for. Some people are probably more easy to sway on certain topics than others are. It’s not a stretch to guess that they probably already know various paths to make individuals into something they currently are not.

as if they don’t have enough already.

I wonder what else it can get wrong for only the cost of a few glaciers.

reminder that Quake and Quake 2 regularly go on sale for about 5 bucks

They tried but it kept creating clones of PacMan instead

you may want to take that up with the author

You say pervasive, and I say permissive [soft-shoe dance]

yeah I agree. I do my best to avoid hearing these words when they come from loathsome people. Parroting them, even in jest, still means those ideas are being amplified.

Get back to me when they spell Billion with a T