3/ Wright Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base explored the possibility of designing a chemical bomb which could turn enemy troops gay and horny
4/ The US Army Air Force and Navy developed bombs that carried bats strapped with napalm (14g/bat) in the 40’s since bats naturally sought out building eaves to hide in when released.
5/ Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night was an Imperial Japanese Navy plan to use aircraft carrier submarines to drop ~2 billion smallpox infected fleas on San Diego
6/ The CIA had a playlist to induce sleep deprivation in prisoners for interrogation. It included Dirrty (Christina Aguilera), the Barney Theme Song, the Sesame Street Theme Song, Stayin' Alive (Bee Gees), and others
11/ The 23rd Headquarters Special Troops were recruited from art schools and advertising companies to move inflatable tanks around and send out fake broadcasts to confuse enemy reconnaissance
12/ The Sirius Dog Sled Patrol is an elite Danish Special Forces unit that patrols Greenland with dogs because its too cold for aircraft and trucks.
13/ There was an SR-71 mission to fly figure-8s in-and-out of supersonic speeds to generate sonic booms over Pyongyang during a meeting of Communist leaders just to let them know the US was watching.
14/ The crazy pilots of the CIA tried to fly a big U2 spy plane off of an aircraft carrier in Operation Whale Tale, but painted them to look like Office of Naval Research planes to fool the ship's crew
15/ Not to be outdone, the USAF flew B52s below the deck level of an aircraft carrier to practice flying under Soviet radar
16/ Russian drone used to direct artillery fire by the Zhukovsky-Gagarin Air Force Academy disguised as an owl
San Francisco is a geographically blessed city w a $14B budget for 800k people. That's the highest in the entire USA other than DC.
This means every SF crisis is self-inflicted by political incompetence or straight up corruption.
This election we can fix it. Voting guide 🧵:
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If you're tired of San Francisco leading the nation in property crimes and drug overdoses, the @TSFAction voting guide is focused on public safety, crime, and forcing our politicans to clean up the rampant drug markets.
Supervisor @Ahsha_Safai also banned new dispensaries when existing dispensaries in his District 11 asked him to block competition, effectively forming a cartel:
More recently Supervisor @Ahsha_Safai tried to poison-pill minimum staffing of SFPD by requiring new taxes, basically extorting voters to pay more for public safety minimums their already record-high taxes are supposed to cover:
incredible, this entire article hinges on editor @AlexShultz being upset that a reporter quoted the mother of a toddler shot to death who is distraught bc the DA is trying to remove gun charges
“how dare these reporters report when it inconveniences my ideology!” 🤡
Wildly condescending for @AlexShultz to scoff at constituents for protesting the DA saying she wants leniency for the toddler’s shooter
Editor @AlexShultz: “it’s not my place to weigh in on how the parents feel”
Also Alex: “the parents are only expressing grief bc they were tricked by a reporter! They would never do so otherwise! They should shut up!”