the audio effects on casting spells actually helped my enjoyment a lot

Eldritch Blast really earned its name, I love the way the spell sounds in that game

For example, a friend of mine ran a study that disproved a company's study that they used to push a product. Then my friend's company got blacklisted by the first company for all future products.

I'm adding that to my reading list, thanks.

I feel like there's a term for that sort of thinking...

You might enjoy this read, then

https://medium.com/words-of-tomorrow/was-stargate-sg-1-a-psyop-13f5af628f8a

(It's a joke, to be clear ... or is it?)

Maybe, but satellites are expensive. According to the documentary Third Eye Spies, the program didn't cost more than a dozen people's salaries.

The specifics would be classified, but the program ran from 1977 until it was leaked in 1995, and was funded on a yearly basis based on the performance of the past year. 18 years is a long time to fund a program that apparently amounted to nothing.

And according to the civilian researchers that were part of it, it didn't really end, they just ditched the civilians and kept going.

If anybody wanted to check out the files: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/collection/stargate

Fun fact, it's at least partially based on the CIAs long-running (and successful) remote viewing program

The Quakers are pretty based, to put it in a term they wouldn't understand. They also are pacifists and don't let priests tell them what God actually meant to say.

To be pedantic, that's still covered under E

I'm in awe of the bravery it takes to use civil disobedience in Iran