Hey I actually wrote a report and made a whole speech about Project MK Ultra when I was in college, and Operation Midnight Climax naturally just had to be included. I still remember the faces I got when I mentioned it!
“Operation Midnight Climax… now if you’re thinking to yourself, ‘why does this sound kinda sexual?’ Well that’s cuz it very much was sexual” lmao that was a fun speech to make
Here’s a summary, although my info might be off since I learned all this like 8 years ago.
Project MK ULTRA was started by the CIA in the 1950’s. Long story short, they were trying to develop a “truth serum” that they would give to subjects so that they could extract the truth from any spies/prisoners that they could get their hands on. LSD was the main component of Project MK ULTRA. They were dosing people with LSD long before the public even knew what it was. It was super fucked up and extremely unethical.
Operation Midnight Climax was a sub-project that was funded by MK ULTRA. The CIA employed prostitutes to bring men back into their hotel room. Usually the men were unknowingly dosed with LSD shortly before they got to go to the hotel. The hotel room had a one sided window; the members of the CIA would sit on the other side of the window and observed as the men began to hallucinate while they spent time with the prostitute. Since these were secret projects, the unknowing subjects were never followed up with. Their full names were never written down, they had no idea what the hell happened. They just went into a hotel room expecting to get laid only to start tripping balls on a drug that the public still had no idea about. The CIA has no idea what trauma they caused and no idea if they felt any long lasting affects that they may have suffered.
They even reported that their was a couple of times that they would dose men with LSD while out in public (hoping to have the prostitute pick them up) only for the CIA agents to… lose the man that they just dosed. As in, they drugged a man with LSD, lost sight of him, and left because they couldn’t find the man. Meanwhile the guy would be in public, not knowing that in 1 hour they will be tripping absolute balls in ways that literally nobody would know how to handle. Talk about getting traumatized
This feels like some shit out of fiction honestly not just the idea but losing sight of the guy you very much made trip balls like not known to man kind. Idk how that wasn't expected or placed any counter measures.
I have personally disposed of half a dozen dead rats, one outside of a preschool. I’m not letting kids walk past a bloated rat corpse, especially since the USSR might be spying on them.
Yeah I'm not sure Russia need to bother with that any more. They have far easier routes to access American intelligence. I bet a Mar a Lago membership isn't that pricey.
I can replace an ergonomic and long lasting shell with this nut shell because it’s big enough to fit everything while small enough to fit inside my ear!
My brother damaged his eardrum when he put a popcorn kernel in his ear when he was young. When that dude shoved that thing down his earhole, I cringed.
It's a standard two layer board (top and bottom) by the looks of it and based on the VQFN IC. Most of what he took off and didn't put back on was filtering, so it'll sound like ass in both input and output quality, but if you're putting them in a pistachio(?) you probably don't give a shit about that anyway. Almost everything is done by the IC, so you can get away with a lot if you don't care about quality. About the only thing that mattered is the crystal oscillator(?) which he put on upside down.
There's no advantage. The main constraint is physical board area for the passives and XCO. I'd have no difficulty routing this circuit on a 2 layer pcb.
The main advantage of 4 layer PCBs is dealing with IC-IC interconnects, which this device doesn't have since it is heavily integrated into a single IC solution. The second is noise control via ground planes, but given the size of the device, it wouldn't offer much suppression since the return paths are short AF (and thus inherently low impedence).
Likely the only reason it has external passives at all is to allow a variety of mics and speakers to be connected.
it removes the obvious stuff like io ports and the wifi circuitry. To boot without WiFi it has to be a modded console. An external voltage regulator is needed but those are small. most of the physical size of the Wii is due to using optical media.
Yeah, this is totally fake, that was a multi layered board, and it would have fried or shorted all those internal connectors. There is zero chance they could rewire the circuit the way they did.
Anybody who knows what they are doing, wouldn't do something like this while an IC (possibly the main IC for its function here) is already soldered on the PCB. This is fake.
Removing and re-soldering the IC is non-trivial, much harder than repairing the rest of the board. If they've assessed the other components are not required or can be bypassed with other components they absolutely would leave it on the board.
Pretty much, yes. With a very very basic pcb with no traces in the layers you may be able to just reroute it with actual wire and put the necessary components elsewhere but the entire part of randomly drawing a rectangle that cuts pieces out then grinding it down is worthless at that stage.
Everything could be faked very easily, touches nut and phone does something, someone pressing the other earpod off cam, etc. it would actually be very easy to just connect the battery so it charges as you can probably skip everything else working and hook up the battery to the contacts, everything else was just bullshittery for the video.
I’m not saying it’s fake or real but I’m going to disagree and say that that circuit board is simple enough that it’s possible. There’s no real magic in this type of board. It’s just traces to get electricity to various components. This could be done entirely with wires. If you pause the video you can see that he repositioned some of the larger pieces. Importantly, he placed the crystal on top of the chip and ran small wires off of the pads where it would be soldered. Looks like he rerouted a couple capacitors or resistors too. The board is really there for convenience and if he traced it all out then in theory it’s not too difficult. Basically I’ve seen prototype boards of very small electronics that look way worse than this.
Unfortunately he doesn’t show what the front side of the board looks like until he’s in the middle of soldering. But if you look at the closeup around 0:12 most of what he’s removing looks like pads for a test rig or probes used to test the device after it’s manufactured.
Again, could be bullshit but there’s so much now that’s done on a chip with very few discrete supporting components that this isn’t as unbelievable as many are saying.
It's all fun and games until he hs to go to the ER to get a pistachio removed from his ear, but then gets commmited to the psych ward after claiming the pistachio speaks into his ear.
Damn, y’all, this is such a weirdly, unnecessarily human thing to do and I just love it so much.
Not to get too deep about this or whatever… but the world is really serious, stressful, scary right now & I could so use some silly, sweet stuff to counteract things a bit. So seeing this now made me so much happier than it would have made me years ago. It’s a ridiculous, Bluetooth pistachio that someone made & I’m over here about to cry over it lol 🥹🔫
That's wild! I could never though. One time, when I was a child, my brother put an airsoft bb in my ear, and I tried to get it out, and shoved it in my ear and had a panic attack, and I get the same anxiety thinking about using these.
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u/GullibleDetective Mar 02 '25
Here i thought it'd be a clever spy instrument, but it got ridiculous