He made some errors and omissions.

• Syphilis: most of the people were simply never told they had it, but there were also people who were deliberately injected with it.
• Operation Northwoods: the plan was to make it seem like an airplane full of students was attacked, but in reality it'd be a drone. There was an advanced plan to have "students" (CIA agents) board the plane on film, which would be highly published, and then that plane would switch places with a drone above the ocean, such that you couldn't make it out from the radio signals, and then the drone would be attacked.
• Edward Snowden was an NSA contractor, but he wasn't employed by them.
• I believe the gun would create a condition that's practically indistinguishable from a heart attack, while it wouldn't actually be one.

Thank you for caring for the subs. My hope is that you good folks will co-mod them by do absolutely nothing other than dealing with spam and/or calling admins to swat the asstrolls. For anything else, here's the best advice I can think of: ask a trusted friend before you ever do anything.

That's definitely what I'm planning to do.

These are balancing goals for more fairness and democratic aspects of my Phoenix Forum idea. If it were up to me there's be no mods or subs, with better systems instead.

Cool, I'll look into it.

I wouldn't have gone looking if Brave were simply better on a few fronts that I can't even recall clearly now. One is that I want unlimited tabs in something more reliable than the outdated no longer supported glitchy Sidewise vertical tabs. To be honest, I'd rather someone combine tabs and bookmarks in a better organized interface.

I'm not sure if you'd even want tabs and bookmarks to be combined. You open a lot of tabs to explore content. If those are your bookmarks, or if tabs get bookmarked automatically somehow, you get a lot of noise in there. The point of bookmarks is that there's no noise because you've manually selected them. There is the question of how you want to organize your bookmarks, but that's something different. Before I give specific recommendations: how do you feel about Firefox and its forks? That's my area of expertise, and I can recommend a setup. I'd even recommend it above one of those lightweight GNU/Linux-only browsers, because only FF with addons is powerful enough to keep you organized with the number of tabs you keep open. So the GNU/Linux discussion becomes a separate one.

If I could afford it I'd already have Mint on a second box to begin migrating to. Once there I'd put Mint on the first one and figure out how to mirror myself across both. Much later on a 3rd portable would be nice, in case, though I have no where really to go with a laptop. Beyond the 2, more importantly I want to set up at least one home indie-server for PeerTube, wiki, federating, IPFS, etc.

The easiest way to start using GNU/Linux is to get / dedicate a secondary SSD or HDD to it. You install a distro to it, make sure the bootloader is on that disk, and keep everything about your main OS intact. It's a good idea to have backups, in case you accidentally install it to the wrong OS and delete all your data. But it's a matter of paying attention during the process. And not picking a dumb distro that insists on deleting your data, or not being clear that it's going to do that. I recommend Trisquel. But anyway, it's good to have backups regardless of everything. Once you have everything installed, you should be able to choose what disk you want to boot from during startup, by pressing a button like F9. That way you can switch between OSes. Is this setup doable for you?

Did the neighbour ever buy your TV, by the way?