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OhStopYellingAtMe lemmy.world OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world
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#102 · Quote Reply

How are we this stupid?

Why do you say “we?” I had no part in this bill, and you probably didn’t either.

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UnderpantsWeevil lemmy.world UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-14
#103 · Quote Reply

Red State voters living in abject poverty: "Republicans is gittin important stuff done!"

10 Years After SCOTUS Gutted Voting Rights Act, Alabama Turnout Gap Is Worse

Apart from 2018, the white-Black turnout gap increased each year from 2012 through 2022. During last year’s election, the white-Black gap was 9 points — triple the size of the gap only a decade ago. Put differently, some 90,000 more Black voters would have participated in Alabama last year if Black turnout had reached parity with white turnout. The white-nonwhite turnout gap remained at 13 percentage points, the same as in 2020 — translating to roughly 150,000 ballots uncast by people of color.

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COASTER1921 lemmy.ml COASTER1921@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-10-05
#104 · Quote Reply

The sad thing is that there is a huge amount that could be done for global warming with some basic legislation around contrails. Clouds that high in the atmosphere are quite bad in terms of greenhouse effect. By avoiding flying through areas that they'd be generated there's a surprisingly large environmental benefit for minimal cost. A good explainer: https://youtu.be/QoOVqQ5sa08

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bss03 infosec.pub bss03@infosec.pub
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#105 · Quote Reply

Google calculated that planes could avoid the air conditions that cause vapor trails, but it would cost around 2% extra fuel. That means it's a hard no from any airline.

Two airlines are pursuing lower-contrail-generation routes, currently. The fuel cost is much lower than you claim. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoOVqQ5sa08

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QueenHawlSera sh.itjust.works QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-06-05
#106 · Quote Reply

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Is that they have already decided what they want to be true and no evidence can convince them otherwise. Anyone who deals in the evidence must be either close-minded or naive at best or outright lying at worst.

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It doesn't matter that the evidence says comprehensive sex education prevents abortions and STDs. The "truth" is that safe sex is evil and cannot be taught without encouraging children to have it, because the truth was invented by "liberal pedophiles" who want to turn your children trans.

This is why skeptics beat the believers everytime. Skeptics follow the evidence and believers do not.

It's why MAGA will never turn on Trump, what Trump says is the "truth", evidence was created by the Deep State.

It doesn't matter that Trump is in the epstein files because Trump says he isn't.

It doesn't matter that Evolution is one of the most successful theories in biology, the pastor says it's a "theory in crisis"

A common lie from believers is the idea that the institutions are "slowly turning to" whatever their idea is.

As a former New Age I used to hear that Academia was slowly giving up on Materialism.. that a few stubborn higher ups were just too attached to their pet hypotheses. I didn't realize it was a scam till I realized creationists were told that "Real Scientists" find Evolution a little sus.

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𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘 infosec.pub 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub
Joined: 2023-06-04
#107 · Quote Reply

Why ban them? What's in them?

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nomecks lemmy.wtf nomecks@lemmy.wtf
Joined: 2025-01-05
#108 · Quote Reply

Two airlines are pursuing lower-contrail-generation routes, currently. The fuel cost is much lower than you claim. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoOVqQ5sa08

Glad to hear it!

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goferking (he/him) lemmy.sdf.org goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org
Joined: 2023-08-03
#109 · Quote Reply

With all the conspiracy theories proven true lately I Am perfectly ready to believe that the chemtrails are some evil plot, but can we at least like test them first?

Basic physics is not a conspiracy. Jfc hot air into cold air condenses into a cloud just like what happens when breathing out in cold weather.

I kind of get those in places that are always warm not getting it but I've had to explain it so many times to people who grow up in places where ice and snow are normal in winter

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goferking (he/him) lemmy.sdf.org goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org
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#110 · Quote Reply

How do you think the conspiracy nuts will react if this bill becomes law and then there are just as many contrails in the sky as before?

Considering how stupid those who want this are, they'll just go oh see, they stopped doing chemicals in the trails now!. Or 50/50 chance want all jet planes banned 🤷

Accurate representation of those wanting this

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Pirat lemmy.org Pirat@lemmy.org
Joined: 2026-02-18
#111 · Quote Reply

The sad thing is that there is a huge amount that could be done for global warming with some basic legislation around contrails. Clouds that high in the atmosphere are quite bad in terms of greenhouse effect. By avoiding flying through areas that they'd be generated there's a surprisingly large environmental benefit for minimal cost. A good explainer: https://youtu.be/QoOVqQ5sa08

I never thought it about as a green house thing before though I do remember reading an article many years ago that contrails do contribute when they spread out into cirrostratus clouds.

I was a meteorologist in the Air Force and did make forecasts telling pilots at what levels to fly to avoid making contrails since having a long silver line pointing to your exact location makes sneak attacks a little difficult. Perhaps commercial airlines should make use of that information. It's usually just a few thousand foot difference. Fly a little higher or lower and problem solved.

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Pirat lemmy.org Pirat@lemmy.org
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#112 · Quote Reply

So clouds are illegal?

Well, it's impossible to ban natural clouds but planes could avoid making contrails by just not flying in the zone where their exhaust would cause them. Source: I was a weatherman in the Air Force and would tell military pilots where to fly to not have a shiny line pointing to their exact location if such information could be a concern.

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billwashere lemmy.world billwashere@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-12
#113 · Quote Reply

Well, it's impossible to ban natural clouds but planes could avoid making contrails by just not flying in the zone where their exhaust would cause them. Source: I was a weatherman in the Air Force and would tell military pilots where to fly to not have a shiny line pointing to their exact location if such information could be a concern.

Well that could be problematic.

So I’m curious now… what conditions cause the contrails? Certain temps, humidity, wind speed? I would think very humid cold air but that’s just a guess.

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Rimu piefed.social rimu@piefed.social
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#114 · Quote Reply

Considering how stupid those who want this are, they'll just go oh see, they stopped doing chemicals in the trails now!. Or 50/50 chance want all jet planes banned 🤷 Accurate representation of those wanting this

Sadly they'll just think it's the federal govt doing the spraying that's why they ignore state laws.

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scarabic lemmy.world scarabic@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-12
#115 · Quote Reply

This isn't someone guessing, man. He's citing research on the topic. Essentially, these clouds are 50% opacity to visible light, but nearly 100% in infrared. So they block some incoming light, but reflect almost all infrared from the surface. It's a net warming effect at these altitudes.

Oh….. dear.

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scarabic lemmy.world scarabic@lemmy.world
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#116 · (edited) Quote Reply

Contrails are mostly water vapour that's condensed due to the hot exhaust of airplane engines. They are certainly not completely avoidable, they are likely inescapable without sacrificing significant fuel efficiencies (eg: all methods stealth fighters use to suppress or mask their exhaust heat signature).. which would negate any benefits to global warming. P. s. I'm not going to watch a YouTube...

It’s a 2:35 short , btw. Quite dense and to the point. And one of the points is that you’re wrong about it not offsetting the extra fuel to avoid contrail zones.

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scarabic lemmy.world scarabic@lemmy.world
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#117 · Quote Reply

Maybe we shouldn’t have to SMASH THAT LIKE BUTTON to have a discussion on the internet, or sit through an ad read for Brilliant or whatever

Do we seriously have to listen to people air their gripes about internet video anytime a link is shared? Jesus Christ.

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stupidcasey lemmy.world stupidcasey@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-20
#118 · (edited) Quote Reply

Basic physics is not a conspiracy. Jfc hot air into cold air condenses into a cloud just like what happens when breathing out in cold weather. I kind of get those in places that are always warm not getting it but I've had to explain it so many times to people who grow up in places where ice and snow are normal in winter

Ok, so the trails would happen anyway that doesn't mean they aren't also carrying chemicals.

look, I don't believe it all I'm saying is it's not insane and with the Epstein files and panama papers and Snowden leaks, I'm now of the opinion Evil super villain plots are real and happen all the time.

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scarabic lemmy.world scarabic@lemmy.world
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#119 · Quote Reply

I've got no interest in watching even 2.5 minute YouTube videos when I can read the text of the same content in 45 seconds. Instructional videos can be great and valuable, but that's not what we're talking about here. There are a wealth of crap pop science videos on YouTube that misrepresent studies. The study is interesting, but it's a feasibility study data utilizing a theoretical models - th...

You have remarkable audacity for continuing to argue the point while also boasting about how you’ll ignore any information that isn’t spoon fed to you in your format of choice. Sooner or later, you’re going to miss something that way and make an ass of yourself, if that didn’t already just happen in front of our eyes.

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scarabic lemmy.world scarabic@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-12
#120 · (edited) Quote Reply

By simply re-routing planes around these cold patches, the contrails could be reduced. And routes now are generally chosen to be the most fuel-efficient, subject to regulatory constraints such as avoiding overflight of areas of high population density. So any alternate path will be longer and burn more fuel.

As said in the video everyone refused to watch, it doesn’t require all new routes but occasional 1-2% course deviations or altitude changes for a minority of flights. It’s also claimed that contrails have far, far more warming effect than any additional carbon that might be emitted by this. But hey, he posted it in a video so FUCK HIM, RITE?

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YiddishMcSquidish lemmy.today YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today
Joined: 2025-03-10
#121 · Quote Reply

Why ban them? What's in them?

cHeMiCaLss5ss!

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goferking (he/him) lemmy.sdf.org goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org
Joined: 2023-08-03
#122 · Quote Reply

Ok, so the trails would happen anyway that doesn't mean they aren't also carrying chemicals. look, I don't believe it all I'm saying is it's not insane and with the Epstein files and panama papers and Snowden leaks, I'm now of the opinion Evil super villain plots are real and happen all the time.

Planes don't carry any extra weight as that kills range and fuel efficiency. So no they wouldn't be carrying anything unnecessary

I'm now of the opinion Evil super villain plots are real and happen all the time.

But it's not, it's more level of the earth is flat or we didn't land on the moon

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stupidcasey lemmy.world stupidcasey@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-20
#123 · Quote Reply

Planes don't carry any extra weight as that kills range and fuel efficiency. So no they wouldn't be carrying anything unnecessary I'm now of the opinion Evil super villain plots are real and happen all the time. But it's not, it's more level of the earth is flat or we didn't land on the moon

The chemicals could easily be mixed in with the fuel All it would require is a doped fule source maby a couple chemists and a few laborers and the couple of oil oligarchs / governments who did it, the world is flooded with bad chemicals they could have came from the plains and nobody would know the difference.

Who's to say it doesn't help the fuel? Lead did in leaded gasoline, there's a cover up that was real, far bigger and more deadly than chemtrails.

Once again, I don't believe it but it's not crazy.

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pulsewidth lemmy.world pulsewidth@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-01-29
#124 · Quote Reply

You have remarkable audacity for continuing to argue the point while also boasting about how you’ll ignore any information that isn’t spoon fed to you in your format of choice. Sooner or later, you’re going to miss something that way and make an ass of yourself, if that didn’t already just happen in front of our eyes.

God forbid I actually read sources, and prefer reading to taking heads on a video platform that is designed to waste people's time in endless content crawls.

You call me audacious yet here you are stepping into a discussion to try your best to belittle and chastise an internet stranger with a different opinion.

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Pirat lemmy.org Pirat@lemmy.org
Joined: 2026-02-18
#125 · Quote Reply

Well that could be problematic. So I’m curious now… what conditions cause the contrails? Certain temps, humidity, wind speed? I would think very humid cold air but that’s just a guess.

In answer to your question: yes. Humid cold pure air. By pure, I mean no contaminates until the hyrdrocarbons from the jet fuel are emitted into that pure, moist air. To form a droplet, a nucleus is needed. The hydrocarbons of the jet engine exhaust provide that nuclueus.

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scarabic lemmy.world scarabic@lemmy.world
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#126 · (edited) Quote Reply

God forbid I actually read sources, and prefer reading to taking heads on a video platform that is designed to waste people's time in endless content crawls. You call me audacious yet here you are stepping into a discussion to try your best to belittle and chastise an internet stranger with a different opinion.

I went to college for English Lit so please don’t lecture me on the virtues of reading. God forbid you stoop to get all the information you can. You are acting like an ass and I’m letting you know. I didn’t get up this morning to chastise you.

If there’s any doubt in your mind what you did:

1: “this video says you’re wrong”
2: “well I don’t watch videos dahling.” (flips hair, draws on cigarette)

See we’re not strangers anymore. You’re that fucking guy who did that fucking thing.

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toynbee lemmy.world toynbee@lemmy.world
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#127 · Quote Reply

Should be easy for the airlines to comply with, since they don't leave chemtrails, they leave contrails.

That sounds like something someone with a degree in ozone would say!

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lechekaflan lemmy.world lechekaflan@lemmy.world
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#128 · (edited) Quote Reply

Whoopee. Now the fucking fringers have become the mainstream.

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kurmudgeon lemmy.world kurmudgeon@lemmy.world
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#129 · Quote Reply

This is what the decline in education and humility gets you in America.

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Phoenixz lemmy.ca phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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#130 · Quote Reply

Please pass this bill, that'd be so hilarious, the US inadvertently closing it's airspace semi permanently because they're such dumbasses

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carpelbridgesyndrome sh.itjust.works carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works
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#131 · Quote Reply

Please pass this bill, that'd be so hilarious, the US inadvertently closing it's airspace semi permanently because they're such dumbasses

Alabama not the US house. That headline needs a lot of context

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Lemminary lemmy.world Lemminary@lemmy.world
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#132 · Quote Reply

cHeMiCaLss5ss!

And the 5Gs

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Wispy2891 lemmy.world Wispy2891@lemmy.world
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#133 · Quote Reply

The chemtrails aren't a thing, but in the legislators small mind, who would be behind them? Are they actually thinking that there's some private individual that is spending billions building a secret massive network of bribed pilots and bribed mechanics that are spraying such chemicals to change the weather or influence the people in some ways?

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kreskin lemmy.world kreskin@lemmy.world
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#134 · Quote Reply

So we banned ...water vapor. Well done, house committee.

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pulsewidth lemmy.world pulsewidth@lemmy.world
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#135 · Quote Reply

I went to college for English Lit so please don’t lecture me on the virtues of reading. God forbid you stoop to get all the information you can. You are acting like an ass and I’m letting you know. I didn’t get up this morning to chastise you. If there’s any doubt in your mind what you did: 1: “this video says you’re wrong” 2: “well I don’t watch videos dahling.” (flips hair, draws on cigarette...

I gave MY preferences for reading, note the use of the phrase "I prefer". I did not extoll the virtues of reading. It's a shame your English Lit exposure in college didn't extend to education on logical fallacies, because you use them a lot.

1: “this video says you’re wrong” 2: “well I don’t watch videos dahling.” (flips hair, draws on cigarette)

1: User actually said "contrails are completely avoidable". 2: I said that's factually untrue. My disdain for a youtube link on a comment thread discussion was literally my post scriptum.

You have a massive chip on your shoulder about people who don't want to watch videos for science news, that's clear - but I don't care to hear any more about it. Maybe take a breath and reflect on context. We're in the comments section on a 'nottheonion' news post about goddamn JFK banning chemtrails because he thinks DARPA is secretly impregnating them with experimetnal chemicals. Y'know.. wackadoo shit.

Have a great weekend & life, I will no longer respond.

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Telex sopuli.xyz XTL@sopuli.xyz
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#136 · Quote Reply

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Those are the same picture.

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Telex sopuli.xyz XTL@sopuli.xyz
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#137 · Quote Reply

And happy trails.

And entrails.

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Telex sopuli.xyz XTL@sopuli.xyz
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#138 · Quote Reply

Do we seriously have to listen to people air their gripes about internet video anytime a link is shared? Jesus Christ.

If YouTube links were banned, we wouldn't.

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scarabic lemmy.world scarabic@lemmy.world
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#139 · Quote Reply

If YouTube links were banned, we wouldn't.

Well since they’re not, maybe you should deal with them.

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RamRabbit lemmy.world RamRabbit@lemmy.world
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#140 · (edited) Quote Reply

It bans cloud seeding and geoengineering. Passing this off as a 'ban on chemtrails' is deliberately dishonest.

a Class B misdemeanor for the injection, release or dispersal of “a chemical, a chemical compound, a substance, or an apparatus into the atmosphere within or above this state for the purpose of affecting the weather, including temperature, climate, and intensity of sunlight.

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NihilsineNefas slrpnk.net NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net
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#141 · (edited) Quote Reply

It bans cloud seeding and geoengineering. Passing this off as a 'ban on chemtrails' is deliberately dishonest. a Class B misdemeanor for the injection, release or dispersal of “a chemical, a chemical compound, a substance, or an apparatus into the atmosphere within or above this state for the purpose of affecting the weather, including temperature, climate, and intensity of sunlight.

So they're going after the companies polluting the planet right... Right?

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SaveTheTuaHawk lemmy.ca SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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#142 · Quote Reply

So we banned ...water vapor. Well done, house committee.

ICE is coming for your tea kettles!

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SaveTheTuaHawk lemmy.ca SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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#143 · (edited) Quote Reply

Why ban them? What's in them?

ice crystals. They can give you brain freeze.

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SaveTheTuaHawk lemmy.ca SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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#144 · Quote Reply

In reply to an earlier post

nah, Sheila Jackson Lee, Democrat, member of the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics of the House, asked if the Mars rover took a pic of the flag planted by Neil Armstrong.

Fucking idiots are bipartisan. Heart warming.

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brucethemoose lemmy.world brucethemoose@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-03-22
#145 · (edited) Quote Reply

The chemtrails aren't a thing, but in the legislators small mind, who would be behind them? Are they actually thinking that there's some private individual that is spending billions building a secret massive network of bribed pilots and bribed mechanics that are spraying such chemicals to change the weather or influence the people in some ways?

Are they actually thinking that there’s some private individual that is spending billions building a secret massive network of bribed pilots and bribed mechanics that are spraying such chemicals to change the weather or influence the people in some ways?

I mean, that’s basically what the petrochemical industry has done.

Not to influence people chemically, but to keep business up.

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ebolapie lemmy.world ebolapie@lemmy.world
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#146 · Quote Reply

nah, Sheila Jackson Lee, Democrat, member of the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics of the House, asked if the Mars rover took a pic of the flag planted by Neil Armstrong. Fucking idiots are bipartisan. Heart warming.

Not making me feel better about the timeline

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Zangoose lemmy.world Zangoose@lemmy.world
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#147 · Quote Reply

So they're going after the companies polluting the planet right... Right?

Presumably companies would be able to argue they aren't pushing out pollutants with the intention to change the climate

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zephiriz lemmy.ml zephiriz@lemmy.ml
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#148 · Quote Reply

Come on guys you all know."Atheist are using unicorn's to spread chemtrails to kill off all the Angeles in heaven."

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Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In lemmy.world Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-18
#149 · Quote Reply

So we banned ...water vapor. Well done, house committee.

So we banned ...water vapor

No. A chemical compound, a substance, or an apparatus into the atmosphere within or above this state for the purpose of affecting the weather, including temperature, climate, and intensity of sunlight.

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Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In lemmy.world Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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#150 · Quote Reply

The chemtrails aren't a thing, but in the legislators small mind, who would be behind them? Are they actually thinking that there's some private individual that is spending billions building a secret massive network of bribed pilots and bribed mechanics that are spraying such chemicals to change the weather or influence the people in some ways?

chemtrails aren't a thing

Crop dusting is common.

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Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In lemmy.world Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-18
#151 · Quote Reply

Why ban them? What's in them?

A chemical compound or a substance, for the purpose of affecting the weather, including temperature, climate, and intensity of sunlight.

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