• CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldOP
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      People will go to extraordinary ends to justify their habits, it seems. I find it curious that people convince themselves that other creatures don’t process pain like humans do. Then, once it is evident that they do, the efforts to find other ways to still kill and eat them will commence. Versus you know, maybe not killing and eating them?

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    There are chemicals in chemtrails.

    Most of what you see in a chemtrail is hydrogen hydroxide. (CAS 7732-18-5)

    Hydrogen Hydroxide is a solvent that will dissolve a great many things, including some rocks. It causes corrosion, especially when mixed with sodium chloride. (CAS 7647-14-5) Gaseous HH will cause disfuguring burns upon skin contact. HH has been found in tumors, and brain worms. It’s used as a coolant in industrial applications. Breathing hydrogen hydroxide can cause death.

    I think if you’re worried about chemtrails, you should avoid all exposure to hydrogen hydroxide for the forseeable future.

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    Did we get the final results on what causes Autism? Shouldn’t he finish that conspiracy theory before moving onto chemtrails, or did he just move on when it turned out that thing he heard on facebook that one time wasn’t really the cause?

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    Chem-trails are like space-lasers, they’re so stupid, they wouldn’t even work if they were real.

    If you’ve ever noticed that industrial buildings use tall smoke stacks, you know why. It’s because that smoke dispersed into the atmosphere @ 50m will be diluted to safe(er/ish) levels by the time it reaches ground level.

    Now if you’re trying to release a pathogen or a drug, doing so at 19,000m is the kind of stupid that wears a helmet to watch TV.

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    It’s so insane that so much crazy shit is coming from this administration that this was last week and it seems to be barely covered.

    This guy references Alex Jones level stuff, and he’s the HHS Secretary.

    I mean…what even the fuck is happening.

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      I mean…what even the fuck is happening.

      Americans chose one of the most visibly immoral, inept and ignorant person to be president TWICE

      All of this was visible 16 km away (10 miles), the biggest concession I can grant here is the disbelief it could actually happen

      But happen it did, in the same way the UK shot itself in the foot with Brexit, the USA did even worse and ate the poisonous mushroom. I honestly can’t see a way this does not end in WWIII and/or the brake up of the USA

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      I mean…what even the fuck is happening.

      Chemical combustion?

      How many US states have banned water vapor?

      And is the earth really a sphere? really?

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      If you think about it, the best way to stop a momentous beast isn’t to focus on the momentum, it’s to focus on the head and where it’s going and then the momentum fizzles out on its own. Republican mantra has always been to make government as ineffective as possible so they can look at government and correctly assess that it’s ineffective. Previously they worked to starve departments of resources, and they’ve already done that to the extent that it wasn’t even legal. New strategy in Trump and beyond is just to appoint clowns and make the world’s biggest clown show in each of their respective agencies. The anti-government shit writes itself when you’ve got the likes of Malory McMorrow saying, “Medicare for all means someone like Trump would control it, do you really want that?”

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        You are still clinging to the idea that there is a plan here and it is not just a display on how mediocrity took over

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          mediocrity took over

          Even mediocrity from the cons, while not great, would at least be a lot better than this.

          These people all seem to be some of the most maliciously stupid and/or unqualified that they could find. If they have any capability, it’s put to the task of carrying out evil: shitheel psychopaths like Vought and Miller as a for-instance.

          When they don’t even have any capability they end up like Brainwormz here. A guy who is supposed to be looking out for health who looks and sounds terrible, has strange hobbies (dead whale heads, anyone? How about a bear carcass?) and even stranger beliefs - who needs that germ theory of disease, amirite - and says absolutely crazy shit - he can spot mitochondrial damage, talks about the “vaccine injured”, yells at reporter that she is not a scientist when he obviously has net negative credentials, and blurts out shit about chemtrails.

          At least someone who was mediocre would probably tend to just agree with experts, vs. think they know better.

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            These people all seem to be some of the most maliciously stupid and/or unqualified that they could find

            In my life, I have found that, the more ignorant someone is, the deeper their malice can get. We should really live in a society where being ignorant is as shameful as pooping your pants in public

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              I would think an awful lot would change if the business model around most media (news, movies, TV) were different.

              But, as it is, I think most media really tip-toes around things that may make the ignorant uncomfortable, since they want to sell soap and boner pills to those people as well. Zeus forbid those people were to be told their beliefs were wrong.

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      I put things like this in the same category as renaming Lake Ontario and the Gulf of Mexico, something absurd to keep the attention off the real harm being done. Even if they made a declaration that planes are all dumping stuff to turn the frogs gay or whatever tommorow, the burocratic effort to do anything with it would take well beyond any of these loon’s tenure and then be dumped directly after.

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    While I do not believe in chemtrails as an intended way to controle the population in some insane conspiratorial way, I do think that planes are causing an understated amount of chemical pollution besides the well known CO2 problem, namely in PFAS. Poly fluorocarbons are especially well suited to be used in planes, because they can withstand high and low temperatures, and extremely corrosive resistant and useful in chemically stressful conditions. They have been used extensively in tubing and as lubricant, and this is well documented and not hidden because for a long time we didn’t know PFAS was as bad for your health as it turns out to be. Quick found source: pfas needed for planes

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      Your problem is that RFK LOVES pollution so all you’re doing by saying “well fossil fuels are pollutants” is giving them a smokescreen.

      That’s also not what “chemtrails” supposedly are nor how the real pollutants act.

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    Reminder that “”“chemtrails”“” behind planes in the sky are water condensation trails (also called contrails) which forms due to the air pressure drop over the top of the wing. It is the same phenomenon as the small cloud produced by the pressure drop when quickly opening a can of a carbonated beverage

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    Santa brought it early! But it was Idiocracy that he brought upon us, for shame. This is hundreds of years ahead of the prophecy.

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    Once you give up on the principle of evidence-based reasoning, everything is on the table. You can speculate about whatever insane bullshit you want and it doesn’t have to make sense.

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    Next he’ll be looking into contamination at that pizzagate contamination.

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    Holy shit I can’t believe our tax dollars are going towards this. I also can’t believe the government is lending credence to sub nonsense although I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised.