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'Chemtrails,' cloud seeding would be banned under bill passed by Florida Senate
(www.tallahassee.com)
this post was submitted on 04 Apr 2025
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In 1996 a cropduster was an American hero. Thirty years later, he’d be arrested for terrorism just doing his job.
We learned a lot from the green revolution.
We should be arresting people for spraying chemicals that cause health issues in farm workers.
Condensation trails are not caused by spraying harmful chemicals.
Bro, that's like middle school science
Any middle school subject can be a high school subject if enough people fail at grasping the basics.
Sometimes it can even be a college course. I remember my first year in uni our TA had to explain how long division and unit conversion worked and I was like how tf y'all got into engineering school without basic middle school mathematics knowledge.
I was prepared for it to be lib arts or humanities, not engineering
I mean I live in country with a kinda failed education system.
It doesn't surprise me for college level students to not know it, but for college students in a math heavy field to not know it. Both in terms of how do they pass an entrance exam for that program, as well as how does someone that is bad in a subject decide that is the career they want?
Entrance exams aren't actually that common here but they do exist admission is mostly based on GPA and final grades in highschool. What amazes me isn't the lack of basic knowledge (in such an education system) or getting accepted, but rather the decision to choose this professional/academic path when you lack the interest in it.
People are actually uninterested and treating college as if they're prisoners here. I know some people are only thinking about the potentially higher income in these fields or the social status (engineers and doctors are thought of highly in some countries). A not insignificant amount of students here are forced to study what their parents have chosen for them. I believe we have a corrupt system in all areas (political, social, educational) and the economical situation isn't helping.
Usually these kids in my opinion don't realise that they need to change something till very late in there lives. This matter isn't a problem but rather a symptom of bigger problems here.
P.S: I'm very sorry for the long rant I got kinda carried away lol.
@MelodiousFunk @dantheclamman I didn't learn about chemtrails in high school contrary to all the sarcastic comments i see every time this comes up.'
I used to hear people talking about chemtrails and i'd have to picture what they're saying. Then one day when I was an adult someone online showed a picture of a "chemtrail" and I laughed for a solid 30 seconds straight.
Such an innocuous thing. I googled what caused it and it made perfect sense and I stopped caring even a little about chemtrails.
It’s not that you specifically learned about chem trails, I doubt anyone did. It’s that your high school science class taught critical thinking and how to properly evaluate evidence instead of just taking everything you hear as fact
That’s why you were about to see the picture of “chemtrails” later, laugh it off, find (and trust) the science based explanation with data behind it, and ignore the paranoia
@mysteriousquote 100%
I grew up in the desert in Cali near an airport. I'm not like a plane expert but I'm certainly just comfortable around them and what they look like in the sky. The idea that the trailing clouds would terrify someone just tickles me pink.
I agree with you and have very little to contribute to this conversation, but "tickles me pink" makes me think of my mother, whom I miss dearly. Sincerely, thank you for reminding me of some of the conversations I shared with her.