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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.

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        Any middle school subject can be a high school subject if enough people fail at grasping the basics.

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          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.

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    Thing that doesn’t happen is now illegal, got it. Glad to see Florida tackling the big problems facing its citizens.

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      I want them to pass this.

      It would be interesting how they would enforce it.

      Would they ban all planes? Or maybe just ignore the law? Or maybe start saying “these are not chemtrails, these are contrails, those are ok”.

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    “I have a problem with people spraying perfume around me sometimes, don’t you have a problem with people spraying things into the atmosphere that really have no type of empirical data, that you just don’t know who they are or what they’re doing?” said Sen. Ileana Garcia, R-Coral Gables, the bill’s sponsor, on Thursday morning.

    Suddenly no longer a climate change denier.

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      The difference being we do know who they are and why they’re doing it, it’s just our leaders aren’t doing enough to stop them because of “The Economy”.

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    See’s man made cloud due to the action of cold metal ripping through the sky “ZOMG ITS TEH LIBS POISONING MY AIR” jumps in vehicle modified to spew toxic pitch black clouds at the push of a button and drunkenly crashes into the preschool “THIS AIN’T MY FAULT!”

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    Alternatively phrased: Florida proposes ban on planes from flying in or over it.

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      That would be some incredible malicious compliance. “We couldn’t make sure our planes didn’t leave ‘chem trails,’ so we just don’t fly to your state anymore.”

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      Cloud seeding is different than contrails. Think 99% of the people in this thread are confusing the two and making ignorant statements. They’re banning the former, not the latter.

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        Either you’re over-estimating the intelligence of the politicians that did this, or underestimating the stupidity of the people who are for the bill. I’m not sure yet which it is.

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          I mean, read the bill yourself. It’s banning cloud seeding. The politicians just lied and made it sound like the bill is going after conspiratorial chemtrails. It’s almost as if no one has read the fucking article with how much disagreement I’ve gotten.

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            Bro, the article says it’s phrased as cloud seeding and that they want to “debunk” chemtrails, but read the rest of the article about how it’s being presented by De Santis and others. The bill is also being sold for the electorate that believes this will ban chemtrails.

            You’re not levitating above the rest of us with your big brain.

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        They’re banning the former thinking they are banning the latter, THAT is the main issue here.

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          Right, but read the whole thread and there are tons who think that the people who crafted the bill also think that. Only a couple of the politicians are going down the chemtrail route and marketing it that way, which is why the bill itself is literally written to talk about geoengineering and cloud seeding and not fucking chemtrails.

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    Everyday I think I’ve heard the stupidest thing come out of the US, and they somehow trump it the very next day. Remarkable.

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    I think this is a really shitty bill, but not for the reasons people are assuming. The actual wording is against cloud seeding, but DeSantis is trying to win over his crazies by implying it’s for “chemtrails.” We’re kind of falling for it too here.

    “Geoengineering and Weather Modification Activities” (SB 56), prohibits the injection, release, or dispersion of a chemical, a chemical compound, a substance or an apparatus into the atmosphere in Florida to affect the temperature, weather, climate or intensity of sunlight. It was OK’d 28–9.

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      prohibits the injection, release, or dispersion of a chemical, a chemical compound, a substance or an apparatus into the atmosphere in Florida to affect the temperature, weather, climate or intensity of sunlight.

      Huh, this makes the internal combustion engine illegal.

      Water is a chemical. Complete combustion of a hydrocarbon produces water, water when dispersed into the atmosphere creates clouds. Clouds affect the temperature, weather, climate and intensity of sunlight. QED any burning of hydrocarbons is illegal.

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    Jesus fucking Christ Almighty Lord above these people are fucking dumber than god damn bricks.

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    you might as well go right out and say that having an education higher than a 5th grader should also be banned.

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    Republic of Gators, Delusion and Freedom, where they’ve persecuted immigrants so hard they’re “easing” their child labor laws.