• aeronmelon@lemmy.world
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      21 hours ago

      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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        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.

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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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      @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.

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        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

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          @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.

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            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.