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[–] [email protected] 24 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

… this article is kinda shit.

Says 8 states but doesn’t tell you which ones, just that Tennessee and Florida are 2 of them.

Says 8, tells us 2.

WHO ELSE AM I SUPPOSED TO POINT AT AND LAUGH???

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Next:they want to outlaw the moon.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

We live in a post-reality political climate.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Conservatism was never a part of reality. The Dems just decided to join them in lala-land, and apparently the voters too...

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 17 hours ago

All forms of condensation must be exterminated!

Anyway, the reason they want to push bullshit laws is that bullshit laws can be used to punished whomever they like precisely because they are not founded in reality.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago (12 children)

Planes issue horrible chemicals that cause all kinds of issues. Carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides, etc.

My understanding is that these bills would make that illegal. That's good.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 18 hours ago

If it wasn't so sad it'd be hilarious that all these states are banning imaginary ways to control the weather while at the same time gutting the EPA and air population controls, so real ways to influence the weather.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

or even control the weather for nefarious motives.

Actually, contrails do have a slight climate impact. Not controlled of course.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Don't they slightly increase rain and slightly decrease UV? The particulate in the exhaust acts as nucleation sites for water droplets and crystals.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

They're referring to the fact that dihydrogen monoxide is a GHG

[–] [email protected] 13 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago

Is this the new South Park season?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 23 hours ago

Stop fucking flying so much then. You could always put those planes on the ground, on tracks. Imagine that.

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