How are we this stupid?
Republicans are in control
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Those are the same picture.
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3-4 decades of purposefully undermining public education
More like 5-7 decades… “anti-nerd” culture has been popular since about the 50’s
The last couple decades have really accelerated though, because the tendrils of capital leaching into everything and sucking people’s attention spans out of their fucking skulls so now children and adults alike can’t sit still and listen to anything for more than 10 minutes at a time.
I work with and manage teams of people and have for many years. It was never this bad. This isn’t localized to young people and the schooling situation, this is widespread across all layers of modern society. I have professionals I deal with who have the work skills and attention spans of teenagers with their first job, and this is just common now.
Of course people are tuned out and not paying attention to politics and policy, we can’t get people broadly to tune into the things that actually impact their immediate surroundings and life unless it’s a 3-minute vertical clip with subway surfers playing on the bottom half and a streamer reacting in the corner.
A large portion of people are stupid, it’s sad
Don’t be so harsh on yourself. You are most definitely not as stupid as US Republicans.
Why do you say “we?” I had no part in this bill, and you probably didn’t either.
Alabama State House. Not the U.S. House.
Alabama
Nothing of value was lost nor gained from this bill.
Should be easy for the airlines to comply with, since they don’t leave chemtrails, they leave contrails.
I don’t believe you. Begin firing on my signal.
I can’t wait to see the house subcommittee hearing where a bunch of old republicans, playing lip-service for their uneducated base, interrogate a Boeing exec about what’s coming out of the back of their planes, and the Boeing exec’s display board catches fire and explodes on the house floor.
That sounds like something someone with a degree in ozone would say!
You know what else leaves contrails? Politicians!
It sounds like they’re mixing “chemtrails” and “cloud seeding”. And they don’t understand either…
Eh. They’re also blaming flooding on cloud seeding based on bad anecdotes.
The camp mystic flood, that was a massive storm that dumped shitoads of rain in an area known to prone to flash flooding, all because a conservative commentator in ala-fucking-bama happened to be near camp mystic in Texas to see them seeding clouds… just before the flood started
Probably, I suspect, because they don’t want to admit that GOP policies in Texas are fucking people over. Like the lack of being connected to either national power grid, or in the case of camp mystic, a dore lacking of storm/flood management infrastructure. (Including warning systems.)
What the fuck!
I just read the article, and I think it’s completely misrepresenting the bill! From what I can see, the article is just inventing this link to the chemtrails conspiracy.
Does this bill ever mention the word “chemtrails” or “contrails”, at all?
From what I can tell, the bill is completely talking about cloud seeding, which is definitely its own thing. Cloud seeding is fraught enough, it’s a relatively complicated issue with very serious environmental impacts, it does not need to be mixed up chemtrails which are a bullshit conspiracy theory (the opposite of a serious issue).
Hey Alabama Political Reporter go find your journalistic integrity, I think you dropped it somewhere.
So we banned …water vapor. Well done, house committee.
So we banned …water vapor
No. A chemical compound, a substance, or an apparatus into the atmosphere within or above this state for the purpose of affecting the weather, including temperature, climate, and intensity of sunlight.
so… we banned clouds!
Di hydrogen monoxide fits the definition of a chemical…
No, they are banning water vapour. Read the article.
No, you read the article. Here’s the direct quote
Holley and others were speaking on House Bill 25 by State Representative Mack Butler, R-Rainbow City, which would create a Class B misdemeanor for the injection, release or dispersal of “a chemical, a chemical compound, a substance, or an apparatus into the atmosphere within or above this state for the purpose of affecting the weather, including temperature, climate, and intensity of sunlight.”
ICE is coming for your tea kettles!
Whoopee. Now the fucking fringers have become the mainstream.
The sad thing is that there is a huge amount that could be done for global warming with some basic legislation around contrails. Clouds that high in the atmosphere are quite bad in terms of greenhouse effect. By avoiding flying through areas that they’d be generated there’s a surprisingly large environmental benefit for minimal cost. A good explainer: https://youtu.be/QoOVqQ5sa08
Red State voters living in abject poverty: “Republicans is gittin important stuff done!”
10 Years After SCOTUS Gutted Voting Rights Act, Alabama Turnout Gap Is Worse
Apart from 2018, the white-Black turnout gap increased each year from 2012 through 2022. During last year’s election, the white-Black gap was 9 points — triple the size of the gap only a decade ago. Put differently, some 90,000 more Black voters would have participated in Alabama last year if Black turnout had reached parity with white turnout. The white-nonwhite turnout gap remained at 13 percentage points, the same as in 2020 — translating to roughly 150,000 ballots uncast by people of color.
The House needs a bill to prevent idiots from entering politics.
We, uh, could just fund secular public education.
And yeah, I’m kinda pissed I have to add “secular” to that.
I used to be all for religion as a way to give people’s lives meaning, then I realized that religion is just science denial.
God is dead, he died when humans started measuring shit, it’s time to stop parading around his corpse.
I don’t disagree, really.
But just a friendly reminder that secular and atheist are two different things.
Secularism is just a separation of religious affairs and government/state/public affairs.
All I’m saying by adding secular to public schools is that Christian charter schools shouldn’t be funded with public funds; and that creationism/intelligent design/other things of that sort should be key out of the classroom. (And abstinence-only shouldn’t be taught in sex ed for fucks sake.)
Indeed, we need to go with what the evidence says works.
These “Voucher Programs” for Christian Schools is a huge problem. I have a cousin who flunked out of public school and is now in a Christian Private School. His overly religious father and Church have completely ruined the boy’s perception of reality.
A big reason why he flunked public school is he’d refuse any assignment that acknowledged the big bang, existence of dinosaurs, existence of evolution, or the idea that the Earth is older than 6000 years.
So Science was a big no.
I’m geniunely worried the kid is going to end up trying to pray his way through life and fail to understand why it’s not working.
And for fuck’s sake, I’m with you on “Absitnence-Only” being a failure. Hell I remember my Sex-Ed, it wasn’t Absistence only, they told us about condoms and stuff… It’s just they kept using so many awkward euphemisms and beating around the bush, that when it was done I thought sex was when a guy peed in a girl’s butt.
Thank God porn exists, so I was able to figure out the real story.
And for fuck’s sake, I’m with you on “Absitnence-Only” being a failure. Hell I remember my Sex-Ed, it wasn’t Absistence only, they told us about condoms and stuff… It’s just they kept using so many awkward euphemisms and beating around the bush, that when it was done I thought sex was when a guy peed in a girl’s butt.
I find it deeply disturbing that the states with the highest level of teen pregnancies and STDs happens in the same states that do abstinence-only education. Additionally, education and free and easy access to condoms is the single best way to reduce abortions.
A big reason why he flunked public school is he’d refuse any assignment that acknowledged the big bang, existence of dinosaurs, existence of evolution, or the idea that the Earth is older than 6000 years.
Like… you could have a lot of fun with that. Chickens are dinosaurs (avians are technically extant theropoda dinosaurs.)
The problem with faith and believers in general. Be they believers in psychics, ghosts, aliens, Jesus, Xenu, etc.
Is that they have already decided what they want to be true and no evidence can convince them otherwise. Anyone who deals in the evidence must be either close-minded or naive at best or outright lying at worst.
Which is why scientists are either “Stuck believing the religion of Darwin and Scientism” or “On the payroll of big academia, silencing the truth about PSI and Nephilim!”
It doesn’t matter that the evidence says comprehensive sex education prevents abortions and STDs. The “truth” is that safe sex is evil and cannot be taught without encouraging children to have it, because the truth was invented by “liberal pedophiles” who want to turn your children trans.
This is why skeptics beat the believers everytime. Skeptics follow the evidence and believers do not.
It’s why MAGA will never turn on Trump, what Trump says is the “truth”, evidence was created by the Deep State.
It doesn’t matter that Trump is in the epstein files because Trump says he isn’t.
It doesn’t matter that Evolution is one of the most successful theories in biology, the pastor says it’s a “theory in crisis”
A common lie from believers is the idea that the institutions are “slowly turning to” whatever their idea is.
As a former New Age I used to hear that Academia was slowly giving up on Materialism… that a few stubborn higher ups were just too attached to their pet hypotheses. I didn’t realize it was a scam till I realized creationists were told that “Real Scientists” find Evolution a little sus.
It bans cloud seeding and geoengineering. Passing this off as a ‘ban on chemtrails’ is deliberately dishonest.
a Class B misdemeanor for the injection, release or dispersal of “a chemical, a chemical compound, a substance, or an apparatus into the atmosphere within or above this state for the purpose of affecting the weather, including temperature, climate, and intensity of sunlight.
So they’re going after the companies polluting the planet right… Right?
Presumably companies would be able to argue they aren’t pushing out pollutants with the intention to change the climate
Unfortunately “the purpose of a system is what it does” doesn’t count as a valid argument when the ones in charge of the system have more money than the courts :/
No it isn’t.
They claim the recent floods were because of chemtrails from planes seeding in the sky (those trails of water vapour you see behind planes, ), based on aluminium found on the ground (cloud seeding is done with silver iodide btw and is incredibly expensive).
Stop trying to downplay it.
So clouds are illegal?
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This is what the decline in education and humility gets you in America.
Oh, I get get it. The crazy weather that were experiencing is not global warming, it’s chemtrails. And caused by the government. 🙃
Please pass this bill, that’d be so hilarious, the US inadvertently closing it’s airspace semi permanently because they’re such dumbasses
Alabama not the US house. That headline needs a lot of context
Republicans will do literally anything to avoid actually governing.
