Tennessee Senate passes bill based on 'chemtrails' conspiracy theory: What to know
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  • LovingHippieCat@lemmy.world
    1·
    6 months ago

    Fucking Chemtrails. I have MS and one of the times I was in a physical rehabilitation clinic, relearning how to walk, I had a nurse who believed in chemtrails. She asked if I realized that my MS was caused by chemtrails. I was taken aback. I was actively playing civ with a friend who heard my side of the conversation. After she said that, I had a short conversation with her about how chemtrails aren’t real. She said “Well I guess all those congressional hearings I watched were fake.” To which I said that we are never going to agree on this and it’s better to just stop talking so we don’t have an argument. She basically agreed and thankfully she was gone by the time I needed my MS meds that evening. Chemtrails are BS and yet so many people believe they’re real, even in professions that should understand they’re not real, that it is genuinely depressing.

      • SacralPlexus@lemmy.world
        3·
        6 months ago

        M.D. here and I feel like I should defend myself but all I can think of was this highly trained doc who fought the hospital administration about having to wear masks, in the hospital, during peak Covid. I mean he was actually one of many but what made him stand out was that his wife was in our ICU. With Covid. Yes he continued to fight masking even as his own wife was near death in the ICU.

        So, yeah.

        • bluemellophone@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          6 months ago

          Well he can just fuck right off

          …like, out of the hospital

          …preferably out of his profession entirely, if possible

        • BleatingZombie@lemmy.world
          01·
          6 months ago

          I hear stories like this and it’s hard for me to accept the fact that they’re stupid and not just truly evil

          • Ben Hur Horse Race@lemm.ee
            2·
            6 months ago

            honestly dude the older I get the more I learn a lot of behavior that seems hurtful is just coming from someone who DOES NOT pause to consider what its doing to someone else. its not that they dont care, its just it never dawns on them that its hurting others

  • bbuez@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Its about time, maybe now my wife will come back and listen to me knowing that we can finally live with clean air and no more frogs turnin gay

  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
    0·
    6 months ago

    The law and its premise is nuts, lets just get that out of the way first.

    “The intentional injection, release, or dispersion, by any means, of chemicals, chemical compounds, substances, or apparatus within the borders of this state into the atmosphere with the express purpose of affecting temperature, weather, or the intensity of the sunlight is prohibited,” the bill reads.

    So on one hand this is a reading about banning any efforts of geoengineering. But modern day airplanes already dump “chemical compounds” into Tennessee airspace today as part of jet engine exhaust. The argument would be “oh, planes are okay because they’re not dumping to affect weather even though those gases are affecting the weather via climate change.” Doesn’t that argument open up license for anyone to dump whatever they want (including geoengineering materials) if they can claim that isn’t their primary purpose?

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      6 months ago

      I mean, planes already inject, release, or disperse a lot of chemicals, chemical compounds, substances into the atmosphere, namely CO2 and water, which is why there are contrails.

      Did Tennessee just ban airplanes?

      • kautau@lemmy.world
        1·
        6 months ago

        “With the express purpose of affecting temperature, weather, or the intensity of sunlight.”

        I’m pretty sure they just made it so polluters are fine if the they are just doing it to pollute and don’t give a fuck about climate change

    • Paragone@lemmy.world
      01·
      6 months ago

      Damn.

      That is WAAAY moar worser…

      You know that tornadoes are already prevented through cloud-alteration, right?

      This would criminalize that?

      We need to criminalize incompetence-in-authority!!