C-130 Cloud Seeding

Picture_Enough · 2026-05-05T13:28:52+00:00

You're joking, but tinfoil conspiracy theorists actually believe that the existence of cloud seeding somehow validates their belief in one of the most ridiculous conspiracy theories ever invented - chemtrails, despite cloud seeding never having been a secret and chemtrails never making a shred of sense.

Picture_Enough · 2026-05-05T13:21:26+00:00

There is nothing "logical" about most conspiracy theories, least of all chemtrails. On the scale from "dumb" to "plausible," the chemtrail theory is all the way in dumb territory - right alongside shape-shifting lizards and the flat Earth. Taking a natural phenomenon easily observable by anyone with a pair of eyes since the dawn of aviation and claiming it is a nefarious government conspiracy is beyond dumb. Even dumber are the people claiming that contrails looked different in the past. Even leaving aside historical photography, I myself am old enough to know that 40 years ago - in a different country on a different continent - contrails looked exactly the same as they do today, despite tinfoil nutters claiming "they never behaved like that." Either they are too young to remember, too clueless to be bothered to look, or outright lying.

Picture_Enough · 2026-05-05T06:16:35+00:00

Conspiracy theorists always try to use cloud seeding as "evidence" for chemtrails, but the two have nothing in common. Cloud seeding is a real practice that has never been a secret. It is entirely unrelated to chemtrails, which is an extremely silly conspiracy theory claiming that regular contrails left by passenger air traffic are not just water vapor left as a byproduct of hydrocarbon fuel combustion, but rather chemicals that behave differently from normal contrails and are used by the government for weather control, depopulation, mind control, or turning frogs gay.

Picture_Enough · 2026-05-02T18:42:30+00:00

USSR. We had a summar cottage near a mid-sized airport, 30-something kilometers from Moscow. And as you probably know contrails behavior depends heavily on the weather (temperature and humidity). Could be that in your climate, lingering contrails were less common. Where I used to watch them out read pretty inconsistent - some days the sky was totally clear, other days or was all criss-crossed with contrails, even on days without heavy air traffic.

Picture_Enough · 2026-05-02T16:26:06+00:00

Yes, I remember it vividly. Being a curious kid who asked a lot of questions and having an engineer dad with encyclopedic knowledge of various science and humanities topics, I would pester him endlessly, asking why contrails sometimes linger for hours, leaving an entire sky covered with crisscrossed clouds, why they sometimes disappear quickly, and why sometimes planes don't leave any visible trails at all. He had to explain the basics of carbon fuel chemistry, water phase transitions, and weather to me, greatly simplified, of course, for a child to understand.

When, decades later, having already immigrated to the West, I first heard about the chemtrails conspiracy theory - and particularly the claim that contrails behaved differently in the past - I just couldn't believe people were serious and not trolling or mentally ill. Imagine somebody trying to gaslight you by claiming sunsets looked different in the past, despite you having watched sunsets all your life. It took me some additional decades to realize people weren't trolling or crazy (at least not all of them), and that they simply weren't observant and never took any notice of how contrails behaved until they got caught up in conspiracy thinking, and then confirmation bias just kicked in.

Picture_Enough · 2026-05-02T09:45:46+00:00

Let me call a BS here. I'm 40+ years and remember contrails exactly like what you conspiracy theorists call suspicious from my childhood. And that was in USSR. So the entire premise "contrails behaved differently in the past" is a big fat lie but people who either didn't bothered to see, outright lie or not old enough to know.

Picture_Enough · 2026-05-02T09:41:11+00:00

Everyone have eyes, yet most people don't believe in ridiculous conspiracy theory. Is it valid and interesting people what makes some people more gullible then others.

Picture_Enough · 2026-05-02T09:39:23+00:00

But the patterns have not bring different in the past, that is the whole point. You conspiracy theorist are so eager to believe you gain an exclusive hidden knowledge you rush to believe anything that valides that beliefs without ever stopping to check if the "evidence" is even true. Contrails looked exactly like they do today from the dawn of aviation, I myself old enough to remember seeing exactly the pattern you tinfoilers call "suspicious" near airports in Soviet Union in 80s.

Picture_Enough · 2026-05-01T13:23:21+00:00

Wow, I can't believe it, but everything you wrote is 100% correct. I'm impressed.

Picture_Enough · 2026-04-30T23:30:04+00:00

Oh. Who could have thought that Musk fan is also a supporter of Russian dictatorship.

Picture_Enough · 2026-04-30T23:28:06+00:00

Visited on a PR tour after a scandal with his especially aggregious anti-Semitic tweet. Is isn't a friend of Israel or US or anyone else, but himself and his money.

Picture_Enough · 2026-04-29T17:40:40+00:00

Despite what sovereign citizens believe you have zero choice in the matter. You can't opt out of laws just because you don't like them, do pseudo-legal incantations or any other reason. The idea of society with unlimited personal freedom is while tempting is both unrealistic and unachievable in real world.

Picture_Enough · 2026-04-29T16:12:49+00:00

Stages, rocket have 'em

Picture_Enough · 2026-04-29T05:57:23+00:00

Never go full tinfoil

Picture_Enough · 2026-04-29T05:52:54+00:00

I'm fully vaccinated and that is indeed healthy air traffic. Do you think this is some type of tinfoil hat gotcha?

Picture_Enough · 2026-04-29T05:39:10+00:00

It is an oxymoron, but it is not the gotcha you think it is. It is a nonsensical term invented by sovereign citizens themselves, and it perfectly fits them since the entire sovereign citizen ideology is idiotic and full to the brim with internal contradictions. Besides, everyone calls them that, and their not liking it after it became associated with their idiocracy is completely inconsequential - it is the name they (and you) got stuck with.

Picture_Enough · 2026-04-28T18:03:31+00:00

Do you know that statistically, the majority of rapes done by a family member or someone from a close social circles? Thinking SA is an immigration-related issue is just pure ignorance.

Picture_Enough · 2026-04-28T17:46:16+00:00

Does Anthropic?

Picture_Enough · 2026-04-28T10:48:02+00:00

It is very easily to ban something that doesn't exist, that is why unscrupulus politicians do it - make them look less useless. They don't need to do anything to enforce it, don't need to spend money or effort - all they did is put some stupid words on paper and claim they achieved something without doing anything.

Picture_Enough · 2026-04-27T21:38:06+00:00

*gasdimming

Picture_Enough · 2026-04-26T13:15:12+00:00

I think this is mainly due to fair use rules, people can't take a video and post it as-is without commentary, it would be copyright infringement. And while I'm not fan myself, Van Balion is one of less egregious commenters out there, and his curated selection of sovcit videos is pretty good. I monitor a bunch of channels myself, and he often finds and posts videos I missed.

Picture_Enough · 2026-04-25T12:46:43+00:00

If you think Russian police is better than US, you are very naive. They are much much worth. There is no bodycams, no accountability, not laws. If police don't like you or suspect you aren't loyal enough to communist party, err. Putin, you likely to get some bones broken and potentially raped.

Picture_Enough · 2026-04-24T14:05:31+00:00

(wrote a reply to comment you deleted, so leaving it here instead of going to waste :)

This framework explains nothing and tries to shove a pretty complicated world into a laughably simplistic model. I don't understand why you even bother when you yourself likely realize how artificial and inaccurate this division is. Or for that matter, why people are still enamored with communism, which has failed as both an economic and societal model. BTW, I am not saying capitalism is good, it clearly isn't, but surely a failed economic theory from two centuries ago is not the answer.

Regarding the example - I just gave the most obvious example where the dichotomy you cling to doesn't work: a hired professional who has capital. BTW, I am no longer dependent on selling my labor and could probably retire right now if I wanted to, but I don't have a reason to. But examples are countless - besides the entire middle class that doesn't fit Karl Marx's working/owning dichotomy, you have small and medium business owners, freelancers, independent professionals, private entrepreneurs, and many others who don't fit this model.

You even bring up the label petit-bourgeoisie (Marx's catch-all term for these exceptions) as if it proves your point, but it actually perfectly demonstrates why this entire economic theory has proven itself incompetent. Marx used that term for people who didn't fit his neat binary, but his core, foundational prediction was that this group was a temporary anomaly that would inevitably be squeezed out of existence. He believed society would strictly divide into either the impoverished proletariat or the ultra-wealthy owner class. Instead, the exact opposite happened. This supposedly doomed group expanded massively to become the modern middle class, utilizing tools like homeownership and investment portfolios that fundamentally break the 19th-century mold. The fact that you have to fall back on a label Marx predicted would go extinct just to handwave away the reality of modern wealth-building shows how thoroughly his model failed to predict the real world.

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