• GorGor@startrek.website
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      we are seeing a resurgence of New World Screwworms. We eradicated it in the US in 1966, however, we have since seen a resurgence. Basically we used sterile males to make sure no new worms would be born in the US but thats a big border, so we worked with Mexico and other north and Central American countries to push it down past panama. Unfortunately when republicans find out we are spending money fighting disease in other countries, they think why help them? and kill funding. So now we are going to have to spend a shitload more money to defend our wide ass border, rather than a fraction of the cost defending a natural border.

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        Unfortunately when republicans find out we are spending money fighting disease in other countries, they think why help them?

        That’s the problem - they don’t think, but instead react according to their lifelong programming from bullying. They’ve been trained by their masters since childhood not to reason anything out beyond the shortest path to one of a set of predefined conclusions. It’s so instinctive by the time they’re adults (teens, really) that they have absolutely no clue it’s what they’re actually doing deep down.

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    They said that 15 years ago too. Bill Gates was too busy bailing out monsanto and advocating for the systematic poisoning of watersheds with pesticides under false arguments, evangelizing for geo engineering, spraying aerosols en masse in the upper atmosphere to blot out the sun, (because he’s so smart he knows exactly how that’s going to play out,) and fucking children with Epstein to finish the job on Guinea worms.

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      Wasn’t expecting a chemtrail diatribe in my Lemmy today but here we are.

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        You do realize geo engineering is spraying sulfur dioxide or other aerosol or dust into the upper atmosphere to block the sun to combat global warming. It’s not a conspiracy it’s an open debate that’s been ongoing for decades. That you would immediately associate it with chemtrails shows either a profound ignorance borne of being a tool of influence operations playing you like a fiddle, or worse no?

        Geo engineering is reported on in Newspapers, as it was when the conference held every year in switzerland happened and it mentioned Bill Gates is one of the people, they coordinate on selling the controversial practice, selling it to the public, and governments that will pay for it, etc.

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          Humans have been doing the whole sulfur dioxide thing for decades. In 2020 cargo ships began to use fuels with less sulfur in them to reduce sulfur dioxide output. The result, was a marked increase in sea surface temperatures because the aerosols used to help block some of the sunlight.

          It’s arguable to call it geoengineering as that implies purposeful engineering is ongoing. Whereas we were literally just burning sulfur rich fuels for cargo ships.

          The reason people associate it with chemtrails is because sulfur dioxide is touted as a key component in the exhaust trails left behind by aircraft. While there may be trace amounts of the stuff in jet exhaust, this is not purposeful geoengineering as it’s just a byproduct of fossil fuel use. A more visible one because it’s easy to look up in the sky and see planes leaving trails compared to seeing the faint haze left behind by cargo ships in the middle of the ocean.

          Cloud seeding is a thing in very small regional efforts for promoting cloud cover and even rainfall. And these are purposefully done to achieve those two outcomes. Usually they’re done near dry places that have too much sun and not enough water. Despite some of these operations taking place, their effects are miniscule when compared to the scale of global operations that aren’t trying to purposefully do any geoengineering.

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          I love how defensive people get when you try to tell them that what they’re pushing is chemtrails.

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      Yeah, no.

      Some of what you’re saying has some evidence, and could be true, and some of what you’re saying is just balls to the wall conspiracy theories

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          Oooohh boy.

          So let me start by saying: I fucking hate bill gates with a vengance. And if you do so too, good for you. I’ve been hating him for at least a good 30+ years, hating bill gates is not a new thing.

          Having said that:

          I’m not much into conspiracy theories, it doesn’t matter where they come from or who they’re directed at.

          Take this jewel, for example:

          advocating for the systematic poisoning of watersheds with pesticides under false arguments

          Now I’m assuming you’re referencing apeel here?

          I mean, I’m sure apeel may or might have issues but you sell it like gates is a mustache twirling evil genius who is bent on poisoning the world. I’m sure its slightly more nuanced than that, and I’m sure you are very nuanced too.

          I just read about a Melinda gates interview this morning where she talked about “Bill’s visits to epstein island had been a very painful moment in their marriage” which would insinuate he diddled kids and she knew. True? I don’t know I still need to find more info and put it on the list, because I have a long list of “things I’ve heard” that I need to verify. I just verified yours as “misleading”

          My point is: If you want to shit on gates, go ahead, he is a horrible person, he deserves to burn in hell, but lets not make shit up about him, its not helpful not necesarry.

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            I actually liked him because of his PR people making him seem eccentric and slipping the stuff into our English 101 class, his charity work, that he was frugal, rode on a plane with a blanket over his head, in coach, like a weirdo. Wore dirty sweaters, worked all the time. I realized it was PR but because of the charity stuff and other PR I sort of liked him, until 2020 when my friend told me about the Monsanto investment, which I investigated and it was true.

            It’s been one thing after another since then. He intervened to prevent an freely available open source vaccine in covid, to make sure it was all private for profit companies, the pesticide thing, The information about him with Epstein. Which he played off as not knowing him well while we keep finding out he was a lot more involved.

            The geo engineering, which I take a very dim view of, these billionaires think they are the smartest people in the world because they have the most money, as if they could know the knock on effects from spraying enough sulfur dioxide in the upper atmosphere, or whatever they spray, to actually cool the earth and not have the law of unintended consequences come down hard. As if they could forsee how it would work despite unknown interconnected variables that make it unknown, and that they have a right to do it for some nation states while it affects others that didn’t agree.

            His support for pesticides in general is the big one. He bailed out Monsanto when they were in trouble from the lawsuits, and bought a bunch of stock, and has been a big proponent, and customer, him owning what 5% of US farmland, and amplified American Chemistry Council talking points uncritically, buying hook line and sinker their ad hoc aruments that to feed the world we need to genetically modify plants to take more of their pesticides, and in the process make seeds private and not replantable, and needing extra amounts of pesticides like roundup, but certainly not limited to it. (Apeel sound familiar vaguely but idk exactly thanks for the link I will check it out shortly.)

            Worldwide insect populations are down 90 percent from 30 years back. Pesticides are perhaps the main factor in that I believe. If you were around, recall a summer night after a country drive, the entire car would be covered in bug splatters. You might have had to use the washer fluid and wipers on the way. Not anymore, you might have a few. It’s a portent, they are more susceptible to pollutants but it affects us all too. Sperm Counts are down worldwide, frog populations have crashed, amphibians are especially susceptible to endocrine disruptors like many pesticides, wiping out populations at concentrations in the water in the single digit parts per billion, turning the frogs hermathroditic and sterile. As per the work of Tyrone Hayes, covered in Mother Jones, The Frog of War, and it’s follow up articles. (He was viciously attacked by Syngenta, the maker of Atrazine, the 2nd most popular herbicide that his work studied. They attacked him personally in every way they could, tried and succeeded at first, to get his funding cut, etc. But Tyrone was fearless and refused to be bullied.)

            So Bill Gates, supports systematic poisoning with pesticides, on patented seeds engineered to take more pesticide (shown to not produce higher yields after the first few years;) supports unilaterally using his influence to get countries like he US to pay them to spray masses of aerosols or other substances to blot out the sun in a Mr. Burns style villainy that will have unintended consequences; is an Epstein Pal, lied about it, now caught as more involved; defeated the open source non patented vaccine for covid to make sure it was all for profit companies to prevent a precedent being set. I feel like I’m forgetting one too. None of this is contested, in doubt, made up, this is all public knowledge, reported in the papers, including reuters and others on the switzerland conference every year to coordinate pr and selling governments on the geo engineering. The public investments in monsanto and parroting of American Chemistry Council Points, (they are the devil.)

            I used to sort of like him, he didn’t deserve it, and the right making shit up about him doesn’t excuse his real faults, we can’t defend everything about anything that’s criticized unfairly by the right, support what is fair in that, because knee jerk blanket support is part of how the republicans are seen as the party of reform. In a good way to half the population.

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      Nah, don’t worry, I’m sure that Republicans soon will come out and say that worms are actually Great!