• Yes, geoengineering and stratospheric aerosol injection do exist but in the real world, they’re nothing like the chemtrails narrative. I recently found an interesting website with a name similar to the one that spreads the chemtrails conspiracy theory, geoengineeringmonitor.org. Unlike the one with that watches instead of monitors, this one contains real information backed up

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  • The algorithms that drive social media are problematic. They are the product of the business model of the tech corporations that run the social media platforms. The business model of social media is the same as other corporate media, it is to grab the user’s attention as much as possible and keep them on the

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  • One afternoon when I was still vending at the gorge bridge, in one of those idle moments when there were no customers and vendors chatted with each other, the subject of chemtrails came up and I casually remarked that they didn’t exist. One of the vendors who was my good friend got a look of

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  • If there ever was a word that has fallen on hard times, it’s the past tense form of the English verb wake. The word “woke” has suffered all kinds of abuse in the hands of right wing propagandists who use it as a derogatory label for just about any form of cultural expression they don’t

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  • The paths to debunking the chemtrails/geo-engineering conspiracy theory are many and pursuing one inevitably leads to others. I’m going to do a deeper dive into one, the lack of any kind of certifiable evidence of the alleged chemicals being “sprayed”. There are two tests referred to in the geo engineering watch website, a one time

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  • This is my personal blog where anything I want to write about goes. I’m drafting another “chemtrails” debunk article but I feel like posting something more personal and humorous first. This is a memory from my troubled but extremely interesting teenage years which popped into my head recently after almost 50 years and put me

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  • And why am I so hard on Taos’s favorite conspiracy theory, chemtrails? It’s just the sheer stupidity of it and the obvious grift of the geoengineering watch dot org website that is the main promoter of it. I’ve often said that the path to debunking it are many and varied. Here is one, the technical

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  • Facebook is trying to move in on the numerous hobby forums on the internet and strip away their users and get them into Facebook groups. Starting last year, I found my feed filled with material from groups on several of my interests and hobbies, particularly electronics and electronic music along with solar and wind energy.

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