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[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

Next thing: "out law hurricanes" ...good luck with all that

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Those 8 states are a big contributor to the current shitshow

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

Water is a chemical and crop dusters do actually dump other substances from aircraft. So, in a way, chemtrails are real. Just not in the way the conspiracy dumbasses think.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Quick, somebody tell these politicians about a highly addicting and dangerous chemical known as Dihydrogen monoxide with a kill rate of 100%. Ban DHMO! Save America!

~/s~

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Yes, every terrorist in the history of mankind consumed DHMO! Ban this stuff immediately! ~/s~

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

I heard that they found DHMO in hurricane Milton!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (7 children)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That reminds me of my favorite rock that prevents tiger attacks. I've had it with me for years and it works perfectly. Yet, whenever I bring it up, people make fun of me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I remember that scene from an episode, too. Just not which episode it is. Pre season 10 I think?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

… this article is kinda shit.

Says 8 states but doesn’t tell you which ones, just that Tennessee and Florida are 2 of them.

Says 8, tells us 2.

WHO ELSE AM I SUPPOSED TO POINT AT AND LAUGH???

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

It probably isn't hard to extrapolate what the other 6 states are if you know that Tennessee and Florida are 2 of the 8.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We live in a post-reality political climate.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Conservatism was never a part of reality. The Dems just decided to join them in lala-land, and apparently the voters too...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Conservatism is just reactionary post modernism, nothing is real but their personal visceral reaction to some event, and historical events themselves are given innate mystical properties such as things "existing in a vacuum", and the lovely "its just natural" analysis. Democrats are just really good slow walking reformists owned by capital interest.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

So what you're saying is, the law's already working?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

If it wasn't so sad it'd be hilarious that all these states are banning imaginary ways to control the weather while at the same time gutting the EPA and air population controls, so real ways to influence the weather.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 day ago (11 children)

Without even looking, lemme guess on which states.

Are they the shit holes with low education rates and high rates of rampant stupidity who suckle the teat of all the blue states paying for them but then complain about it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Likely Oklahoma too - current GOP platform wants to outlaw 5G.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Do that many people not realise what condensation is?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

You vastly overestimate the US education system as a whole.

"Condensation can only form on glass", while not in a conversation about contrails this is a response I got from an adult human who graduated high school. He was standing 3 feet away from a steel pipe covered in condensation and dripping onto the floor.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

All forms of condensation must be exterminated!

Anyway, the reason they want to push bullshit laws is that bullshit laws can be used to punished whomever they like precisely because they are not founded in reality.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago

Stop fucking flying so much then. You could always put those planes on the ground, on tracks. Imagine that.

[–] [email protected] 180 points 2 days ago (19 children)

Let me get this straight. They are going to outlaw... water condensation. They are literally the grandpa from The Simpsons yelling at the clouds. Because chemtrails are basically just clouds. It's just water vapor from the airplane engines condensing in cold atmosphere at high altitudes. Because it's cold up there. They know it's cold up there, right? Right? Imagine being a grown fucking adult and not knowing how this shit works. Go out in the winter and breathe with open mouth. You're now breathing out chemtrails. you fucking dumbasses.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 2 days ago (11 children)
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[–] [email protected] 96 points 2 days ago (25 children)

The "chemtrail" conspiracy is particularly stupid. Like, you've got to put effort into your own duncefuckery to make the moronic leaps necessary.

"Jetliners are spraying mind control juice"

Uh huh, so, where on the jetliner is it stored? The belly is full of avionics and baggage compartment, the passenger compartment is full of seats, the wings are full of fuel, the tail has maybe a little void space, but enough to crop dust entire time zones? Can you show me any evidence of a jet aircraft equipped with such a dispersion system?

Oh they're flying special flights just for this? Okay, can you show me such a flight that obviously isn't what it says it is? There hasn't been a single air crew, maintenance tech, parts supplier, chemical plant janitor, etc. come forward about any of this?

Oh it's mixed straight into the fuel! Okay, so the Vote For Obama juice still works after spending hours to days dissolved in kerosene and PRIST, and then burned in a jet engine. Again, nobody anywhere in the fuel supply infrastructure has said anything about this. There hasn't been a single Youtube video or Reddit thread about "what are my bosses pumping into the jet fuel?"

I guess they've also paid off all the chemical labs that analyze fuel, oil and other fluid samples. Because that's a thing, aircraft mechanics take samples of engine oil and such and send them to labs for gas chromatography. It's kinda cool, they'll send you a report that says "We're seeing elevated levels of tin and copper consistent with accelerated wear of the intake valve bushings." Nobody has gotten a report back from a lab like that talking about exotic molecules ?

Why would you bother using jet airliners for this that fly extremely high? Some of the particles dispersed would outright NEVER land, some of them will drift hundreds if not thousands of miles before coming to rest in the ocean or a desert. Why not mix the Vote For Obama juice into diesel fuel to be burned by semi-trucks, down near the ground usually where you can find people? Or into automotive gasoline? Surely you could use much less of the chemical that way because it's being burned so close to people.

Maybe that's why Big They are so fucking keen to keep Republicans driving big gas guzzling micropenis trucks around? So that Republican areas get basted with Vote For Obama juice.

Oh, also: There's tetraethyl lead in aviation gasoline. Added as an octane booster and anti-knock additive, it's a POTENT neurotoxin that makes people stupid and asocial. The fuel pumps have a big sign on them saying as much. It shows up in those chromatography tests of engine oil...and in fact you can see it. A bucket of used aviation piston engine oil has a dull metallic sheen on the surface from the lead that didn't make it out of the engine. It's not burned in the quantities that we burn jet fuel, but piston-powered planes do fly lower and closer to civilization in most cases.

But you can't care about any of that, you've got third generation fetal alcohol syndrome so you're just scared of the lines in the sky.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Truck exhaust blows away. They can't see it anymore. Contrails linger for a while. They can see that.

They can see planes. They can't see inside planes. Therefore, they can imagine anything they want inside because they can't verify it themselves.

The things they can't see anymore are gone. The things they can't see into contain the worst possible scenario.

And that litter box in schools things for the kid identifying as a cat? The story is ALWAYS about someone else's schools. They can picture a different school. They can imagine the worst scenario in there.

This whole political ideology is an exercise in failed object permanence.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Next:they want to outlaw the moon.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

They'll outlaw fake landings on the moon. Lol

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