There are a lot of comments here mocking “chemtrail” believers, but I think the confusion is understandable. There seems to be a mix-up between three terms: contrails, chemtrails, and cloud seeding.
Contrails are just condensation trails caused by jet exhaust and air pressure differences at high altitude.
Cloud seeding, on the other hand, is a real weather-modification technique that uses aircraft to disperse substances like silver iodide to encourage rainfall [1]
I completely empathize with people confused by this. They aren't all just a bunch of conspiracy nuts, many just don’t know how to identify what they’re seeing or how these technologies actually work. I don’t mock them, I try to educate.
The chemtrails conspiracy nuts aren't confused about cloud seeding. They believe contrails are visible evidence that airplanes are used to disperse mind control drugs over the populations below.
There are many people that believe the contrails, that they refer to as chemtrails, are about weather control. Those are the people that I think are confused. Just search "chemtrails weather control" or "manipulation". I have also spoken to many people that hold this belief.
I use exwm as my windows manager [1], so for me, everything is emacs-first. Therefore, trimming a video in emacs is more natural than using another program to do it. I love the experience of using exwm and emacs for everything whenever possible.
We are straying a bit off-topic with this, but driving a standard can actually be a lot of fun. I have an automatic right now, but I have always enjoyed driving a standard more than automatics. This next point may be due to the quality of my particular automatic, but I have found passing vehicles on the highway to be a lot faster in a standard, because I can choose to just drop into a lower gear and hit the gas, I don't have to hit the gas and then wait for the vehicle to decide that it should go into a lower gear. So, it doesn't have to be a practical skill or a sign of arrogance, someone might just enjoy driving a standard as I do.
I'm an old person. I love emacs, no complaints here. Does this mean that when you are old, you will love emacs as well? Conclusion: in the long run, everyone loves emacs :-)
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You should fix the typos in the linked notion document. I am guessing the typos are an accidental result of a recent edit, since the description in notion is not one-to-one with the description you pasted here.
> The discovery was the result of almost exactly one year of work and about $2 million of Durant’s own money.
> Durant, who made his money off the boom, said he put his time and money into the project to show people that they aren’t helpless to technology giants and that we can figure out massive problems if we work together.
If I sold absolutely everything I owned, I would not even have close to half of what it Durant invested in his pet project. While I like his intended sentiment, I can't help but notice the irony.
Yeah I’m totally fine with him spending his money on whatever hobby he likes, but the message is just strange, this and the other message that “he wants [GPUs] to be used for research and discovery”. And donating the $3k prize money to his high school to advance math and science education after burning $2m… It’s obviously still a nice thing, but why would you even mention it…
That said, maybe he felt pressured to give the reporter more than “I was just having fun”.
Contrails are just condensation trails caused by jet exhaust and air pressure differences at high altitude.
Cloud seeding, on the other hand, is a real weather-modification technique that uses aircraft to disperse substances like silver iodide to encourage rainfall [1]
I completely empathize with people confused by this. They aren't all just a bunch of conspiracy nuts, many just don’t know how to identify what they’re seeing or how these technologies actually work. I don’t mock them, I try to educate.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_seeding
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