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There is a place for that. It’s called 4chan.

Well, the administration supposedly made some kind of minerals deal to continue to support Ukraine. (It was just bullshit PR for Trump “making deals”.)

Still, I doubt any partner was surprised by this as the Trump administration is pointlessly unpredictable.

Effort vs Reward vs Ability vs Inital investment

In most cases, think of this kind of thing like a legitimate business. Same concepts. I’ll grade a few scenarios based on what I have seen over the last 20 or so years. (The ratings are arbitrary and just trying to explain my point.)

Do you have the means to rent a botnet and phish a few million people for lots of credit card numbers? Can you manage that kind of data, test all those numbers and maybe end up just selling that data? Low Risk/Moderate Reward (“Selling shovels” analogy is probably a better scheme than actually renting the botnet, IMHO)

Could you setup a “call center” in India and run a scam ring like an 8-5 business? Are there enough people you can hire to do this work? That requires training, infrastructure and time. You also may need to “work with” law enforcement to ensure your scam isn’t busted by legitimate cops. Moderate Risk/Moderate Reward.

Are you part of a small group with an insane amount of skill that has the time to pull off an extortion scheme against a Fortune 500 company for a few million bucks? High risk/High reward

Those are all normal scenarios above and it’s based on profitability and initial investment. Risk/Reward is always a balance.

(Sorry. I pulled a “wHellll aKshUallY” when you said it’s not worth the time for the small targets.)

Usually tear gas. I haven’t seen any reports to the contrary, yet.

Tear gas usage is a war crime and it’s also not harmless.

This has been a thing for years now. While I am sure it might annoy some pirates, it’s likely aimed at easily executed malware.

I deal with spam filtering on a daily basis and about 90% of it originates from Gmail. Most of that is just fishing/fraud. It would really suck if my users could easily detonate malware attachments, so this Gmail policy is a good thing for me.

I think you nailed it. For me personally, if I move to PieFed, it’s not because I want to “hurt” the devs, it’s because I really don’t want to be part of what they stand for.

The title of the article is referring to “chemtrails” as false. (You are blocked now too. So no point in responding.)

The point was not about if it was happening or not. It’s about how these examples are used as fodder to keep the conspiracies flowing about chemtrails.

If you mix just the right amount of conspiracy with a little bit of fact, you get to keep all the votes from the crazies. It’s super easy to use big words like “geoengineering” and twist them to imply that hormones are mixed with jet fuel.

"Fesi testified on the Senate floor April 28 during debate over his bill that he believes “certain agencies within the federal government are doing cloud seeding and geoengineering.” In an interview Friday, the senator was asked what evidence he had to support his claims.

“Look up in our sky,” Fesi answered.

In an interview, Fesi later said he sees “just tons and tons of cloud seeding” above his backyard and described it as “all of the stripes across the skies.”

https://lailluminator.com/2025/05/19/weather-modification-bills/

These bills are fueled by conspiracy theories and idiocy.

Gravity is not a constant and that would probably matter at the precision that needs to be measured in the given test environment. In any other situation, gravity (or the state of the earths magnetic field) would generally not matter enough to measure.

The precision of F=MA might even be debatable as an accurate formula at these scales… I dunno about that though.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_of_Earth

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/84266/measuring-earths-magnetism

And a also a full vacuum. Your test subject might not look so hot after that, but science!

Speculating, of course, I would say there wouldn’t be enough change to get a perceivable effect through other kinds of noise at the scale we are talking about. Yes, there would be an effect, but with all other environmental variables included, the results may appear completely random.

Then again, I suppose much of this boils down to the accuracy of the tools that you use to measure the results.

It’s ok to shit in someone else’s, just not yours.

Yep. Ukraine has been hitting targets with smaller drones near Moscow, more or less, for about a year as far as I can remember.

Some of their early long range drones were basically small, slow flying airplanes, actually.

That needs to be in the form of a question, right?

I mean, sure. You do you, friend.

It’s a sideways chefs kiss. Also, something, something, penis size.

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