Trying to go the Elon Musk approach. Ballsy.

NEW - Solar geoengineering researchers conspired to hide tests to dim the Sun to "avoid scaring" the public.

aha.

Anyway, nice to see the famous Substack network effects in full swing.

It's almost like Substack has a Nazi problem and has for years.

Stop pretending substack isn't a Nazi platform, because they actively support Nazi propaganda on their site and have refused to take it down or commit to keeping it off their platform.

Substack is run by Nazi supporters at the very least, which should be enough for people to flee in droves, but more people are ok with Nazis than we want to admit.

researchers conspired to hide tests to dim the Sun to "avoid scaring" the public.

Because if there's one thing you can hide, it's dimming the one thing that brings heat and light to the planet.

You'd think that of all people, white supremacists would applaud anything that prevents their skin from getting darker.

How does it compare to lemmy?

Some countries have pretty strict laws about not promoting Nazi ideology - by pushing that notifications it would probably be breaking that law.

Beware of increasingly white supremacists.

Lemmy has a tankie problem, but I rather deal with tankies over nazis.

I've never seen open support for Nazis being left up after being reported on instances that haven't been defederated, so it's better without question.

Ignoring conspiracy theory stuff, people aren't very good at perceiving changes in light levels if they happen gradually. During any solar eclipse there are wide bands where only a partial eclipse is observed. It's pretty common for people in those bands to not notice that something has changed even with 50% occlusion.

Oh yeah. Circulating random swastika-labelled push notifications talking about a sickness that "aflicks (?) all Jews" is a pretty big no-no in most, if not all, of the civilized world.

How does geo engineering dim the sun?

geo-

word-forming element meaning "earth, the Earth," ultimately from Greek geo-, combining form of Attic and Ionic gē "the earth, land, a land or country"

You're right when talking about the average person with nothing but their eyes. But there are tons of companies and members of the public that have bits of tech that would call that out easily. Solar panels, environmental logging equipment, etc, would notice the drop in light levels fairly easily, and would be apparent when reviewing historical vs current levels, and the power grids would definitely notice the sun dimming dropping their power outputs.

Without going into conspiracy theory territory, there's no realistic way to hide that from the public.

Its probably talking about the UK stratospheric aerosol injection research. Like all conspiracy theories, just enough of a grain of truth.

It's also federated. Which instance has a tankie problem? Which instance has a Nazi problem?

Lemmy.ml and hexbear have tankie problems. Thankfully it’s easy to block instances. I’m not aware of any instance that got Nazi problems.

Definitely, any changes natural or anthropogenic would be measured and to great accuracy. I just wanted to point out that the notion of the general public, especially if conditioned to distrust scientists and authorities, not noticing changes isn't the outlandish part. See global warming denial despite years of record setting temperatures.

I'd chalk that up to the assumption that a cloud has partially or fully obscured the sun. If clouds weren't a thing, we'd be much more sensitive to light changes as they wouldn't be a part of our outdoor experience.

I'm not checking to see if the sun is still there every time the ambient light outside dims, y'know what I mean?