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RackAttackAF@reddit (OP)

For the record, I included the chemtrail joke in the post in an apparently futile attempt to defuse the chemtrail comments. I am genuinely curious what is happening here.

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LateralThinkerer@reddit

Double bonus points for understanding the difference between "defuse" and "diffuse". Not many people do.

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TyrantLizardGuy@reddit

Triple bonus points for understanding the difference between “effect” and “affect”.

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Morgan8er8000@reddit

Isn’t it a bummer that basic English language skills have degraded so far, so quickly? I wonder if it’s true for grammatical accuracy in other languages as well amongst “Western” countries?

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You know, in the above commenter’s example I don’t believe this would demand the period be inside the quotation marks because my use of the “” was informal as “effect” and “affect” in my sentence weren’t actual quotes or even titles for that matter. In fact, they aren’t even really ‘scare quotes’ either. If we were to get super technical, those words probably should have been italicized, but that would have required me to make some syntax in the text and that seems a little overkill. The rules are very clear that the punctuation of the quote is placed inside the quotation marks which is why you would place the period inside said quotation marks at the end of the sentence, because the sentence is finishing both within the quote itself and outside. But ‘affect’ in my example isn’t a quote or even a sentence and therefore wouldn’t demand any punctuation. Does that make sense?

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lt-dan1984@reddit

Okay, chat bot, good answer, but more condensed this time.

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TyrantLizardGuy@reddit

I’ll take it as a compliment you thought that was a bot response?

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lt-dan1984@reddit

I was half joking. I figured you you wrote it yourself. It was very thorough and well articulated, though, much like an ai chatbot would do. So, yes. A compliment, indeed!

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Fonzie1225@reddit

Missed quadruple bonus points opportunity for correct placement of end punctuation within quotation marks…

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ChartreuseBison@reddit

Is there any reason punctuation that isn't part of the quote goes inside the quote besides "them's the rules"?

See what I just did there? It points out I'm asking a question, but the quote is not a question. It's fucking stupid to do it the other way

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TyrantLizardGuy@reddit

Yes it seems that there are rules but also some flexibility as well. There’s a certain logic we can apply here and in your example it would seem silly and illogical to place the question mark inside the quotes because “them’s the rules” is a statement whereas your overall sentence is a question. I think the actual rule is that you place the question mark outside the quotes, and again, this makes total sense logically. My example is more of an outlier and I’m quite certain you don’t place the period inside the quotes because “affect” (the last word in my sentence) is not a statement nor a question so why would you need punctuation on something that’s neither one of those? Again if there’s any critique to be made on my original statement, it’s probably my informal usage of quotes. The correct way would probably be to italicize the words ‘effect’ and ‘affect’.

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RackAttackAF@reddit (OP)

So close to perfection.

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Someone_pissed@reddit

And then you have me who doesn't know what either means

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Leading-Ad4167@reddit

Go with both.

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WeatherGuys@reddit

We are both in the same camp my friend :)

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WeatherGuys@reddit

Googles this now - thanks for the education!

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mlambie@reddit

Diffuse would have been a delicious pun.

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comparmentaliser@reddit

I was going to say that it’s to tell the pilot that he’s running out of chems to trail.

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verbal1diarrhea@reddit

A fuel control problem?

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Traditional-Hornet78@reddit

Indicative of using biofuel…same thing happens to my wife after eating broccoli…

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SKISM0@reddit

So… serious answer anyone?!

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anomalkingdom@reddit

My votye would go to the guy who suggested bleed air venting.

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9VTF@reddit

Really? All bleed valves will be closed at cruising altitude. If there's an issue with the servo air feed to a bleed valve, the valve will either fail safe shut or open. It won't pulse.

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mk_dnk@reddit

If they’re all closed, how does the cabin pressurize or heat?

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9VTF@reddit

I'm referring to the handling bleed valves which optimise the compressor(s) at different speeds and altitudes, not the cabin bleeds. The cabin bleed system is completely different and rarely fails, if ever.

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Swagger897@reddit

Rarely fails lmao okay. Someone has clearly never done a pneumatic health check then on ANY engine.

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anomalkingdom@reddit

You could be right, my knowledge is already stretched.

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Big_polarbear@reddit

In typical reddit fashion… no serious answer to be seen

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encephlavator@reddit

It's a moderator issue. A sincere question deserves sincere answers. Mods must think its haha, har har. Jr high level stuff.

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VetRy85_Twitch@reddit

the chemtrail nozzle is clogged. blast of 5g should clean it out.

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anomalkingdom@reddit

5 grams of what? Speed?

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VetRy85_Twitch@reddit

5g wireless signal, playing on the conspiracy that it is harmful just the chemtrails

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fskhalsa@reddit

It’s just the Covid-25 emitter.

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PNWTangoZulu@reddit

THATS A HUGE TREE BRANCH

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Ninja_Wrangler@reddit

Yggdrasil

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AbeFromanEast@reddit

Tree-shaped drone, buster.

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horrible_noob@reddit

It's called mimicry!

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lambruhsco@reddit

Maybe it’s just a really small plane.

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TreebeardsMustache@reddit

Obvious pressure differentials along the wilmer flange, as heterodyne expansion dis-regulates the inlet bi-valve inceptor jets. Clearly the thermo-coupled carbunculation drive is mis-aligned by an over-torque'd set of miffler bearings, leading to cyclic, not to mention rhythmic, trans-sonic sublimation of the flanges back-laminar flow.

Duh.

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Ichthius@reddit

Come on dude, those we de-coupled carbunculation drives.

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TreebeardsMustache@reddit

Good heavens man!! Are you trying to induce a warp core breach?!?!?

I haf vond ze Romulan, Kepteen.

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RackAttackAF@reddit (OP)

Ah, yeah you’re right. Not sure how I didn’t think of that.

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quietflowsthedodder@reddit

Engine farts.

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Klozeitung@reddit

It's freezing up there. It's normal to catch a cold in these conditions.

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MissStabby@reddit

Different properties of the air it's traveling through

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CanadianEh48@reddit

Only on #1 though?

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Phallic_Moron@reddit

Well yes it's a dual engine but they don't operate 100% equally technically. They are two things.

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SouthRow3506@reddit

So... what you're saying is that it's NOT different properties of the air it's traveling through?

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Phallic_Moron@reddit

It can be both. This is the real world with infinite variables.

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TickleMyTMAH@reddit

Where did you come up with that idea?

What “properties” do you know of that only affect one engine and in this fashion?

Who upvotes this shit?

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1060nm@reddit

Is “number of evenly spaced songbirds” a property of the air?

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SkyeGuy8108@reddit

Downshifting gears in preparation for descent

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TruePace3@reddit

Mixture too rich? Lots of fuel being dumped into the hot exhaust, causing it to ignite?

/j /s

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inferni_advocatvs@reddit

That is the mechanism by which they release whatever it is people believe there are doing up there. 🙄

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b33fstu@reddit

Amazing observation! I wonder if there’s a stall but just not as big as most we’ve seen. Or if there’s something wrong with one of the flame holders.

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Additional-War-2835@reddit

Stall was my first thought too but really not sure at all. First time ever seeing this

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Enough-Meaning1514@reddit

Indeed. That was my first guess as well. It feels like a compression stall but usually those won't happen at cruising altitude. I wonder what they are...

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5h4tt3rpr00f@reddit

Looks like it needs a new spark plug in the left bank, cylinder 5.

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NoSolution7708@reddit

Probably just how Harrison Ford prefers to signal during the daytime.

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BeenThereDoneThat65@reddit

Temp or crosswinds.

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Bits2LiveBy@reddit

The temp of the plane cuttinv through the cold air at that alt.

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dumpster-muffin-95@reddit

Diaper wash.

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Confident-Security84@reddit

Running out of Chemtrail solution

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digitect@reddit

I was looking for this one, obviously downvoted to oblivion here given the propensity of a large percentage of the population to actually buy it.

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Confident-Security84@reddit

Apparently people have no sense of humor?

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digitect@reddit

Oh, I think they do, but most here just weary of the hyperbole. Hard to believe it's not on the rules already!

But I've actually met several people IRL who think contrails are mind controlling, or weather controlling, or something malicious. I always think they're joking when it turns out they're serious. I feel like I understood the physics in elementary school, so I don't understand how grown adults can be so devoid of facts, science, and basic logic. People who fly around on planes, even!

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TyrantLizardGuy@reddit

The chemtrail people are a wonderful real-world example of the Dunning-Krueger effect. The lower the IQ, the more ‘right’ they think they are. And I often wonder how do people come up with these theories despite knowing nothing about the basic principles of how a jet engine works or how condensation forms, yet can explain the difference between a normal contrail (shorter and disappears quickly) vs a chemtrail which is thicker and doesn’t disappear, or whatever bullshit it is they say.

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Confident-Security84@reddit

Airlines got rid of paper manuals to save weight and thus fuel; chemtrail idiots don’t understand the burden of extra weight, not to mention the unseen infrastructure and crew to load it on to jets. They can’t be taken seriously.

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TyrantLizardGuy@reddit

Those are orbs being ingested into the engine which proves the earth is flat.

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carpetsoop@reddit

People here are so uptight they refuse to see the obvious joke

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TyrantLizardGuy@reddit

It’s wild to me that anyone would miss the blatant sarcasm in my reply.

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soulteepee@reddit

I don’t think they did- it’s just getting closer to the crazies taking over and those kinds of jokes can land a bit flat these days.

For the record, I’m just trying to be kind. I didn’t vote either way.

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TyrantLizardGuy@reddit

Well all joking aside, I find this orb/ufo/drone/flat-earth shit to be so ludicrous it makes me wonder if the majority of it is just bots and/or trolls. Especially on Instagram. Like do that many people really actually believe in all this stupid shit? I’m sure you’ve probably seen r/UFOs. The fucking nonsense going on over there is so ridiculous. And don’t even get me started on the drone mass hysteria phenomenon. But do people REALLY believe the earth is flat? And I actually appreciate the exercise of not just believing what you ‘hear’ but one of the beautiful things about the Earth is anyone can do experiments to prove for themselves it’s round. You don’t even need to take someone’s word for it like you do with say quantum mechanics. You can verify for yourself with time zones, constellations, eclipses, and my favorite proof of the round earth is how the moon is ‘upside down’ in the southern hemisphere. Do these fucking idiots really believe it’s flat or are they just trolls and bots?

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