Overheard a guy at the DMV say chemtrails are just 'water vapor plus'

I was waiting for my number to get called in the Sacramento DMV last Friday, and this older guy next to me pointed at the sky, said that exact quote. He claimed jet engines spray 'electrolytes to calm us down' and that he could taste it in the rain. I pulled up a satellite tracking app on my phone and showed him the actual flight paths for the last hour, all matching commercial routes. He just shrugged and said 'they hide it in the metadata.' Has anyone else tried to reason with a stranger like that and hit a total wall?

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kimmurphy1mo ago

My brother-in-law swears the moon landing was filmed in a soundstage in Burbank. I tried once to show him the footage of the astronauts bouncing around and the dust flying, but he said the cameras were rigged to make it look floaty. Then he told me the real reason we stopped going is because they found aliens living in the craters. I just sat there eating my burger and nodded. Some folks have an answer for everything, and it ain't worth the headache to untangle it. I figure if they're happy in their world, let them be.

spencer_park261mo ago

...and honestly the 'electrolytes to calm us down' part got me more than the rest. Like buddy, if the government really wanted to calm people down at the DMV they'd just hand out free coffee and faster numbers, not mess with the weather. I mean, electrolytes are what plants crave, that's like a dumb movie reference, not a conspiracy theory. The fact that he said he could taste it in the rain is what really threw me. Rain already tastes like nothing, or maybe a little like wet dirt if you're standing in it. How do you even know what a chemical tastes like up there? That's some next level imagination, I'll give him that. The metadata excuse just sealed the deal, there's no winning against someone who claims the proof is hidden in the system. You did way more than I would have, I'd have just nodded and checked my phone again.