Iran begins cloud seeding operations as drought bites • Hacker News Board

Re: Iran begins cloud seeding operations as drought bites

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Post by Aloisius » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 1:44 AM UTC

downrightmike wrote: post #209

Aloisius wrote: post #171

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Yeah and then we'd face a global economic depression and mass civil unrest since those major emissions are emitted while doing things like distributing goods like food.

Bro, we already are there... and the 3,100 are at the front of the parade to get there

What we have now is nothing compared to what would happen. We expect large scale displacement and resource wars, but over the course of decades which gives people to adjust.

What you're describing would, by contrast, would kill hundreds of millions of not billions of people in a few years or more realistically, cause extreme levels of violence to undo it.

Indeed, I imagine anyone who actually managed to do such a thing would be violently murdered by the public and their death celebrated for centuries.

Re: Iran begins cloud seeding operations as drought bites

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Post by nandomrumber » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 2:11 AM UTC

tavavex wrote: post #212

nandomrumber wrote: post #192

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The UK is number one for wrong-speech arrests.

Saudi Arabia is one of the world leaders by number of death sentences. They have no qualms with putting you to death or giving you life imprisonment for all sorts of things, including "wrong-speech" in the form of leaving the state religion, or opposing the government. The UK isn't some shining beacon of freedom by Western standards, but it's not even in the same universe as Saudi Arabia.

At least Saudi Arabia has a positive trajectory. SA parents can genuinely see improvements in their kids lifetime.

Compared to whatever tf the UK thinks it’s doing.

Why should UK citizens want their government to invest in infrastructure and defence capabilities if they’re just handing same to radical Islamists.

Re: Iran begins cloud seeding operations as drought bites

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Post by mkoubaa » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 3:00 PM UTC

kcplate wrote: post #220

mkoubaa wrote: post #217

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I think the point is that you can't ban houses through policy but you can ban golf courses. So like it or not (and I sympathize with your point), the policy knobs that can be used to curb water can only directly influence things like golf courses, but they can indirectly affect home water usage through utility pricing.

Reality is that if you are going to convert 150-200 acres of course space to residential, it’s not going to happen organically. A developer will come in and drop infrastructure and a couple of hundred homes, and then add an active HOA so folks feel good about that nice neighborhood maintaining their property values. That is going to likely demand a level of property maintenance that will work to counter any utility p…

The homes are going to be built somewhere anyways. The environmental cost of those homes can't be accounted for as a cost of closing a golf course.

Re: Iran begins cloud seeding operations as drought bites

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Nov 19, 2025, 1:33 AM UTC

kcplate wrote: post #219

Forgeties79 wrote: post #203

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Public parks directly serve way more people than golf courses and don’t discriminate based on income (or class, ethnicity, etc) to the same degree, if at all.

On any given Saturday the public parks around me (that are free to enter) have far less people than the golf courses around me. So just because it can serve more people, doesn’t mean that it does. Also, pretty sure you will be hard pressed in 2025 to find courses actively discriminating anyone who has the $$ to spend to play a round. Every course I have played in the last 40 years seems to have all sorts of people fr…

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