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UrHuckleberry

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The CEO of the cloud seeding company and the guy who did the actual cloud seeding has been very active on Twitter. There is a long and in my opinion very productive conversation about what happened.

He claims what they did would not be able to have that kind of effect and is 0% responsible for the flood. I appreciate his efforts to be forthright and out in the open.

He does admit to cloud seeding in the general area 2 days before the floods. He does not think it had anything to do with the floods. It's a good conversation. Augustus Doricko is his name.

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dpic73

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The CEO of the cloud seeding company and the guy who did the actual cloud seeding has been very active on Twitter. There is a long and in my opinion very productive conversation about what happened.

He claims what they did would not be able to have that kind of effect and is 0% responsible for the flood. I appreciate his efforts to be forthright and out in the open.

He does admit to cloud seeding in the general area 2 days before the floods. He does not think it had anything to do with the floods. It's a good conversation. Augustus Doricko is his name.

@UrHuckleberry




"Yes, cloud seeding did take place in Texas on July 2, 2025, two days before the deadly flash floods in the Texas Hill Country. Rainmaker Technology Corporation, a weather modification company, conducted a brief 20-minute cloud seeding mission over eastern portions of south-central Texas, targeting two clouds that dissipated later that afternoon. However, experts, including meteorologists and the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, have stated that this operation could not have caused the floods. Cloud seeding enhances rainfall in existing clouds by up to 20% but cannot create storms or produce the massive rainfall—over 12 inches in hours—that led to the flooding, which was driven by natural weather patterns, including monsoonal moisture and remnants of Tropical Storm Barry.'


 

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Cloud seeding 🙄was so wildly successful that we abandoned the program by the late 1990’s. The strategy was to selectively seed High Sierra Cloud formations, specifically in the Big Creek Watershed, so that we had additional hydroelectric capacity in the late Summer (read as “…the highest revenue-generating time period…” 😂).

The string of hydro plants and penstocks in that system has been in place since the early part of the last century a can generate KWh’s for literally pennies. Trust me; if it was succe$$ful, they’d have kept doing it, but it just didn’t work because it doesn’t “create” water. Depending on the distribution method used for the seeding, it will leave long-standing chemical signatures…sort of like fireworks can…
 
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Palantir employees spill the tea.

Thirteen former Palantir staffers signed a letter urging the company to cut ties with the Trump administration.

Linda Xia, a former engineer, made it plain: the problem isn’t the technology, it’s how Trump wants to use it. “Combining all that data, even with the noblest of intentions, significantly increases the risk of misuse.”

Once you start merging that much personal data into one system, you’ve essentially created a digital ID for every American. And history has made one thing clear: that kind of power will be abused.


Palantir, co-founded by Trump ally Peter Thiel, has deep ties to U.S. intelligence agencies. Under Trump, it scored massive federal contracts, many without competitive bidding, worth hundreds of millions. These included deals with ICE, the Department of Defense, and Health and Human Services.

Palantir’s tech was used to help ICE track, target, and deport immigrants, often sweeping up data on U.S. citizens along the way. Now, it’s being used to build what many call a “super-database” of Americans, aggregating everything from health records and financial info to law enforcement files.

This isn’t just about surveillance. It’s about control. A centralized system tied to your identity paves the way for blacklists, digital profiling, and political repression.

The Palantir employees warn: this isn’t theoretical. The infrastructure for digital authoritarianism is being built right now, and Palantir is playing a central role.

 
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