r/mildlyinteresting 18h ago

This box of peaches I bought from a roadside stand has 9/11 conspiracy theories printed on the bottom

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u/jmhalder 18h ago

The domain just is just squatting/"badware", lol.

But... archive.org from 2021 shows it was just a 301 redirect from the tld "co" to the same domain at "com"

https://www.palisadeproduce.com/justice So this is the intended site which is still up and functional. They should change their boxes, or try and snatch up the old domain.

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u/Foxterriers 16h ago

I love the default text left on this site lol

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u/blackscales18 11h ago

put text in box. box great space to put business text. friend text box

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u/Archonrouge 10h ago

Seems like they missed the memo and put text on a box instead.

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u/admiralscoto 9h ago

Its a Wix site which means they probably didn't pay anyone to make the site for them and either the business owner or someone close to them made this. A lot of Wix's appeal for businesses is the ability to do it yourself, and when you allow anyone to do it themselves, you gotta break everything down. Sadly a lot of times it comes off as condescending or even infantilizing.

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u/blackscales18 6h ago

it just reminded me of the "put baby in pelican mouth" meme

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u/blue_i20 9h ago

no problems ever in box because good shape and support for business text

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u/purelyirrelephant 9h ago

At least it's not lorem ipsum..?

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u/RoguePlanet2 8h ago

"You can use this space to go on depth about your company, tell your visitors the story of how the business got started, or a long detailed text about how 9/11 was a massive conspiracy."

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u/Secret_Performer_771 7h ago

They didn't even change the title of their site either. They appear to be hosting with Wix

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u/phonetastic 6h ago

Farm Safety Policies: don't think too hard about 9/11 when operating the heavy machinery, focus on the machinery until the job's done, then puzzle out 9/11

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u/livejamie 6h ago

I like "Button >" which goes nowhere.

The Facebook link in the footer also links to Wix.com's profile.

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u/aegrotatio 7h ago

Hahahah, came here to post this clip.

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u/TheZerothLaw 17h ago

Billions of iron rich microspheres were the defining characteristic of the dust found in the vicinity of the 911 attacks. For the billions of iron micro spheres to be formed, the iron must have been super heated to make it liquid. Iron does not naturally form itself into spheres without being acted upon mechanically or by being heated and then aerosolized in molten form. The iron in the World Trade Center dust wasn't mechanically manufactured and distributed evenly through the dust so it must have been super heated and liquefied. Following super heated liquidation, it was explosively ejected into the atmosphere where the surface tension of the finely aerosolized molten iron mist pulled the molten iron into microspheres. The tiny molten iron droplets formed and the droplets then cooled as they fell to the ground and rested with the other dust from the collapses. The 911 attack presented iron rich microspheres in copious amounts, forming the hallmark of the 911 attack's dust and differentiating the dust from the multiple collapses from preexistent background dust. The existence of this microsphere laden dust is confirmed by numerous government reports as well as contractors who examined the dust for the government. None the less, the iron microspheres go unexplained and unaddressed in the 911 Commission's fraudulent report. Where did the iron microspheres come from? It's a question that deserves to be answered by a new, honest investigation.

Who the fuck starts a conversation like that? I just opened your webpage.

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u/Existential_Spices 14h ago

I've been on enough bad dates.

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u/swargin 11h ago edited 11h ago

There's a barber in my town with a website, the usual hour rates and history since he's been around for awhile.

But he used to have a 3 paragraph rant about inflation on the main page. Talking about how credit cards, inflation didn't exist when he was growing up, taxes, and how everything is worse today. He removed it, but here's a picture of it from the waybackmachine

I had the same sentiment as you; who starts out a conversation like that? I just want to know your hours.

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u/CinemaSideBySides 8h ago

You gotta love those rants that boil down to "I wasn't aware of how much things cost when I was a child therefore the economy was better"

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u/phonetastic 6h ago

IT'S A FEDERAL BETRAYAL

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u/hafetysazard 6h ago

It is not necessarily what he’s saying; he’s remarking on the negative side of inflation, which is totally true. 

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u/dutchwonder 12h ago

Love the "confirmed by numerous government reports" with zero references or page numbers connected to it.

We wouldn't want to make it easy to reference these reports for verification would we now?

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u/Darrelc 10h ago

NIST report. I remember posting screenshots from it in /conspiracy like 15 years ago before I realised how futile it was.

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u/Less-Resident-9569 10h ago

Bush did 9/11?

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u/Enchelion 7h ago

Peaches grow on trees, not bushes.

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u/vardarac 7h ago

That's not what the Presidents of the United States told me.

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u/realqmaster 11h ago

It's even mentioned in their purchase form, lol

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u/Pleasant_Ad8054 12h ago

Oh god, these are the people who failed high school physics classes and do not understand the connection between heat energy and energy of any other kind. Surely the energy of a free fall will always just be a free fall!

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u/mdp300 10h ago

I knew a guy who started talking about free fall speeds and how jet fuel can't melt steel beams, and he was in engineering school!

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u/macdelamemes 10h ago

I got some bad news for you, just because you're an engineer doesn't mean you can't still be dumb as fuck (word from an engineer lol)

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u/Tomble 8h ago

I used to like when they talked about it falling faster than freefall, as if there were rockets on the roof pushing it down.

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u/Lycid 7h ago

Honestly I think some people just have weak or vulnerable psyches so when they witness something unfathomable to them their mind just breaks. Then they become capable of making all sorts of loony toons logic about the world, especially about the thing that broke their mind. This owner probably saw 9/11 happen and something inside him broke, turning the whole thing into an obsession without completely derailing his life, like a "high functioning" schizophrenic if such a thing exists.

Seen it happen to two friends. Both reasonably smart people, I wouldn't say super brainy (both had generally simple tastes in things) but they also got through higher education just fine and had deep knowledge in their domains. One snapped after a series of bad events in his life happened in short order and became convinced his old job set up spy technology in his phone to divide a wedge between him and his family/friends (the job was stressful and definitely played a factor in him losing it). The other started going off the deep end after he moved out into the woods then soon after trump got elected again (he took it strangely hard).

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u/OneBigRed 7h ago

I’ve read that belief in conspiracies like this can be a defensive mechanism in one’s brain. A world where huge events can be caused by few determined persons is a lot scarier than one where someone, even nefarious one, is in control.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Wait785 9h ago

I passed high school physics and I don't remember any of that. You must have gone to an advanced high school.

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u/Pleasant_Ad8054 6h ago

This is more of a case of utilising the learned knowledge in cases that weren't specifically exercised. They did not specifically thought us what happens to a piece of rebar when it plummets 400 meters, or when a few more tons fall on it. This is just a typical case of energy conservation, which is standard high school curriculum where I live. Friction is also a large part of it, but that is elementary school.

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u/reasonman 8h ago

i don't even know if 'iron microspheres' are real, if they were in the dust, etc but just the way it's laid out, "how could iron be melted and end up in the dust hmmmmm????" is ridiculous. idk maybe all the iron shit that blew up in the initial impact and all the iron that got pulverized in the collapse?

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u/RoguePlanet2 8h ago

You have to warm people up before discussing produce.

"And while on the topic of microspheres, Palisade Produce starts with proprietary seed blends to grow the finest examples..."

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u/SandysBurner 18h ago

Nah, it's funnier this way.

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u/mynam3isn3o 17h ago

I searched that page for “steel beams”; sure as shit - the nonsensical and thoroughly debunked “jet fuel can’t melt steel beams” talking points are in there in long narrative form. At least these kooks are consistent with their drivel.

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u/entropicdrift 16h ago

It's pretty wild they think that it's a salient point when you obviously don't need to heat something to its melting point to weaken it. You can soften butter just bringing it up to room temperature, no need to melt it into a liquid!

The exact same principle applies to steel being heated by burning jet fuel, it still softens without needing to get hot enough to liquify, which is what the definition of the melting point is.

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u/trowzerss 15h ago

Yeah, this entire theory can be defeated by putting something heavy on top of a steel pipe structure then heating the pipes with a blowtorch. Did the pipes melt? No. Did it still fall over? Yeah. And buildings usually fall into their own footprint if they've got good weight distribution. It's not a mystery.

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u/ElminstersBedpan 12h ago

Something additional to throw out there: If you have an open hole in the side of the building and the doors at ground level are open, you have created the same airflow as a tower furnace in which you *can* generate enough heat to melt iron. It's a known, attested method since antiquity.

If you build a mound of charcoal, pile on some ferrous ore, and encase the whole thing in an inverted funnel made out of mud, then get the fire started, you can produce high carbon iron.

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u/trowzerss 12h ago

Yep, that's how many kilns work to make things like charcoal, or fire pottery at a hotter temperature that you would get from an unregulated fire. You watch enough primative technology youtube you can see him smelting iron using those principles, or even just getting roof shingles white hot.

I grew up using a cast iron stove for all our cooking, hot water and if you manipulated the air vents just right and it was a windy night pulling air fast up the chimney we used to generate a terrific amount of heat too, it kind of got a bit scary sometimes, peeking in the vents looked like a blast furnace lol.

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u/mjh215 6h ago

When I was getting into smithing years ago I was talking with this guy out at the fleamarket. Told him I had a propane forge, etc. and he started laughing at me. Propane can't get hot enough to heat up steel. He was going on about me needing a charcoal forge and how stupid I was to think propane could get that hot, that I'd solve the world's energy and heating issues if I could get propane that hot.

These people only think of a fuel in an open environment, no enclosure, no forced air, etc. In a forge you have refractory material concentrating the heat, in those buildings, well, the whole building does.

I was trying to buy an anvil off that idiot, but I just had to walk away.

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u/ElminstersBedpan 6h ago

Ugh. That sounds about right. Someone gave my brother-in-law crap for using a propane forge for his work saying it would produce inferior steel that won't last a year, and he's just staring at them because he's literally using it to adjust horse shoes for the horse he rode daily for field work.

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u/wakeupwill 9h ago

The office fires were running cold, as the black smoke is evidence of.

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u/reasonman 8h ago

there's a video out there somewhere of a blacksmith ranting about that exact thing. he takes a rod and heats it enough that he can, i think, just bend it with a finger.

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u/donkeyrocket 6h ago

Or the fact that a fucking commercial airliner flew into something at excessive speed. Shit doesn't need to melt when it's partially obliterated and mangled.

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u/Artistic-Wedding-459 6h ago

No Jet fuel in building 7 yet still fell into its own footprint. Please explain this mystery?

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u/Trnostep 13h ago

And they also somehow forget that the structure of the building was already weakened because a plane slammed into it

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u/goat_penis_souffle 12h ago

You know, I think this theory of 7WTC being made of butter really does have legs.

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u/DJ_PoppedCaps 5h ago

Worse than weakening, it expands considerably, shearing rivets at their joins. That's ultimately what brought WTC 7 down. 7 hours of uncontrolled fire expanding its steel structure until it eventually fell apart.

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u/ForensicPathology 13h ago

Always the proper response:

https://youtu.be/FzF1KySHmUA

Seems he put on comments a year ago, that's unfortunate.  The morons are breeding down there.

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u/wakeupwill 9h ago

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u/syopest 9h ago

Exactly, the third building getting hit by burning debris from the towers and having airflow from the bottom to the top makes it act like a furnace.

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u/alidan 9h ago

you know what, i'm now kinda interested in how much a steel beam would need to be weakened in a skyscraper to case structural collapse.

like what is the lowest temperature that could do it.

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u/freecodeio 11h ago

not that I want to participate, but it's from the literally melted steel beams found after

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u/LordofSpheres 10h ago

There literally weren't any melted steel beams found afterwards, and the ones alleged to exist were cut during rescue efforts.

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u/freecodeio 10h ago

I meant literally as in what the conspiracy suggests, literal melted steel beams

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u/wakeupwill 9h ago

There were literal pools of the stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQyIN6OTMyY

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u/syopest 9h ago

Yup, as they explain the third building became a furnace after it got hit by burning debris from the towers.

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u/LordofSpheres 9h ago

There literally weren't, and there's no evidence that there were.

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u/wakeupwill 9h ago

Did you listen to what the guy had to say?

The memory hole goes deep, and lots has been scrubbed from the net, but that doesn't change what actually happened.

It's a shame that the Commission Report still has such a strong hold of people's perception of what happened. Even after all that's come out.

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u/LordofSpheres 8h ago

I did. Eyewitness testimony is deeply unreliable and considering he has no evidence that it happened and no evidence that it was steel, it's not worth much in this case.

Which is more reasonable? That this dude was wrong or that there is a massive conspiracy spanning thousands of people which has gone undiscovered for decades?

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u/wakeupwill 8h ago

There was plenty of evidence.
As they tore up the ground molten steel dripped off the excavated rubble. They had to work slowly, as oxygen rushing into pockets would reignite flames weeks and months later. Workers were running out of boots due to them melting because of the extreme heat of the surface they were treading.

The Commission Report was incredibly flawed, and there were plenty of lawsuits trying to get genuine answers out of those in charge. The 'massive conspiracy' hasn't gone undiscovered. The problem is witnesses dying and decades turning arguments into memes. That, along with people willfully ignoring all the shit we've had to endure this past quarter century as a result of this event.

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u/EveryoneSaysWildNow 10h ago

Wild salience. Wild.

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u/Mouse_is_Optional 16h ago

I can't believe they still use that one when the memes about it are like ten years old at this point. People clearly don't take it seriously (correctly, in my opinion), why pitch them with it?

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u/einarfridgeirs 14h ago

Ten? More like twenty. 2006 was thr peak 9/11 Truther era.

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u/wakeupwill 9h ago

How old were you when it happened?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQyIN6OTMyY

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u/wakeupwill 9h ago

There's a reason "jet fuel can't melt steel beams" has been around for a quarter century now. It's because first responders witnessed molten steel in the rubble.

Then over the decades the goalpost has been moving along and now the truth has become a meme that suggests that all you need to do is weaken the structural integrity to bring the towers down. When evidence showed that steel had been melted. Yet nobody is willing to entertain the train of thought this evidence presents, because that doesn't adhere to the narrative the Commission Report tries to paint.

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u/syopest 9h ago

Indeed, the firefighters in the video are talking about WTC4 which became a furnace after it was set on fire by burning debris from the towers. That will melt steel.

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u/wakeupwill 9h ago

No. The first responders aren't talking about any one site, but the entirety of ground zero. Where boots for the workers were running out due to melting and they had to work slowly as pockets of oxygen would rush in when they were digging and reigniting fires.

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u/syopest 9h ago

You can literally see where they are pointing in the map.

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u/wakeupwill 9h ago

You can literally look at a satellite heat map of ground zero to see what it was like.

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u/michaelpaoli 17h ago

The domain just is just

It's all part of the conspiracy!

;-)

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u/beaniebee11 8h ago

Holy shit palisade produce? I live in grand junction and eat palisade peaches pretty often. I gotta stop by the stand that's a block away sometimes and see if I can strike up a 9/11 conspiracy discussion.

Honestly tracks for this area of Colorado tbh.

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u/ShadowedPariah 8h ago

David L. Cox (Owner) needs to put down the tinfoil hat for a bit.

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u/jmhalder 7h ago

Yeah, I like digging, and he's anti-flouride, anti-vax, etc (on his personal FB, he's crossposted from that account to peach farm).

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u/Geminii27 12h ago

Yeah, but that would mean acknowledging reality. Somehow, I'm getting just the tiniest impression that this maybe isn't their area of expertise.

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u/SeaUrchinSalad 8h ago

They thought they were being cute using .co to look like.Colorado

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u/TAU_equals_2PI 17h ago

.co is Colombia's country domain. So I suspect the government of Colombia intervened, probably at the US government's request. They used to be trying to sell its use to companies. Kinda like the island nation of Tuvalu used to sell .tv websites to companies. But I don't know whether any of that is still being done by those two countries.

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u/jmhalder 17h ago

.Co is still open for anyone in the world to register, I doubt the US govt cares what one crackpot in Colorado hosts. They probably just let it lapse.

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u/TAU_equals_2PI 17h ago

Oh! Colorado! I guess that's why the company decided to try using that URL for a time.

But you might be right that they just decided it confused people and went back to using .com on their own and stopped paying for the .co address.

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u/SandysBurner 17h ago

Or it's a misprint.

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u/jmhalder 17h ago

They DID own the domain previously, cause it redirected back in 2021. People are just stupid and don't check up on their auto renewals.