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About project 2025:
The plan, spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation, says that the weather service should “fully commercialize its forecasting operations” and focus on providing data to private companies.
It also calls for a “review” of the work of the National Hurricane Center. It acknowledges that the center provides important public safety information, but also says its data should be presented “neutrally” rather than in a way that makes points about climate change.
Officials were caught off guard? What do you mean? Was anybody watching the last election and reading project 2025? None of this is a shock.
Holy shit, they actually fucked over NOAA.
Fucking why.
They literally do nothing but benefit the world.
I am so tired of this shit, either let me fuck off and live in the woods so I never have to interact with this again or just end everything now, the world they are building isn't worth living in.
Fuck.
Fucking why.
Because it will cause major issues, people will demand a replacement, and a private company owned by someone who bribed Trump will swoop in and "save" everyone with a subpar solution that is worse and cost more.
Petty revenge for not agreeing with trump's sharpie forecast.
They get off on hurting people. They want to hurt everyone but themselves, and sucking up to them only delays the harm they will cause to you. They don't care how they're remembered, as long as people keep saying their names.
They don't care how they're remembered, as long as people keep saying their names.
This is the only thing that could explain Musk's actions of the last several months as a believable rational choice. He realized he is not going to be around to see immortality or brain downloads or whatever, so he has to make his name and image immortal instead.
Of course, there are numerous other reasons that could explain it, many of them personality flaws.
Can some one send this mother fucker on his way already?
It's silly to invest in all this expensive technology when you can just look out a window and draw these things with a sharpie.
what the actual chicken fried fuck?
did they do this because they don't want data about climate change to exist? don't these fuckwads know how much shipping companies rely on that information? not to mention the actual fucking navy
It creates a need that a private company can then fill. It's greed and grift all the way down with these fucks.
Edit: (Bonus fuckery when they sell the existing instruments to said company for a "pay to play" access to information that was historically always free)
That already exists. It's called The Weather Channel, powered by Doppler Radar.
Navy still gets the data, NOAA is getting cut off.
i can't fucking believe we have to deal with this toddler stomping his feet about his stupid wrong weather statement being contradicted that one time by an agency whose entire purpose for existence is studying and forecasting the weather
Truly clownworld
Hey what we cant see cant hurt us, right, right?!?!?!?
War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Ignorance Is Strength.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows
Why don't people realize Dear Leader (and his Sharpie) is all that's required for ultimately accurate and divinely inspired hurricane forecasting??
You have to wonder why the administration's trying to make Americans less safe. You don't have to wonder that I know why, but you should ask him. Constantly. Loudly.
With this and FEMA being drawn down I'm guessing Trump wants to create cheap real estate for his rich friends to buy up. If you can't rebuild you'll move and take what you can get for the rubble you used to call home.
Killing adult Americans is part of the plan to get the population to trend younger again. However you can take out adult Americans and increase infant Americans will be taken advantage of
And at a high rate of fire.
All by themselves, weather forecasting satellites justify every dollar put into space programs. The lives saved are incalculable. We are squandering that benefit for no reason whatsoever.
Sure there is a reason.
Cause a big enough catastrophe and you can declare Martial Law.
This was originally in the DOGE plan. What took so long to process? I've been watching for news on this catastrophic decision.
In lieu of actual vital data, the DOD will be sending out tRump-branded black Sharpies.
WTF is a hurricane? It's just a storm, get over it.
A storm with heavy rain and extreme winds. A category 5 storm can reach windspeeds of over 157 mph (252 km/h). These things destroy buildings.
It was a joke.
There are no hurricane when there's nothing to predict them. It's just a storm. There's no covid because we don't test for it.
Waiting, sadly, for GPS to go back to being obfuscated again. It's bound to happen. Want GPS? You gotta pay.
Seems off topic, I know, but they did this (hurricane) by turning off satellite feeds
Luckily, the EU also has Galileo, and Russia has GLONASS (skeptical about the latter, but it exists).
Nearly every GPS-capable device has access to both of those as well as the US-based GPS.
Yeah, I considered mentioning that there are alternatives, but there was a review just in 2024 by the FCC to see if they were going to continue to allow Galileo to be recieved. And even then I think it's only two channels.
Which tells me the FCC could determine it illegal and force an update, at least to commercial devices like cell phones.
Take this with a grain of salt, its from memory. I would be happy to have someone verify this.
Yep, that is a very real possibility.
What a fucking world we live in.
For fucks sake, can this admin get any fucking dumber?
They can and will
You sure you want to ask that?
Because having less knowledge always works out. Between this and the loss of FEMA, we should get even more "I didn't vote for this". Yes, you did. You just weren't listening.
If you don't know about the hurricane it can't hurt you.
mmm. comment about real estate prices in florida or on how presidential markers will be the new forecast. so many options.
...In USA.
Man there should be separate community for USA news. Or at least a flair.
I'm sick of their news appearing everywhere. Technology, economy, health... all these communities usually have USA specific news on top.
Use !world@lemmy.world rather than !news@lemmy.world if you don't want US-specific news. That's specifically what that community was created for (as well as its predecessor on Reddit, /r/worldnews...which eventually forked into /r/animetiddies due to Reddit drama, but that's another story).
EDIT: Also, I was gonna say "if you want more news from elsewhere, you could also submit it", but I see that a significant chunk of your recent submissions were...on US politics, so...
Did you miss the part about other communities as well?
I live in the US and I'm sick of us being in the news as well. But the fact is that the fall of America is big news.
Cool. Give us only broad strokes. No need to hear about every nitty-gritty like Big Balls leaving DOGE or anything.
You're free to keep scrolling past articles about the US
That's absolutely fair.