WTF is a hurricane? It's just a storm, get over it.
this post was submitted on 26 Jun 2025
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
For fucks sake, can this admin get any fucking dumber?
You sure you want to ask that?
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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.
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.
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?