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[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 33 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

see this is the kinda shit i don't understand, what do they gain from this? It's like banning umbrellas, are they literally just trying to optimize suffering and deaths?

[–] knightly@pawb.social 29 points 4 weeks ago

Trump is mad at NOAA for reporting a reality that contradicts his delusions:

https://www.aol.com/news/trump-nominates-sharpiegate-scientist-lead-193834394.html

[–] Fluke@lemm.ee 26 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

How do you deny human climate change when the data is unequivocal?

Get rid of the data of course.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago

We wouldn't have so many COVID cases if we stopped testing.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 10 points 4 weeks ago

No, they're trying to optimize profits. News outlets will still be expected to do weather reports. Tons of jobs will still require weather data. This way, they can sell access to that data through private firms like AccuWeather.

It's business.

Less govt infrastructure and more money paid to private organisations.

Every job cut from government offices is a job created in a private firm.

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 3 points 4 weeks ago

Truth is anathema to those who profit from misinformation.

[–] weariedfae@sh.itjust.works 15 points 4 weeks ago

I'm not okay.

[–] Doolbs@lemmy.world 12 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

They want to put us under mushrooms and shit on us so we won't know anything at all.

[–] Tikiporch@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Close. It's called "mushrooming", keep the subject in the dark and shit on them.

[–] Doolbs@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Thank you for the clarification.

I used to work at a place, and in my cubicle I drew a picture of a cubicle drone under a mushroom (not a bad pic either), and I had to explain it to people.

Thanks again.

[–] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Heeey ! What's wrong with mushrooms? I mean they are literally anti-consumer/anti-capitalism/...

There's nothing wrong with them except they open your eyes to how shitty our society is and to become anti-consumer. That wouldn't fit their agenda and that's also why the food of gods are illegal :| !

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago

Wind chimes, a barometer and a thermometer will make it obvious if bad weather is rolling in. Problem is, we need predictive data.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 weeks ago

They want to nickle and dime you for everything.

[–] Bravebellows@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 3 weeks ago

Time to set up our own LoRa stations and decentralize our data worldwide

[–] h1ghfly3r@lemm.ee 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm a flight instructor. I use these weather reports every day to make safe decisions for me and my students. Flight training already costs so much, having us pay for weather, which is a service the gov has and should continue to provide for free using tax money to fund is essential. It's ridiculous and will lead to alot of issues. Airlines will probably be fine. But General Aviation will have problems...

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago

It will literally affect everything.

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago

What a bunch of fucktards!

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 weeks ago

I vaguely recall Thatcher government in UK also tried to privatise the weather, added layers of complicated accounting (not sure how is now - how much of this got rolled back ? ).

[–] featured@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I wonder if there’s any sort of alternative, community weather system that is run for the public good. I’m envisioning an open source ecosystem where people buy commodity weather instruments (barometers, thermometers, anemometers) and then connect them to a program which feeds them to a larger decentralized network. Then people could make visuals of the conglomerate data to see low pressure and high pressure areas, track storms, etc. If that backbone existed you could also create a distributed computational model like we see in projects like ‘folding from home’ in order to create forecast maps. Just spitballing but if anybody knows of programs that do any part of this I’d love to hear about them

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

https://www.weather.gov/cle/CWOP

It is likely networks like this will be adopted by a university or volunteer should the need arise. Search the keyword "citizen science."

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Does this mention trump's relationship with the weather channel guy?