Climate

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 4 points 5 months ago

We already have crappy daily weather reporting. That’s not bad enough? (No, no it’s not.)

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[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)

Yup! The very idea that we can know anything from gathering information is abhorrent to these people.

The only source of authority is "what I say right now". The end.

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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 point 5 months ago

Even more succinctly: what Faux and the Pumpkinhead tell me is true.

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[–] unitedwithme@lemmy.today 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Time to build a FOSS version and run our own hardware

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

Sure, I'll just grab $368M from my couch cushions.

Honestly, it would be cheaper and possibly easier to raise an army of protestors to physically stop the dismantling via direct action.

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[–] unitedwithme@lemmy.today -3 points 5 months ago

Not like the gov spends efficiently. Its real cost is probably far less. Look at AirGradient, they have a map of hundreds if not thousands of sensors globally, pooled from people submitting data.

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[–] riskable@programming.dev 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'm surprised farmers aren't up in arms about this. This is the exact data that goes into the weather models that they rely on.

Is it going to rain much this season? Who TF knows! Trump removed all the sensors!

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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah, but they get to deport all the illegals and own the libs. Also, no more woke or DEI!

What does this do to improve their lives one iota? Not one thing, other than being part of a dipshit tribe.

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[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago*

You don't get it - since I don't personally understand where that weather information comes from, it is both easy to get and is magic and comes for free from nowhere. It can't be expensive or hard to get because I get it for free on the internet.