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US Defense Department will stop providing satellite weather data

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Re: US Defense Department will stop providing satellite weather data

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Post by justinrubek »

GiorgioG wrote: post #129
bix6 wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Heaven forbid the richest nation on earth that steals resources from everyone else contribute to global improvement.

Heaven forbid the rest of the world pays their own share of the bill. We’re not a charity. We treat our own people like shit, don’t expect to be treated better.

No, we're not a charity. We've just been the ones not paying our share of the bill. We've arranged it such that we have the best deal and we've gotten greedy now, so we are choosing to jeopardize that.

Re: US Defense Department will stop providing satellite weather data

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Post by justinrubek »

dmix wrote: post #93
skiboyec wrote: post #72

My hunch is that the location of the satellites can be deduced from the weather data. These satellites would be a target in a time of war.

Most plausible reason. National security hawks have always been extremely protective of intelligence even when the risk is tiny. Probably some DoD people (or person) wanted to keep it closed and new hawkish leadership let them do it. Who knows, the Navy hasn't released any statement beyond "cyber security risks" so there's only politics to fill in the blanks. It seems to be this agency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F…

It's not even close to being a plausible reason when project 2025 states that this needs to happen.

Re: US Defense Department will stop providing satellite weather data

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Post by 9283409232 »

kgwxd wrote: post #158
9283409232 wrote: post #35

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I recommend Ambient Weather instead of Accuweather. [0] https://ambientweather.net/

I recommend my tax dollars actually pay for something useful to citizens instead of going directly into some oligarchs off-shore banking account.

I agree but that isn't happening so I would recommend not supporting the products that enrich these oligarchs.

Re: US Defense Department will stop providing satellite weather data

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Post by ivape »

nemomarx wrote: post #26
ivape wrote: post #23

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What in the actual fuck. I can’t believe they are actually doing all those little petty things.

Genuine - did you think it was exaggerated in the media or that they wouldn't? A lot of people seem to have not taken it seriously around 2023, even though it was a very detailed plan with legal strategies, implementations and bills, etc in there.

They say all cynics used to be idealist. That’s another way of saying the idealist and cynic have the same essence.

The cynic can actually think “oh that project 2025 stuff, that’s just red meat for their base, they went actually do it”, but that’s because neither the cynic nor the idealist can face reality (remember, the cynic and idealist transform between each other).

The horror of reality is the raw hard reality, and there’s no cynicism or idealism that can prepare you for it - both were always a coping mechanism.

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Post by LexiMax »

buttercraft wrote: post #136
matthewdgreen wrote: post #127

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If we survive this, these people will go down in history as monsters.

What if they're the ones who survive and rewrite history

History isn't written by the victors. It's written by historians.

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Post by burnt-resistor »

The billionaire's mantra: "Anything free is communism! Gubberment bad!"

This is a sign of a larger effort to replay the fall of the Soviet Union in America: sell off public lands, privatize everything that was public, and charge more money and take on debt for worse services where funds are gifted as dividends to owners rather than providing value to customers because a powerful ruling class demands more money and more power.

Re: US Defense Department will stop providing satellite weather data

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Post by spwa4 »

matthewdgreen wrote: post #145
buttercraft wrote: post #136

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What if they're the ones who survive and rewrite history

Then they will do everything in their power to pretend that they didn’t drag us into this.

Given that despite open knowledge nothing was done for >50 years about climate change, there's plenty of blame to go around. Hell, I like to compare the feedback vs the forcing and the feedback has been going down since 2018. Imho that can only mean the tipping point is very close.

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Post by bamboozled »

ars wrote: post #124
Mobius01 wrote: post #6

Is this an attempt at controlling the narrative around climate change, in line with the impacts at NOAA and other climate-related government agencies?

No, this was cancelled by congress in 2015 and switched to the JPSS program which is running and active.

Could more than one thing be goin on?

Re: US Defense Department will stop providing satellite weather data

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Post by bamboozled »

aswanson wrote: post #116

Good God. The Fall of civilizations episode for the United States will be galactically stupid. The Sumerians: climate change and soil degradation. The Assyrians: external tribes organizing against their brutality. The US: fox news, AM radio, and conspiracy theory uncle Facebook memes.

Podcasts.

Re: US Defense Department will stop providing satellite weather data

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Post by tumsfestival »

LexiMax wrote: post #165
buttercraft wrote: post #136

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What if they're the ones who survive and rewrite history

History isn't written by the victors. It's written by historians.

Historians using highly biased sources from the victors.
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