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Project 2025 aims to eliminate NOAA which makes sense because all you need to track a hurricane is a sharpie (programming.dev)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A simple reminder of the incompetence, idiocy, and insanity that was the Trump presidency. Here's the original story, in case you forgot:

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/05/hurricane-dorian-sharpie-trump-1482839

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

They want to hand that over to private AccuWeather. They already had the CEO in Trump's administration.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Jokes on them then: AccuWeather wouldn't exist without NOAA since that's where they get almost all their weather data.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Privatizing NOAA and selling it off to AccuWeather for a song, so that AccuWeather can then sell the data back at a hefty profit, is how you make oodles of money in this country.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

And is actually pretty on par for a Facist government