• Des [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    57
    ·
    edit-2
    2 days ago

    i know it’s lib but I was dreading this shit starting to mess with the weather services. One of the undeniably good functions of this government, and i’m not just saying that because im a weather nerd and storm spotter.

    Like if they take down the NWS site holy fuck. I know the heritage project wants to paywall it, likely in service to Accuweather. I long ago stopped looking at weather underground and just go straight to the source. There’s also a great app on f-droid called Wx which just plugs directly into it and organizes everything for mobile. It’s just juicy data, GOES sat, all the radars, convective outlook, walls-of-text from forecasters (that i read in my head like a 1890s telegraph), and that lovely circa 2008 web format style.

      • Des [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        36
        ·
        2 days ago

        Yeah really torn between “some of this will benefit the world when the U.S. Empire dies” and “it might actually result in a more violently fascist, pissed off Network State that can blacken the sky with killdrones to genocide the Western Hemisphere”

        I do think if they fuck something up severely enough to cut SS/medicare/foodstamps we will actually see real riots. All the procedural illegal norms shit is one thing but if everyone gets hit in the material conditions it might go bad very quickly.

        • picklemeister [she/her]@hexbear.net
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          1 day ago

          yeah, the current collapse is not the version that crumbles with a minimum of collateral damage to the rest of the world. this is the flailing, wounded animal thrashing around in a china shop smashing everything within reach on its way down.

        • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          25
          ·
          2 days ago

          if everyone gets hit in the material conditions it might go bad very quickly.

          And every important person in or connected to the democratic party will lecture Americans on the importance of "peaceful protests". I wonder what they’ll say if they, themselves, are the targets for violence or even execution. I guess at that point they’ll drop the “peaceful” stuff.

          • TheLastHero [he/him]@hexbear.net
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            24
            ·
            1 day ago

            If things reach this point, much like the Kadets and Trudoviks in Russia, that brand of libs will become irrelevant in the face of mass popular unrest, and then they die or go into exile to become insufferable opinion columnists

            • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              19
              ·
              1 day ago

              go into exile to become insufferable opinion columnists

              Hello, I’m Resistance Mike and welcome to my Substack. Sorry, I will not using my full name for the safety and security of me and my Canadian wife. Now that we fled the US and are safely in Canada - I can inform you unfettered at a safe remove from the tyranny of The Orange Buffoon. First though I need to ask a favor. To continue in my efforts I’m asking for a small donation…

            • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]@hexbear.net
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              10
              ·
              1 day ago

              that brand of libs will become irrelevant in the face of mass popular unrest, and then they die or go into exile to become insufferable opinion columnists

              they’ll just pretend they were republicans all along, just like how republicans pretend they were against the iraq war all along, or against outsourcing all along, or how libs also say they liked toxic masculinity all along

        • buttwater [they/them]@hexbear.net
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          14
          ·
          1 day ago

          I think he wants riots. He wants to redo 2020 but “win this time”. He wants to massacre protesters and then massacre the rioters. He has a massive police and military force on hand. In combination with rewinning the presidency and surviving assassination attempts, he’s riding very high.

    • I’m also a weather nerd. worked in and around ag for almost 2 decades. want to retire to my kitchen garden and live seasonally in my sunset years.

      I dread what is waiting for us all on the other side of a dismantled NWS. it is one of the great achievements of modernity and already was critical before we locked ourselves into the worst climate destabilization models.

      santorun was working for AccuWeather when he wanted to privatize it all 10 years ago and that was a fringe position among conservative Republicans. but now that the wrecking ball is swinging, it seems like everything is on the menu except, prisons, police and war.

  • SoyViking [he/him]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    19
    ·
    1 day ago

    Isn’t there someone connected to the real economy inside the regime who knows how bad this will be for business?

    This fucks with aviation, shipping, agriculture, planning fascist rallies… there must be someone in Washington who realises how self-destructive this is.

  • Coolkidbozzy [he/him]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    42
    ·
    edit-2
    2 days ago

    From my limited understanding (dated an oceanographer for like a month), pretty sure this cripples them almost entirely. Like, pretty sure most projects are done via international collaborations since oceans/weather don’t stop at the border

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    26
    ·
    edit-2
    2 days ago

    Each and every day is a tsunami of horrible batshit news. This is crazy.

    According to another source and the NOAA, the incommunicado orders extend to the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS). In addition to gathering data from across the federal government, NESDIS relies on a wide range of international partners. NESDIS’s weather and climate data is essential not only to air transportation safety, but to combat drought, monitor coral reef destruction, and safeguard railway shipping carriers against dangerous weather.

  • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    12
    ·
    1 day ago

    If the weather institutes are completely destroyed, it becomes much easier to blame immigants of teh gays for the weather.