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Please tell me the Space Weather website is not going away Why is the country being destroyed like this? It will cost ten times more than it saves, it's just
by ck2 2y ago
Please tell me the Space Weather website is not going away
Why is the country being destroyed like this?
It will cost ten times more than it saves, it's just chaos on purpose
- bigyabai 2y ago> Why is the country being destroyed like this? So that people like you (ingrates, from an administrative perspective) can stop paying the government to provide basic services and instead become habitually reliant on a paid alternative service.
- feraloink 2y agoI couldn't read the entire article due to paywall. From what I did read, it doesn't seem like there is ANY alternative, none at all now, for the public to access NOAA Research.
- hello_moto 2y agoPrivate will show up and be a hero any given day from now!
- cmiles74 2y agoAccuWeather has been lobbying to remove weather data from the public view for years. The idea here is that AccuWeather will have access to this data and then sell forecasts to the rest of the country. https://www.washington.edu/news/2005/05/16/plan-to-privatize-most-forecasting-would-cripple-weather-service-expert-says/ https://www.washington.edu/news/2005/05/16/plan-to-privatize... Trump's nominee to run the NOAA? The CEO of AccuWeather!
- josefritzishere 2y agoThe purpose is to enrich a few at the cost of the many. They will privatize the services we need to live, increasing the net cost of everything. They're destroying the American dream.
- feraloink 2y agoYou're referring to the Space Weather Prediction Research Center website, yes? I just checked the Newsroom for NOAA SWPC. There was nothing mentioned. I also visited their social media at https://x.com/nwsswpc https://x.com/nwsswpc and https://www.facebook.com/NWSSWPC/ https://www.facebook.com/NWSSWPC/ Nothing there either; so far, so good. NOAA Office of Space Weather Observations news https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/news-events/search-news?combine=&created%5Bmin%5D=&created%5Bmax%5D=&field_office_target_id%5B201%5D=201 https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/news-events/search-news?combine=... didn't list any changes either. I hope you don't lose access on Saturday morning.
- alabastervlog 2y ago> Why is the country being destroyed like this? Long story. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_antitrust_law#Rise_of_the_Chicago_School_(1970s–present) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_antitrust_law#Ri... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ailes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ailes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heritage_Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heritage_Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_Majority https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_Majority https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_Society https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_Society https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_tax_cuts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_tax_cuts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Cuts_and_Jobs_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Cuts_and_Jobs_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism#United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism#United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_terror#Costs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_terror#Costs That's a start. And a rise to dominance of populist conspiratorial thinking. ContraPoints had a good intro video about it recently.
- krapp 2y agoAnd Obama. A lot of this is a trauma response from the American right to the election of a Black president.
- alabastervlog 2y agoYeah, I could triple the "read this to learn more" links and it'd still not cover all of it. "The entire history of the Republican Party since Goldwater, our bad system of elections, the entire history of postwar 'think tanks', the McLuhan-sense 'message' of TV and especially the Internet, and a slow-motion more-successful knock-off of the Business Plot" covers a lot of ground.
- conception 2y agoYou missed https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics
- superkuh 2y agoI remember when the USA government spaceweather websites and FTP sites went away in the early 2010s. It was terrible. They replaced them with the current javascript monstrosities and hid the raw directories. It made automating mirroring of space weather resources much harder.