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US Defense Department will stop providing satellite weather data

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300 points drewr | 7 comments | 28 Jun 25 23:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.333s | source | bottom
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Mobius01 ◴[29 Jun 25 00:22 UTC] No.44409294[source]▶
Is this an attempt at controlling the narrative around climate change, in line with the impacts at NOAA and other climate-related government agencies?
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1. mason_mpls ◴[29 Jun 25 00:26 UTC] No.44409313[source]▶
Don’t look up!
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2. burnt-resistor ◴[29 Jun 25 00:31 UTC] No.44409341[source]▶
The timing is just, it's atrocious. Okay, at this very moment, I say we sit tight and assess.
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3. TheRealPomax ◴[29 Jun 25 01:06 UTC] No.44409527[source]▶
That's what got us here in the first place, maybe stop doing that.
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4. dzhiurgis ◴[29 Jun 25 01:32 UTC] No.44409659{3}[source]▶
To where? Stock market ath and free AI for the masses?
5. verandaguy ◴[29 Jun 25 01:56 UTC] No.44409754{3}[source]▶
"Sit tight and assess" as used above is probably a reference to the movie "Don't Look Up" from a few years ago, which (heavy-handedly) parodied administrations like Trump I (and which unortunately seem much less like parody in the Trump II era).
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6. chamomeal ◴[29 Jun 25 03:02 UTC] No.44410026[source]▶
^ I’m pretty sure this is a quote from the movie Don’t Look Up, if that’s why y’all are downvoting this comment
7. TheRealPomax ◴[04 Jul 25 20:19 UTC] No.44467565{4}[source]▶
having literally never heard of this, despite being in North America, it's a good idea to not make assumptions about who's seen which pop culture thing.