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US Defense Department will stop providing satellite weather data

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300 points drewr | 3 comments | 28 Jun 25 23:53 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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righthand ◴[29 Jun 25 00:36 UTC] No.44409378[source]▶
This is part of Project 2025 to destroy the NOAA. [0]

> Break up the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

> "fully commercialize" the National Weather Service's forecasting operations.[1]

[0] https://www.project2025.observer/?search=NOAA

[1] https://www.project2025.observer/?search=Weather

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ivape ◴[29 Jun 25 00:38 UTC] No.44409385[source]▶
What in the actual fuck. I can’t believe they are actually doing all those little petty things.
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1. nemomarx ◴[29 Jun 25 00:39 UTC] No.44409390[source]▶
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.
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2. righthand ◴[29 Jun 25 00:41 UTC] No.44409397[source]▶
A lot of people didn’t take it seriously because the RNC lied about distancing themselves from the Project 2025, which is a meaningless statement that even Democrats believed. It doesn’t really matter if the RNC distances themselves though does it?
3. ivape ◴[29 Jun 25 15:56 UTC] No.44414091[source]▶
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.