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righthand ◴[] 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 ◴[] 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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TheOtherHobbes ◴[] No.44409451[source]
They're not just petty, they're wildly impractical.

You can't privatise NOAA and the services it offers. It cannot work at an equivalent level as a private service. Its effectiveness relies on being able to decide what's valuable in purely scientific terms, and those terms don't align with short-term corporate greed.

But if you ask these cranks what NOAA actually does, they'll have no clue. They're not just evil, they're stupid - the smallest, most banal bureaucrats, cosplaying radicals.

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1. tokai ◴[] No.44409569[source]
>It cannot work [...] as a private service

But with public contracts it can be a very effective way to line ones pockets with tax payer money.