They shut down the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program. Not that the data are important for civilian safety or military operations or anything.i guess Trumps sharpies will be doing all the forecasting now.

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Edited: 06/28/2025 at 06:11 AM by scombrid

In what world is this a good idea?
This is insane.


https://www.theguardian.com/us...ne-forecasting-climate
https://wtop.com/national/2025...xperts-sound-an-alarm/

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If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC - KV

What are they trying to accomplish? I guess the question is should be asking is: Who will profit from these decisions?

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They don't want anyone to measure gas or ice cover. They don't care that they are blinkering meteorologist by disappearing the data.

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They are schizophrenic in their cuts and they cut before they understand. It's like they don't understand what they did until it's done and the pushback embarrassed them to undo it.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

They mindlessly cut to look tough and appear as if they're making big changes, then all of a sudden realize that they f'd up, so they quietly bring these programs back when no one is looking. Happening right now

Seaspray is right.
Most if this is for the optics and Trump wants a legislative win so he and the MAGA can declare victory in some weird fashion.

They will then backtrack and some will say they didn't know what was in the bill, etc.

Elon Musk posted this:
"The latest Senate draft bill will destroy millions of jobs in America and cause immense strategic harm to our country!" Musk wrote in a post on X. "Utterly insane and destructive. It gives handouts to industries of the past while severely damaging industries of the future."

He is looking out for his own interests, but he is also right about the impacts.



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If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC - KV


Edited: 06/29/2025 at 07:21 AM by Bamboo

>>"It's not an issue of funding cuts," says Mark Serreze, the director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center, a federally funded research center in Colorado that has relied on the soon-to-be-terminated Defense Department data to track sea ice since 1979. "There are cybersecurity concerns. That's what we're being told."<<

This may not be the administration's usual dumbfuckery.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

Or put in different people who don't think climate change is real. Name the system something different and bring it back like it was their creation that will safe all the trailer trash from certain doom.

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It was fun while it lasted.

Data hurt their far-right feelings.

Everything hurt the far-rights feeling.

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It was fun while it lasted.

Defunding Weather Studies is never a good move.

Derp State

Higher Prices.

More Wars.

Less Freedom.

No Weather Data.

Maga!

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Edited: 06/29/2025 at 05:07 PM by fishkller

It's an open war on science. From healthcare to interplanetary studies and beyond; it's all getting the ax.

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