A simple reminder of the incompetence, idiocy, and insanity that was the Trump presidency. Here's the original story, in case you forgot:
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/05/hurricane-dorian-sharpie-trump-1482839
The funny thing is that NOAA and NWS are part of the Department of Commerce, the department that directly works with businesses to ensure that goods and services can plan for the weather. They track ocean currents, wind patterns, and yes temperature changes.
The accuracy of their models have become so good that we have pretty darn good forecasting now.
All so that Walmart can buy shovels in time for the next snow storm.
Yet they want to do a way with the agency because climate change is now a woke issue.
Talk about biting off your nose to spit at your opponent.
And the military. And everyone who enjoys a heads up about a tornado before it can kill you. Or the flood.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutting_off_one%27s_nose_to_spite_one%27s_face?wprov=sfla1
I've always heard it as "Cut off your own nose to spit in someone's face".
Basically it means you are willing to hurt yourself just to be able to make your enemy miserable.
Because that's what the actual phrase is. Biting off your nose makes no sense, nor does then spitting in someone else's face.
As well as Christian sharia law and corporate greed. It's horrifying and we'll be too mired in a fascist hellhole to get to enjoy the fact that they'll have ended the US as a world power, which will fuck them over, too.
I heard that the house of representatives has a proposed law where only citizens born in the USA can vote.
Because fuck minorities.
Real Human Ted Cruz, who was hatched born in Canada might not be too thrilled about that 😄
Why wouldn't it be? A lot of under-informed liberals automatically hate them, and their potential for owner donor profits when under-regulated is enormous.
Things like the fact that, if used right, they're the best weapon we have against the coming climate change caused starvation doesn't factor into GOP calculations. Because they don't plan to even TRY feeding anyone not paying them a premium for it.
People that hate GMO usually don't get to explain why, or don't understand why liberals might be against them. But the truth is that people that know don't hate the genetic altering parts so much as why those parts are altered.
It's the pesticide.
That's almost always why there's a GMO.
GMOs suck when farmers get sued by big corporations, because they were sowing seeds that grew on their plot. All because corporations can patent DNA sequences.
Yeah, that's a good example of the under-regulation I was referring to. It's patently insane that they're allowed to do that, pun not intended but welcomed.
Weather app companies want the information privatized in order to sell the data and subscriptions.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/who-benefits-from-the-privatization-of-weather-data
Eliminating analysis of climate change is only a side benefit. There's money to be made.
To be completely fair....they likely have zero idea what NOAA is and they certainly hate and fear the unknown.
Shout-out to when Rick Perry wanted to abolish the department of energy, not knowing it's responsible for maintaining our nations nuclear weapons, international treaty monitoring for nukes, and nuclear waste management and cleanup.
Texas man think government energy bad. Must abolish.
That's untrue, because he won't need a Sharpie anymore. They will just be reporting whatever Trump wants them to report. There is no hurricane. Here's some paper towel. This will all blow over by Easter.
Of course there's no hurricane. Trump personally nuked it. In unrelated news, all US nukes are henceforth required to have a pussy for trump to grab them by.
All the competent people would be fired, so it wouldn't be accurate regardless. Everything these agencies say will just be Dear Leader propaganda.
So hurricanes are too woke now? Keeping track of hurricanes is too liberal for them? What the fuck.
Dismantling the entire noaa because they made a "non-binary" hurricane is like that type of thing the Google ai would come up with. Pack it up Lemmy Shitpost, we've been outdone yet again.
Can't have a weather forecasting agency disabuse people of the notion that gays cause hurricanes.
They want to hand that over to private AccuWeather. They already had the CEO in Trump's administration.
Jokes on them then: AccuWeather wouldn't exist without NOAA since that's where they get almost all their weather data.
Privatizing NOAA and selling it off to AccuWeather for a song, so that AccuWeather can then sell the data back at a hefty profit, is how you make oodles of money in this country.
Yeah just you wait until he sharpie circles near your home town and suggests nuking the hurrican again 😱
Thank the good lawd none of them hurricanes hit the south. - Cletus Jackson Local Dirt farmer
"Down with socialism, but lemme get some of dat sweet federal aid because it's wet as fuck down here"
The whole thing about the sharpie makes one wonder what is dumber, the suggestion itself or the base that would believe it.
The reason why the circles are growing is to show uncertainty where the hurricane might go. The sharpie drawing shows that whomever drew it completely misunderstood what the map was showing.
If I remember correctly the sharpie map was because Trump tweeted that Alabama was going to be affected and then after people called NOAA and they said Alabama was fine, Trump instead of admitting his mistake, repeated on Twitter that he was correct culminating in a press conference where he presented an official NOAA map that had sharpie drawn into Alabama.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Dorian%E2%80%93Alabama_controversy
If we ban the agency that manufacturers all the hurricanes, maybe hurricanes won't happen anymore. Hurricanes cause destruction to property and are a waste of taxpayer dollars especially when noaa scientists make 2 or 3 of them happen per year. /s
Are we able to say Simpsons predicted the Republican Party mostly just being a gaggle of the most despicable sorts of people congregating mostly out of spite for the decent morally upright society the rest of us try to participate in?
This is a very popular idea in Texas right now....home of the most democratic Democrats I think.
