This is a screenshot I took of someones experience on reddit using the rdx app.

  • solsangraal@lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    trump still throwing a toddler tantrum at the NOAA because they contradicted him that one time. because the weather is literally what they do. ALL they do.

    same fucking ridiculous shit with the CDC

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      It’s because they are “woke” even a lot of the official government documents literally say as much. Woke climate change research. Woke vaccines. Woke gender ideology. They all have to go. We are VERY rapidly approaching the situation where science in general of any kind is too woke to have in this country. Id argue we’re basically already there.

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        It’s gonna be all Pol Pot soon. Get ready to be murdered for wearing glasses or being able to read

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    Not related to NOAA, but the Coast Guard has announced plans to dismantle massive numbers of navigational buoys. In many cases, these buoys mark reefs and schoals that were causes of massive numbers of shipwrecks in the 18th and 19th centuries. Before the buoys existed.

    The estimated savings from this is 40 million in total. The average Coast Guard rescue costs the government something like 20 thousand per. You can work out the math on the breakeven in terms of how many extra rescues.

    It feels like we’re regressing just for the sake of regressing. Throwing out the received wisdom of hundreds of years of practical experience navigating the high seas. Only because it’s not new and shiny.

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      3 days ago

      Hello and thank you for subscribing to XBuoys! We use predictive AI technology to prevent shipwrecks from known sources!
      For only $420.69/mo you can have our AI agents plot you a course straight into the fucking rocks to safely mavigate you to your destination*!

      *XBuoys cannot be held responsible for shipwrecks when following the courses plotted by AI agents.

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      My guess is that GPS has removed the need for most of these buoys. When any boat can tell it’s location within a few meters, and satellite maps are also easily available, avoiding shoals and reefs should be possible without buoys.

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        The problem is that they’re removing analogue redundancies. Sure gps can tell them where they are and where to go, but what if that computer breaks down at sea, or something happens to the service and they can get an accurate update in a meaningful amount of time? When things break, we can always fall back on the redundancy in place, but when those are removed, then sailors are SOL when something stops working.

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    Next up, Elon Musk announces Xweather. For just $69.99 a month for the basic plan (hurricane+ and Tornado pro plans sold separately), can you really afford not to protect yourself and your loved ones?

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    NOAA was just created to spread the woke mind virus by the radical left lunatic [checks notes] Richard Nixon.

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    Too exhausted to get mad at this.

    There’s a hundred other things to have gotten mad at before this. And this is just another thing in the pile.

  • ThePantser@sh.itjust.works
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    Here in MI where we had a few tornadoes touched down 2 days ago they issued a tornado watch and warning that spanned 3 hours. Felt like they just threw up their hands and said watch out during this time we’re not sure if there really is a tornado. Usually warnings get issued with shorter windows.

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      Also in MI and by us the watch ran from 11PM to 5AM but got cancelled a bit early. Really did feel insane to have that huge of a window. I did not sleep well at all in the end

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    YSK that there are private weather $ervice$, but fuck the plebes, right?

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    I’d say “how many people have to get hurt before they realize the republicans are dangerous?” but I don’t think anything would teach some people.

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      Nah, most definitely not. Mark my words you’ll hear, “Stupid libs. People die every storm season” before you ever hear one of those subhumans saying the money shouldn’t have been cut. Nevermind how many multitudes more die.

    • Match!!@pawb.social
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      the only thing that makes change in america is when rich people die; compare 9/11 and COVID

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    I’m guessing weather will only be available by subscription. One of the oligarchs has a deal going, for Trump to dismantle this, so they can go subscription model on it.