• Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    The real reason that NOAA exists is to support businesses, like farms for instance. Weather forecasting adds to the bottom line and businesses depend on them.

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      16 hours ago

      Exactly. That’s a service that some rich people could be making profit on and here we are just giving it away for the collective good of our society. Won’t someone think of (financially screwing over) the farmers?

      • TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)@badatbeing.social
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        15 hours ago

        I think the idea behind getting rid of it with Project 2025 is the hard anti-climate change denial stance they want to push. And they think if we can’t track the weather somehow nobody will notice that the weather events are increasing in intensity and occurrence rate.

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        14 hours ago

        Most farmers are big business. Gone are the days of mom and pop farmers working a small plot. They all got bought out for retirement generations ago.

        Is it’s all corporate “farmers” that are your “rich people”.

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          10 hours ago

          Anyone that tends a farm or ranch needs to know what the weather is like. It doesn’t matter who they’ve sold to.

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            Okay, then get that. Let’s say I’m that big business. It means that if I’m doling out weather knowledge for cost so high, then only big business can afford it, mostly because I’m the jackass that bought NOAA & plot too, together. That means that you can’t be competitive unless your farming something I don’t give a fuck about, today…