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Tell people 2025 would do this. No federal weather means local counties would have to pay Big Business for tornado/hurricane warnings. We'd pay more for fish because fishermen can't get data unless they pay. Plane schedules become even less reliable AND cost more because the government stops tracking upper level wind speeds.
Look: we want people who get a salary for doing accurate work rather than people who get paid to say whatever the bossman want to hear. Ask people to imagine how it would work if Google, NBC, Amazon, and Fox each sunk the money for trying to replicate the existing infrastructure and then sold pieces of it to paying customers -- such as Allstate, CBS, and Delta Airlines. Everyone else would have to HOPE they were getting complete data and have to wonder what was missing. Noticing record highs and lows would become proprietary and forbidden from broadcast in a way akin to being disallowed from referencing "The Superbowl" unless you pay for a license. How's any of that going to make things better?
P.S. This article is posted to several communities, so I'm reiterating this post repeatedly.
This is what ultimately kills fascism when everything else fails. People in high positions are chosen for loyalty first and competence a distant second. Combine that with eating each other in purity contests, and you have a political philosophy that's doomed from the start.
Only question is how much damage it does to everything else before it completes the cycle.
-- but doing it in the first place is a symptom of fascism and other repressive systems. It's the sort of crap that ruins anything where data is important... tho musicians screening who's gonna join their band might be alright.
Yep, at the end of the day government is a combination of the exciting and political with the boring, necessary, and apolitical. The former gets you in, but you better not fuck up the latter or you’re lucky if you just lose power.
In fairness, I would was flood risk warnings from flood insurance companies. The more you lose, the more they have to pay out. It's in their interests to give up to date flood warnings
Point taken, but would they warn non-customers? Would they bother making forecasts for rural areas or other places where it wasn't cost-effective for the number of properties they insure?