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   Joe (not2b@sfba.social)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 12:04:11 JST Joe

   • Peter Gleick

   @petergleick If I recall correctly, the AccuWeather guy was pushing in the last Trump administration for some kind of privatization of NWS, effectively selling its resources off so that you'd have to pay AccuWeather or whoever winds up owning it for weather forecasts, and the government would no longer provide free information to the public, because that's socialist or something. So, kind of like the looting of government resources that happened in Russia under Putin, with first crack going to Trump and Musk's allies (or maybe SpaceX will wind up with NWS's resources). The $250M Musk paid to get Trump elected was an investment and he wants a good return on it.

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     • Katrina Katrinka :donor:

     @katrinakatrinka @not2b @petergleick Yep, it's inevitable that privatization of the weather is coming.

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     @not2b @petergleick
     Exactly. They want to profit off it.