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from March 6th
by rohan_ 1y ago
from March 6th
- jay_kyburz 1y agoyeah, did it happen or not?
- macintux 1y agoWhat are the odds that NOAA has been forbidden to write anything about climate since this was posted?
- lwansbrough 1y agoIs the author still employed?
- 3eb7988a1663 1y agoThat's the beauty of the current chaos-driven model. No explicit marching orders required. Just let it be known that inconvenient facts/actions can be punished at any time. Self-censorship takes care of the rest.
- labster 1y agoBut how do you own the libs if they just start doing what you want? How does that make any sense? No retribution, no payoffs, nothing? Nope, the firings will continue until America is made great again.
- Terr_ 1y agoHalf-disagree: Firings aren't their goal (nor, demonstrably, are cost-savings.) The goal is coercive power over a culture. Firings are just one tool in the toolbox. ______________ Tangentially, loyalty-oaths are another case where the purpose goes beyond the immediate effect. Fascists presenting an allegiance-or-else choice aren't extending any of their own trust to affirmative pledges. They know it's coerced, and the fact that everybody else knows it too is a feature, not a bug. Why? Because the real goal is not to create trust for themselves, but to destroy it for everyone else. To survive the purge, victims must scar their own reputations, making it harder for anybody--even other victims--to trust them in the future. Ex: Even if I'm totally certain Mr. Smith was lying to the fascists when he pledged loyalty to keep his job, there's a "damaged goods" aspect: Would he lie to me if his job was threatened again? What other compromises might he make to other threats from authority?
- MikePlacid 1y ago[flagged]
- ericfr11 1y agoDespotism does not lead to greatness. Instead we will have big Corps (oil, pharma...) owning, benefiting, and hiding public knowledge. Even China does better these days
- ChuckMcM 1y agoI wondering if the authors were laid off from NOAA.
- frereubu 1y agoFrom the dates on https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs it looks like this is / was a roughly weekly post, so it might take a while if you're waiting for them specifically.
- pc486 1y agoI'm not an expert, but it looks like the predicted wind reversal did occur. In the article there's this figure: https://www.climate.gov/media/16838 https://www.climate.gov/media/16838 The March 13th 10hPa forecast with the wind reversal and lobe is visible on measured data: https://earth.nullschool.net/#2025/03/13/2100Z/wind/isobaric/10hPa/overlay=temp/orthographic=-86.24,46.35,506/loc=-80.953,42.248 https://earth.nullschool.net/#2025/03/13/2100Z/wind/isobaric...