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What a fucking dystopian world: copyrighted tools to detect natural dangerous events…
Like, pay us or die. Seems like blackmailing to me…
I mean, Watch Duty once binged and would have woken me up at 2:15AM for an evacuation, had my neighbor not pounded on my window at 2AM as the fire roared down the hillside toward our town. We got lucky.
FYI: The American Red Cross has a pretty nice (and completely free) app that’ll send you push notifications for all kinds of different emergencies.
You can set up multiple locations to monitor (in addition to your live location) and select which types of emergency events you want to hear about for each one.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cube.arc.hzd
Wait until Trump and Elon hear about this
This is the future they want.
Why get warnings for “free”(tax funded) through a costly government service when you can get warnings for $19.99 per month, with annual price hikes for “inflation”. EULA declares warnings are not guaranteed, and subscription is non-refundable.
Won’t someone think of the C-Suite and defund NOAA and NWS already?!? /s
Don’t worry, Republicans already have that as a goal in their Project 2025. They said the NWS should only gather data and all forecasting should be commercialized. Also that no data support ant side of the “climate debate”. It’ll get here soon enough, once musk companies are protected from safety investigations.
Is this satire? Its hard to tell these days.
Our premium users already know if this is stire or not. Why don’t you join them?
Don’t be a dick… here you go OP:
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This 16 minute John Oliver piece should be required viewing regarding weather information: https://youtu.be/qMGn9T37eR8
So how about a federated weather service.
The NOAA’s data already is crowdsourced. (Technically not the same as “federated,” but similar ethos.) Accuweather is trying to steal it.
More info:
https://www.weather.gov/iln/cwop
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/land-based-station/cooperative-observer-networkAnd, insanely, archive links because this is the worst fucking timeline:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250210082537/https://www.weather.gov/iln/cwop
https://web.archive.org/web/20250207182410/https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/land-based-station/cooperative-observer-networkThis is how it started too! People sharing observations over letters and then telegraph.
Because screenshots of social media posts are not journalism:Actually, I’ll restate that. Because people tend to believe screenshots of social media posts as gospel truth even though they are not journalism:
The link displayed in the image redirects to
Which doesn’t load, with or without the ?hss… part.
I’m not finding the X post by Accuweather, because the scroll only goes back to August 2024 so far as I can tell. However, this appears to stem from a May 8, 2024 storm
The page is cached by Kagi, but not in the web archives.
Yeah, I restated my first sentence, because I’m not throwing shade on you at all.
If I was going to throw shade on you, it would be for failing to embed Saddam Hussein in the image.
That’s reserved for special occasions.
