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[-] Hegar@fedia.io 48 points 1 day 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@badatbeing.social 29 points 1 day 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.

[-] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

As if corporations greed has one avenue of oppression

[-] bstix@feddit.dk 6 points 1 day ago

The purpose is literally described as both.

It's at the end of the article.

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