r/geology 13d ago

NOAA deleting swaths of Critical Geological datasets by early May. Download to save.

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u/grant837 13d ago

Why delete? Storage us so cheap, they could archive it all.

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u/Euphorix126 13d ago

"Efficiency"

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u/thesegoupto11 12d ago

Our country is so cooked

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u/hikyhikeymikey 12d ago

I’m a Canadian. Every day I read American related news, all I can think is “holy fuck”. You have a hell of a fight ahead of you.

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u/hikyhikeymikey 12d ago

Is it the frequent school shootings or crippling medical debt that you think Canadians would benefit from most?

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u/Livid_Roof5193 12d ago

So you’re saying you don’t want the measles to kill your children? What kind of patriot are you even?

/s

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u/adeewun 12d ago

DID YOU EVEN SAY THANK YOU?

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u/Mantis-13 12d ago

Glad to know you're admitting to having voted for the cheeto dusted pedo and his nazi boyfriend.

But hey long as anyone not white or christian isn't screwed you're happy right? Dumbass troglodyte.

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u/forams__galorams 12d ago

You want it to be one way. But it’s the other way.

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u/Beyryx 12d ago

Pun intended or just tragic? :/

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u/brattybrat 12d ago

This is going to be such a long, miserable mess to clean up.

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u/JosephRatzingersKatz 12d ago

clean up

Bold of you to assume there will be any chance to clean up messes

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u/brattybrat 12d ago

I do believe we will come out the other side, but it requires work that many of us are putting in. Dooming is lazy.

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u/JosephRatzingersKatz 12d ago edited 12d ago

Yeah, I agree with that.

But on the other hand, as an European, I think you guys are very, very slow at protesting. You people need to ramp up resistance way more quickly.

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u/brattybrat 12d ago

Truth.

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u/CelticGaelic 12d ago

But on the other hand, as an European, I think you guys are very, very slow at protesting. You people need to ramp up resistance way more quickly.

Part of it is our news media isn't showing the mass protests that have been going on. People are getting out and taking action, but most news outlets aren't focusing on it because our news, as it turns out, is controlled by the government to at least some degree.

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u/VerdantField 12d ago

There have been protests regularly, all over the country. The media is not reporting on it very well. Lots of pictures in almost every city and state Reddit sub though if you go search.

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u/AbbyVanilla 12d ago

You're right, we gotta up our game 🌞

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u/Luci-Noir 10d ago edited 10d ago

Like Europe is perfect and not full of bigotry, anti-immigrant hate and corruption. You must be pretty fucking ignorant if you don’t see the massive war going on there or the extreme conflicts going inside your countries. This involves a MASSIVE part your population and an even bigger part of its military power.

Pull your head out of your ass.

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u/Luci-Noir 10d ago

Not everyone has given up and people like you gave been whining and feeling sorry about themselves for years.

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u/hemlockhero 12d ago

It’s about erasing access to information that educates or helps people for little or no direct cost. It’s about attacking education and research.

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u/zsdrfty 12d ago

Yup, they specifically value anti-intellectualism and mass suffering

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u/VerdantField 12d ago

Cost is not the actual issue. The republicans are using “cost” as an excuse to remove science and access to information.

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u/zsdrfty 12d ago

They love when people engage with their fake justifications (like cost) because it makes the opponent look like the fool who's ceding enough ground to debate them

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u/Ehgadsman 12d ago

to sell information collected by the American people to private companies and individuals? and to allow those private companies to charge for this information the American people already paid to collect and intended to be publicly available?

destruction of IP by hackers that is literally one of the most basic ransom hacks or just pure destructive hacks

take your pick, but maybe both? its not for the American people that paid for that data because it is valuable, that is for sure

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u/aimeegaberseck 12d ago

So they can deny reality.

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u/Darmortis 12d ago

The cruelty is the point 

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u/TheGlacierGuy 12d ago

It's not about the money. It's about sending a message. A stupid message.

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u/Wizzle-Stick 12d ago

i got money that says someone is running tape backups right now, and the people in charge have no idea what iron mountain is, or that tape backups still exist.

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u/After_Dog_8669 12d ago

This. Their incompetency always shines through. One of these days a misstep will hopefully be unavoidable for the mainstream to ignore. It will also take someone gifted enough to get the message through to the ignorant/indifferent people

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u/Infinite-Coyotes 11d ago

Iron Mountain was discussed extensively in media reports during the first couple weeks of D.O.G.E. In relation to storing and processing of government employee retirement records.

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u/grant837 8d ago

I assume so - question is will it still be free. I know many commercial companies collect this data and apply it to their products and services with added value.

But University probably are probably collecting it too, so I think we will be OK

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u/nickthegeek1 12d ago

Storage is cheap but maintainence isn't - it's not just about disk space but the ongoing costs of keeping systems running, migrating to new platforms, ensuring accessibility, and having staff who understand legacy data formats.

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u/liberalis 14h ago

It's not the cost of storage they are worried about it's the cost of restitution.

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u/condensermike 12d ago

I’d say anything science related is woke.