Re:US Weather Service Internet Systems Are Crumbling
by yellowapple on Friday April 02, 2021 @09:10PM
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> Ideas are not self governance.
I never said they were. What I did say is that expressing and communicating those ideas is (one aspect - and a critical one, IMO) of self-governance, and that when there exists a government that forbids said expression and communication, engaging in said expression and communication anyway is a pretty unambiguous rejection of that government's power.
That is:
> Ideas serve to communicate the interests and possibilities and to coordinate groups to organize a society.
Exactly correct.
...but this all now drifting further and further from the original point of my original comment: that we Americans (like the people of any other country) have a collective interest in accurate, timely, and publicly accessible weather reporting, and that if the government ain't up to the task for whatever reason, then we arguably should be considering an alternative mechanism for said reporting - and that it's arguably our civic duty to help with that replacement, for the mutual benefit of ourselves, our communities, and our nation as a whole.
I never said they were. What I did say is that expressing and communicating those ideas is (one aspect - and a critical one, IMO) of self-governance, and that when there exists a government that forbids said expression and communication, engaging in said expression and communication anyway is a pretty unambiguous rejection of that government's power.
That is:
> Ideas serve to communicate the interests and possibilities and to coordinate groups to organize a society.
Exactly correct.
...but this all now drifting further and further from the original point of my original comment: that we Americans (like the people of any other country) have a collective interest in accurate, timely, and publicly accessible weather reporting, and that if the government ain't up to the task for whatever reason, then we arguably should be considering an alternative mechanism for said reporting - and that it's arguably our civic duty to help with that replacement, for the mutual benefit of ourselves, our communities, and our nation as a whole.