The Trump administration’s federal hiring freeze is squeezing the team of meteorologists who help air traffic controllers inform pilots about the weather minute-by-minute as they steer airplanes in and out of the Bay Area’s three major airports.

  • Gordon Calhoun@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    I mean, when was the last time the bay area even had any meteorites hit anywhere close to it? Sometimes I just don’t even understand why we need to be so concerned about meteors hitting aircraft, given the sublimely low probabilities involved. Seriously, this administration just needs to convert all the extraneous meteorologist jobs into weatherologist jobs and the waste and fraud will be fixed.

    Seriously though, they’re probably confused by the whole “meteor” part of the word. Dumbening it into “weather” may actually help protect those important jobs.

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      Doubt it. Weather changing sounds an awful lot like climate change which is a “woke” DEI concept of the liberal left. /s

      please get me off of this wild ride. I miss when politics were boring.