Another Trump casualty: A tiny office that keeps measurements of the world accurate The National Geodetic Survey is also the oldest scientific agency in the US. - ThreadSky

motherjones.com • 5 days ago

Another Trump casualty: A tiny office that keeps measurements of the world accurate

The National Geodetic Survey is also the oldest scientific agency in the US.

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sghendricks.bsky.social•5 days ago

islaven.bsky.social•5 days ago

Wait until the MAGAts find out that this will unintentionally push us to the metric system.

... who am I kidding? They still blame Biden and call the meter and gram 'communist' somehow.

agag.bsky.social•5 days ago

Magats and communism 🤣

unreasonable-man.bsky.social•5 days ago

This is the agency that defines the national coordinate system used by all land surveyors, public and private. Eliminating it is pointless and asinine. Who advised him to do this? A flat-earther? I don't see how this benefits anyone.

toniross.bsky.social•5 days ago

Fuck us all.

gsrenfrey.com•5 days ago

On the bright side, it's one more step of America sinking into its dark age. With that will come less wealth, power, and influence, and that is to the benefit of the rest of the world.

cascadetommy.bsky.social•5 days ago

Well shit, does that mean my GPS watch will get less accurate tracking my runs?

beingtru.bsky.social•5 days ago

He’s going to break the federal government.

indylu.bsky.social•5 days ago

Where is congress, counting, their money from insider trading?

cynbuck.bsky.social•5 days ago

One more deadly step away from factual reality. Unforgivable.

sue19721954.bsky.social•5 days ago

😩😱

bluelakes1.bsky.social•5 days ago

Donny probably said, " We don't need no stinkin' elitist, far left measurements!"
Smdh..🥹

zakaryalan.bsky.social•5 days ago

It doesn't turn a profit.

gunderthor.bsky.social•5 days ago

Helps Russia and other foreign countries to make the US less technology advanced

oufaireunvers.bsky.social•5 days ago

Trump voters must be so happy to have destroyed this evil agency. /s

Seriously, what the hell is wrong with these 77 million idiots who voted for this bullshit?

biboarderdude.bsky.social•5 days ago

And the ones that didn't bother voting. Don't let them off the hook!

oufaireunvers.bsky.social•5 days ago

Their inexcusable laziness and indifference astounds me, but what I truly find incomprehensible is the erratic, insensate malice of Trump voters.

Non-voters don't care, though they should. Trump voters care, but they care for more demolition and chaos. What benefit accrues to them for it, though?

mungomortimer.bsky.social•5 days ago

Here's a geodetic joke, just for the fun of it:

Why did the surveyor break up with the cartographer? Because she just couldn't see the big picture!

mungomortimer.bsky.social•5 days ago

I personally like the agencies/departments/people that do the work of measuring and recording the various measurements of our country and world. So vitally important to so many scientists and others!

classicnal.bsky.social•5 days ago

The problem is that Trump is very unintelligent, and has surrounded himself with people who have no expertise in their assigned roles. Combine that with Congress's fear of his retaliations and threats, and no one will check him.

dfromaotearoa.bsky.social•5 days ago

This one wasn't on my bingo card.

These guys are essential to property rights.

How do you know what you own if you can't measure it properly?

All land developers have cadastral surveyors on team for that reason.

1/2

dfromaotearoa.bsky.social•5 days ago

But also, civil engineering is based on one simple idea: water goes downhill.

How can you build things if you don't know where downhill is?

2/2

pghmanumental.bsky.social•5 days ago

Well, we know that Trump doesn’t give the first half a damn about accuracy.

jen16750.bsky.social•5 days ago

Brain drain on steroids. He’s got to go.

hsetz.bsky.social•5 days ago

He was afraid they would tell the truth about his teeny weeny inauguration crowd.

adkraine.bsky.social•5 days ago

No government agency is too small to destroy to give rich people even more money.

djangoroncin.bsky.social•5 days ago

Seems his end game is to make us the stupidest country in the world 😔

goodbyepopulism.bsky.social•5 days ago

The stupidest country on Earth, led by the stupidest president in history.

Hugs from the old continent.

bqsinc.bsky.social•5 days ago

They want to make us a first century Christian theocracy. No science, no medicine, no education.

the50s.bsky.social•5 days ago

The man is crazy himself like Putin!

thegodofcities.bsky.social•5 days ago

The only way to beat them is treat them the way the world is treating the United States. We need to shun them in public, avoid them in private, push back in EVERY ARENA and make denying them a voice ever again our goal. I don't want to cross the isle for lowlife woman-hating racist fucked-up NAZIS!

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