{"database": "surfing", "table": "posts", "rows": [["340689", "21050", "Gutting NOAA", 82, "seabird", "Mar 14, 2025", "2025-03-14T14:11:01-0400", "Spiral Bee said: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n            seabird, I appreciate your sentiment, but differ from your conclusions.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNobody likes corruption and malpractice.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnd nobody \ndoes\n corruption and malpractice better than this Administration.  These are \nnot\n the doctors you want to treat the perceived ailment.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThey're not going after agencies to save taxpayer money for the great citizens of America.  They don't give two s***s about us.  If they did, they wouldn't waste uncountable millions (some estimates up to a couple billion) to satisfy their \"anti-woke\" wet dreams, like renaming the Gulf of Mexico and Mt. Denali.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLargely, they want to sweep away restraints on agencies that regulate the companies of Musk and Co., that hinder the Administration's desire to replicate Putin's regime on US soil, or that do not willingly bend scientific truth in the service of fossil fuel or other profits.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf we think they're trying to regulate waste, fraud and abuse, we're being taken for a ride.\n        \n\n\nClick to expand...\n\n\n\n\nThanks for the classy reply Spiral. Not picking on you or the comment as it was just a profit example, and a good one at that, but you did mention fossil fuels\u2026 so would you say that offshore wind turbines are a better alternative? NOAA has a massive hand in developing wind turbines at sea\u2026 completely decimating wildlife, and the natural world aesthetics. If NOAA is such a treasure and a wealth of knowledge, why would they be pushing, funding and developing such a thing? Surely they know it's terrible for the environment.? Surely they would never be corrupted by the promise of grants and new funding..?"]], "columns": ["post_id", "thread_id", "thread_title", "post_number", "author_username", "post_date", "post_date_iso", "post_body"], "primary_keys": ["post_id"], "primary_key_values": ["340689"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7236960009322502, "license": "Public Domain"}