# Demanding cites for things that would take you 2 second to look up is lazy

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**Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demanding-cites-for-things-that-would-take-you-2-second-to-look-up-is-lazy/1020281/206 "2025-07-07T10:47:25Z")

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> [@Slithy\_Tove](#):
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> The former has the advantage of being self-directed study, and therefore emblematic of the exercise of free will.

I bet you meant “latter” there.

  

> [@Whack-a-Mole](#):
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> > [@LSLGuy](#):
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> > NWS FTW.
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> Didn’t Trump nerf them recently? Ask Texans.

There is no evidence that the NWS cuts did anything to harm the forecasting or response in Texas from Post-Barry flooding. Too little too soon.

For sure the NWS cuts will bring widespread harm all across the country soon enough. It was a profoundly ignorant bit of royalist toddler vandalism that itself alone is grounds for immediate removal from office as manifestly unfit.

See here for some highly informed commentary on the topic of Texas flooding and NWS cuts:

> **[Making sense of the weather that led to a horrible Texas flooding tragedy,...](https://theeyewall.com/making-sense-of-the-weather-that-led-to-a-horrible-texas-flooding-tragedy-plus-tropical-storm-chantal/)**
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> In brief: Invest 92L became Tropical Depression 3 yesterday and is now Tropical Storm Chantal. It’s en route to the Carolinas. We take a detailed look at what occurred in Texas Thursday night…

and

> **[Chantal makes landfall near Myrtle Beach and now moving inland as a rainmaker](https://theeyewall.com/chantal-makes-landfall-near-myrtle-beach-and-now-moving-inland-as-a-rainmaker/)**
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> In brief: After yesterday’s post on Texas, we wanted to raise a couple additional points after some reactions. Plus, TS Chantal made landfall near Myrtle Beach and is now a flooding threat fo…

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