• Tempus Fugit@midwest.social
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    8 days ago

    I can’t fucking stand that douche. I wish Luigi would visit that cocksucker. Man, that feels good to say. Fuck Reddit too!

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    9 days ago

    When the war was turning in Ukraine’s favor and they were about to push into Russia, he shut it off and crippled their counter offensive. I remember. Fuck Elon and fuck starlink.

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      9 days ago

      Which is why Starlink needs to be confiscated and managed by NATO. Somebody has to operate it, and it should be an entity who is on the side of Freedom amd Democracy.

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          Sure it is. You just confiscate the infrastructure that operates them here on earth, and order their employees to comply.

          I don’t think that this would be a good idea, but it is definitely doable.

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            When it comes to stuff like this, the USA is like a tax heaven: outside of international jurisdiction and never signed any cooperation agreement with foreign powers. The USA is the best place to run shady business right now

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      9 days ago

      Musk and Starlink aren’t major difference makers in this war. It’s a years-long slog where the main takeaway is “cheap and reliable in volume is more than a match for the newest and fanciest.” It hasn’t been on the verge of turning in Ukraine’s favor since the end of Russia’s initial push towards Kyiv.

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          9 days ago

          “Everyone who disagrees with me is a Russian” was ran into the ground five years ago, get new material.

          But yes, a steel cage offering significant protection against much more modern technology is a great example of what I’m talking about.

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        9 days ago

        They’re presumably talking about the Kursk Oblast. Edit: probably not, see responses.

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          9 days ago

          IIRC that was long after that. The initial shutoff of Starlink happened around the explosions targeting the Crimean bridge and them introducing their naval drones.

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      9 days ago

      Close. There was a geobarrier that he refused to remove. Because attacks against Russia are aggression.

  • jaemo@sh.itjust.works
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    7 days ago

    Elon Musk’s atoms are poorly arranged for maximizing utility to the human race and would be better served if they were rearranged into fertilizer for feedcrops. At present they are just in a cloud of un-thought. Utilitarianism must be respected.

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    9 days ago

    He also challenged Zuck to a cage match and chickened out when Zuck accepted. They’re both pieces of shit.

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      8 days ago

      He even chickened out of his recent offer to come on the Daily Show and debate Jon Stewart! He’s a Nazi coward even when it’s just talking…

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      Lol I forgot about that! Yeah fuck em both of course, but I feel like most folks would put their money on the ex-KGB agent who seized and kept control of freakin’ Russia over nepo-baby “gamer”, “engineer” Musk. What a goofy threat. And I say that as a middling gamer and engineer myself lol

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        feel like most folks would put their money on the ex-KGB agent who seized and kept contr

        Putin is 5’ 7", like 160 lbs, and 70 years old. Elon is 6’2", probably 200 lbs, and 52 years old.

        I don’t think fitness and training can overcome 20 years, 50 lbs, and a full head of height.

  • Numinous_Ylem@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Nationalize SpaceX and deport Musk to South Africa where he belongs.

    (Ok maybe nationalize it under the next administration… if there is a next one)

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        VP has the same requirements as President, which exclude Musk because he isn’t a citizen by birth. Musk was essentially put in the highest possible position he could be that didn’t require him to be elected or confirmed by Congress.

        Which is why he needed a puppet to be President for him. I don’t know that he ideally wanted a puppet he’d have to time-share with Putin, but that’s the puppet he bought.

        And I firmly believe that aside from the occasional going off script as a kind of tantrum that Trump is entirely a puppet - consider the narcissism and desire to exude power that he has, and then look at him in the photos of that meeting where Elon was in the Oval Office with little Kevlar Musk and just how defeated Trump looks. He knows his choices were win office or be buried by the courts, and he signed whatever deals with whatever devils were necessary to guarantee it happened, he’s owned by Elon and Putin, he knows it and that eats at him.

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    I don’t like Putin, but he’s a black belt judoka additionally trained in combat by the russian secret services.

    He could fuck that misshapen walrus pool toy without even getting out of breath.

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      8 days ago

      Putin is just as full of shit as Elon is.

      Mofos couldn’t fight their way out of a paper bag.

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        Just shows how uneducated you are. Putin was trained kgb agent during the soviet union. You see how he looks at his current age and it doesnt take a rocket scientist to tell he could wreck the ordinary politician and dictators. Russia’s whole thing is physical strength.

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      9 days ago

      It’s called One Web by Eutelsat. Same latency and reliability, but less Mb/s about 70 Mb/s (and does it matter much for the few Kb packets to relay small amounts of data?).

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        Eutelsat

        Eutelsat has about 9% the number of satellites and Starlink is expanding fast. This significantly limits the potential backhaul, which is why Eutelsat doesn’t really focus on consumers, but rather governments and enterprise. They don’t have the backhaul to offer wide consumer products. Their cost of launch is 10x higher than Starlink, at least, so they’ll never be able to compete in backhaul or the consumer space. Of course they could contract SpaceX to launch their satellites, but then they’re basically paying the competition to operate, and this power imbalance would be immediately leveraged to their detriment.

        The bottom line here is that competitors need reusable rockets, and no one else is even close. However Musk put together the company and strategy pushed space transport forward by decades in a very short space of time, and it’s unlikely another Musk figure emerges in Europe. I do not subscribe to the common notion that if we throw enough money at the problem we can solve it. Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin confirms this. It appears to require an appetite for extreme risk; the will to blow up hundreds of expensive rockets; and likely a penchant for the disregard of existing safety laws. The EU would never permit this.

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          Correct. The EU and its cadres of Brussels technocrats cornered the law in multiple angles so a risky (yet massively profitable and useful) venture like SpaceX would never find the right conditions to exist

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            Its a tricky balance, on one hand the US system has createst the most profitable and capable companies on earth, on the other hand its also created the most powerful and regulation capturing companies on earth.

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          I don’t really believe in the financial aspects of reusable rockets, but I tend to believe in the financial aspects if an air force gives you free launch sites then a US state gives you public land to use as you wish without any supervision. Using taxes to pay for something and call it cheap, as shameful with spaceX as it is for EU healthcare (except in one case it benefits one company, in the other whole nations).

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            I’m not really sure I understand what you’re arguing here. That reusable rockets are easy to build as long as the government gives one some land to use? If that were true we would have had reusable rockets many decades ago.

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    I wouldnt be suprised if putin beat his ass. They both might be old decrepit fucks but putin has martial arts training at least. This response to one of my countries government officials is also what pushed me over to finally dropping as much american everything as possible.

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      My money would be on Putin for sure. There’s no way Musk’s pale, puffy body has ever been in a real fight, unless you count lying on your back and kicking upwards while screaming to be “fighting” per se.

      A more interesting contest would be between Musk and Trump, since Trump outweighs him by probably 80 pounds and has much greater reach. Plus the force of his punches would be concentrated into a smaller area!

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      It starts in the middle. It’s smaller and indented because it’s then being quoted by the Polish minister on top. Then Elon, fuckwit that he is, responds at the bottom.

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          It was never meant to be used like this, and Twitter just never changed it out of pure stubborn bullshit

          The original idea is that you’d retweet something, say something like “check out this bullshit” and then read the re-tweet, but people regularly use it as a reply feature that boosts to their audience instead and so this UI insanity happens

  • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 days ago

    Oligarchs used to act the part, and have the appearance of being “classy”.

    Now Oligarchs are just a bunch of 4chan users.

    Wtf is: “Be quiet, small man”

    That’s not an elegant way of speaking.

    These people are supposed to be “upper class”?

    🤣