• 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it
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    Rubio shouted at Musk, so poor Elon took it out on a foreign country’s government official and called him “little man”

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    Starlink is just putting up cubesats with basic programming variations. The EU space agency can easily provide a competitive service that values freedom and democracy.

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    Hubris. This is hubris.

    Nemesis will follow, motherfucker, the Moires don’t fuck around.

  • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    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”?

    🤣

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      You wouldn’t talk to your allies that way. Which once again makes it clear that the current US administration no longer sees Europe as allies.

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    If America was a real country this guy would’ve immediately been removed from any and all companies he runs.

    Does SpaceX not have a board?

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        Starlink has enough uplink to be able to handle live video streams and a latency low enough to do this with simple tools.

        I’m not sure if that still happens, but I’ve seen some pictures of Ukrainian command bunkers literally getting drone feeds using discord screen share.

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        It’s faster, cheaper, and on the tech side more reliable (definitely not politically reliable though).

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        My guess is better coverage and latency with its sheer number of satellites.

        They use low earth orbit, which require them to use more satellites, but lowered latency.

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    “My starlink system”. He’s literally a walking, talking “you made this? I made this” meme.

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      Except for the fact that he doesn’t make anything, he pays people who do, then takes the credit for it. Is his way with everything: companies, gaming profiles…

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      I get what you’re saying, but I refer to my car as…my car. I didn’t turn a wrench in its construction, nor did I design it, but it’s still mine.

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        “I literally challenged Putin to one on one physical combat over Ukraine and my starlink system is the backbone of the Ukrainian army.”

        It’s the first sentence of the quoted tweet.

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        The interior, initial Musk tweet. It’s a snippet in the middle of a sentence.

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    Ah, the full Hitler, a bold move let’s see how it plays out.

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    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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      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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      Oh no I’m hearing from people that wa a technical glitch.

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

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