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    19 hours ago

    So much for the free market unless it no longer benefits SpaceX and Elon Musk in general. Welcome to post capitalistic America!

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    > FAA prevents SpaceX from launching more rockets
    > Musk guts the FAA
    > FAA no longer stopping rockets
    > Musk decries nobody will stop other people’s rockets

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      I might actually gain a tiny, minuscule bit of respect for him if he officially changes his name to Rocket Hitler

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      It would be cool if sabotage is happening… Adjust a hydrogen valve here and there, change a few timing parameters to the right amount and watch the 4th of July in may! And of course… Make it look like an accident.

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        Wasn’t Tim Cook one of the first to donate to Trump’s Inauguration? Did they at least protest DEI scrapping (excluding some shareholders) or Gulf of Mexico rename, or bent over like rest of big tech? I’m honestly not seeing it, to me Apple is as bad as google

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        Reminds me of March 24 to November 10, 2001, when Apple had embraced Unix and – to some extent – open source by releasing OS X, but had not yet pivoted towards glued-shut and DRM’d consumer electronics by releasing the iPod.

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          OSX was never really open sourced. If you tried compiling it, you’d have found it wouldn’t work because it was incomplete.

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            Darwin was just their version of BSD which they released in order to comply with the license, but the actual Desktop/UI was a separate stack. You could build and install Darwin, but it wouldn’t do anything.

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          Wasn’t that because they desperately needed a new OS and just acquired Steve Jobs’ company NeXT who had an OS called NeXTSTEP which was based on Mach kernel and BSD. They didn’t embrace Unix and open sourcing out of goodwill.

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        It’s best not to humanize corporations, especially as the arbiters of morality and ethics. It’s simply a calculated risk on Apples part. I don’t mean to be a negative Nancy and all “nothing good happens” it’s just we can’t keep letting corporations get away with being brands you can “trust” when we have all the evidence necessary to assume they are not trustworthy, just profit-seeking.

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    As someone who relies on Starlink to get functional Internet access? Please, please give me more options.

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    If you really hate Elon Musk, I have two words for you. “Thanks Obama”

    Every single aspect of Elon’s “success” has been heavily subsidized or paid for by the US government (aka, tax payers).

    EDIT: It seems the “Thanks Obama” meme has fallen into obscurity. It is an older joke in which everything was blamed on Obama, no matter how far fetched. I even used italics.

    The point of my comment is that Elon is the biggest “welfare” beneficiary in history. All of his businesses would be a financial failure without billions of dollars in grants, benefits and contracts from the government, and that he’s been sucking on that government teet since Obama was in office. In fact, it was Obama who saved Tesla, hence the 'Thanks Obama" joke. Even Obama is aware and why the crashing Teslas scene is in the Netflix movie he produced. Now Elon is looking for federal assistance to block his competition.

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      23 hours ago

      We know the “joke.” But that wasn’t what you were doing. You are actually literally blaming Obama.

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        Sure. That’s why I put it in quotes AND italics. Let’s also ignore the context that Elon is once again begging the federal government to save his ass.

        The joke didn’t land. I’ll take that L.

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          Well maybe you don’t get the joke then… It’s meant to be sarcastic. So when you’re actually earnestly blaming Obama for something, it doesn’t read as a joke anymore.

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            If I was earnestly blaming Obama, I wouldn’t have purposely phrased it and typed it the way I did.

            I was too subtle and it didn’t land. It happens.

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      What is this L take my guy?

      Elon was loved by every forward facing democratic liberalism / é o-conscious person for years.

      You cannot read people’s hearts or minds except from how they act.

      And I did not see any favist/overreaching actions, even the actual delusion of grandeur, when Obama was president.

      On the contrary.

      And if I remember correctly Obama told him off in multiple instances.

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        Did everyone really forget about the “Thanks Obama” joke? Anyway, I clarified my point in the edit.

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      This very much ignores that there are tangible benefits from the successes of SpaceX’s engineers and scientists.

      Also, who’s this Elon guy? He sounds like a twat.

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        Everything SpaceX is doing and has done could have been done by NASA had NASA been given the equivalent funds and leeway. This has been covered multiple times in many interviews of NASA scientists and engineers. Simply put, NASA cannot afford and is not allowed to take risks. They are not allowed to blow up ships over Florida and the Caribbean until they figure it out. They used to be allowed, but not anymore.