SpaceX projected 20 million Starlink users by 2022—it ended up with 1 million::Starlink has a fraction of the projected $12B revenue and 20M users, WSJ says.

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    1 year ago

    Holy shit it’s literally called the “Business Plot”. Horrifying that nobody was prosecuted. I imagine proof in those days may have been letters and phone calls, but proof of either could have been hard to collect or just avoided altogether by the perpetrators.

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      1 year ago

      You should definitely look into it. A lot of the proof is Smedley Butler, an extremely interesting man.

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        1 year ago

        I tweeted Oliver Stone about 10 years ago, suggesting he should make a movie about Butler. No response.

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          1 year ago

          I want to make a series about him. Start it off as a pure military action show, slowly make the transition over like he did. Suck people in with the action, y’know?