• @[email protected]OPM
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    981 year ago

    Here’s a little more context. Elon doubling down and linking Uncylcopedia, a crowd-edited satirical website, to support his stupid stance.

    • VanillaGorilla
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      791 year ago

      “Nano applies to everything and therefore means nothing. Definitely indicates bs.”

      What? When will your companies switch from those bs nanometer scale transistors in their CPUs and use down to earth millimeter etching? Make it even more awesome! Centimeter wavelength!

      • @blackbrook
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        151 year ago

        Real men make their electronic components in scales that third world children don’t need microscopy to manufacture.

        • VanillaGorilla
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          51 year ago

          We’re engraving our boards with hammer and chisel, like god intended us to do.

      • VanillaGorilla
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        231 year ago

        No way! He has money and his own private transportable sink. He’s got it all!

    • @[email protected]OPM
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      331 year ago

      And here’s someone much cleverer than me explaining just a few of the uses of nanotechnology and why it’s not BS.

      • sab
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        251 year ago

        While I appreciate the effort (and the info!) I don’t think anyone in good faith actually needs to be told that nanotechnology is real and potentially very useful.

        • @[email protected]OPM
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          181 year ago

          The first reply to this post was asking what nano was so I thought I’d add an explanation with added Musk nonsense. Yesterday I posted in !confidently_incorrect and found that some people didn’t know what “soup du jour” meant in English so I’m erring on the side of caution today!

          • sab
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            It’s absolutely appreciated regardless!

            It’s always nice when stupid discussions introduced by trolls in bad faith ends up being an opportunity to actually learn something interesting. :)

            Also got me googling to check if “soup du jour” meant something else than soup of the day in English - you had me intrigued for a second!

            • @[email protected]OPM
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              81 year ago

              You’re welcome! Someone replied on the soup de jour post that they “didn’t speak French” and I thought they were trolling at first. I assumed it was a well known loan word for all native English speakers, like RVSP, déjà-vu, cul-de-sac, chaise lounge etc etc. That’s what I get for making assumptions!

              • sab
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                31 year ago

                I think there’s a chance you might indeed be overestimating the average English speaker’s proficiency in loan words! Good thing dictionaries are not hard to find these days. :)

    • @[email protected]
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      121 year ago

      How is this man the guy who owns the most important, bleeding edge technology company in the world.

      We need SpaceX to succeed but do we really want to give this dumbass that amount of power? Oof

      • @RGB3x3
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        341 year ago

        Do we need SpaceX to succeed? I’d rather they get dissolved and everything given to NASA. If I could have my fantasy world fulfilled, anyway.

          • @Touching_Grass
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            I bet we figure out that launching all these satellites into orbit was premature and we’ve created a new irreversible disaster that private companies knew about but hide from us since they also control social media now

            • @[email protected]
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              71 year ago

              In the case of Starlink satellites they’re in a low orbit, and will naturally de-orbit after about 5 years, so they won’t really be a big space problem in the future.

            • Natanael
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              21 year ago

              Astronomers are complaining about light pollution from them

        • @[email protected]
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          51 year ago

          To be honest I love the idea of the government handling space exploration but (saying this as someone who works directly for a government body) the government is just too slow and ineffective to get space exploration online in the timeframe needed for it to generate new technologies that would help the climate crisis.

          It’s mostly because of funding and ineffective bureaucracy not lack of talent or capable workers, but it’s a problem nonetheless.

          In a better world…

          • Flying Squid
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            111 year ago

            So streamline it and fund it, don’t farm it out.

        • @[email protected]OPM
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          11 year ago

          I believe the star link internet is very useful for people living in rural areas or war zones like Ukraine. I honestly don’t about the rest of it.

    • @[email protected]
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      “The daily public displays of mental breakdown will continue until people respect me”.