SpaceX blasts FCC as it refuses to reinstate Starlink’s $886 million grant::FCC doubts ability to provide high-speed, low-latency service in all grant areas.

    • @SupraMario
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      -5711 months ago

      The level of ignorance from you musk haters is hilarious. Starlink has done 100xs more for rural areas than the nearly trillion we gave to the telecoms. Yea musk is a dick but you’re ignorant as fuck if you think starlink is a scam.

        • @[email protected]
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          4211 months ago

          Not just that, he used star link to manage international relations by suddenly stopping service for Ukraine.

          He’s a “free speech abolitionist” and egotistical megalomaniac that’s willing lie about deliverables and take illegal actions because there’s been no punishment.

          Here’s punishment.

        • @[email protected]
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          Well he never won in the first place. This is the original final decision of him losing in the first place. What was “won” previously was SpaceX getting short listed as one of the companies to be seriously considered for award. Then followed the actual final full decision checks and SpaceX failed to meet criterion for the subsidy.

      • @MeanEYE
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        1511 months ago

        If it’s not a scam, then they don’t need that money.

        • @SupraMario
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          Then neither does any other telecoms that took nearly a trillion dollars and haven’t done even half of what starlink has done in under 10 years for rural broadband.

      • @shartedchocolate
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        911 months ago

        Giving government money to muskrat companies is the scam.

        • @SupraMario
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          011 months ago

          Yea…fuck all those people who work on projects that have literally changed humanity for the better…

      • @thatgirlwasfire
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        111 months ago

        Have you tried gaming on satellite internet?

        • @SupraMario
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          011 months ago

          Yea starlink isn’t geo sat. It’s Leo and has ping around 20-30ms, basically the same as cable. If you’re trying to compare starlink to sat internet of the past, like vianet then you’re confused, as they’re completely different.

          • @thatgirlwasfire
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            111 months ago

            Do you personally have starlink and experience those ping levels? Reports from people online claim higher ping times.

            • @SupraMario
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              011 months ago

              Yes, I did, but now have a wired connection through my coop electric company. I don’t know where your getting that ping is higher, go look at the /r/starlink subreddit, tons of people post their speeds there.

      • @Marcbmann
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        -1511 months ago

        People will keep down voting you, but I just wanted to stop in and let you know that there are other people like you who can read.

        People on Lemmy are leftist AF and their seething hate for Musk clouds their ability to think.

        • @SupraMario
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          Yea I know, literally SpaceX has helped NASA out a ton and do a lot of ground breaking work, but because musk is involved, they want all of his shit to fail

          • @[email protected]
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            -111 months ago

            It is genuinely concerning the mentality round here, anything with musk must be bad and no one wants to even consider the possibility it’s not. That’s certainly not the only subject like that either, people are very clearly basing options on what suits their personal beliefs rather than what is baked up by fact.

              • @[email protected]
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                211 months ago

                but you don’t pay attention to the actual impacts the companies have. SpaceX gets bashed a lot which is hilarious. There is no argument that SpaceX is bad. Like what, ULA was better? Throwing boosters in the ocean and charging $500 million+ per flight? SpaceX is objectively an amazing achievement that we should all be proud of.

            • @SupraMario
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              011 months ago

              Yep, waiting for all the bashing of AWS since bezo runs Amazon…the level of hate companies get that are tied to musk in anyway is insane. Musk is a mouth piece and a shit one at that but musk isn’t making these companies and doing the work, hundreds of thousands of people are.