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capitalism truly spurs competition and innovation
So much for the free market unless it no longer benefits SpaceX and Elon Musk in general. Welcome to post capitalistic America!
Someone should troll libertarians on reddit with this
Must be trying to hide fraud and waste. Better set up a commission to investigate them and start firing spacex execs.
Elon is such a bitch
Competition for thee but not for me.
> 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
->Musk’s team launches the most expensive firework ever blowing up and disrupting air traffic and destroying the environment again for the eighth time
SpaceX biggest competitor is NASA/JPL Musk guts NASA
How is NASA a competitor to SpaceX?
Because we live in clown world
They both shoot rockets up in the sky. Our government could pay NASA to do it, or pay Space X.
NASA does not build it’s own rockets (anymore) they make the payloads. NASA will never make rockets as good/cheap as a companies like ULA and SpaceX.
Take a look at the cluster fuck that is the SLS if you want an example
Can Space X make the payloads?
Uh, basically no.
NASA has experiments to run, spaceX has no idea what science NASA is interested in doing. So having SpaceX make the payload doesn’t really make a lot of sense.
So it sounds like they are codependent at this point. The bigger the nasa budget the better for space X.
SpaceX can make the payloads, and they already do in the form of starlink.
NASA carries out research/experiments something that spaceX probably doesn’t want to compete in since for the most part it does not pay
Federal funding for space exploration?
Felon Musk
WHY ARE THEIR ROCKETS NOT EXPLODING!!?
— Rocket X. Hitler
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.
I might actually gain a tiny, minuscule bit of respect for him if he officially changes his name to Rocket Hitler
I want more Kung Fury and I want him fighting Rocket X. Hitler III
I was about to correct you and tell you the Evil Council was French, but that’s Kung Pow, not Kung Furry, and I’m a dumb.
Let Apple rain Terror on this damn Nazi.
Isn’t this sorta how the Corporate Wars started in the Cyberpunk universe?
It certainly is a weird timeline when Apple is the good guy.
I can think of a lot of companies that are far worse than Apple.
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
Tim Cook
Never heard of him. Do you mean Tim Apple?
Yes. Tim Apple gave the $1M bribe to Orange Donald.
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.
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.
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.
OSX was never really open sourced. If you tried compiling it, you’d have found it wouldn’t work because it was incomplete.
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.
Yeah it was almost briefly cool. You could take apart and upgrade your own iPod, build your own enclosure for it
As someone who relies on Starlink to get functional Internet access? Please, please give me more options.
I have Starlink, I stopped paying when Elon did the nazi solute. Now I’m on phone data that barely plays 360p video, but I’m happy as can be not giving a nazi money.
Eutelsat is considering expanding into North America. Send them a message you are interested. Tell your friends. We need an alternative. https://www.eutelsat.com/en/contact-us.html
4g and 5g at home installs are pretty viable for most of the US.
If you choose to live that far outside of civilization, frankly, that’s a you problem. Not something worth littering space and pur atmosphere when they burn up on re-entry.
Not everyone can live in urban areas. This is such a stupid take. Fuck farmers and other folks who’s livelihood relies on being further out from living centers, I guess.
And most rural areas are covered just fine with 5G and 4G service. The only areas completely out of range of that tech would be like, middle of BLM land.
But on that note, yes, as you move farther from civilization, you get less civilization. That’s just a fact of the economic system those farmers just LOVE.
And every mobile carrier I’ve seen in the US in my region (the Midwest) has ridiculously low data caps on 4G/5G internet service.
But on that note, yes, as you move farther from civilization, you get less civilization. That’s just a fact of the economic system those farmers just LOVE.
That doesn’t change the fact that virtually every facet of our lives requires internet connectivity. Paying bills, coordinating and conducting business, education, etc. Look, I’m not saying they should expect fiber connectivity to their rural homes. But satellites offer another option for Internet access and acting like it’s completely irrational for these folks to have it is ridiculous.
And every mobile carrier I’ve seen in the US in my region (the Midwest) has ridiculously low data caps on 4G/5G internet service.
Sounds like a problem the free and open market will solve via the invisible hand, or some other bullshit those farmers keep crowing on about, while collecting their government welfare checks, and covered by that free government crop insurance…
That doesn’t change the fact that virtually every facet of our lives requires internet connectivity.
It also doesn’t change the fact that every cancer patient deserves the best possible care, but we’re not building mega cancer treatment centers, to service 2 people.
But satellites offer another option for Internet access and acting like it’s completely irrational for these folks to have it is ridiculous.
Cool. Then let the individuals there pay the full cost of the entire service, minus the subsidies. Why do we give a flying fuck about what kind of service the free and open market is providing to them?
And yes, it’s completely irrational to expect all the benefits of living in civilization, while choosing to live the farthest away from civilization as possible.
If they want connectivity, let them pay for it. Full cost. They don’t want to pay for liburual indoctrinations skewlz in cities that are forcing kids to become trans, well I don’t want to pay for their internet access, period. Which includes all of the pollution each satellite causes.
5g can cover a lot of rural areas, it’s not universal, but it’s a lot more available than fiber or cable.
There are certainly a lot of holes in the coverage, but a lot of people I know who live in pretty rural farm areas went from pretty unreliable microwave internet, to extremely reliable 5g internet a couple years ago.
That’s not going to be the solution for everyone, but it does work to (relatively) quickly get internet to a pretty big area.
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Like a dog🦴
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.
We know the “joke.” But that wasn’t what you were doing. You are actually literally blaming Obama.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Did everyone really forget about the “Thanks Obama” joke? Anyway, I clarified my point in the edit.
Obama did not make Elon a narcissist cry baby now did he?
On the contrary, Obama was an intelligent, well-spoken black (shudder) person that wore tan once. It’s obviously his fault.
Everybody is to blame but the gang of assholes that swarmed them.
If a crook steals a watch, you gonna jail the crook or jail the guy who makes timex?
read my edit
Found another uneducated one.
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.
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.
Probably done better since there is no profit motive.
