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I'll just put this here:

According to CNN (see accurate critiques in the media source thread) Elon Musk shut down a network of satellites to disrupt a Ukrainian air attack on Russia.

How 2020s does it get?

Sure.. let a fragile, increasingly erratic drug addict have a near monopoly on satellite internet service.. nothing could possibly go wrong.

losthighway wrote: Thu Sep 07, 2023 7:50 am I'll just put this here:

According to CNN (see accurate critiques in the media source thread) Elon Musk shut down a network of satellites to disrupt a Ukrainian air attack on Russia.

How 2020s does it get?

Is anyone surprised that cretin is up Putin's ass?

I have definitely been getting horrible shit suggested "for me" like Laura Loomer and other right wing garbage.
Not sure how my interests in things like bird watching, bike lanes, and weird-ass music brought me there, but OK, I guess.
Based on the ads I see, Cheech & Chong's gummy business is keeping the whole thing afloat.
I hope it dies soon. It has gotten much, much worse (less interesting and funny) in the past year or so.

Could Biden deport him?

penningtron wrote: Thu Sep 07, 2023 8:22 am Sure.. let a fragile, increasingly erratic drug addict have a near monopoly on satellite internet service.. nothing could possibly go wrong.

Thanks for sharing this.

jimmy spako wrote: Thu Sep 07, 2023 1:52 pm

penningtron wrote: Thu Sep 07, 2023 8:22 am Sure.. let a fragile, increasingly erratic drug addict have a near monopoly on satellite internet service.. nothing could possibly go wrong.

Thanks for sharing this.

Interesting read. It seems that this "monopoly" is only for the moment. China and the EU are not going to have this loose canon monopolizing this type of service when Airbus Systems and other concerns are only too happy to deploy similar systems. There will be a lot of competition. Not to be outdone, Bezos has a company working on the same type of service.

As far as the military goes: why be dependent on a capricious narcissist when ULA, Northrup-Grumman, and Lockheed-Martin space systems divisions are filled with trustworthy confederates and ex-DOD personnel. Yep, they're working on a system too. You know things are looking bad when Boeing/Raytheon/Northrup-Grumman/Lockheed-Martin and BAE Systems/Airbus appear to be a better ally to our collective interests than what he's selling.

Geiginni wrote: Thu Sep 07, 2023 5:41 pm You know things are looking bad when Boeing/Raytheon/Northrup-Grumman/Lockheed-Martin and BAE Systems/Airbus appear to be a better ally to our collective interests than what he's selling.

Fuck man, I don't want to get too political here, but this is honestly the first bit of genuine admiration I can attribute to this motherfucker, that he doesn't want to weaponize his stupid technology. Go ahead,, call me a hippie, but fuck the military industrial complex and all the cocksuckers profiteering off of murdering people wholesale. Or do you mean the military industrial complex is preferable to social media in interest of the betterment of humanity?.....maybe so.

He bought Twitter to "fight wokeness", currently targeting the Anti Defamation League. How is that not weaponizing technology. Obviously no one here is gonna be a fan of the military industrial complex but at least those companies contain actual experts in aerospace, cyber security, etc. and aren't Silicon Valley hucksters way too far up their own ass, out of their league, and insane/repulsive on top of that.

zorg wrote:

Geiginni wrote: Thu Sep 07, 2023 5:41 pm You know things are looking bad when Boeing/Raytheon/Northrup-Grumman/Lockheed-Martin and BAE Systems/Airbus appear to be a better ally to our collective interests than what he's selling.

Fuck man, I don't want to get too political here, but this is honestly the first bit of genuine admiration I can attribute to this motherfucker, that he doesn't want to weaponize his stupid technology. Go ahead,, call me a hippie, but fuck the military industrial complex and all the cocksuckers profiteering off of murdering people wholesale. Or do you mean the military industrial complex is preferable to social media in interest of the betterment of humanity?.....maybe so.

If he was fighting the weaponization of his technology by the US to destabilize democratic institutions in central america, I'd agree with you, but to bring this concern to a fight against Putin's war is misdirected at best, and just plain stupid and myopic at worst.

He seems to have no qualms about using his platform to destabilize democracies elsewhere, including at home. At least the MIC are tens of thousands of qualified people whose devotion to our collective interests are more assured than a single megalomaniac assured of his own "genius".

His thinking that his efforts are to "save humanity" is exactly the sickness of his own narcissism, especially given his reactions when other equal and greater efforts to "save humanity" get in the way of his business interests and libertarian ideals.

These "brilliant innovators" are on the right track until they realize entrenched success, get surrounded by sycophants, and quickly lose their ideals to paranoia over their own continued business hegemony. It's at that point they need to retire, sit back, and find ways to give their money away to people with better ideals and proposals. To Bill Gates' credit - he saw that clearly and acted sooner rather than later to do just that.