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[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

Isn't it really frightening to let a super rich ketamine infused buffoon get this much power?

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You don't. What about Ukraine?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Are we really allowing this American man belittle our institutions for his own profit?

[โ€“] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago (3 children)

No, we're apparently letting a South African man, who is/was an illegal immigrant in the US, and who's maternal side of the family fled from Canada because his grandfather was a Nazi and was trying to drum up support to make Canada a Techno-feudalistic oligarchy, do those things.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

@alxmg @Blaze

I have been boycotting X for years now. I think we should all ignore that ignoramus as much as possible, and boycott his companies. Let's focus on making #Europe stronger and more independent.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago (8 children)

This post was the final straw for me. I deleted all my accounts on non crucial US based services yesterday when I first saw it. I was already angry with what is going on but it was a shallow meme boycott consisting of only drinking kofola now instead of coca cola. It got serious yesterday. Unfortunately I still need to think about the strategy to quit Google since pretty much everything I do is connected to my Gmail.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (3 children)

So Hughes-Net & ViSat aren't a thing ? They're satellite internet companies probably based in Europe, but I could be wrong. (I probably butchered the names)

Also, how rich of Elon, a man whose existence is propped up by government funding to bark & bite the hands that feed them

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

They use higher orbiting satellites which come with some trade-offs, lower speeds higher latency and more easily disrupted by weather events. When they say there is no competition they mean in terms of what you get and as much as I hate the man he isn't wrong there is nothing to compete with starlink right now

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[โ€“] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The main European actor is called Eutelsat. They say they can provide a similar quality of service in Ukraine as Starlink. They have GEO sats and a LEO constellation of around 650 satellites.

[โ€“] [email protected] 55 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The irony of elon calling anyone else "small" is hilarious....

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Elon is quite large actually, especially his torso.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Yup, nothing else of him is either big or medium sized. He has some complexes

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

Put them down like rabid dogs.

[โ€“] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Rubio shouted at Musk, so poor Elon took it out on a foreign country's government official and called him "little man"

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[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Starlink is just putting up cubesats with basic programming variations. The EU space agency can easily provide a competitive service that values freedom and democracy.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

The "putting up" is hard to do, especially cheaply.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago
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