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[โ€“] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 32 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Pride goeth before the fall, they say. The hellish part is the wait.

[โ€“] adm@lemm.ee 340 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (19 children)

When the war was turning in Ukraine's favor and they were about to push into Russia, he shut it off and crippled their counter offensive. I remember. Fuck Elon and fuck starlink.

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[โ€“] AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space 42 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There's so many places where strategically important resources have been delegated wholesale to the US. Now, concerning mankind, it's theoretically better, of course, to not overdo it with wasteful redundancies. But, unfortunately, we're not talking about some kind of UN-controlled infrastructure, which is maintained and used internationally. Unfortunately, it's controlled by people like this, and that is now coming home to roost.

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[โ€“] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (6 children)

An alternative sure, but not in the manner. StarLink is already filling up the air space and producing a ton of new space debris. It needs to die with an entirely different alternative.

[โ€“] Pistcow@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

EU could knock them out of the sky.

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[โ€“] genfood@feddit.org 9 points 2 months ago

Where IRIS 2 ๐Ÿฆง

[โ€“] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 12 points 2 months ago

Regime is working OT on weekend on dismantling our alliances.

[โ€“] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 71 points 2 months ago (15 children)

Is this exchange real? Surely this can't be, right?

[โ€“] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 103 points 2 months ago (2 children)

did elon really say "pipe down pipsqueek" like that worked well for drake? man people with canadian citizenship gotta stop doing that.

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[โ€“] cocolowlander@feddit.nl 53 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

More competition will ensure the oligarchs to behave.

I don't trust the EU tech owners, but I recognize that they are at an disadvantage to the US counterpart (and nationalism is a useful tool to sell their product) so they won't be making overt moves to dismantle European democracy.

[โ€“] theUwUhugger@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Itโ€™s really really really not up to trust! Imagine if bec of eu oligarchs thousands of folks died because said oligarchs refused to pay for peoples healthcare!

The one remaining guillotine in France would go around!

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[โ€“] SrMono@feddit.org 19 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Isnโ€™t OneWeb constellation is debated until Iris2 is available?

But we should reconsider the SpaceX launch contracts.

[โ€“] VeryVito@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

We should reconsider every thing associated with this psychopathโ€ฆ which is why he would stop at nothing until he owned those who might challenge him. Elon may be the most significant threat the western world faces at this time, and I donโ€™t think the solution will come from inside his captured governments.

[โ€“] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Theyโ€™re both targeted towards commercial or government business, which is unfortunate from an individual subscriber perspective. I would love to see a euro competitor to Starlink and Kuiper, so I can unplug my Starlink.

Iris2 looks like a traditional Euro project with a dozen companies from different countries involved, to make sure the funding isnโ€™t concentrated in one country. SpaceX has the advantage of improved integration in comparison.

[โ€“] SrMono@feddit.org 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well. In my opinion it is about substitues for Ukraine.

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