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Reminder that an alternative for Starlink is needed, exchange between Musk and the Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs (i.postimg.cc)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk
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[โ€“] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] MordercaSkurwysyn@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Elon is quite large actually, especially his torso.

[โ€“] vesi@lemm.ee -1 points 3 months ago

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

[โ€“] CanadaGeese@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I wouldnt be suprised if putin beat his ass. They both might be old decrepit fucks but putin has martial arts training at least. This response to one of my countries government officials is also what pushed me over to finally dropping as much american everything as possible.

[โ€“] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

My money would be on Putin for sure. There's no way Musk's pale, puffy body has ever been in a real fight, unless you count lying on your back and kicking upwards while screaming to be "fighting" per se.

A more interesting contest would be between Musk and Trump, since Trump outweighs him by probably 80 pounds and has much greater reach. Plus the force of his punches would be concentrated into a smaller area!

[โ€“] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Twitters UI confuses me. Where do I start? What's the next one? And where's the end?

[โ€“] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It starts in the middle. It's smaller and indented because it's then being quoted by the Polish minister on top. Then Elon, fuckwit that he is, responds at the bottom.

[โ€“] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How is that coherent lol. What happens when 4 or 6 tweets are twoted?

[โ€“] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 3 months ago

It was never meant to be used like this, and Twitter just never changed it out of pure stubborn bullshit

The original idea is that you'd retweet something, say something like "check out this bullshit" and then read the re-tweet, but people regularly use it as a reply feature that boosts to their audience instead and so this UI insanity happens

[โ€“] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 0 points 3 months ago (1 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€“] Evono@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's time for Europe to finally get their own solutions.

[โ€“] Renohren@lemmy.today 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's called One Web by Eutelsat. Same latency and reliability, but less Mb/s about 70 Mb/s (and does it matter much for the few Kb packets to relay small amounts of data?).

[โ€“] JasSmith@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Eutelsat

Eutelsat has about 9% the number of satellites and Starlink is expanding fast. This significantly limits the potential backhaul, which is why Eutelsat doesn't really focus on consumers, but rather governments and enterprise. They don't have the backhaul to offer wide consumer products. Their cost of launch is 10x higher than Starlink, at least, so they'll never be able to compete in backhaul or the consumer space. Of course they could contract SpaceX to launch their satellites, but then they're basically paying the competition to operate, and this power imbalance would be immediately leveraged to their detriment.

The bottom line here is that competitors need reusable rockets, and no one else is even close. However Musk put together the company and strategy pushed space transport forward by decades in a very short space of time, and it's unlikely another Musk figure emerges in Europe. I do not subscribe to the common notion that if we throw enough money at the problem we can solve it. Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin confirms this. It appears to require an appetite for extreme risk; the will to blow up hundreds of expensive rockets; and likely a penchant for the disregard of existing safety laws. The EU would never permit this.

[โ€“] Renohren@lemmy.today 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I don't really believe in the financial aspects of reusable rockets, but I tend to believe in the financial aspects if an air force gives you free launch sites then a US state gives you public land to use as you wish without any supervision. Using taxes to pay for something and call it cheap, as shameful with spaceX as it is for EU healthcare (except in one case it benefits one company, in the other whole nations).

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[โ€“] RizzoTheSmall@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't like Putin, but he's a black belt judoka additionally trained in combat by the russian secret services.

He could fuck that misshapen walrus pool toy without even getting out of breath.

[โ€“] spacequetzal@lemm.ee -1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Putin is just as full of shit as Elon is.

Mofos couldn't fight their way out of a paper bag.

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[โ€“] vesi@lemm.ee -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I canโ€™t stand the fact that Poland is doing Literally What they wanted - spending a lot of money on defence. Yet, they bark at them.

[โ€“] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

nothing will ever be good enough for the fascist. the point is not deals, the point is capitulation. there are winners and losers to the fascist. there is no mutual aid or benefit

[โ€“] vesi@lemm.ee -1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Thou are right! Someone once said that

The US does not have allies. The US has only countries that are useful for a while.

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