MrSpArkle

joined 2 years ago
[–] MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca 98 points 4 days ago

This article serves as a warning against authoritarianism and should be discussed in every context.

[–] MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Israel is trying to earn brownie points. This prison is where the Iranian government keeps and executes political prisoners.

[–] MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You would be woken up pretty frequently.

[–] MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

Lots of people in this site are sympathetic to any tyrant as long as they aren’t ruling over a western country.

[–] MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca -2 points 3 weeks ago

The Iranian protests against their Supreme Leader dwarfed the Gazan protests against Hamas.

The dynamics are way different.

[–] MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Irans government will implode, nobody will need to be deployed there.

[–] MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 weeks ago

Why would I celebrate stock buybacks?

Also spacex lost like 20 or so Falcons before their first successful mission. Maybe they will explode as many Starships, but they have hit that number yet.

It’s ok to hate Elon, and there are many valid criticisms to make regarding spacex, but they’re the best in the world right now and it isn’t even close.

The biggest issue with Spacex is that Elon needs to be removed before he ruins it like he ruined Tesla.

[–] MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

How has spacex had very few successes? Their Falcon 9 rocket is basically operating like clockwork. They launch more rockets than the rest of the world combined.

The starship failures are higher profile but even those failures are typical when testing new vehicles, especially one as experimental and complex.

[–] MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

SpaceX and Starlink basically have no competition, and if they did, said competitor would also need to be heavily subsidized.

[–] MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Allowing for activists to freely own handguns means that counter activists will which makes everyone less safe.

Order of operation is a bit mixed up here.

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