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[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago

So Musk lied about restoring service.

[–] rumimevlevi@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Time for Europe to build it's own

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 week ago

Or hopefully find a better way to do it without flooding low earth orbit with shit

[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

They have their own systems, actually a few, but those are a few hundred compared to a few thousand satellites for starlink. They're also not targeted at consumer market.

[–] vegeta@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And kegsbreth excuses it with "Oh it's just a TOS issue, and we all love Ukraine here..."

[–] Freeposity@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maybe we should just assume (and communicate widely) that Starlink as a product is unreliable.

[–] disorderly@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

It's not even an exaggeration. A few of my coworkers have it as a backup for when their cables go down and I have proof that never once has it worked when they needed it lol

[–] Insekticus@aussie.zone 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

After what Luigi did to that healthcare turd, I'm honestly surprised more attempts haven't been made on Elmo's life.

He's objectively worse for the world and he's now fucking with the global political stability. Like why hasn't Ukraine or Europe tried to 86 him because his actions are getting their soldiers killed and working for the enemy.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago

If they did happen, would you hear about it in the legacy media?

[–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Elon was kinda expecting it to happen. Remember how he was lugging his human shield kid around for a while? IDK what happened that he's not afraid anymore, maybe the Trump regime promised him protection? He hired better security?

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 week ago

Figured either got better security or the kid grew up enough to realize how awful Elon is

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 week ago

Why do you think he immediately started having one of his small children with him at all times after?