Comment on Starlink kit found amid wreckage of Russian drone

apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• RedditWanderer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s one thing to be a capitalistic shitbag, it’s another to be a traitor. Governments like capitalistic shitbags

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  • Asafum@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Is it possible to be a traitor when you’re a capitalist shitbag?

    They only have loyalty to themselves and their bank account. Quite literally the world could burn (due to their business) for all they care.

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    • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      People keep making the mistake of thinking the super rich have loyalty to a country.

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    • GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Most people don’t feel loyalty to the country they betray. It isn’t a requirement to be a traitor.

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  • index@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Seem like governments also love traitors, look at amount of deals and collaborations between starlink and the US government

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink#Military_applicati…

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  • j4yt33@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Some, like Donny, are both. Or the right wing AfD cunts in Germany. Or any other country

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  • Zorque@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Corrupt governments like capitalistic shitbags.

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• psycho_driver@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s almost like the Oligarchs of the world are all on the same team.

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  • Dayroom7485@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They’re clearly not all on the same team. Some are decent human being that choose to use their money for the betterment of humankind.

    It’s just that a couple, e.g. Musk, Thiel, David Sachs and others, decided to be huge assholes. They would end democracy any day to become richer and more powerful.

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    • Hadriscus@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I legitimately don’t know any of those good hearted oligarchs, who would you say they are ?

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      • Dayroom7485@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Carnegie chose to do good things with his money, as did Gates and Boros. Now, it’s easy to criticize all three of them for an arbitrary number of bad things they are responsible for. Which is entirely beside my point:

        There is obviously a scale of good and bad things oligarchs decide to do with their money. Musk, Thiel and Sachs are on the “huge asshole” end of that scale. And other oligarchs are not. Assuming Gates was as bad as Musk because somereason fails to see this and ultimately leads to letting the true assholes off the hook.

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    • sandbox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Some are decent human beings that choose to use their money for the betterment of humankind.

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• lurch@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  they could also have stolen it though. gotta wait what an investigation of the serial numbers finds

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  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They are most likely stolen or imported through a third party.

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    • Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Shouldn’t they be capable of detecting where the connection is going and disconnect/block it for specific regions or something? I have no clue how any of that stuff works but this one thing feels like it should be the case.

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      • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        They do, but Ukraine uses Starlink, so they can’t really disable usage entirely in the contested areas. They could disable the individual terminals, but that would require knowing which ones the Russians were using in the first place.

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      • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        The Starlink probably only works once the drone enters Ukraine. Disabling Starlink in that area would cut off the Ukrainian military too. The internet traffic could easily be routed through a VPN in another country, so blocking Russian IP addresses on Starlink wouldn’t work either.

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