Comment on SpaceX blasts FCC as it refuses to reinstate Starlink’s $886 million grant

• czech@low.faux.moe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There were a dozen companies that applied for the grant. Musk won by over promising.

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  • Cheers@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not just that, he used star link to manage international relations by suddenly stopping service for Ukraine.

    He’s a “free speech abolitionist” and egotistical megalomaniac that’s willing lie about deliverables and take illegal actions because there’s been no punishment.

    Here’s punishment.

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    • LWD@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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      • brambledog@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        If you are expanding the deep state to include regulatory bodies, you are just talking about the state.

        Can you provide an instance of the state ever hiding the fact that they regulate businesses, or did you just find out that was one of their powers?

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    • SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      ITAR…look it up.

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  • variaatio@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well he never won in the first place. This is the original final decision of him winning. What was “won” previously was SpaceX getting short listed as one of the companies to be seriously considered for award. Then followed the actual final full decision checks and SpaceX failed to meet criterion for the subsidy.

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• MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If it’s not a scam, then they don’t need that money.

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  • SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Then neither does any other telecoms that took nearly a trillion dollars and haven’t done even half of what starlink has done in under 10 years for rural broadband.

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    • londos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes. Exactly.

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    • IHadTwoCows@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Hey, you’re catching on!

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• shartedchocolate@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Giving government money to muskrat companies is the scam.

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  • SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yea…fuck all those people who work on projects that have literally changed humanity for the better…

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• Marcbmann@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  People will keep down voting you, but I just wanted to stop in and let you know that there are other people like you who can read.

  People on Lemmy are leftist AF and their seething hate for Musk clouds their ability to think.

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  • SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yea I know, literally SpaceX has helped NASA out a ton and do a lot of ground breaking work, but because musk is involved, they want all of his shit to fail

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    • Meowoem@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It is genuinely concerning the mentality round here, anything with musk must be bad and no one wants to even consider the possibility it’s not. That’s certainly not the only subject like that either, people are very clearly basing options on what suits their personal beliefs rather than what is baked up by fact.

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      • IHadTwoCows@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Well you know we get that mentality by observing what he does, listening to what he says, seeing who he keeps company with, and paying attention to the demeanor of the people under him. It’s not very complicated.

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      • SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yep, waiting for all the bashing of AWS since bezo runs Amazon…the level of hate companies get that are tied to musk in anyway is insane. Musk is a mouth piece and a shit one at that but musk isn’t making these companies and doing the work, hundreds of thousands of people are.

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• thatgirlwasfire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Have you tried gaming on satellite internet?

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  • SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yea starlink isn’t geo sat. It’s Leo and has ping around 20-30ms, basically the same as cable. If you’re trying to compare starlink to sat internet of the past, like vianet then you’re confused, as they’re completely different.

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    • thatgirlwasfire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Do you personally have starlink and experience those ping levels? Reports from people online claim higher ping times.

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      • SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yes, I did, but now have a wired connection through my coop electric company. I don’t know where your getting that ping is higher, go look at the /r/starlink subreddit, tons of people post their speeds there.

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