Ever since that submarine idea of his got shitted on. Ever since then. That was a real odd episode, and right about then is when my eyebrows went up and I started thinking that this fucker was projecting.
He’s always been like this, in the past he’s just had handlers that managed his image. I think around 2015 he fired his secretary mommy that had been controlling his worst behaviors for over a decade.
He’s always been like this
I am certain of it. He was just more ignoreable back then.
His interference with the Thai cave rescue was a turning point but I think what changed was how the rest of us viewed him.
Before that, his dumb or stolen “inventions” were always just scams presented to his grinning employees, idiot techbros, reporters, and investors who always clapped and humored him. Everything the public knew about him was filtered through that glossy facade. In general most people seemed to think he was legit.
The “submarine” was the first time he presented an idea to people who weren’t ass licking corporate ladder climbers; people who had no time or patience for his bullshit and rejected it offhand. His butt was hurt so he started the public name calling which really made the news cycle. And we all know how the internet responds to that sort of thing.
Ever since then all of his scams, products and flashy presentations are always publicly dissected and ripped apart on the internet. His drug use and erratic Nazi emo phase seems to be a response that.
wtf is going on with these people and their “image repair”?
you’ve shown who you are. deal with the consequences.
you don’t deserve power.
you don’t deserve power.
Not even the kind that recharges devices!
The world would be many times better off if he was forced to live a 100% analog life.
this idea feels utopian
This is not image repair. Musk shared starling in exchange for Russia’s silence. But the files are out so Russia didn’t do their end of the deal, so musk removes his end of the deal.
Can I come hang out on the pedofile island now guys? We need to turn space x over to nasa and confiscate his wealth to pay for the rebuilding of our countries security infrastructure
All the other shit aside, it bothers me that so many areas now rely on Starlink, handing Elon the keys to just cut access for whomever whenever.
I actually built a LoRa network with a mate, if we stretch our antenas we can cover almost 300km with little to no energy but the latency is absolutely trash, though communication wise it works alright.
We should have less and less trust handling our data like we currently do.
I’m in the process of starting with some LoRa stuff myself, and just waiting on hardware to arrive. Can you provide any details on what you’re using hardware-wise? I’m assuming that 300km is pretty much obstacle-free?
Both of us use different antennas (literally scrap), we use meshstatic with raspberries.
This will be of much help if you’re looking to get started: https://meshtastic.org/docs/hardware/
Also 300km is indeed almost obstacle free, there’s lots of villages and forests in between but one of the antenna is located on 12th floor of a building in a city. Coverage is not really the issue, even inside the city with all interference, we did manage to establish a proper connection within 3km, one antenna on 4th floor and the other one on the first floor with lots of tall buildings in between. (Worked much better than expected)
Mad fun project to get started with, highly recommended. Is it of much use? Not yet, not really. But we are planning on pumping up the power a little bit, add a few more nodes and hopefully we will be able to deploy a Lemmy or something and step by step we will create our own shitty “undernet”.
Nice. At the moment I’m looking at using ESP based LilyGo devices since they’re fairly cheap and power efficient. The plan is to set them up in places where they can run off solar power during the day and if I get enough people onboard we can relay off each other.
The tech itself seems cheap and effective enough that it might be good for situations like i.e. the protests in MS where having a phone or other device with too much personal info - or subject to tracking -might be less desirable. It could also be good in situations like we’ve seen in other countries wherein the government cuts off Internet access
nationalize starlink/spacex
ideally after Trump’s cabinet loses their neck privileges
Taxpayers paid for both.
Alec kinda hammered this in with his last Technology Connections video briefly.
It really was easier/better to launch millions of sattelites into space instead of just getting AT&T or whatever other telecom to extend a cable 50 yards? Really?
The coverage at sea is pretty helpful. Ideally it should be under UN control, if just to stop every country or block wanting to set up their own version and causing massive amounts of orbital clutter.
This comment has massive “I live in a suburb” vibes.
I know people who would have to spend more than the cost of their house to get mains power or fibre Internet.
They have to spend that much to install their own mains because none of the local telecom companies have extended theirs to service those customers despite having gotten grants from the government for the explicit purpose of doing so. 🤦♂️
I was at a gay campground last summer and the guy I was with pointed out two Starlink receivers, we were both amazed that community-oriented queer men would just fork over money so they could watch TV. At a campground. They weren’t even boomers, they were Gen Xers. People are just so addicted to modern convenience they don’t care about who’s supplying it.
I’ve been in the car with a transfriend when they insisted on going to Chik-fil-a for lunch.
It legitimately made me lose a lot of respect for them.
I have a disappointingly large number of LGBTQ+ friends and family members who eat there regularly.
Paying for Starlink is a sin against Elohim, those two guys aren’t getting into heaven.
Unrelated: you think there are crowdfunding services for assassinations on the dark web?
I think they are just honey-traps.
What I hear: he didn’t before because Putin had the dirt on him. Now that it’s out…
Epstein was pretty obviously mossad but both russia and israel seem to both use the blackmail materials. Interesting how that woks from such a “staunch US ally” as israel is portrayed to be. How are they sharing this stuff?
Side note, I suggest a change to english writing standards whereby loathsome words like “putin” or “israel” become exceptions to capitalization rules and are always lower case. “US” is an exception only because it breaks the writing flow and reads as ‘us’.
A tiger doesn’t change its stripes. Neither does a nazi.
Musk’s basic code was always there. He just knew how to put lipstick on a pig to trick the masses into compliance.
Every time see this turd’s name, I think of the Star Trek Discovery episode where he was quoted as one of the most brilliants earthian scientist/engineer or something. This show was soooo shitty, so blind and so in-your-face. So* lib*. Thank the gods for Strange New World.
Next Gen, DS9 and Voyager are still the best, though.
DIE
I’ve supported Nazis both in Russia and the USA but now I want a better image so that people start buying my cars again so I van become a trillionaire. All forgiven?
Fuck. Off. And. Die.
No source?
https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/musk-steps-in-spacex-blocks-starlink-use-1769940889.html
Not sure why the link is not showing up.
Edit: Nevermind, just added it to the posts body.
So he could have done it all along but he didn’t do it as countless Ukrainian civilians were being targeted and killed.
His image can’t be saved.
Yeahp.
Yet another feather in the cap of unspeakably craven, deranged, objectively evil things he has done.
I guess uh, expect him to use his latest baby from his latest baby mama as a human shield for photo ops more often.
There is a percentage of any population that just repeats shit they heard their role models say, like it’s the gospel. Image repair is going to involve starting “cool projects,” getting good interviews with popular influencers, and coaching a swarm of people to ignorantly support him for the “sake of humanity” or some shit. This is a weird faucet of human society, but look at how well it works…
a weird faucet of human society
You mean one of those annoying ones with one dial for hot and one for cold that are never in a useful temperature range for longer than a second?
At this point, yeah but there’s also a third knob that just pours blood straight out the faucet.
That one’s really handy for vampires with social anxiety, though 🤷
It’s like you want to see what’s at the bottom of a well, but someone turns on a spigot of water to cause ripples. You can’t tell whether what’s down there is more round or square, now. Later they add food coloring, and you can’t really recall by this point if the object was originally red or orange… Soon they toss in some disco balls, and now you’ve gotten distracted by the shiny sparkles everywhere. Eventually, the well fills and the disco balls float to the top. Everyone around you is remarking at how beautiful the well looks, and you’re the only one left wondering what the fuck just happened.
Then if you bring up how something was at the bottom, those people will attack you for being ignorant of the wells beauty, and all humanity gains from that well. They’ll tell you, you should be more grateful.
You’re right, that’s NOTHING like any of the faucets I have! 😁
Elon being creepy and pathetic as usual … remember when he tried to exchange a pony for sex with one of his employees? literally the biggest loser on the planet.
Maybe Elon had a “Am I the bad guy??” moment.
