> FAA prevents SpaceX from launching more rockets
> Musk guts the FAA
> FAA no longer stopping rockets
> Musk decries nobody will stop other people's rockets
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SpaceX biggest competitor is NASA/JPL Musk guts NASA
How is NASA a competitor to SpaceX?
Because we live in clown world
They both shoot rockets up in the sky. Our government could pay NASA to do it, or pay Space X.
NASA does not build it's own rockets (anymore) they make the payloads. NASA will never make rockets as good/cheap as a companies like ULA and SpaceX.
Take a look at the cluster fuck that is the SLS if you want an example
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->Musk's team launches the most expensive firework ever blowing up and disrupting air traffic and destroying the environment again for the eighth time
Felon Musk
WHY ARE THEIR ROCKETS NOT EXPLODING!!?
— Rocket X. Hitler
I might actually gain a tiny, minuscule bit of respect for him if he officially changes his name to Rocket Hitler
I want more Kung Fury and I want him fighting Rocket X. Hitler III
I was about to correct you and tell you the Evil Council was French, but that's Kung Pow, not Kung Furry, and I'm a dumb.
It would be cool if sabotage is happening... Adjust a hydrogen valve here and there, change a few timing parameters to the right amount and watch the 4th of July in may! And of course... Make it look like an accident.
Elon is such a bitch
Competition for thee but not for me.
Let Apple rain Terror on this damn Nazi.
It certainly is a weird timeline when Apple is the good guy.
Reminds me of March 24 to November 10, 2001, when Apple had embraced Unix and -- to some extent -- open source by releasing OS X, but had not yet pivoted towards glued-shut and DRM'd consumer electronics by releasing the iPod.
OSX was never really open sourced. If you tried compiling it, you'd have found it wouldn't work because it was incomplete.
Darwin was just their version of BSD which they released in order to comply with the license, but the actual Desktop/UI was a separate stack. You could build and install Darwin, but it wouldn’t do anything.
Yeah it was almost briefly cool. You could take apart and upgrade your own iPod, build your own enclosure for it
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Wasn't Tim Cook one of the first to donate to Trump's Inauguration? Did they at least protest DEI scrapping (excluding some shareholders) or Gulf of Mexico rename, or bent over like rest of big tech? I'm honestly not seeing it, to me Apple is as bad as google
Yes. Tim Apple gave the $1M bribe to Orange Donald.
Tim Cook
Never heard of him. Do you mean Tim Apple?
I can think of a lot of companies that are far worse than Apple.
It's best not to humanize corporations, especially as the arbiters of morality and ethics. It's simply a calculated risk on Apples part. I don't mean to be a negative Nancy and all "nothing good happens" it's just we can't keep letting corporations get away with being brands you can "trust" when we have all the evidence necessary to assume they are not trustworthy, just profit-seeking.
Isn't this sorta how the Corporate Wars started in the Cyberpunk universe?
As someone who relies on Starlink to get functional Internet access? Please, please give me more options.
Eutelsat is considering expanding into North America. Send them a message you are interested. Tell your friends. We need an alternative. https://www.eutelsat.com/en/contact-us.html
I have Starlink, I stopped paying when Elon did the nazi solute. Now I’m on phone data that barely plays 360p video, but I’m happy as can be not giving a nazi money.
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So much for the free market unless it no longer benefits SpaceX and Elon Musk in general. Welcome to post capitalistic America!
Must be trying to hide fraud and waste. Better set up a commission to investigate them and start firing spacex execs.
capitalism truly spurs competition and innovation
If you really hate Elon Musk, I have two words for you. "Thanks Obama"
Every single aspect of Elon's "success" has been heavily subsidized or paid for by the US government (aka, tax payers).
EDIT: It seems the "Thanks Obama" meme has fallen into obscurity. It is an older joke in which everything was blamed on Obama, no matter how far fetched. I even used italics.
The point of my comment is that Elon is the biggest "welfare" beneficiary in history. All of his businesses would be a financial failure without billions of dollars in grants, benefits and contracts from the government, and that he's been sucking on that government teet since Obama was in office. In fact, it was Obama who saved Tesla, hence the 'Thanks Obama" joke. Even Obama is aware and why the crashing Teslas scene is in the Netflix movie he produced. Now Elon is looking for federal assistance to block his competition.
What is this L take my guy?
Elon was loved by every forward facing democratic liberalism / é o-conscious person for years.
You cannot read people's hearts or minds except from how they act.
And I did not see any favist/overreaching actions, even the actual delusion of grandeur, when Obama was president.
On the contrary.
And if I remember correctly Obama told him off in multiple instances.
Did everyone really forget about the "Thanks Obama" joke? Anyway, I clarified my point in the edit.
If a crook steals a watch, you gonna jail the crook or jail the guy who makes timex?
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We know the "joke." But that wasn't what you were doing. You are actually literally blaming Obama.
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Found another uneducated one.
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