It's nice that Elon is getting hit where it hurts. Hopefully the EU benefits from this.
Eutelsat and Amazon's Kuiper just got one more pre-order.
Well, Amazon isn't exactly great for the EU, but at least it's not Elon, IG...
Billionaires trying to preserve the status quo are far less dangerous than billionaires trying to disrupt it.
Damning with faint praise, but you're not wrong. No billionaire getting stuck-in like Musk is doing it to make the world a better place for anyone else, and no one except autocrats and accelerationist wackos should be pleased with how things have changed in the last 6 months.
So? No billionaires at all are better than both cases. Bezos is evil too, any investment going towards him is terrible to. It's better than Elon, but all this is terrible. Also, Bezos is not trying to preserve the status quo, he's only trying to protect himself and his pockets, that's all.
Nowhere did I claim that billionaires are good. I’m saying which type are the most dangerous.
It’s like saying “which tiger is more dangerous, the hungry one or the hungry AND rabid one?” Obviously both are existential problems to us, but one is still worse the others.
True, but not good enough. Eventually there will come a billionaire who is even more psychopathic than all the others, probably some Nepo-baby who thinks he's a super-villain-genius because he was smart enough to be born with money. That guy will truly wreck the world more than the current batch of billionaires will.
If we don't end this power grab by the billionaires, and eliminate them from existence, now and in the future, it will ONLY get worse and worse, until it is the end of civilization.
Bezos is just as evil
Not sure about that, but I can't really say I disagree, fundamentally.
Shame that he's going to bring the rest of us down with him
I've managed to not lose a single cent from all my others investments combined thanks to the little I had in Eutelsat. I'm for sure reinforcing that one. Also, shorting tesla has been fun, but I don't have the means to do it at a risk safe scale.
After Tesla, starlink should come next (X will die organically) so unfortunate starlink is not public to short.
Feels so good seeing Elon Musk get kicked in the dick.
He is kicking himself in the dick.
Kinda reminds me of Kanye West TBH.
Yesterday someone posted a thread that claimed that was the actual intention. Awfully questionable but it’s a funny enough idea to spread anyway ……
The claim is some economic mastermind in the administration believes our entire problem is interest rates and the dollar is too strong. Ok as far as that goes, but the further claim is all the tariffs, flip flopping, broken contracts are just to persuade countries to kick us in the dick until we feel better. They may not have used those exact words
There are better ways to devalue your currency. It's not such an uncommon thing for countries to do. Why go out of your way to be a dick? This new type of behavior we are observing from US officials just smacks of sheer incompetency and lack of direction on the diplomatic stage.
There's some merit to them purposefully tanking stocks. Prior to the flip-flopping, a lot of big money pulled out of the market significantly (which also contributed to it crashing and people freaking) As far as the dollar being too strong, it just has to stay stronger than the stockmarket so they can buy back cheap.
Of course, it'll cause a recession. fuck over everyone and just about every company in the country, but Elon doesn't care, he'll just grant himself a bunch of defense and aerospace contracts, maybe order a 30 billion in teslas for the government.
I doubt he feels it. Apparently it got broken in failed vanity surgery. So, he is now a chinless, balding, dickless Wonder Boy under all that surgery. One wonders how he got to the belief that his defective genes were the ones that needed propagation.
And here I was feeling good about myself after I canceled an order of 4 units for work. But every magnitude matters, I guess.
EDIT: Because starlink customer support is awful. It is a good product in theory, but because of their lack of service update, such as when they change stuff that affects us, it cannot be relied upon in production environments. And in todays political climate I simply don't want him to get any more money from me. We managed with 2mbit VSAT before, and will do so again.
Honestly, more small orders getting cancelled is also awesome, good on you!
Thank you for your service!
Just when the new EU launcher Ariane 6 is finally fully operational. That's convenient. https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/europes-ariane-6-stages-first-commercial-launch-2025-03-06/
I'd be very surprised if OneWeb ever launches on Ariane 6. It is not build for cheap LEO launches at all afaik. But maybe some ride shares, who knows.
The problem is that Ariane 6 is already an obsolete previous-gen design, not one part is reusable. SpaceX is the dominant launch provider for a very solid reason and ultimately the only way to compete with them is going to be to adopt their ideas and methodologies.
Let's bring back being decent to people.
Carlos also cancelled a more immediate $7 billion business plan with Starlink, which makes it closer to 30 billion lost.
Good. Seeing a Nazi face consequences for his actions in real time is so satisfying.
That's an uplifting news
Dear Slim, I wrote you but you still ain't calling.
I have some doubts. Only small or weird outlets have any news on this and there is no good original source linked anywhere.
The Canadian Press explains a potential path by which this claim could have arisen, namely that Slim's company América Móvil had stated in an earnings call that they were going to invest 22 billion pesos (! not USD) in infrastructure over three years and they didn't have plans to invest it in Starlink, instead looking more towards two other satellite companies, and only for rural backbones where laying fiber would be more expensive.
I mean, Carlos Slim is not from the USA, so most news were in spanish:
Deserved.
Great news
Good.
lol
I mean he does have ties to drug cartels, but you don't say it
What ties? Can you elaborate?
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