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Content_Flamingo_583 t1_ix4qixc wrote

Reply to comment by Lootcifer- in European Union strikes €6bn deal to develop own broadband satellite network by Sorin61

Musk went full Republican and now his brand is toxic. Everyone is rooting for him to fail now. (Except his hardened maga reply guys.)

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Harmless_Drone t1_ix5j0ao wrote

It was the posts suggesting ukraine surrender to russia then when getting called out on it by ukrainian politicians, filling his pants with shit and threatening to cut off ukraine from starlink after promising them its full support. Real petulant child behaviour.

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AdakaR t1_ix5isr3 wrote

He also threatened to pull service mid war to Ukraine, so now the US is making their own, EU is making their own.. its as if he might be a moron..

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quettil t1_ix73uba wrote

If you think that's true you spend too much time online.

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CGordini t1_ix5azry wrote

I love his tech (revolutionary in both EV and space, where you like it or not), and am still rooting for him to fail.

The only sad part is the money evaporates, not redistributes.

Fuck that asshole.

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ibond_007 t1_ix5cufp wrote

I don’t know about SpaceX. But EV is not revolutionary! All he did was packaged and sold the EV at a price affordable to the upper middle class. There are no special battery tech ( like solid state batteries etc) nor revolutionary motors ( Tesla motors are second grade compared to Lucid). He was lucky and was able to over promise and sell. The chicken is coming to roost soon.

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Harmless_Drone t1_ix5j5mb wrote

He rushed his cars to market by cutting every qa step possible. The fit and finish is atrocious, with massive gaps and parts not fitting all over them.

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d01100100 t1_ix5tvn1 wrote

> The fit and finish is atrocious, with massive gaps and parts not fitting all over them.

I remember back in the late 80's if you compared the construction of Honda vs GM, you'd notice a major difference of how the outer body panels fit together. The Honda would be a consistent width all the way through. The GM vehicles were vary widely in how the car panels would fit together. If you look closely at the Tesla Model 3's, they're as bad, if not worse, than how the GM cars were. Compare two Model 3's side-by-side and you'll notice they're not consistent to each other.

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ibond_007 t1_ix5kuti wrote

Fit and finish is one part of the issue. The biggest issue is, the cars will fall apart in 6-10 years time frame. Tesla is not customer centric anymore, so the customers holding the car will be seeing huge bill when it breaks down!

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forahive t1_ix6cjty wrote

Yea what a horrible piece of crap he is; stepping up practically overnight to deliver free internet access for an entire country when the need was dire and footing most of the bill. Clearly, all those lurking anonymously through social media, dropping political shittakes as they go, are light-years ahead in morality, civility, and general value to humanity.

So the EU wants to throw its hat in nextgen internet access. Bravo, competition is good. State operated telecom ehhhh not so good but, hey, privacy is such a frivolous thing anyways and its not like Europeans had much of it to begin with. However, I bet a steak dinner that says the EU will burn through that $6.2B on bureaucracy alone having not deployed a single satellite.

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SlowMotionPanic t1_ix6l35j wrote

>stepping up practically overnight to deliver free internet access for an entire country when the need was dire and footing most of the bill.

The US government paid for those. A significant amount of them, at very least, and continues to pay.

Starlink was possible life the same reason Musk’s other, non-Twitter ventures were possible: government welfare.

>Clearly, all those lurking anonymously through social media, dropping political shittakes as they go, are light-years ahead in morality, civility, and general value to humanity.

As opposed to being born rich and buying your way into the companies that made you most famous, dropping political shittakes like a pleb?

Cry us a river.

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forahive t1_ix6v8jp wrote

>The US government paid for those.
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>A significant amount of them, at very least, and continues to pay.

Yes, the US has kicked in some $7-10M (depending on the reporting) as of recent. Interesting note the calculations largely consider transportation costs whilst the equipment itself is freely supplied by SpaceX - IMO not a bad deal at all. The still-ongoing cost to SpaceX is somewhere north of $20M a month; thus my phrasing "footing most of the bill".

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