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[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 268 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

> 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

[–] dangling_cat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 91 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

SpaceX biggest competitor is NASA/JPL Musk guts NASA

[–] nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

How is NASA a competitor to SpaceX?

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 2 months ago

Because we live in clown world

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They both shoot rockets up in the sky. Our government could pay NASA to do it, or pay Space X.

[–] nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz 9 points 2 months ago (5 children)

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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[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

->Musk's team launches the most expensive firework ever blowing up and disrupting air traffic and destroying the environment again for the eighth time

[–] db2@lemmy.world 135 points 2 months ago
[–] IHeartBadCode@fedia.io 107 points 2 months ago (2 children)

WHY ARE THEIR ROCKETS NOT EXPLODING!!?

— Rocket X. Hitler

[–] eagleeyedtiger@lemmy.nz 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I might actually gain a tiny, minuscule bit of respect for him if he officially changes his name to Rocket Hitler

[–] unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I want more Kung Fury and I want him fighting Rocket X. Hitler III

[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] pinheadednightmare@lemm.ee 87 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

Competition for thee but not for me.

[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 68 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Let Apple rain Terror on this damn Nazi.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 68 points 2 months ago (4 children)

It certainly is a weird timeline when Apple is the good guy.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Xatolos@reddthat.com 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

OSX was never really open sourced. If you tried compiling it, you'd have found it wouldn't work because it was incomplete.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 months ago

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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[–] REDACTED@infosec.pub 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

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

[–] heavydust@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 months ago

Yes. Tim Apple gave the $1M bribe to Orange Donald.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Tim Cook

Never heard of him. Do you mean Tim Apple?

[–] dzso@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

I can think of a lot of companies that are far worse than Apple.

[–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 months ago

Isn't this sorta how the Corporate Wars started in the Cyberpunk universe?

[–] KickMeElmo@sopuli.xyz 47 points 2 months ago (8 children)

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

[–] Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

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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[–] dagarnok 45 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So much for the free market unless it no longer benefits SpaceX and Elon Musk in general. Welcome to post capitalistic America!

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Someone should troll libertarians on reddit with this

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If libertarians could read, they'd be devastated!

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[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 41 points 2 months ago

Must be trying to hide fraud and waste. Better set up a commission to investigate them and start firing spacex execs.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

capitalism truly spurs competition and innovation

[–] Embargo@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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