• va11kyrie@lemmy.ml
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        12 hours ago

        Sovereignty is a huge issue here - handing control of critical infrastructure to a US oligarch is just begging to be coerced and exploited.

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          9 hours ago

          Same applies to all social networks and MS Windows, right? Just making sure I’m tracking - these are also hated here? Things that rich people own manufacturing of? What about cars? They’re pretty much govt spyware now too. Just wondering how far this govt coercion hatred extends into everyday life.

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            Same applies to all social networks and MS Windows, right?

            The only social networks I willingly use are Fediverse instances, none I’m registered on are hosted in the US.

            No device in my house runs Windows. Linux is an upgrade, I recommend it.

            Things that rich people own manufacturing of?

            As a socialist, I believe the working class must seize the means of production, and am doing my part in building that future for us all.

            What about cars? They’re pretty much govt spyware now too.

            Yes, I despise the ‘smart’ features shoved into cars, televisions, etc… I am also active in /c/fuckcars, I am critical of their overuse and rarely use one.


            Now, none of this is necessary for us to recognize that giving the US control of important infrastructure is dangerous. But you did ask. And many governments are also moving away from US infrastructure, although more slowly.


            As for Starlink, its common use is the result of laziness and neglect. Satellite internet is clearly not the cheapest, fastest or most efficient for most of its customers to get modern internet infrastructure. Governments should be reducing their citizens’ need for Starlink as a serious priority, by building internet infrastructure.

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            Unironically, yes. I don’t know if you’re trying to make that scenario sound ridiculous, but I can assure you that it very much is not. At least outside of the US.

            It’s not everyone at the moment, but the IT people who are paying attention are freaking the fuck out. I legitimately think Microsoft, AWS, and GCP will lose substantial market share overseas in the next 24 months.

            Consider that much of the rest of the world has started trusting China more than the US. Now think about the US CLOUD Act. What person in their right mind is going to feel comfortable hosting their company’s most sensitive data within jurisdictional reach of whatever the fuck is going on over there?

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              I am inside the United States and those corporations are all cancer and need to be cut out before they further spread.

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              7 hours ago

              Oh I agree! But I still drive a car and use windows when I have to. I don’t want to, but to avoid it is currently quite a life nuisance. And that’s I suppose how I feel about those who use Starlink.

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              7 hours ago

              Oh I agree! But I still drive a car and use windows when I have to. I don’t want to, but to avoid it is currently quite a life nuisance. And that’s I suppose how I feel about those who use Starlink.

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          12 hours ago

          It seems I stepped on a landmine. My bad. I truly didn’t and don’t realize that satellite internet is destroying humanity but I hear now it’s the guy that started the company that is so I have to hate those too.

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            Think about iran, where they had to jam the starlink signal to keep the cia agents from murdering everyone (they paid per murder).

            Now if usa attacked a less powerful country without jamming technology, the cia agents could get their orders and data over starlink, and use that to murder everyone.

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            10 hours ago

            Starlink has been proven to be utilized for dubious activity to undermine sovereignty (see Mossad coup attemptin Iran as a most recent example). It hides under the guise of global internet for those who otherwise wouldn’t have access but seeing as how it comes at the cost of western imperial overreach, having solid counter measures ain’t a bad idea.

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            Ah, Ok so you don’t particularly have anything against humanity, you’re just an ignoramus with no sense of right/wrong and a chronic inability to read the fucking room, and tacitly accepts the products and services of a Nazi pedophile techbro. Gotcha.

            Hope you recover from the landmine injury!

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          16 hours ago

          Huge fan of Alec, seen most his vids and yeah I caught that earlier this week, including the full ending.

          I agree with and love every bit of that video except for that part about Starlink. Everything in his video aligns with my view of the world and I learned a ton of stuff as well, but I feel like this one I would have to sit down and think about a lot more.

          It seemed out of place in the video in fact. I brushed it off and didn’t go further down the rabbit hole, but nothing he said changes my mind immediately on this particular matter. Everything else in the video made total sense and easily defensible.

          I am realizing now that perhaps this was simply a cheap jab at Elon - Just because everyone hates Elon right now. You have me thinking and maybe I’ll rewatch it and think through this a lot more. I don’t recall him saying anything specific against Elon himself. Prob a dramatic eye roll?

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              12 hours ago

              IIRC his point was that 5G to every household is better than an ISP satellite constellation. That felt like it was ignoring so much including national security (for USA at least), global impact, and upgrade costs.

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          1 day ago

          I also have a problem with overengineered inferior solutions to investing in improving and expanding what is cheap and works very well and that will negatively impact future space projects.

          You know, his entire shtick.

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          Oooooo. Wow ppl really just gonna hate everything he touches eh?

          Remind me why. Is it mainly because of his attempt to reduce government spending, his views on trans, his Asperger’s, or his odd approach to reproducing with women?

          SpaceX has 10k employees that aren’t Elon ya know.

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              12 hours ago

              Yes I understand that’s the party line. I was hoping for something more concrete but now it feels like this is being answered in bad faith so we can shut it down

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                What party line? It’s the truth? He’s in the Epstein files begging to go “party” on the island. He hit multiple nazi salutes on camera. It’s not a line it’s a statement of fact Elon Musk is a nazi pedophile.

                Bad faith is when people point out my idol is fucking evil.

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                  12 hours ago

                  I genuinely saw the man making a hand gesture out to all the people. I didn’t see, nor have I even seen, any sign or symptom that he’s actually a Nazi.

                  The pedo thing, eh that’s pretty inconclusive that he was touching underage women because he asked to go to a party imo. I prefer a bit more damning evidence.

                  The man isn’t my idol. I hate a lot of his personal life and the way he appears to treat woman.

                  I truly am thinking independently, and I understand that your view on the world is different. Is this all it takes for you to say pedo Nazi or is there more?

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            24 hours ago

            I already see this is going to be a fruitless discussion with those proposed discussion points. “His attempt to reduce government spending” 🤣 “attempt”.

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              22 hours ago

              not even sure what you’re laughing abt. but fair to say it’s not going to be fruitful given this response.

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    22 hours ago

    China builds world’s first 20GW microwave

    For some reason it took me at least 5 reads to notice the word weapon in the title properly.

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    We are at levels not even styropyro can compete with

    What does a microwave weapon do?

    Edit: can jam drone signals etc

    I thought at first, it could pop people like a kitten in a microwave

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          16 hours ago

          Maybe I’m too old to have heard that. Or it’s geographical. Since I’m not familiar with that - it sounded like your nonchalant attitude simply meant you had tried that before lol