These baby brains refuse to acknowledge that commercial civilian communications devices can't be used for weapons by international law as well as the agreement specific to the starlinks. Musk is a garbage human but this is such a basic-ass outcome that would have happened regardless of the satellite hardware provider.

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    6 months ago

    Was looking at the sky with my astronomy app the other day and the sky was swimming with Starlink satellites. They are an abomination and the worst kind of space junk.

    • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
      hexagon
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      6 months ago

      I was kind of hoping the russians would release some chaff in starlink's orbit to just delete a band of satellites

      • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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        6 months ago

        I hate them so much. Space exploration is such a delicate process, if we fuck up shit with too much junk it will get too dangerous to send anything up there. We can't just let business dudes who have no idea what they're messing with chuck a bunch of random crap up there.

        It's messing up our chances to do science and learn about the universe, there's something evil about that, IMO

  • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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    6 months ago

    Imagine having your party control the presidency, military, and intelligence apparatus, and yet you’re still at the mercy of a man child to win wars and keep people’s retirement funds afloat. In a sane country, Elon Musk would probably accidentally fall out of a window years ago and someone competent would’ve taken over the companies to ensure smooth military operations and a stable economy.

  • PeeOnYou [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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    6 months ago

    holy fuck i haven't spent more than a minute at a time on that hellsite in at least a year, up until this thread... what a fucking trainwreck of brainworms