2y ago

Ukrainian surface drones had Starlink comms disabled on direct Musk's orders

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CNN Exclusive: 'How am I in this war?': New Musk biography offers fresh details about the billionaire's Ukraine dilemma | CNN Politics

of course he was afraid of russian nuukes. this only prompted Ukrainian engineers to bypass use of starlink entirely and current sea drones, like the one used in second Kerch bridge strike, or these used against SIG tanker and Olenegorsky Gornyak landing ship use domestic technology only

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2y ago

Ukrainian surface drones had Starlink comms disabled on direct Musk's orders

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Russian propagandists tell people what they want to hear. For longtermists like Muskovitj, it's fear of Global Thermonuclear War. For trads, it's Orthodox faith and subjugation of women. For fascists, it's implied antisemitism and general racism. For tankies, it's having a counterweight to American imperialism.
The stupid thing is that medium to long term, Musk would sell more Teslas and Starlinks to a free unoccupied Ukraine than a broke Russia under permanent sanctions. But I guess he finds the other arguments intriguing.
- I don't think Musk is a man driven by what is in his self interest. He has some underlying pathology that drives him to be his own worst enemy. He's a lot like Trump in that regard.
  
  Personally my mental model of Musk is that whenever he does something, I think, “is this what an idiot who thinks he will eventually go to mars would do?” Then it’s really a matter of figuring out the path to the answer being yes. Can’t go to mars if you die from nuclear war, or something. I don’t try very hard to think about this.
nukes were never on the table, and the reason why is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWKGYnO0Jf4
- See also: https://acoup.blog/2022/03/11/collections-nuclear-deterrence-101/
  
  Also ‘superfuse’.
Shouldn't be up to him. I'd consider treason charges for this. Of course, he'll suffer no consequences as always
But here I thought nuclear war wasn’t an x-risk!
- It is if you think you and your babymommy are the only real people in the simulation.
  
  remember that he doesn't think she's real either
- fyi images posted from kbin this way aren't visible on lemmy for some reason
  
  lemmy is the mastodon of the threadiverse in that it invents a standard and expects everyone to follow it and because it's the largest of it's type you can't really do anything about it
  i bet what's going on is that kbin is attaching images in the mastodon/microblog way and lemmy expects inline markdown images and doesn't try to extract the attached images.
  (fun fact: lemmy custom emojis are just "macros" for markdown images and not real emojis like the rest of the fedi standardized on (which is how you get things like the hexbear problem of remote emojis being gigantic))
- @downpunxx @skillissuer “Great idea to let companies continue to have a monopoly on a resource instead of nationalizing it. They totally won’t take advantage of being the only real option for people and not being controlled by the government (and therefore accountable to the people).”
  And people are still not suspicious with what Elon is doing??? :neofoxangry:
- @downpunxx LOL. That would be Musk's wildest dream. The just compensation he would get would be astounding. Better to tax his space stuff...enough so that we could afford the regulatory apparatus sufficient to protect ourselves from it......
  
  There's a SCOTUS case that says the government only has to pay a fair market value, not the "inflated by the government's need for the property" value. In the case a guy had bought a tugboat and fixed it up quite a bit. When WW2 started the government sought to buy it, and he insisted on a price well above the cost of the boat and the improvements, arguing that WW2 had increased demand so he should get a higher price.
  So Musk would get a lot, but maybe not as much you'd think.

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