The slap fight between Donald Trump and Elon Musk has highlighted the absurdity of keeping so much of our space program and satellite internet infrastructure in the hands of a single oligarch.
  • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I don’t see the problem: NASA was a state agency, SpaceX is private.

    lives are literally at stake, grow the fuck up.

    Elon Musk decided to wreck USAID. The death toll is ghoulish. This dickwad said “the fundamental weakness of western civilization is empathy”.

    If we speak about SpaceX and Tesla, well, it don’t seems to do that bad after all.

    haha tesla is cratering in the EU and that cybertruck sure is a winner. pfft

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-sales-europe-plunge-backlash-protests-elon-musk/

    https://futurism.com/cybertruck-sales-bad

    You are so detached from reality it’s disgusting. This discussion has been absolutely pointless.

    • gian @lemmy.grys.itEnglish
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      9 hours ago

      I don’t see the problem: NASA was a state agency, SpaceX is private.

      lives are literally at stake, grow the fuck up.

      And incidentally SpaceX is the only US entity to have a ship certified for human flight. Where is the Dragon’s equivalent of NASA ? Or any other company/state agency.

      Elon Musk decided to wreck USAID. The death toll is ghoulish.

      An agency created in the 1960’s to fight URSS influence. Maybe it is time to let it go and start with something else, don’t you think ?
      Or maybe it is time that US start to think that without everyone else it is nothing and begin to be an reliable ally and not one that can change idea every 2 years.

      This dickwad said “the fundamental weakness of western civilization is empathy”.

      To be honest, empathy is something you should be aware of after a certain point.

      But whatever…