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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Averagemaoist@hexbear.net to c/news@hexbear.net

SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk reportedly caused a geopolitical crisis last year, when Ukrainian forces—which have relied heavily on the company’s Starlink satellite communications—were on the verge of striking Russian naval vessels off the coast of Crimea with submersible drones. Concerned that the attack would provoke Russia into using nuclear weapons, Musk unilaterally opted to sever the submarines’ satellite connection, throwing a wrench in the entire assault.

The incident—shared by CNN based on an adapted excerpt from an upcoming book by Walter Isaacson—demonstrates Musk’s increasing unwillingness to lend his satellite network to offensive maneuvers waged by Ukraine. “How am I in this war?” “Starlink was not meant to be involved in wars. It was so people can watch Netflix and chill and get online for school and do good peaceful things, not drone strikes.”

After foiling the attack, Musk reportedly received a desperate text from a Ukrainian deputy prime minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, who asked that Musk reinstate the Starlink connection to the drones. “I just want you—the person who is changing the world through technology—to know this,” Fedorov wrote. But Musk refused to reverse course, telling Fedorov that Ukraine “is now going too far and inviting strategic defeat.”

Apparently he was worried that the assault would provoke nuclear war. Musk showing actual thought for the first time in ever.

[-] Averagemaoist@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"it does now mostly thanks to co-opting by incels"

I don't really get where this talking point comes from, its just not true. Have you ever browsed an incel forum to see what those hogs are thinking? They never refer to women as females. Ever. I've never seen it once in one of their spaces. Not on r/braincels, not on r/incels, not in incelsco or whatever new forum they've migrated to in the past few years. They exclusively refer to women as foids or holes.

Referring to women as females is very common in the African American community though.

[-] Averagemaoist@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

Everything you hear about China from western sources is a lie. Everything westerners write about them is tainted by sources controlled by the US state department. China will save the world from capitalism or we will all die.

[-] Averagemaoist@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm convinced all the people saying that America doesn't teach what happens to the Indians (besides the first Thanksgiving) stopped paying attention in history class after elementary school.

[-] Averagemaoist@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

It's the lib version of using disgost in every post

[-] Averagemaoist@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

I have a friend who is Jewish and lived in Berlin 1944. Her mother has a famous actress with political connections, her family was discriminated against but not shipped off to camps.

Anti China Uighur stuff is racist bullshit, but seeing kids outside would not disapprove a repressive government program targeting a single group.

[-] Averagemaoist@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

250K is a lot of money for a person to get, but I would never think of someone worth 250K as rich. I feel a lot of people itt are being intentionally dense about the valuation thing. Stock value is not revenue from the company being put in the owners pocket. Its more like the value of Tom Brady's signature changed a lot between when he was 10 years old and now. Its valuable because more people would be willing to pay for it.

[-] Averagemaoist@hexbear.net 59 points 1 year ago

Malcolm X was never really rehabilitated. People hated him when he was alive and they still hate now that he's dead. The best you can get about him is people saying he was "complicated".

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