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I hope we can focus on the human kindness that Starlink is showing and ignore the political overtones. Both Trump and the current administration are creating th

I hope we can focus on the human kindness that Starlink is showing and ignore the political overtones. Both Trump and the current administration are creating the impression that it was their idea. Maybe Elon or Starlink thought of it first? It doesn't really matter. Let's all just do what we can to help the hurricane victims.

llamaimperative 2y ago
Yes let's make sure we avoid the bad vibes that might emerge by understanding who's doing useful things and who's not. Let liars lie, what's the worst that could happen?
- iknowstuff 2y ago
  … who’s lying?
  - BadHumans 2y ago
    [flagged]
    - astroid 2y ago
      So it literally doesn't matter to you if he is lying or not, you simply want to make your opposition to him known in a thread that has basically nothing to do with him. Way to contribute - you are going places. (nowhere I'd want to be though)
    - iknowstuff 2y ago
      I agree but I didn't realize this had anything to do with him
duxup 2y ago
Most of the comments so far about the nuts and bolts usage. The downside of talking about not expressing "political overtones" is that you did bring it up, and I honestly don't even know exactly what those "political overtones" would be anyhow as it relates to this story specifically anyhow.
- hathawsh 2y ago
  The political spin is in the article. Edit: I was referring to this article: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-he-spoke-musk-about-getting-internet-areas-hit-by-hurricane-2024-09-30/ https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-he-spoke-musk-ab... I originally thought the HN post linked to that article, but I see now it was only in a comment. Sorry!
  - duxup 2y ago
    The star link page?
AdamJacobMuller 2y ago
Impossible to know for sure, but, https://x.com/TheShawnHendrix https://x.com/TheShawnHendrix (who has a very interesting story) is one of the people driving starlinks (and other things) to the affected areas and was tagging elon incessantly asking him to do this and was asking his followers to do the same. I would hazard to guess that's how Elon found out.

llamaimperative 2y ago

Yes let's make sure we avoid the bad vibes that might emerge by understanding who's doing useful things and who's not. Let liars lie, what's the worst that could happen?

iknowstuff 2y ago
… who’s lying?
- BadHumans 2y ago
  [flagged]
  - astroid 2y ago
    So it literally doesn't matter to you if he is lying or not, you simply want to make your opposition to him known in a thread that has basically nothing to do with him. Way to contribute - you are going places. (nowhere I'd want to be though)
  - iknowstuff 2y ago
    I agree but I didn't realize this had anything to do with him

duxup 2y ago

Most of the comments so far about the nuts and bolts usage. The downside of talking about not expressing "political overtones" is that you did bring it up, and I honestly don't even know exactly what those "political overtones" would be anyhow as it relates to this story specifically anyhow.

hathawsh 2y ago
The political spin is in the article. Edit: I was referring to this article: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-he-spoke-musk-about-getting-internet-areas-hit-by-hurricane-2024-09-30/ https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-he-spoke-musk-ab... I originally thought the HN post linked to that article, but I see now it was only in a comment. Sorry!
- duxup 2y ago
  The star link page?

AdamJacobMuller 2y ago

Impossible to know for sure, but, https://x.com/TheShawnHendrix https://x.com/TheShawnHendrix (who has a very interesting story) is one of the people driving starlinks (and other things) to the affected areas and was tagging elon incessantly asking him to do this and was asking his followers to do the same. I would hazard to guess that's how Elon found out.