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I agree. As much as Starlink is a technological miracle, the fact that I should finance the dealings of this man is too much. SpaceX IPO is the next in the lo

by tacker2000 7mo ago

I agree. As much as Starlink is a technological miracle, the fact that I should finance the dealings of this man is too much. SpaceX IPO is the next in the long grift chain.

madaxe_again 7mo ago
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- ceejayoz 7mo ago
  SpaceX can be doing awesome things and Musk can be grifting simultaneously.
bigfatkitten 7mo ago
Musk is a piece of shit but I need to pick my battles. The only alternative available to me personally is Inmarsat BGAN, and for that I was paying $6 per MB (yes, six dollars per megabyte).
vablings 7mo ago
Starlink amazing solution to a problem that should have been solved by governments years ago, the USA has power to most homes and USPS will deliver anywhere so why do we not have the same for internet? God knows
- protocolture 7mo ago
  Starlink is an amazing solution to the problem of "How do I keep my orbital transport business somewhat liquid" which isn't really the kind of problem governments are meant to resolve.
  - vablings 7mo ago
    Correct, the government should have ran fiber lines to every home in the united states
    - protocolture 7mo ago
      The government should have torn up your copper monopolies a few decades earlier, but the one thing the US has done right is sort of letting local power companies and ISPs work it out for themselves where it comes to fibre. Enforcing a single standard everywhere is bad actually.
      - vablings 7mo ago
        Nah, they should have done what the UK government did with Project Gigabit https://www.gov.uk/guidance/project-gigabit-uk-gigabit-programme https://www.gov.uk/guidance/project-gigabit-uk-gigabit-progr... https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2026/02/milestone-as-gigabit-broadband-coverage-reaches-90-percent-of-uk.html https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2026/02/milestone-as-g... If you were a savvy businessman, you could make a lot of money just connecting customers with FTTH rather than the prior situation. There was an explosion of "altnets" build off the backs of this legislation https://web.archive.org/web/20151015205446/http://www.alphr.com/news/broadband/391612/bt-aimed-to-get-true-fibre-to-25-of-uk-the-actual-figure-0-7 https://web.archive.org/web/20151015205446/http://www.alphr.... Funnily enough BT got a bucketload of money from the government and did absolutely cock all with it. Even funnier the formerly big 5 isps are rated some of the lowest on customer satisfaction despite being actual cash cows for years https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2026/03/new-which-survey-awards-best-and-worst-uk-broadband-isps-for-2026.html https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2026/03/new-which-surv...
        protocolture 7mo ago
        Yeah vouchers are slightly better than subsidies alone tbh
  - kevin_thibedeau 7mo ago
    The US kept Iridium alive for the military and intelligence services. If Starlink falters they will fund it the same.

I agree. As much as Starlink is a technological miracle, the fact that I should finance the dealings of this man is too much. SpaceX IPO is the next in the long grift chain.

madaxe_again 7mo ago

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ceejayoz 7mo ago
SpaceX can be doing awesome things and Musk can be grifting simultaneously.

bigfatkitten 7mo ago

Musk is a piece of shit but I need to pick my battles. The only alternative available to me personally is Inmarsat BGAN, and for that I was paying $6 per MB (yes, six dollars per megabyte).

vablings 7mo ago

Starlink amazing solution to a problem that should have been solved by governments years ago, the USA has power to most homes and USPS will deliver anywhere so why do we not have the same for internet? God knows

protocolture 7mo ago
Starlink is an amazing solution to the problem of "How do I keep my orbital transport business somewhat liquid" which isn't really the kind of problem governments are meant to resolve.
- vablings 7mo ago
  Correct, the government should have ran fiber lines to every home in the united states
  - protocolture 7mo ago
    The government should have torn up your copper monopolies a few decades earlier, but the one thing the US has done right is sort of letting local power companies and ISPs work it out for themselves where it comes to fibre. Enforcing a single standard everywhere is bad actually.
    - vablings 7mo ago
      Nah, they should have done what the UK government did with Project Gigabit https://www.gov.uk/guidance/project-gigabit-uk-gigabit-programme https://www.gov.uk/guidance/project-gigabit-uk-gigabit-progr... https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2026/02/milestone-as-gigabit-broadband-coverage-reaches-90-percent-of-uk.html https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2026/02/milestone-as-g... If you were a savvy businessman, you could make a lot of money just connecting customers with FTTH rather than the prior situation. There was an explosion of "altnets" build off the backs of this legislation https://web.archive.org/web/20151015205446/http://www.alphr.com/news/broadband/391612/bt-aimed-to-get-true-fibre-to-25-of-uk-the-actual-figure-0-7 https://web.archive.org/web/20151015205446/http://www.alphr.... Funnily enough BT got a bucketload of money from the government and did absolutely cock all with it. Even funnier the formerly big 5 isps are rated some of the lowest on customer satisfaction despite being actual cash cows for years https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2026/03/new-which-survey-awards-best-and-worst-uk-broadband-isps-for-2026.html https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2026/03/new-which-surv...
      - protocolture 7mo ago
        Yeah vouchers are slightly better than subsidies alone tbh
- kevin_thibedeau 7mo ago
  The US kept Iridium alive for the military and intelligence services. If Starlink falters they will fund it the same.