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[–] [email protected] 48 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

It's time for Europe to finally get their own solutions.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

It's called One Web by Eutelsat. Same latency and reliability, but less Mb/s about 70 Mb/s (and does it matter much for the few Kb packets to relay small amounts of data?).

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Here's one: https://www.skydsl.eu/en-DE/Personal/Satellite-internet/Tariffs/Private/Overview

Seems to be about half as expensive as Starlink. 700ms latency though. So you won't be gaming skydsl.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 13 hours ago

But what SpaceX does is so cool, and for the greater good of the humanity!

/s

[–] krimson 94 points 19 hours ago

Also a reminder that everyone who is not a Musk sheep should leave Twitter.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Ah, the full Hitler, a bold move let’s see how it plays out.

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[–] [email protected] 97 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

did elon really say "pipe down pipsqueek" like that worked well for drake? man people with canadian citizenship gotta stop doing that.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 17 hours ago

I think the ritual to siphon all Canadian aggression into Justin Bieber every year is beginning to fail.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 20 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 70 points 20 hours ago (8 children)

Is this exchange real? Surely this can't be, right?

[–] Diplomjodler3 39 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Musk has completely lost touch with reality at this point and thinks he's god.

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 59 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

OK, so this is where things are now. Wow.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 20 hours ago

Yeah I could not believe myself. But honestly people in position of power need to be out of twitter. It craves and feed on attention.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

He's a ketamine addict, so that's probably affecting his cognitive facilities to a degree.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

What are the clinical manifestations of Ketamine addiction? I'm asking honestly, because I don't know, and I wonder if he ticks the boxes.

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[–] Sanctus 27 points 18 hours ago

Hey, rest of the Democratic world, there are a whole bunch of ex feds right now needing funds and direction for their anger. Maybe you should tap into them if you need someone to rid you of this meddlesome Chancellor.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 14 hours ago

Elon is an absolute clown there are alternatives they just aren’t as robust at this time.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

There's so many places where strategically important resources have been delegated wholesale to the US. Now, concerning mankind, it's theoretically better, of course, to not overdo it with wasteful redundancies. But, unfortunately, we're not talking about some kind of UN-controlled infrastructure, which is maintained and used internationally. Unfortunately, it's controlled by people like this, and that is now coming home to roost.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

More competition will ensure the oligarchs to behave.

I don't trust the EU tech owners, but I recognize that they are at an disadvantage to the US counterpart (and nationalism is a useful tool to sell their product) so they won't be making overt moves to dismantle European democracy.

[–] theUwUhugger 20 points 20 hours ago (6 children)

It’s really really really not up to trust! Imagine if bec of eu oligarchs thousands of folks died because said oligarchs refused to pay for peoples healthcare!

The one remaining guillotine in France would go around!

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I can’t stand the fact that Poland is doing Literally What they wanted - spending a lot of money on defence. Yet, they bark at them.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

nothing will ever be good enough for the fascist. the point is not deals, the point is capitulation. there are winners and losers to the fascist. there is no mutual aid or benefit

[–] [email protected] 10 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Thou are right! Someone once said that

The US does not have allies. The US has only countries that are useful for a while.

[–] syreus 7 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Henry Kissinger

To be fair he said a lot of things including:

It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.

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[–] Gradually_Adjusting 32 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Pride goeth before the fall, they say. The hellish part is the wait.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 15 hours ago

That would be Eutelsat, but it is smaller in scale (at the moment) and therefore more expensive. It's also said to be less userfriendly, but that should be possible to fix.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

There are alternatives to starlink though. This guy thinks he owns it all

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