Agreed. This seems like a hail-Mary to keep SLS alive in the face of growing criticism of it from beancounters like the GAO and NASA OIG. I doubt it will work.
So essentially filling the role that Ariane launchers and Soyuz did after NASA stopped having a launcher. The confusion is weird. Nobody says the fighters the companies build for the Air Force and Navy are not the Air Forceās. And in that case they even sell them abroad (when the US government wants them to, in the configuration they allow). SLS is a NASA launcher, the first since it was gutted. The commercial launchers based in the US may use NASA tech but they do oligarchās bidding.
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Musky scent? Billionaire launches fragrance: Burnt Hair
Elon Musk, the worldās richest man, is threatening to break into the fragrance industry with a scent branded āBurnt Hair ā The Essence of Repugnant Desire" and itās already for sale on his Boring Co website.
In what may be a case of nominative determinism or simply a joke he has yet to share with the rest of the world, Muskās new market entrant is selling for $100 a bottle or Ā£93 in Britain (international shipping not included).
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He could stank up the whole of 5th Avenue & no one would care.
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Maybe he thinks heās Adrian Veidt or something.
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iād rest easier if we simply taxed the owners properly.
i donāt so much mind private companies competing to provide services to the government ( utilities are a separate thing ) - i definitely mind when itās primarily enriching just a single or a few individuals
thatās not how government should work. and thatās when you get things like heinlein style dynasties in control of key technologies
( see also covid vaccines where we should have required that the technology be made public in exchange for all the money we gave to private companies. bill gates single handedly stopped all that )
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We need some way to test the guillotinesā¦
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Musk is just a symptom.
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Did he have an accident with one of those ball tanners?
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Horrifying but not surprising: Musk is ending Starlink satellite support for Ukraine because they didnāt appreciate his suggestions about ceding territory to their Russian invaders.
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What a fragile little manbaby that man isā¦
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Isnāt there a thing about registering as a foreign agent? (Not sure whether this rises/sinks to that)
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Is Starlink government subsidized?
The funding is part of the broader $9.2 billion Rural Digital Opportunity Fund that provides an incentive for telecom companies to extend internet service to rural and underserved locations. **In 2020, Starlink won an initial $885.5 million subsidy as part of a Phase 1 rollout of the program.**Aug 10, 2022
And he gets paid to provide that service to Ukraine.
Fucking parasite should have the spigot turned off.
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Musk plans to cut 75% of Twitter workforce. Deal closes by next Friday.
No paywall: archive.ph
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Good. The sooner Twitter implodes, the better.
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Oh boy Iām expecting a bunch of leaks from disgruntled former employees about the guy
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