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GORDON wrote: Fri Mar 07, 2025 9:28 am But I notice no one (aside from like the 7 astronomers who have telescope access) is criticizing Starlink.
Very few people use Starlink It's like 5 million across the whole world. I know no one who has it. That being said, Carlos Slim (Mexican billionaire - corrupt as shit) canceled his large contracts, as did some Canadian province. Whereas many people can't go a day without seeing a Tesla in their area.
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SWASTINET

I get exposed to it a lot because I follow peeps who live in their vans various percentages of the year.

I'm shooting for 3, because I have no use for OHio winters.

They all use Swastinet.
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TheCatt wrote: Fri Mar 07, 2025 9:37 am I know no one who has it.
You know me.

I have it as a backup service here at our new HQ. I'm in the process of installing it at both of our plants, and will do it at our future third plant as well. It's a better option than "other direction fiber" or cellular as a backup. If fiber gets cut, it is VERY rare that a site has fiber leaving in different directions. So, that cut fiber means your site is down. If a local event (like a tornado) is why your area comms are down, it's likely cell towers are down too. Starlink is space based, so as long as your site has power, you're golden. We have natural gas generators, so theoretically, our sites can sit in a total blackout area and operate as normal for as long as needed.

The recommendation for it came from our telecom sales rep, and I'm glad I went this route. It just makes sense from a DR standpoint, and it's WAY cheaper than normal service at our SC site. $3K+ vs $1.1K and that 1.1 is for two sites... Plus, it's much faster than that shitty local provider. They've gotten us up to 100M, but Starlink is still faster.

When the construction crew was here several of them had Starlink. Lot of hunters/campers in the group, and they said nothing else was even close to it on their trips. Makes sense. Point it north, plug it in, and voila. It's that simple.

If Elon actually came out with a Starlink phone that was the size of a regular phone, he'd take a very large bite out of Verizon and AT&T and their bullshit coverage maps.
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I have a hunch that all the bad vibes directed at Musk recently are going to cause a cloud of evil to fall on a rocket soon and some people are going to get killed.
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Crazy talk.

Constantly bombarding people with messages that someone who a different political ideology "is literally Hitler", "shredding the Constitution", "they're taking all your rights away", etc., not to mention strongly implying and/or openly calling for acts of violence upon them doesn't result in anything negative.

It's all win-win and how tolerance and unity within a society is built.
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MY GF recently revealed herself to be a Musk hater. I asked her why, and she didn't know, just his close association with Trump.

I didn't delve.

Peeps looooove government waste and fraud, now. That's all I know for sure.
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You know what we call organized groups of people who turn on former members, paint them as evil, and even do everything possible to make their lives hell?

Cults.
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"60,000 rows" "harddrive over-heated" WTF? This is non-sensical.
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I don't know the context but when I was reading it I immediately processed it as an exaggeration, like "I shopped so much my credit card melted."

But I don't know everyone might be idiots.
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TheCatt wrote: Fri Mar 14, 2025 2:17 pm "60,000 rows" "harddrive over-heated" WTF? This is non-sensical.
Well, how long is each row? :D

Yeah, like Gordon said, this is either hyperbole, which is how people talk, or utter horseshit.
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Sucks how extremist retards make your entire position look bad.

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Again, cults.
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Gordon: People are big mad, there's going to be an uprising
(small uprising happens)
Gordon: Retards.
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Hitting the capital makes sense when you're angry at government.

Hitting a Tesla dealership is retarded.

I stand by it.

After the criminal charges the commercial insurance company is going to come after them. The Jan 6 peeps got pardoned. The Tesla peeps are fucked forever, and didn't even come close to changing anything. Because they're retards.

"Retards" isn't even a strong enough word. WHat's a more derisive word I can use that would come close to matching the depths of their idiocy?
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oh wait, I just thought of another case of vandalism of private businesses and property when the aggrieved party thought they could make a political difference.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallnacht

So maybe we could name them after those people, since their methods and motivations are identical. Not their ideas, not their words, the things they actually did.
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GORDON wrote: Wed Mar 19, 2025 11:27 am Hitting a Tesla dealership is retarded.

I stand by it.

After the criminal charges the commercial insurance company is going to come after them. The Jan 6 peeps got pardoned. The Tesla peeps are fucked forever, and didn't even come close to changing anything. Because they're retards.
People are mad and making a statement, not a coherent policy.
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I get mad too without destroying someone else's stuff in an act of worthless, impotent rage. Because I'm not retarded.
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I'm enjoying the cultists attacking Tesla. Odds are they're attacking people who voted the same way they did. This just proves that there is no critical thinking going on at all.
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I think it's kinda dumb to attack service centers and what-not, but I can understand people's rage at an unelected, hypocritical bureaucrat impacting their lives deleteriously.
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TheCatt wrote: Wed Mar 19, 2025 1:49 pm I can understand people's rage at an unelected, hypocritical bureaucrat impacting their lives deleteriously.
This guy?
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