• Jerkface (any/all)
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    310 months ago

    Finally, a chance to rant.

    Posting “RIP” in the comments thread of a YouTube video is the tackiest fucking thing a human being is biologically capable of doing. Please stop. You’re actually killing me, and then you are going to post “RIP” in my comment thread like the croaking of a chorus of horny frogs. If all you have to say is “RIP”, you don’t have anything to say. Just click “like” or whatever, you’re not paying any more respect posting “RIP”. If you want to observe the death with a comment, spend a moment in contemplation and share a genuine feeling. I hate it so much.

    Thank you. I know that was ugly. It’s been building for a while. You can’t say that in an actual dead human’s video thread.

  • kenkenken
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    1210 months ago

    Do we really need Zuck to tell us if it’s true or not?

  • @[email protected]
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    1210 months ago

    I heard that he was having a meeting with J.D. Vance and their collective lack of charisma values collapsed into a micro singularity and they imploded.

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      10 months ago

      I heard he drove off a cliff because the gas pedal of his cybertruck got stuk and he couldn’t see the cliff because of the Trump blow up doll on his lap.

      Edit: I read it on Facebook, so it’s true.

    • @[email protected]
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      10 months ago

      c’mon, mate. that’s stretching it too far. nobody would believe that those appendages would be a choking hazard.

  • s08nlql9
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    2410 months ago

    serious question: will it negatively impact spacex if he gone?

    • classic
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      2610 months ago

      I was surprised to learn he bequeathed the company to his estranged daughter Vivian Wilson. Somehow I feel it’s actually in better hands now

    • Diplomjodler
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      410 months ago

      Hard to say. On the one hand, removing the constant distractions created by his idiotic antics would be beneficial. On the other hand SpaceX would become just another profit oriented corporation and the pace of innovation would slow down to industry standard, i.e. very slow.

    • nfh
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      1410 months ago

      Would Musk’s untimely death, thought to be associated with the billion dollars worth of ketamine he bought last weekend off some dude on Craigslist, positively affect SpaceX? It might.

      Though it seems like his attention being on Twitter has been good for SpaceX, less of his focus seems to mean fewer bad decisions overall. None of his attention could be a solid improvement

    • @[email protected]
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      1310 months ago

      Probably not. Musk does none of the engineering and gwynne shotwell actually runs the company (and does it well).

      Starlink brings in truckloads of money, and Falcon 9 is dirt cheap to launch compared to every other rocket on the market today.

      There’s likely not much that musk adds to the company other than baggage at this point.

      • @[email protected]
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        410 months ago

        One can see Elon’s influence on the product. The router/switch/wap combo box is a trapezoidal prism that plugs in on the bottom because that’s the only right angle mounting point. It even has a neat voyager looking emblem that looks like it’s supposed to light up and be a constant nuisance, but doesn’t. I think the dish would be curved and lower performance if the project had held Elon’s attention.

        But, from a technical perspective there’s little to complain about. The service fires up for the first time in about five minutes. It works anywhere I can get a small patch of sky and doesn’t object when I load the connection to sail the open seas.

        I’ve two complaints: It runs on DC but lacks a DC power connection, meaning I eat the loss on AC-to-DC conversion and bypass the benefit of my DC rectifier. And, the mounting pole doesn’t fold all the way back, greatly increasing the required storage space. Both complaints are common a large customer segment: vehicle dwellers.

      • @[email protected]
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        410 months ago

        Fucker refers to the piping on the outside of SpaceX rockets as “the fiddly bits”. Not only does he not do any of the engineering, it appears that it can’t even be explained to him.

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    That’s crazy, every major city in the world is in an economic pressure cooker due to digital nomadism, it’s the other side of migrant flow effects on local labour and commodity markets, interesting.