Free_Opinions @ Free_Opinions @feddit.uk

Independent thinker valuing discussions grounded in reason, not emotions.

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After the fact? After what? After the thing you’re claiming didn’t happen?

Do you see what you’re doing here? You’re using an article whose sole purpose is to debunk the claim you’re trying to make. You’re emotionally invested in this - you don’t like Elon, so you want this to be true. When someone points out that it’s not true, with evidence, you start making things up to avoid acknowledging you were wrong. This is cognitive dissonance. The reason you have this false belief to begin with is because Walter Isaacson wrote about it in his book. Now the exact same person has admitted that this didn't happen yet you still keep harping on about it. You're literally spreading misonformation.

Just read the article.

Your claim is that they disabled it. They didn't. It was never enabled in the first place.

I believe that it was off not because of SpaxeX's decision but due to U.S. sanctions. Enabling it there would've literally been illegal.

Musk has also added that had he been contacted by U.S. officials and told to turn it on he would have, but they didn't.

Maybe you should read the article you linked.

To clarify on the Starlink issue: the Ukrainians THOUGHT coverage was enabled all the way to Crimea, but it was not. They asked Musk to enable it for their drone sub attack on the Russian fleet. Musk did not enable it, because he thought, probably correctly, that would cause a major war.

Starlink is not enabled in Russia or the occupied territories because it would be against U.S. sanctions and enabling it there would be literally illegal.

Musk has even said that had he been contacted by U.S. officials and told to enable it he would have but they didn't.

Care to elaborate on why not?

Track record of what? Helping Ukraine rather than Russia? Even this article is about helping Ukraine, not Russia. Pretty much every Ukraine related action SpaceX has taken goes against this pro-Russia narrative yet the narrative sticks.

Why?

One of my 30+ year old forever-alone friends always makes a complete clown of himself when he's drunk and there's women around. He thinks he's funny and good singer but he's not. Just extremely cringe to be around. On several occasions I have told him while sober that alcohol makes him a completely different person but he doesn't seem to get the hint.

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Because it's among the few communities I miss from Reddit.

I’m not educated enough on the subject to have a strong opinion myself, but none of the professional opinion-havers whose judgment I trust seem to think DEI programs are a good thing so, I tend to believe there’s probably a reason so many are against them, and it’s likely more nuanced than the knee-jerk reaction of labeling dissenters as bigots.

Interesting. I'm not sure how it's different where I'm from. I've always just imagined that walking into a Nissan dealership is equivalent to walking into an Apple store.

Though on the other hand I only buy +10 year old cars so it's not really something that concerns me so I haven't put much thought into it.

I agree about the car salesmen though. They're professional bullshitters.

I don't see what's elitist or racist about it. It's just an observation of how things are. I'm not advocating for anything here.

What does this mean? Where else can you buy new cars from but the dealership? Isn't buying from a Volkswagen dealership the same as buying directly from the manufacturer?

I’ll admit I was exaggerating a bit. I don’t think it literally means nothing, but I’m sure you get the point I’m trying to make: for a long-term beneficial impact, good ideas need to spread from person to person faster than the bad ones do.

People more or less adopt their values from their parents and the people they grow up with. The christian right and redneck hillbillys are making kids and thus their beliefs will carry over to the next generation but this is much less the case with the liberal left where not having children is much more common. Basically, the more educated you are the less likely you're to have kids. This is true all over the world.

Idiocracy.

Birth rates are down everywhere and the majority of the people left making lots of babies are not the ones you wish would be having them. Being virtuous and on the "right side of history" means nothing if those values die with you and are not passed to the next generation.

The original MagSafe is great. I still have it on my laptop.

It should be able to perform any cognitive task a human can. We already have AI systems that are better at individual tasks.

Yeah. What ever makes me want to reason someone out of killing an another person is ultimately mysterious to even myself. I don't know what compells me to do that and even if succesfull I can't really take credit for it as if it's something I alone decided to do out of my free will.

Earth and the universe will be just fine. It's us humans that suffer from what us humans have done and continue to do. The universe doesn't care. It could slam us with a giant asteroid tomorrow and kill 99% of life on earth. It has done this before and it'll happily do it again.