Zetta @ Zetta @mander.xyz

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I do not like Elon musk

I won't debate more on the finances because, like you said, they're a private company and we can't know for sure. However, reliable public estimates show starlink is profitable already or will be very soon.

Falcon Heavy is supposed to be cheaper per ton, yet somehow is almost never used for Starlink or anything else

Starlink already about maxes out the fairing capacity of the Falcon Rockets, so allowing more weight doesn't do much besides increase cost. Same with other companies buying launch services from SpaceX. Usually they don't need the extra capacity or margins heavy offers, although I wish me got more launches, they are always a treat to watch.

Starship isn't even projected to be cheaper than Falcon 9

Maybe not, but that wasn't my main point. They are already spending money on Starship and that isn't going to change. It's just soon they will actually be able to use that money they're spending to make more money by launching more starlinks. With the significantly larger payload capacity, they will also be able to launch way sats per launch and also more capable sats with higher bandwidth or more onboard propellants for a longer operational life

I expect Starship will be used to launch many batches of Starlink while the vehicle is still in testing and expected to fail on occasion, If you think about it in that capacity, the launches are free since they are already going to be doing test launches.

Starlink is bankrolling starlink, it's expected to generate 12 billion In revenue this year with 2 billion of that being profit

Before it paid for itself spacex did and still does have a lot of very wealthy private investors willing to throw significant funds at the company

You are 100% correct except for

though it seems to be failing at that goal.

Starlink is expected to bring in 2 billion In profit this year, it is successful https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/02/starlink-profit-growing-rapidly-as-it-faces-a-moment-of-promise-and-peril/

Starlink is already making more money than it costs to expand and operate, you are wrong. This is sustainable (financially) and counter to your beliefs over the next 10 years I'd wager the starlink network will balloon to many times its current size, 20,000 plus satellites in orbit.

SpaceX is the most successful company/entity in history that does space launch, it doesn't cost them a whole lot of money to launch new batches of Satellites and that cost will continue to decrease as the Falcon 9 program continues to improve and as starship becomes operational over the next few years.

Us lucky fiber users, I can get 8gig symmetrical for $300 and 2 gig for $75 a month. Still nothing like other non American countries but damn do I have it good for living here.

You don't know what you're talking about, the satellites do "reasonably" boost themselves, they have propulsion on board.

After 5 years yes they trash them, but that nots not cost prohibitive for SpaceX. Starlink is brining in a significant amount of money, and it doesn't cost SpaceX all that much to launch a new batch to replace the old. You all seem to forget they are the cheapest and most impressive launch company to date.

What you and nobody else seems to understand is that every year SpaceX is launching more and more rockets and they will only continue to increase their launch cadence. In the next one or two years, they will start using Starship for Starlink launches, and that will significantly increase the amount of bandwidth they can add to the network per lanch.

I'm sure I'll get hate because I'm defending an elon company but everyone here is plain wrong and just making shit up.

It is a viable business product, latest estimates are Starlink will bring in a revenue of 12 billion in 2025 with about 2 billion being profit. Of course it's not a public company so we don't get official numbers, but you're flat out wrong.

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/02/starlink-profit-growing-rapidly-as-it-faces-a-moment-of-promise-and-peril/

Starlink is owned by spaceX so they've never purchased a rocket, they just launch

And because of starlink SpaceX will be an insanely profitable company. Starlink is already bankrolling the very expensive starship development.

I'm also in the bathroom, but the TP is on my right and to the left is the shower. No objects that aren't attached to the building. So, that'll be hard.

¯(ツ)/¯ In the sample size of the few fat people I know IRL and their family's that's not true, at least for the people I know. Unless we're counting mental illness as a medical condition, which is fair because they are.

exercise is simply not possible for a lot of overweight people.

I'm not fat, but that seems simply untrue unless the person is fat due to a serious disability in the first place. Maybe doing intense exercise isn't possible, but fat people can absolutely start with small, little exercises and work their way up over months or years.

Possibly, but if homes are in demand and everything else is good, the homeowner could just say ya, I'm not lowering the price or fixing it, if the past couple years are anything to go off it will still sell for asking.

The house I bought with my partner had a non permitted external "extension" (just a separate room not connected to the main house with air conditioned office) and other safety issues on the inspection. We still bought the house, got 2k off for the house not having any ground wiring.

A significant portion of house flippers also don't bother with permits (or inspections) and do a lot of remodeling that requires a permit, they still sell. I understand why permits exist, but as a homeowner doing work on my own home I'm not paying the government shit to allow me to work on my property. Fuck permits.

Crazy hexbear goobers will remove your eyes before you know it, watch out!

Don't need an inspection if you do it yourself

Cringe

Something is wrong

Valve is pretty much cool with everything unless using leaked source code, that's why releasing the tf2 source code was such a big deal recently. Now all the standalone tf2 mods can be legitimate and live on steam, previously they used leaked source code and valve has no chill for that.

I assume this is the same thing happening with cs, the devs are using some type of leaked code to do something in specific and valve isn't cool with that.

I don't have a source but what the guy above described is exactly how valve operates and lines up with previous actions taken with tf2.

Bottom line, valve loves modders, modders are legitimately why they are the company they are today and they know that and in general want to support the modding community. Just don't use leaked/closed source code

Too many cults to keep track of, they are all brainrot

I think defederating almost any instance is dumb, not my instance though so do what you will.