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Musk is real mad about not getting free money from the government https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/spacex-blasts-fcc-as-it-refuses-to-reinstate-starlinks-886-million-grant/
Zootsoot
If your company doesn’t have the capacity to fulfill grant specifications, use a few billion in pocket change to expand capabilities, and APPLY AGAIN.
HomerSimpsonsEvilTwin
But it's all the benefits for the poor that is causing the deficit! /s
DudeThatsRacist
You guys remember that time Musk said we should "Delete all subsidies"?
digitreal
Wonder if their tears trickle down.
shivacat
Don’t be like that. Billionaires have feelings too.
ActionJohnnie
The salt certainly does.
Zootsoot
wobblecopterrrr
Wonder if it has anything to to with having an actual supervillain in charge, ya know, that guy that just turns off his fun toy to save our enemies ships?.. it’s totally insane that anyone is allowed that kind of power, at least some pic are smart enough to not let him have it here too.
flarflarf
i think its a little that, a little that his orgs are well known at this point for overpromising and that the math on satellite internet just doesnt work out after the network is more than sparsely populated, Not to mention the satellites are showing far less durability than expected and we'd be seeing just a HUGE spike in space debris as they did a launch every few weeks to dump more shitty cubesats into their shitty orbits
shivacat
And apparently all those shiny objects in space now are interfering with astronomers.