Ukrainian surface drones had Starlink comms disabled on direct Musk's orders
Ukrainian surface drones had Starlink comms disabled on direct Musk's orders
Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company’s Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast last year to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on the Russian naval fleet, according to an excerpt adapted from Walter Isaacson’s new biography of the eccentric billiona...
might be too credible
of course he was afraid of russian nuukes. this only prompted Ukrainian engineers to bypass use of starlink entirely and current sea drones, like the one used in second Kerch bridge strike, or these used against SIG tanker and Olenegorsky Gornyak landing ship use domestic technology only
It would be a shame if the Feds started investigating Twitter and Tesla again.
Too serious, not enough shitpost
it's kinda big news and i thought yall need to know
I remember an old interview with Elon Musk's ex, Talulah Riley, where she said that she can't leave him because left alone he will go "king crazy". I now understand what she meant.
i wonder how their domestic tech works
that's very simple: ██████ ███ ██████ ███████ ██████ ███████████ ████ ████████ ██████ ████████ █████████ ███ █ ███ ███████ ██████████ ████ ████████ █████
You are forgetting how they: █████ ███ ██████ ██ ███ ██████ ███████ ██████ ███████████ ███ ████████ █████████ ████ ██████ ████ ██ █████
If you ask the US nicely if you can use their satellites to control your drones while blowing up Russians, a big crate with CIA/USAF labels turns up on your doorstep, full of control devices that use nothing but "domestic tech" that use no US satellites or flying control centres whatsoever.
In a kinder world, there are also stacks of dough. Anyone remember "Bloom County"? There was a story arc from 1986/1987 when Oliver Wendell Jones and Milo have something similar happen. The kids claim to be developing a weapon for the "Star Wars" program. Giant boxes of untraceable cash start showing up on Milo's front steps in hours. It goes to their heads. The story skewered Reagan, but it was the best kind of shitposting. I grew up reading the collections and I like to think it was my first introduction to liberal media that was actually funny. I also read "Utne Reader" and "Newsweek". Did anyone else grow up thinking that being a defense contractor sounded pretty fun and glamorous?
