patrick.net

Also the FCC reneged on a $900 million payment to Starlink for rural broadband, Instead they decided to pay $45 billion to other providers,

https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/us-agency-will-not-reinstate-900-mln-subsidy-spacex-starlink-unit-2023-12-13/

Misc says

Also the FCC reneged on a $900 million payment to Starlink for rural broadband, Instead they decided to pay $45 billion to other providers,

https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/us-agency-will-not-reinstate-900-mln-subsidy-spacex-starlink-unit-2023-12-13/

The article mentions nothing about $45B in funding to other providers. Since you were so helpful to provide this link, would you care to provide another substantiating the rest of your claim?

It's probably true, but why go halfway with respect to links, proof, etc.?

Next time just tell me to write the article.

I mean soon everybody's AI will be able to write up a news article faster that it takes to Google it.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/maximizing-new-federal-investments-in-broadband-for-rural-america/

Misc says

Next time just tell me to write the article.

I mean soon everybody's AI will be able to write up a news article faster that it takes to Google it.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/maximizing-new-federal-investments-in-broadband-for-rural-america/

Thank you very much!

make sense as that is what the Chicoms do and what they are doing with other companies like Apple ... look at their relentless effort with Tik Tok as far as competition with other social media companies and now Temu is competing with Amazon

https://news.yahoo.com/tech/chinas-master-plan-crush-elon-112201103.html

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AD says

now Temu is competing with Amazon

Eh... as someone that's seen what shipped to a small(ish) town. Temu is at best 3-5% of Amazon BEST case. Not promoting Amazon, but being in a rural area people speak with their shipping and provider choices. Easier not to drive.

Temu would need a truck/shipping network to compete. They use the post office. And the products are generally pure trash. Amazon doesn't do a good job with name brand shit, but you can get legit name brand stuff generally. Temu has a long way to go. It's poor people products.

WookieMan says

AD says

now Temu is competing with Amazon

Eh... as someone that's seen what shipped to a small(ish) town. Temu is at best 3-5% of Amazon BEST case. Not promoting Amazon, but being in a rural area people speak with their shipping and provider choices. Easier not to drive.

Temu would need a truck/shipping network to compete. They use the post office. And the products are generally pure trash. Amazon doesn't do a good job with name brand shit, but you can get legit name brand stuff generally. Temu has a long way to go. It's poor people products.

Give Temu time just like Tik Tok was given time. The same goes for Chinese EV's as far as giving them time, while China copies Tesla.

I agree as Temu needs the US Postal Service to deliver from China to the USA.
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https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/toads-wild-ride-thursday-march-7

Meanwhile, as Trump was sweeping the Super Tuesday field and effectively cementing the Republican nomination, Reuters reported that “Trump meets with Elon Musk and Republican donors in Florida.” Corporate media painted the meeting as a desperate move by Trump to raise cash, which was made-up nonsense and liberal hopium. Beyond that, the story has intrigued many.

Entrepreneurial billionaire Elon Musk was a lifelong California democrat. Then he and his green companies got mugged by pandemic overreach. Now he’s a Texan, and if you follow his Twitter posts, he sounds as conservative as anyone. Elon recently bought Twitter, the only possible way for Trump to counter the government-controlled corporate media and make a legible electoral case to independents and nonpartisan democrats.

Not to mention that, without Twitter, it is likely that 2024’s disclosures would be much more muted.

That Trump and Musk are now openly meeting is fascinating.

MOST BASED ELON TWEET OF THE YEAR

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1767752570162778502?s=20

https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1769433507804356701

AmericanKulak says

Like any other virus they got milder and milder with every mutation. As predicted by many.

Hugh_Mongous says

Like any other virus they got milder and milder with every mutation. As predicted by many.

Wasn't ever dangerous from the word Covid 19. I've had it 3 times. Only one time did I feel "off" due to symptoms and that was one day. I was flying from Mexico, maskless and had to buy a blanket in Cancun to stay warm on the plane (love that blanket). My only symptom along with being tired, but I was having fun so who knows how much was actually Covid and not drinking

The other times I tested was because the wife had it. I felt fine. She unfortunately was vaccinated and the two times she's had it, it put here down pretty good for 3-5 days. I think a lot of Covid symptoms are placebo if that makes sense. Test positive and you think you're dying. I gave no shits. I just went on with what I needed to get done for the day. Wasn't remotely debilitating by any means. No vaccine for me. Did have a fake vaccine card, but never needed it.

zzyzzx says

Gotta love photoshop. lol. Or one of them has a massively longer arm. 9 out of 10 people won't spot it so they believe this is real. I get the satire, but this is stuff people believe unfortunately.

It's no accident Musk did this at this time, and it's a good thing.

Is Elon protecting the CIA?

I'm more and more coming to the belief that the old farts like Soros and Schwab are rushing things, esp. because of Trump and the rise of the Populists.

We got a:
Gender War
Isolation vs. Hyperintervention War
Genderbending
Woke Onslaught
Ukraine
Critical Middle East Theory
Printing Press going Brrrrrr
Inflation
I'm sure I forgot some biggies

all in play at the same time. Almost everybody thinks everything is going at hyperspeed. Most people on this board remember when a big story was talked about and analyzed for a week or even a month. Now newscycles are measured in hours.

They're losing control and turning to Chaos to keep it.

Again I want to plead that Demoralization and Destabilization comes from ALL directions, not just one.

Patrick says

Is Elon protecting the CIA?

@Patrick - yes, of course.

Just like our bullshit media is just a bunch of fucking obvious propaganda at this point, that's our "main" social media.

Operation Mockingbird is real. They entirely captured the media over 20 years ago, you think they were going to allow the social media companies to remain free? They are ALL captured. Musk was just brought in to try to salvage some credibility of Twitter, not to actually allow free speech.

Companies constantly lie about their terms of service, they shadowban people, they lie to congress, they promote FILTH constantly, they promote propaganda, and they attack truth tellers.

Patrick says

Is Elon protecting the CIA?

Who runs all these 6-8 even 10 year old accounts with 200, sometimes just 50, I just saw a 2008 with like 6 followers?

And the account has been a Reply Guy for months on one issue, goes to sleep, pops back in.

There are still a ton of NGO Boiler Room or 50 cent or Bot accounts being run by big Agencies and esp. the one/two steps removed NGOs.

They can probably move the dial.

Sad, Elon says great stuff at times. But this makes him look like part of the machine.

Patrick says

Sad, Elon says great stuff at times. But this makes him look like part of the machine.

He makes highly subsidized electric cars. Flies military assets into space, and just bought the most popular “free speech” platform (aka government spy mechanism).

Yeah, sure seems like he *might* be part of the machine.

Patrick says

Is Elon protecting the CIA?

How is it doing on Truth Social?

https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/x-twitter-porn-policy-update-1236023536/

Elon Musk’s X Now Officially Allows Porn After Update to Policies

If you don't have a huge botswarm criticizing, gaslighting and undermining everything you post, you are just a nonentity.

It must be the rule of propaganda supporting botswarms: they increase geometrically for truthers with the expanse of their audience. They probably have botswarm algorithms for it.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/the-baddies-saturday-july-13-2024

I attended a semi-secret event late last night at an undisclosed location in Nashville. The speaker was Georgetown University Law Professor and frequent legal commentator Jonathon Turley. Turley said, point blank, that Elon Musk has done more to save free speech than possibly any other individual who isn’t a Supreme Court Justice. The professor was referring, of course, to Musk’s purchase of Twitter and subsequent Twitter files disclosures.

Much could be said about all this, and we must acknowledge that plenty of folks remain wary of being brain-chipped. But I would just offer one point, a point that corporate media always studiously avoids in its overwrought reporting about the tech entrepreneur: Musk was a lifelong democrat until California officials shut down his car plant as non-essential during the pandemic.

Here it is, behold, the beginning of the Musk Revolution, the genesis of his political awakening, an astoundingly stupid and catastrophically cretinous communication that was recorded in real-time on social media between witless “proud latina” and Assemblywoman (former) Lorena Gonzalez and Elon Musk, long before the notion of buying Twitter ever graced the billionaire’s hyperactive grey matter:




Now, one massively significant tweet later, lifelong Democrat Musk is deploying his intellect and resources to help Republicans. Here come the chickens! Back to their roosts. I told them, over and over, they would live to regret their high-handed pandemic decrees. But like the deaf adder of old, no matter how loudly I piped, they wouldn’t listen.

Musk has just endorsed Trump!