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Captain Ron

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  1. 22 minutes ago, midtown said:

    Who had 3 goals at the 8th min?

    Well I did, but not for Spurs.

    WTF happened? I leave at the half to take my kid to swim lessons & turn the game on to 3-0 Spurs. 

  2. Free speach absolutionist ... 30% of the time

    https://www.status.news/p/elon-musk-government-censorship

     

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    While the [...] billionaire and X owner publicly professes to be a free speech proponent, his actions tell an entirely different story. Not only does Musk often bow to government pressure, he complies with removal requests far more often than not.

    That’s according to a transparency report that X published on Wednesday. The report indicated that, under Musk’s supposedly pro-free speech leadership, X obeyed government demands in more than 70% of cases to remove content during the first half of 2024. That figure represents a staggering 20% increase from the last time the social media company published a transparency report, which was in 2021 when it was governed by leadership Musk has portrayed as pro-censorship.

     

    Bummer that much of the article is behind a subscription wall, but this really is damning, IMHO.

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  3. Listen to this, it talks about this as a whole and gives you a lot of info of what Russia has been doing

     

     

    26 minutes ago, B00M said:

    I think it is? It sure is on starlinks website. 

     

    Fixed? AFAIK it won’t work in Russia’s recognized borders. Does Ukraine use starlink on recon drones that back and forth over the eastern front lines? Surely there’s some nuance here 

     

    You can't activate Starlink in the borders of russia (and they the russian government has banned it). But if the dish is activated outside of russia and you move it into russia, it will work. When this was reported on, Elon gave "the cop out answer

     

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  4. 16 minutes ago, B00M said:

    So starlink is active in Ukraine, recently occupied Ukraine, but not in Crimea or Russia proper right? Russia is using shell companies to acquire starlinks and setting them up in occupied Ukraine to attack Ukraine … Ukraine uses it in the other direction … I hate musk but what am I missing? How should he prevent this? 


    If I take my parent’s Starlink dish & terminal, I can’t just use it anywhere. They “know” it’s not in its home area. There were stories early on of people moving them less than 100 feet and they would deactivate for being moved to a new address. This tech is all geo-located. It shouldn’t be hard to mark all of Russia a restricted area. 

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  5. 5 hours ago, irishtexan said:

    Harkness is River's father. River, the doppleganger, the (other) French assassin that presumably killed Bad Sam, and the bomber are all half-brothers. When River was talking to his doppleganger's mother, she talked about how Harkness had a harem of women at Les Abres - greek, polish, russian, english, etc. Harkness would impregnate the women, steal the baby boys from their mothers, and train them to be his team of assassins. Basically, you can assume that any of the bad guys working for Harkness are his sons. 

    The secret opp that Bad Sam did for David Cartwright was to get David's daughter/River's mother out of Les Abres. Still don't know what happened to mom, or how David Cartwright ended up with River...

    My guess is that she vanished as per the story Bad Sam told and then later dropped off River in a basket with note.

     

  6. 14 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

    Elon posts a novel on Twitter to essentially state that if Harris wins, he won't be sending stuff to Mars:

     

     

     

     

     

    You know, I gotta give him credit here. He might have found the right play.

    He might see the writing on the wall of where politics are going. He also knows that making it to Mars in the next 2 yesrs is likely not possible. So blame your impending failure on a likely outcome and ... profit?

     

    Also the Daily Beast has an article up on this, no clue on the quality of the article.  

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-says-if-kamala-harris-wins-humanity-will-never-reach-mars

    But this picture ... concerning.

     

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