Ronan Farrow writes in New Yorker that U.S. govt so reliant on #ElonMusk whose mobile Internet terminals #Starlink are vital to #Ukrainian military that it is now struggling "to respond to his risk-taking, brinkmanship, and caprice". There is little precedent for the dependency that the U.S. now has on Musk from the future of #energy and #transportation to the #exploration of #space. #SpaceX is currently sole means by which #NASA transports crew from US soil into #space https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-shadow-rule
@bespacific Just nationalize Starlink and have NASA run it. Reality check for the Musker
Given NASA's record, that sounds like the setup for a reality check for the rest of us and a great lesson on why nationalizing things has so frequently gone so poorly throughout history.
Why would we have faith in a political appointee being capable of running a Starlink in that bloated federal bureaucracy, that to emphasize the point, is subject to the brinksmanship and caprice of Congress?
At least Musk has his own skin in the game.
@volkris @kimhoar @bespacific Musk is literally a Nazi. Also blocked and reported!!
That sort of comment always comes across as showing that the commenter knows neither the definition of literally nor Nazi.
Not that the person making such comments particularly seems to care...
