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When the war was turning in Ukraineโ€™s favor and they were about to push into Russia, he shut it off and crippled their counter offensive. I remember. Fuck Elon and fuck starlink.

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Not push into Russia, but attempting to retake Crimea.

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Theyโ€™re presumably talking about the Kursk Oblast. Edit: probably not, see responses.

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IIRC that was long after that. The initial shutoff of Starlink happened around the explosions targeting the Crimean bridge and them introducing their naval drones.

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Which is why Starlink needs to be confiscated and managed by NATO. Somebody has to operate it, and it should be an entity who is on the side of Freedom amd Democracy.

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Itโ€™s not that easy to confiscate sattelites

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Sure it is. You just confiscate the infrastructure that operates them here on earth, and order their employees to comply.

I donโ€™t think that this would be a good idea, but it is definitely doable.

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Oh no Iโ€™m hearing from people that wa a technical glitch.

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Close. There was a geobarrier that he refused to remove. Because attacks against Russia are aggression.

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He also challenged Zuck to a cage match and chickened out when Zuck accepted. Theyโ€™re both pieces of shit.

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He even chickened out of his recent offer to come on the Daily Show and debate Jon Stewart! Heโ€™s a Nazi coward even when itโ€™s just talkingโ€ฆ

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Did he officially bow out then? Jon gave him all the conditions he wanted tooโ€ฆ

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Lol I forgot about that! Yeah fuck em both of course, but I feel like most folks would put their money on the ex-KGB agent who seized and kept control of freakinโ€™ Russia over nepo-baby โ€œgamerโ€, โ€œengineerโ€ Musk. What a goofy threat. And I say that as a middling gamer and engineer myself lol

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feel like most folks would put their money on the ex-KGB agent who seized and kept contr

Putin is 5โ€™ 7", like 160 lbs, and 70 years old. Elon is 6โ€™2", probably 200 lbs, and 52 years old.

I donโ€™t think fitness and training can overcome 20 years, 50 lbs, and a full head of height.

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Huh great point!

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and a full head of height.

I thought you were gonna say โ€œfull head of transplanted hair,โ€ but I was disappointed. Iโ€™ve seen tiny guys take on bigger dudes when they have more skill. The age thing is more what I might think of as an advantage for that doughy chud.

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As a 6โ€™2" dude, 200 lbs is pretty skinny. Iโ€™d bet Musk is closer to 250 lbs of useless fascist.

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Musk is so fucked up heโ€™s gonna make some noises, groan, then shit himself after the first attempt at a swing

70โ€™s isnโ€™t too shabby in this day and age for a well kept physique, itโ€™s 80+ the rot cements itself.

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Putin also practiced judo for most of his life. Musk wonโ€™t be standing for long during the match.

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Itโ€™s Zuck and Elon not Elon and Putin.

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The Tweet linked in the OP is Musk claiming that he challenged Putin to a fist fight.

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I hate Zuck but in this match Iโ€™m thinking if itโ€™s not mutually assured destruction, then I might root for Zuck. Elon is becoming a very big problem.

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Or 400 pounds of semtex under the cage. 2 birds, one ring.

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I would literally give away a kidney to see that live, through binoculars from about a half mile away.

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Zuck is actually fit, trains, and is 10 years younger, hence why Elon chickened out.

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I donโ€™t respect Putin very much, but I am 1000 percent sure that a former KGB agent will whoop Musks ass. Apart from that, wtf is he trying to show with challenging Putin to physical combat. What does that have to do with Ukraine?

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Heโ€™s just a moron.

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At least Zuckerberg looks good now. Musk looks like shite

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Eh, Iโ€™d say he looks less like a robot rather than good. But yeah.

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The 600 series had rubber skin. We spotted them easy, but these are new. They look humanโ€ฆsweat, bad breath, everything.

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Donโ€™t let the fascists fool you, there are alternatives to Starlink. Eutelsat in France, Telesat in Canada and Inmarsat in the UK, just to name a few examples.

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Itโ€™s faster, cheaper, and on the tech side more reliable (definitely not politically reliable though).

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My guess is better coverage and latency with its sheer number of satellites.

They use low earth orbit, which require them to use more satellites, but lowered latency.

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Technically, and this is purely semantics, coverage is the major downside to starlink. They are faster, though.

The coverage of satellites has an exponential factor of the distance of that satellite to earth. If you had the satellite further out then its signal could reach a wider area before being cut off by the curvature of the earth. However, as the distance increases, so does latency.

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Now, I donโ€™t know, but I would assume its the latency. Starlink has a (impressively) low ping of < 100ms, while existing alternatives usually have 600ms+. Now, thatโ€™s only relevant if they are using it for stuff like flying drones.

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I think youโ€™d notice half a second even just browsing the Web.

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Starlink has enough uplink to be able to handle live video streams and a latency low enough to do this with simple tools.

Iโ€™m not sure if that still happens, but Iโ€™ve seen some pictures of Ukrainian command bunkers literally getting drone feeds using discord screen share.

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โ€œWould you like to upgrade to Nitroโ€

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โ€œBe quiet small manโ€โ€ฆ smallest dick energy Iโ€™ve seen today.

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Musk is gonna be copping a lot of that in response to his tweets now.

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Isnโ€™t it becoming quite widely known now that heโ€™s gotten a bad penile implant?

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his brain is as broken as his willy

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Dick so small he probably drives a Cybertruck.

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did elon really say โ€œpipe down pipsqueekโ€ like that worked well for drake? man people with canadian citizenship gotta stop doing that.

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Soary :(

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I think the ritual to siphon all Canadian aggression into Justin Bieber every year is beginning to fail.

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