• @Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz
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    -62 years ago

    Elon Musk

    Popularized electric cars, funded the design for re-usable space rockets and gave people on the rural areas aswell as Ukrainian soldiers internet access.

    The flood of downvotes now demonstrates how all this is ignored because people hate him nevertheless.

    • KᑌᔕᕼIᗩ
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      62 years ago

      Oh yeah that internet access that they pulled when Ukraine were engaged with Russia in combat and reliant on.

          • @Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz
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            12 years ago

            If Elon letting them use starlink is not a good thing then why is it a bad thing when he doesn’t let them use it? Could you lay out your argument with a little more detail because I don’t quite follow.

    • @Count042@lemmy.ml
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      22 years ago

      Do you actually think it was cheaper to launch all those satellites that it would be to lay fiber for rural areas?

      • @Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz
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        02 years ago

        Almost definitely yeah. Just like skipping landlines and going directly to mobile phones was a lot cheaper in places like Africa.

    • @not_amm@beehaw.org
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      12 years ago

      He popularized electric cars while giving his workers horrible working conditions and human rights abuses. I gotta say I like SpaceX, but NASA being underfunded is a problem, because a national space program being dependent on a private company is not good.

      Starlink has been good for internet access, the downside is that it’ll become part of the space trash problem in some years.

      Elon Musk is still a piece of trash.

    • @cedeho@feddit.de
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      12 years ago

      Yes, that’s because it is similar to saying “Yeah, but not everything Adolf Hitler has done was bad!”.