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[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 51 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm GLAD we ELIMINATED FOOD SAFETY INSPECTIONS so we could Afford THIS!

[–] weegee90@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hey now. Some of us may get sick or die, but at least we'll have an overpriced yet somehow super cheaply made satellite security system operated by a ketamine addict.

Wait...

[–] j0ester@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

MAGA supporter: I see nothing wrong here.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 44 points 2 months ago (2 children)

the dude that can't even keep four wheels on a fucking truck is gonna do wut?!?!

[–] takeda@lemm.ee 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

He is gonna leech tax money for a product that he will never deliver.

[–] justsomeguy@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It'll be done by next year

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Or a product that he will have built using tax money, and that he will instead use to hold the world ransom.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Don't worry, he's also got the help of *checks notes... Peter Thiel and Palmer Luckey!

Don't people feel good for supporting the original Oculus Rift now? I'm so glad the godfather of modern VR is an absolute pile of shit and always was!

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Guiding drones to a target is the killer app for VR headsets

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 months ago

He must have watched that pile of shit movie Toys.

[–] KulunkelBoom@lemm.ee 27 points 2 months ago

No. that would be taxpayer dollars. taxpayers will pay for this fraud.

[–] Tetragrade@leminal.space 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Wannabe feudal lords come for military power, as they always have.

Omg its just like Moonraker

[–] KMAMURI@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

So the pentagon is gonna bend over for the sunshine train too? You guys are really fucked if that happens and so are all of us.

[–] witnessbolt@lemm.ee 27 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Shedletsky needs to shut the fuck up. All that bitch did was work on Roblox. Yeah, you really built the modern world you fucking chump.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

A lot of engineers don't realize that there is earned expertise and skill in other fields...or that the consent of the governed matters.

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 months ago

And this is why multidisciplinary education is important.

[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 3 points 2 months ago

Cops get the benefit of beating people up, engineers get bragging rights for an alleged superiority.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

One of the sources familiar with the talks described them as “a departure from the usual acquisition process. There’s an attitude that the national security and defense community has to be sensitive and deferential to Elon Musk because of his role in the government.”

Following in the hallowed (retch) footsteps of Dick Cheney and Halliburton's no-bid contracts to "rebuild" Iraq.

[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 months ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome

Never considered the pros of Kessler syndrome. Also I guess alien defense?.. speed bumps.

[–] xyzzy@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This is the setup to a Bond movie

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 5 points 2 months ago

It'd be a shame if the targeting software got corrupted.

[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

You mean to pay him to have someone else use it, right?

Because he’s got the cerebral capacity of a cloud of fart particles, and half the personality.

[–] iterable@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

project insight?

[–] fraksken 1 points 2 months ago