@cb_doge Useless people who try to live happily by shelving their own incompetence turn into idiots who love marching in no time. That's a law that doesn't change wherever you go.
− BLACK DRAGON/Dutch
One effective form of propaganda exploits the psychological fallacies of the masses, for example by slipping it into everyday entertainment. Social media platforms have been thrust onto the front lines of this.
Got a few texts & DMs this weekend that went:
"Just downloaded Grok Bot. HOLY SHIT. You were right."
p.s. I am right. If you are not using Grok Bot you are messing up.
In Oct 2026, SpaceX briefly restricted Starlink in Ukraine over ToS violations. Had it kept being used for strikes, it could have become a Russian ASAT target — risking a cascade of debris collisions.
🛰️ Kessler Syndrome Visualization (Created with Grok Bot)
This is indeed one of the main reasons that Starlink must remain a civilian operation.
It can be used for infrastructure that is military, but it cannot be used for unequivocally offensive strikes that make it fair game to be struck back.
An adversary blowing up Starlink satellites would create a domino effect of destruction that would generate a vast field of debris making space unusable.
@Jason We must learn from Rome’s decline. America’s internal turmoil and exhaustion threaten the world order, yet Americans seem blind to this. The next midterms will tell.
@Jason_R_Burt I believe they represent what it truly means to be an immigrant.
Even if they had been deployed to the Pacific Theater, I believe they would have fought courageously against Japanese soldiers.
I am proud of them.
I remember sitting around a campfire shortly after the Ukraine war had just started with some Ukrainian friends.
They shared that after they learned that Russian forces were jamming all communications they called Elon begging for Starlink support.
Elon and the Starlink team instantly dropped everything they were working on, loaded a private jet with as many Starlink terminals as they could (terminals were in short supply at the time), and started flying the jet eastward while writing code to make terminals work over Ukraine.
There was no contract or promise of payment for doing so, and no time to solve for that.
My Ukrainian friends believed this saved the nation of Ukraine, and that without this effort Ukraine would have lost the war nearly instantly.
@alx The Greeks
O Greeks, who placed the goddess of vengeance above Jupiter! You knew everything there was to know.And yet this also shows how slow the progress of humankind has been.
@EvaFox There is one problem: chemical propulsion rockets have limited payload capacity, and the timing of planetary gravity assists is also a major constraint. At our current technological level, establishing a colony of no more than ten people is probably the best we can hope for.