Putin hails Elon Musk as 'truly a genius' - sh.itjust.works
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> Moscow (AFP) – US tech tycoon Elon Musk is “truly a genius” for deploying thousands of satellites into orbit, President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday, as Moscow seeks to develop its own satellite internet network. > The American tech titan is the owner of SpaceX, that launches rockets for NASA and runs the Starlink communications network. > >Russia, a spacefaring power, has long sought to develop its own satellite internet constellation for both civilian and military use. > >Putin’s comments come amid a spat between Ukraine and the United States over access to Starshield, a military-grade satellite network powered by Musk’s SpaceX. > >“Elon Musk is a genius, truly a genius,” Putin said while touring an exhibition on the sidelines of a Russia-Africa summit in Moscow. > >“He has how many units in orbit…? More than 5,000. And we’re taking our first steps,” he added. > >“We are in close contact with our American partners, including Mr. Musk, because it is crucial in orbit not to interfere with one another.” > >Ukraine began reporting problems using Starshield this month, following a row between Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky and US President Donald Trump over a US-Russia diesel deal. > >Both Trump and Musk denied being responsible for the outages, although Musk later accused Ukraine of misusing SpaceX’s Starlink internet service for military purposes. > >Ukraine says the outages have frustrated its efforts to intercept Russian drones and has slowed its logistics on the front line, as the Ukraine-Russia conflict grinds through its fifth year.
  • agentant [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    31·
    12 days ago

    Chinese agent: “Wow, this Hexbear network is doing good work, how much are we paying them again?”

    Russian agent: “They do it for free.”

    Chinese agent: surprised-pika

    Sh.itjust.works users cannot comprehend us just doing it for the love of the game

      • OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
        16·
        11 days ago

        They don’t care. It’s the same shit about how we “only show up right before elections and disappear afterward,” even though we’re saying the same things all year every year.

        At a certain point it’s just a symbolic belief, you say leftists are bots to signal you’re in the in group, you say Trump is “Putin’s puppet” for the same reason. Even if it were incontrovertibly proven wrong, they’d either keep saying it anyway or just find another way to signal to the in-group. You can find similar behavior in Red MAGA. Whether they believe it vs using it as a slogan or rhetorical device is unclear, and in fact it’s unclear if they have any coherent beliefs underneath the sloganeering at all.

    • EatMoreMacroplastics [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      10·
      12 days ago

      The lemmygrad thread has zero comments and the one on h.itler.works, while being predictably vapid, does not mention hexbear at all so far. I don’t get what you’re referencing here.

        • goferking (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
          6·
          11 days ago

          Which also describes anyone not licking boots of insert Reagan like dem

          Ex

          look I know the dem just released an anti trans ad and is also saying how excited they are to work with Republicans and Trump on immigration but anyone who is against them is just a Russian bot. Slava Ukraine hit those data centers again

  • duderium [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    16·
    12 days ago

    Random question but if trump was putin’s puppet, wouldn’t trump force Ukraine to stop fighting Russia or just join Russia in attacking Ukraine?

    • Krinkil2705@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
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      11 days ago

      I asked this to a lib once, they told me both Trump and Putin can fund their weapons manufacturers easier that way.

  • Soot [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Putin is a shitbag, but most likely he simply realises that the US ruling class are currently very amenable to meaningless flattery.

  • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Putin does some trolling - OMG kremlins

    soviet-hmm You know Russia told Musk to fuck off right?

    That’s exactly what Putler wants us to think! Did you know Russia talks to Musk/SpaceX about satelite deployment?

    Yeah no one wants a Kessler Syndrome.

    No Russiabot! It’s so they hamper Ukraine so Putin wins the war!

    So why are missles hitting inside Russia? Maybe just stop fueling an arms race and proxy war with the world’s largest nuclear power? Ya know just end it.

    See you just want Russia to win stinking Tankie!