Is it at least ICE water?

Sorry, couldn’t resist.

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Well it’s one thing if you don’t want to trust information that comes out on something like Reuters or when Glenn Shotwell said it was entering into profitability, but it’s another to continue to claim something otherwise like Starlink isn’t sustainable and is burning VC money.

At this point, it would be best to either stay out of the conversation, or state something more like an opinion than come across as factual.

Edit: Just as an example in the future you could say something like, “I don’t think Starlink would be sustainable without the current government Starlink contracts”. I don’t believe we have any information that would tell us if that’s the case one way or another yet and could be true. Or "I don’t trust the information available, so I don’t think its actually sustainable or profitable’

Edit: Just to clarify sorry for extra edits - we do know for sure that Starlink is their largest revenue source though, and that retail / business customers make up the majority of their customers. I wouldn’t doubt that the government starlink contracts have much better margins though and can skew profitability into uncertainty without them.

Lets be real here… Factorio probably has more time played than all the others combined right? lol

For sure. I don’t doubt they’ll get it functional and getting payloads to space, but the entire premise is on full rapid reuseability, including same day relaunch of starship. That is still a very very very big if.

If they can’t get to that point, it’s not worth anywhere near what it is being predicted to be worth.

Starlink has been profitable for over a year.

They are burning money trying to get starship working now.

edit: https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/spacex-generated-about-8-billion-profit-last-year-ahead-ipo-sources-say-2026-01-30/

That agreement should have said excluding any acquisitions or mergers.

Salt water is a bitch.

The point of these being in space is there is no maintenance.

Like they aren’t doing maintenance on any starlink satellite.

Government contracts used to be their biggest revenue source, but it’s Starlink now.

They still need the profits from government contracts though to help fund the capital expenditures to try and get starship working, but they aren’t reliant on them like they used to be.

I’m not really convinced SpaceX was over valued IF Starship succeeds, but every single part of xAi was.

The world is made for general purpose humans including vast amounts of factory space. There will always be things for a general purpose robot to do that’ll be cheaper than designing and manufacturing a low volume bespoke robot.

Like Amazon is trying and building robots to do a lot of picking, but they can’t even fully automate that.

It’s more a question of can they solve it (huge if) and even if they do, how many can they actually sell.

If they work, it’s going to be other corporations for factory work.

It’s going to be a long long time before any bot is good enough and cheap enough to be used at the consumer level in our homes.

I’ve read stories of certain flavors having chemicals that aren’t good to be vaping as well. That’s not a vaping issue though, that’s a regulation issue about what can be in the vape liquid. It’s is or at least was the wild wild west on what was being put in them.

When I tried a game that had a 120hz mode, I had to lower the quality a little to get it work well, but didn’t notice a big difference, but there was a difference.

A few days later I went back to 60hz so i could increase the graphics quality , and the difference was crazy huge. I had to go back to 120hz.

Did you say you want really clear ads? We got just that!

Maybe they had it right in Ready Player One.

Even that could become a risk if they are banned in the country. They can be detected and your location triangulated.

This would be a set it up somewhere that’s not home, use it quickly, pack it up and go type situation.

By the time everything is released, I bet the list of top level officials not in the files will be shorter than the ones in the files.

It’s probably a requirement to get a specific level position.

I know it’ll never happen, but these kinds of changes should be mandated opt-in by law.

Make sure you’re just using a VPN in general that way you aren’t possibly leaking content information if you connect to a http site that they’ll then train with. I think there’s another step you can do with DNS but I’m not as familiar with that.

HTTPS everywhere, or similar, are good plugins to help prevent mistakes as well.

Even if you don’t use starlink, you had bet your ass other ISPs are using this data to track you and monetize you as well, so it’s just best practice overall.