NM_Gringo@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoElon Musk Is Charging Starlink Customers Gigantic Bogus Fees Because Its Network Is Being Crushed by “High Demand”www.yahoo.comexternal-linkmessage-square263fedilinkarrow-up1834arrow-down118
arrow-up1816arrow-down1external-linkElon Musk Is Charging Starlink Customers Gigantic Bogus Fees Because Its Network Is Being Crushed by “High Demand”www.yahoo.comNM_Gringo@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square263fedilink
minus-squareChaotic Entropy@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·edit-22 days ago“We only have the option to use this hyper expensive private satellite service… because we spent all of the wired rollout grants/funding on bullshit.”
minus-squaredejected_warp_core@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 days ago because we spent all of the wired rollout grants/funding on bullshit. Oh, it’s worse than that. The grant money was the wrong party color, so it had to be disposed of rather than lead to a positive outcome.
minus-squareSparroHawc@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day agoBut you see, if they took the grant money and used it for something that people liked, they’d have to admit that the party they don’t like did something useful! Can’t have that!
“We only have the option to use this hyper expensive private satellite service… because we spent all of the wired rollout grants/funding on bullshit.”
Oh, it’s worse than that. The grant money was the wrong party color, so it had to be disposed of rather than lead to a positive outcome.
But you see, if they took the grant money and used it for something that people liked, they’d have to admit that the party they don’t like did something useful! Can’t have that!