• SomeoneElseMod@feddit.ukOPM
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    Here’s a little more context. Elon doubling down and linking Uncylcopedia, a crowd-edited satirical website, to support his stupid stance.

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      “Nano applies to everything and therefore means nothing. Definitely indicates bs.”

      What? When will your companies switch from those bs nanometer scale transistors in their CPUs and use down to earth millimeter etching? Make it even more awesome! Centimeter wavelength!

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      And here’s someone much cleverer than me explaining just a few of the uses of nanotechnology and why it’s not BS.

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        While I appreciate the effort (and the info!) I don’t think anyone in good faith actually needs to be told that nanotechnology is real and potentially very useful.

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          The first reply to this post was asking what nano was so I thought I’d add an explanation with added Musk nonsense. Yesterday I posted in !confidently_incorrect and found that some people didn’t know what “soup du jour” meant in English so I’m erring on the side of caution today!

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            It’s absolutely appreciated regardless!

            It’s always nice when stupid discussions introduced by trolls in bad faith ends up being an opportunity to actually learn something interesting. :)

            Also got me googling to check if “soup du jour” meant something else than soup of the day in English - you had me intrigued for a second!

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              You’re welcome! Someone replied on the soup de jour post that they “didn’t speak French” and I thought they were trolling at first. I assumed it was a well known loan word for all native English speakers, like RVSP, déjà-vu, cul-de-sac, chaise lounge etc etc. That’s what I get for making assumptions!

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                I think there’s a chance you might indeed be overestimating the average English speaker’s proficiency in loan words! Good thing dictionaries are not hard to find these days. :)

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      How is this man the guy who owns the most important, bleeding edge technology company in the world.

      We need SpaceX to succeed but do we really want to give this dumbass that amount of power? Oof

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        Do we need SpaceX to succeed? I’d rather they get dissolved and everything given to NASA. If I could have my fantasy world fulfilled, anyway.

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            I bet we figure out that launching all these satellites into orbit was premature and we’ve created a new irreversible disaster that private companies knew about but hide from us since they also control social media now

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              In the case of Starlink satellites they’re in a low orbit, and will naturally de-orbit after about 5 years, so they won’t really be a big space problem in the future.

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          To be honest I love the idea of the government handling space exploration but (saying this as someone who works directly for a government body) the government is just too slow and ineffective to get space exploration online in the timeframe needed for it to generate new technologies that would help the climate crisis.

          It’s mostly because of funding and ineffective bureaucracy not lack of talent or capable workers, but it’s a problem nonetheless.

          In a better world…

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          I believe the star link internet is very useful for people living in rural areas or war zones like Ukraine. I honestly don’t about the rest of it.

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      “The daily public displays of mental breakdown will continue until people respect me”.