Nice, you're managing a curriculum now.

We've clocked the game and now just waiting for someone to turn off the console?

I'd say a huge amount of advertising is now "influencers" and podcasters selling things, probably more akin to 1940s radio advertisements.

Necessity is the mother of invention my friend.

Sorry, how is it “obvious” ?

How do we know they didn’t collaborate ?

A. Look at incentives, Musk gets massive blowback from this, gains literally nothing from it. Trump does gain from this, and does have control over Starshield and specifically how Starlink is used in Ukraine.

B. There's plenty of reporting that the White House gave the order:

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/order-limit-starshield-...

>Order to limit Starshield for Ukraine came from inside White House, sources say

Sounds like Musk has admitting it was him.

Yeah, I guess no one could've predicted this...

>Peter Thiel comes to mind.

I think in his particular case he's merely trying to play the players. Doubt he's into any of that.

People need to believe it for him to be able to use it as a weapon...whether he believes it isn't necessary, the people he wants to control / influence do.

People think Trump (who IMO works for Thiel et al through donations) is the messiah.

Sony still makes Walkman

I just pay for it like any other service.