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.

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!

An egg slicer that you could also use to slice strawberries, whole pitted olives and other similar things.

It’s so quick compared to doing it manually, and so easy to clean.

You should always turn off / reboot your phone if you expect it to be potentially be taken

Simply being locked after being unlocked once leaves the phone in a less secure state than if it was fully off or just rebooted and never unlocked.

If you need your phone to record the interaction, then you might only get as far as locking it, but always strive to shut it down.

That’s why you need a second account the distress pin opens that looks like it’s used for some stuff which leaves the rest encrypted.

Looks like I was outdated on the subsidy side.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/starlink-demands-grant-money-from-states-even-when-residents-dont-buy-service/

While that almost 1 billion grant did get cancelled, it looks like they actually did get another grant, but haven’t received the money yet. That’s for $733.5 million to provide subsidized services to 472,000 locations.

It sounds like SpaceX is trying to put requirements on the states though if they accept it, so we’ll see if this goes through or not.

If it does though, this would be the government giving them a lot of money.

Every business gets tax credits, and tax credits are not government money being paid to SpaceX. It just means they pay less taxes. You as a individual get them too. That’s money the government never had. For businesses its also usually somethings like if you build your business here you don’t pay property taxes for X years. It wasn’t anything like the EV rebate which was designed to prop up an industry.

They have received very little money that isn’t for services delivered. It’s not 0, but it’s very little.

One could have argued they almost got a billion dollars for the rural broadband grant but that was revoked and they never got it. That would have been a we’ll give you money to help launch rockets and lower your prices for our residents, had it happened.

Edit: there’s very little reason to be upset with SpaceX in something like this. They’ve saved the government billions and billions of dollars by existing now. Tesla sure, they were given a lot of money for nothing in return, or programs were designed that forced other companies to give them money, but you’re barking up the wrong tree with SpaceX.

Edit: This website says they received 6 grants, some training reimbursements, and some loans which probably had good repayment terms. https://subsidytracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/space-exploration-technologies-spacex And while some of those are undisclosed, it’s not like McLennan County is giving them a billion dollars.

Or maybe they’re distracted because the show isn’t that great, and doing this makes it even more not great lol.

That’s the better choice over the X even when they still have it as well.

Like a digital game key? I’d say yes.

If it’s not a big part of eBay though, I can see that maybe sneaking past as Apple might consider the app as selling physical goods and overlook a small portion of digital?