SpaceX and all of Musk’s companies have received many tens of billions in government contracts, subsidies, and incentives and more are on the way.
The meme is right, but it’s WAY short of the amount of money SpaceX is getting.
Glorified military contractor that works for our enemies, mind you.
how so? I mean it works for anyone who wants to launch a satellite
Who turned off starlink in Ukraine?
yeah thats true
Musk = POS Nazi.
musk is “a ponszi”
Aaand there goes the last attempt at good noncorp news in the US.
No, NPR will survive. Losing the grants suck. But the vast majority of its revenue isn’t from grants.
I’ll be upping my donation.
Last I heard, federal grants were like 2% of their annual budget.
Apparently it’s even less now:
On average, less than 1% of NPR’s annual operating budget comes in the form of grants from CPB and federal agencies and departments.
So uh… I guess they already are surviving on their own?
It’s the little stations in west bumfuck Idaho and West Virginia that will have trouble staying open. The big content creators like WNYC and GBH will be fine and can lean on corporate donors.
According to NPRs own report…it’s 13% of the budget. So not critical, but still hurts a bit. I’ll just up my yearly donation to help
It’s incredibly high quality journalism. I’m so proud of my fellow countrymen for supporting it directly. I listen to it daily - multiple times throughout the day. I’ve donated once or twice, but I need to reduce my debt before I’m comfortable signing up for a monthly commitment.
I also only one time donate, as I can. No shame in it, I think it’s appreciated just the same
Defund the parasite Musk, or since he is all about free speech maybe he should provide some funding to them.
Musk wants to drop off now that he has control of the federal government. Just like Twitter he will pop back up from time to time as the whole apparatus comes to his knees.
Look… I hate Musk as much as anyone. But SpaceX contracts are not the same as NPR grants.
Hopefully, you don’t mind coming across as a “bootlicker”.
NPR shouldn’t be losing anything, is the point.
Nor should PBS
Dude isn’t an American, he didn’t didn’t grow up with PBS- he’s not from here, he definitely doesn’t understand the cultural significance of PBS in the United States.
I couldn’t mind less. A sad little ad hominem like that from someone stupid enough to see it that way is no skin off my nose.
this is all stuff that nasa would do for cheaper instead, if they got the contracts instead.
cheaper because you wouldnt have to finance making him rich
You know NASA uses all kinds of private contractors too, right? Which means they are paying the “make someone rich” tax as well, just not to Musk.
That means we fix the loopholes and find a streamlined way to reach efficiency. It doesn’t mean we exploit the system because “well they do it too” while continuing to complain the system sucks. No, we actually fix the standing problems within our systems. Thats what should happen.
Tax the fucking rich.
Tax the fucking rich
Of course I agree but I don’t know how we got here from saying that NPR grants have nothing to do with aerospace contracting.
…no? my source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_launch_market_competition#2010-2020s:_Competition_and_pricing_pressure and scroll down a bit to the chart with launch costs
the space shuttle sucked
The space shuttle was a mistake, but that is a laughably disingenuous route to claim that NASA couldn’t be doing these things for cheaper than private companies. Saturn V rocket launches were cheaper than space shuttle launches.
Yep, and comparing expenditures that differ in orders of magnitude is also complicated. Why is it even worth to cut the lower one when minor changes to the big one have a bigger gain.
The issue is most cuts being deeply political in nature. In my mind these posts only shift the narrative.
