I actually think this is a good public health move, I would want my politicians pushing this.

It will accomplish informing people that they are indeed being exposed to sound loud enough to cause permanent hearing damage. I think a surprising amount of people don't quite grasp that reality.

Also you can get the best noise reduction rating (33dB) earplugs for well under a dollar, I last ordered 25 pairs of disposable foam plugs for ~$0.50 a pair at $13 total. So while it's totally expected for some venues to be scummy and still offer shitty plugs, I'm hopeful that the majority of them will take the over 100% profit on the $1 price or under.

I'd wager each face is 30 - 50 pixels wide

I'm hourly and make a good living wage, are you implying that hourly means you don't work full time or should be entitled to a livable wage?

You keep showing how you don't know anything about this, there are no subsidies on these items. Starlink is owned by SpaceX, so it is essentially free to launch besides the fuel it costs to launch. They are going to spend the money on operations, no matter what. If you want to call that a subsidy fine, but it's a subsidy that's never going away.

Secondly, prices have not gone up for the most popular plan that normal folks have. Prices were only raised for customers that do not have a fixed location, such as people who use their dish on a boat or RV.

Third, It's funny how confident you are when the fact is that this is such a good business model that other companies are desperately trying to fill the space as competitors.

Amazon's Kupier just starter launching their network, and have significantly greater launch costs than starlink because they do not own the launch vehicles, still Kupier will print money for Amazon in 10 years. You are talking out of your ass.

I see you responding to many of my comments, it shows you are unreasonably upset about something that shouldn't upset you. Yes Elon musk is a horrible person that will hopefully die soon, doesn't change the fact SpaceX and Starlink are both incredibly successful and will continue to be in the future.

Also last I read the cost to manufacture a terminal was now lower than the cost they sell them at, and that will continue to drop as production scales up (because there is significant demand despite what you may believe)

I do not like Elon musk

I won't debate more on the finances because, like you said, they're a private company and we can't know for sure. However, reliable public estimates show starlink is profitable already or will be very soon.

Falcon Heavy is supposed to be cheaper per ton, yet somehow is almost never used for Starlink or anything else

Starlink already about maxes out the fairing capacity of the Falcon Rockets, so allowing more weight doesn't do much besides increase cost. Same with other companies buying launch services from SpaceX. Usually they don't need the extra capacity or margins heavy offers, although I wish me got more launches, they are always a treat to watch.

Starship isn't even projected to be cheaper than Falcon 9

Maybe not, but that wasn't my main point. They are already spending money on Starship and that isn't going to change. It's just soon they will actually be able to use that money they're spending to make more money by launching more starlinks. With the significantly larger payload capacity, they will also be able to launch way sats per launch and also more capable sats with higher bandwidth or more onboard propellants for a longer operational life

I expect Starship will be used to launch many batches of Starlink while the vehicle is still in testing and expected to fail on occasion, If you think about it in that capacity, the launches are free since they are already going to be doing test launches.

Starlink is bankrolling starlink, it's expected to generate 12 billion In revenue this year with 2 billion of that being profit

Before it paid for itself spacex did and still does have a lot of very wealthy private investors willing to throw significant funds at the company

You are 100% correct except for

though it seems to be failing at that goal.

Starlink is expected to bring in 2 billion In profit this year, it is successful https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/02/starlink-profit-growing-rapidly-as-it-faces-a-moment-of-promise-and-peril/

Wow, they lost a lot more sensitive data than I was expecting.

With government IDs being in the leak this feels like what's gonna happen in the next couple years with porn sites needing government IDs. I bet peoples watching habits will get leaked right along side IDs.

Starlink is already making more money than it costs to expand and operate, you are wrong. This is sustainable (financially) and counter to your beliefs over the next 10 years I'd wager the starlink network will balloon to many times its current size, 20,000 plus satellites in orbit.

SpaceX is the most successful company/entity in history that does space launch, it doesn't cost them a whole lot of money to launch new batches of Satellites and that cost will continue to decrease as the Falcon 9 program continues to improve and as starship becomes operational over the next few years.

Us lucky fiber users, I can get 8gig symmetrical for $300 and 2 gig for $75 a month. Still nothing like other non American countries but damn do I have it good for living here.

You don't know what you're talking about, the satellites do "reasonably" boost themselves, they have propulsion on board.

After 5 years yes they trash them, but that nots not cost prohibitive for SpaceX. Starlink is brining in a significant amount of money, and it doesn't cost SpaceX all that much to launch a new batch to replace the old. You all seem to forget they are the cheapest and most impressive launch company to date.

What you and nobody else seems to understand is that every year SpaceX is launching more and more rockets and they will only continue to increase their launch cadence. In the next one or two years, they will start using Starship for Starlink launches, and that will significantly increase the amount of bandwidth they can add to the network per lanch.

I'm sure I'll get hate because I'm defending an elon company but everyone here is plain wrong and just making shit up.

It is a viable business product, latest estimates are Starlink will bring in a revenue of 12 billion in 2025 with about 2 billion being profit. Of course it's not a public company so we don't get official numbers, but you're flat out wrong.

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/02/starlink-profit-growing-rapidly-as-it-faces-a-moment-of-promise-and-peril/

Starlink is owned by spaceX so they've never purchased a rocket, they just launch

And because of starlink SpaceX will be an insanely profitable company. Starlink is already bankrolling the very expensive starship development.

I'm also in the bathroom, but the TP is on my right and to the left is the shower. No objects that aren't attached to the building. So, that'll be hard.

Yes true, I understand and agree with that logic

¯(ツ)/¯ In the sample size of the few fat people I know IRL and their family's that's not true, at least for the people I know. Unless we're counting mental illness as a medical condition, which is fair because they are.

exercise is simply not possible for a lot of overweight people.

I'm not fat, but that seems simply untrue unless the person is fat due to a serious disability in the first place. Maybe doing intense exercise isn't possible, but fat people can absolutely start with small, little exercises and work their way up over months or years.

How is this the expanse? Seems to me that governments ruined space in the expanse, which I guess you could correlate with billionaires.

Fred Johnson is probably a billionaire and he ended up leading the OPA and supporting the most impoverished and oppressed class of people in the universe.