I'll believe Meta if they stop forcing in-app browser down our throats. External links should open in the user's browser of choice by default.
The motivation is 100% greed and control.
However, when advancements are made by entities in China, it's almost always said "China" did X.
I wonder why.
If that's your standard for those emails with confidentiality statements (they are not disclaimers), you already have a problem because your device and maybe email provider already read them to determine if they are spam. Also, unless the email body has been encrypted, they've been sat in SMTP server queues in plain text where nefarious people could read them.
Those "disclaimers" aren't really worth anything.
They'd have much ore data if it hadn't gone bang.
At some point you really do have to acknowledge that Starship is currently failing. Yes, they'll probably turn it round unless they run out of money, but they re years late.
Remember Prime used to be always 1 day shipping?
Remember Prime Video used to have no tiers?
Now this.
I'm not surprised every 15 years or so a "disruptor" appears. In a sense they don't really disrupt. They're just bringing things back from pre-enshittification, a long-forgotten era.
Opposing $3.9 billion for a feasibility study, is not the same as preferring they "plough ahead without adequate planning".
Adequate planning can be done with less than $3.9 billion. Show the plan of the feasibility study and I'm certain there are a LOT of sections relevant to neither safety nor environmental impact, nor the budget.
"Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines." -- Bertrand Russell