The orbit of the Starlink constellation is low enough to be self-clearing. Without propulsion they de-orbit in months to years. And little particles from a collision at that altitude would deorbit even faster.
The chicken little cope of "muh kessler" is like when democrats screech about MUH CLIMOOOOOT CHAAAAAAAAANGE.
The death knell was the institutional enforcement of eliminating bullying in school.
The bigger of a societal misfit you were the more you were punished back in the day, in the 2000s that changed and the degenerate weirdos started being celebrated. All part of the LGBTQUIABCDEFG cult worship that gained power in that same time.
We had one "field operations" guy get access to the company cloud infrastructure and he was all proud of the dashboard he "wrote" via ChatGPT. All the execs were oooh-ing and aaaah-ing about it.
The next month when the cloud services bill came it turned his dashboard was effectively doing "select * from..." on the entire data warehouse every time anyone clicked anything. Fucking whoops.
And the only reason he had that access is that he's a childhood friend of one of the owners. So when the dev team started catching hell for the cost they just forwarded the email chains that basically said "I know so-and-so, if you don't give me this access you'll be looking for a job".
I did the math on my own assets and despite my net worth in USD more than doubling over the last 10 years, my net worth in Gold actually decreased by ~30% over the last 10 years.
OY VEY! You need to stop noticing, goyim!
Then one day for no reason at all...