He was given an empty box for show, letting him keep it wouldn’t make it any better.

There could be many reasons:

• The thing you are mining is actually very rare, and although it could be elsewhere, it’s the only place you found it. This is the case in Avatar. The Unobtanium they are mining is not found anywhere else.
• It’s easier to mine on a habitable planet. You don’t have all the extreme difficulty of operating in space or a planet/moon with no atmosphere. In Avatar workers can freely operate without any special equipment, using just a gas mask, and don’t need to be astronauts.
• You are assuming they found Pandora to mine on it. They probably found it through scientific research, and the mining angle only appeared later when the resource was found.

Another important detail is that in Avatar they don’t have any faster than light tech. Pandora is in the Alpha Centauri system, the closest star to the Sun, and it takes years to get there anyway. Sure, there might be lots of better places to choose, but it’s literally the only habitable body in reachable distance from Earth unless you want to spend decades flying in one direction.

Pandora was a moon, not a planet. (Doesn’t change your point, just correcting the detail.)

Don’t let basic questions be the enemy of some good outrage.

Their rockets (Falcon 9) are literally the most reliable in history of spaceflight, and are still the only company that reuses rockets instead of building a new one for every flight - obviously a much cheaper approach, so they make boatloads of money. They made over 9 billion in 2023, likely more in 2024.

They do spend a lot on R&D, with all their test vehicle explosions as you noted, but this doesn’t affect actual operations where profits are made.

Plus in addition to being a launch provider, they are now also bringing in ~4 billion a year through their ISP business (Starlink).

That being said, it doesn’t explain Musk’s wealth at all, it’s still orders of magnitude away, so I’m as puzzled as you are.

That’s fair, though I’d still say the CEO, leadership team, and other employees have more to do with running Amazon than someone who owns some shares.

Bezos stepped down as the CEO of Amazon in 2021, and also sold most of his shares to focus on his rocket company. Not disagreeing with your message, but Bezos doesn’t have much to do with Amazon anymore.

The idea is probably that there is nothing to consent to if you are supposed to practice abstinence.

I presume in his ideal country there is no capitalism, and as such state enforcers don’t enforce capitalism, but enforce whatever he is thinking of

It doesn’t add up for me either, but on your first question: you can fight for justice and have empathy for people without a particular issue affecting you personally.

See LGBT allies for an easy example. It’s pretty normal to care about issues that aren’t yours, e.g. all the support Palestine is getting, even though most people supporting it have never been there and don’t know a single Palestinian.

A principled person usually cares about more than themselves.

Which is exactly the reason IANA quoted for never making an exception again.

Sure, as I said “Windows is absolutely needed if you want a good experience”. Yes, it’s not required to get something working if you try hard enough, but it is required if you want everything to work well.

I keep a Windows virtual machine with GPU passthrough for VR and don’t see myself ditching it any time soon. At least I don’t need to boot into Windows.

“The outline of a potential story” being out is different from an actual game being out though.

OP wrote he is playing both. I agree if you want to play the story once, Black Mesa is better, but if OP wants to play both, then nothing wrong with that.

Yes, you can technically get some games working. If you use the right VR headset (meaning Valve Index or Vive), use the right distro, with the right compositor and right GPU, spend a lot of time troubleshooting, then you can maybe get a few games to start. Camera passthrough won’t work, power management won’t work (no control for base stations), Bluetooth won’t work, tracking won’t be as good, you will experience weird bugs and crashes of both the games and SteamVR, and you will get less FPS than on Windows. And even with that inferior experience, most games still won’t run.

I spent a lot of time trying despite this being the experience for most people online, and I only confirmed that it’s the case. Windows is absolutely needed if you want a good experience. Hopefully Valve changes that in the future, but that’s the case today.

Still needed for VR games.

JWST?

Ente Photos, it’s on both Android and iOS

We know it’s not an Apple user because they are using WhatsApp instead of exclusively iMessage.

/s :P

That is true, but that’s still a weirdly phrased question if what you wanted to know is if it’s a Mac.