It's not just creators though, it's also preventing customers from getting a good deal, because stores can pay honey their protection racket money to stop it from giving their customers discounts.
Admittedly it's a lesser issue - you are just not getting a discount you could have gotten - but it's the opposite of what it was claiming to do for you.
So you agree they exist. You are just saying they are not good. Just like the printer that only works sometimes is still a printer that exists, it's just bad at being one.
They not working in all cases is a qualifier you are adding yourself though. There are definitely existing self-driving cars. There are no self-driving cars that can handle all situations, but being perfect or finished is not a prerequisite for something existing.
Yeah, the absurd terrorism charges are probably possible to beat, so no reason to plead guilty to them. They are probably not questioning the murder charges, but that's beside the point.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I guess "person" would be a useful one.