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Because he's not making any political, moral, or personal decisions, and only follows the law he is forced to.

When the law forces him to sanction Israel, he will do so, and when the law stops forcing him to sanction Russia, he will stop doing so.

Usually uprooting your life and moving to another country implies a job change. At least that's how I read the comment.

There is an important fact about the Space Shuttle: it doesn't exist anymore. Even if it was cheaper - which it wasn't - it wouldn't have meant much today, because today all other existing options are much more expensive. I'm comparing options we have today, and more importantly comparing to the option SpaceX moved the government off of.

If NASA brings back the space shuttle and it's cheaper than SpaceX then amazing, let's go. But they didn't (because it wouldn't have been cheaper).

A single launch of a Boeing rocket costs as much as the entire R&D for SpaceX rockets. Launches that cost $5 billion with Boeing, cost tens of millions with SpaceX. I can absolutely agree with you that SpaceX is wasting some of the money given to them. But the amount of taxpayer money spent on launches has been massively reduced by them providing an orders of magnitude cheaper and more reliable option.

There is definitely an argument to be made that they don't deserve the money, but in the grand scheme of government spending, they have very much reduced it compared to the traditional launch providers.

And their rockets still have capabilities that no other launch provider has achieved yet. Boeing still wastes all their rockets by making them single use, when SpaceX uses the same rocket many times.

The traditional satellite internet is slow and high latency. With the Starlink approach, it is indeed an issue that the satellites need to be continuously replaced, but it does provide a superior service to the user, and combined with SpaceX often launching them "almost free" by piggybacking on free space around their customer's payloads and not having to pay anyone for launches otherwise, it does come out cheaper than the old satellite internet.

But that's just the technology. The fact Musk is anywhere near that project makes Starlink a liability.

Wikipedia has rules that a topic has to have some level of relevance to be added. While a major video game character can have enough relevance, an article for a random piece of scenery or for a "rusty dagger" item from some game would never be allowed.

Game wikis also often have unique features, for example for showing item stats or have a look and feel that fits the game.

His major product is SpaceX. His major customer is the government for the launches and contracts he sells, and his major detriment is government regulation of these launches.

Being on the good side of the government benefits both.

Can someone explain the "Mark of the Beast" thing?

It seems commonly mentioned by US posters, but I'm not from the US and have no context. I know it's a Bible thing, but I'm always seeing it on posts that have nothing to do with religion, like this one, and I'm lost on what it could mean here.

It can be (linen.dev is one such solution). But the server owners have to set it up obviously, and often they don't. But it's not an issue if they cared to.

We who take Aaron's side

We are in the right, so we don't have to obscure facts.

Well works for me seeing how I'm in Europe. :P

Being a huge market is still a major factor. A company would still prefer to do business in a 300M population English speaking country with a 10% profit margin, than a 10M population country with a 30% profit margin. But you are correct, companies that don't want to pay taxes would leave. I say good riddance.

The incentive is to make a profit. It would just be enormous profit instead of an unimaginable one.

Sure, they can relocate. But you could structure the law so that you can't sell anything then. Apple is free to leave the US and not pay taxes, but then they are not allowed to sell anything in the US, have any offices in the US or hire anyone in the US. Of course such a law would never happen. But it's absolutely possible in theory.

Is this based on anything? Among the myriad things Musk is provably guilty of, I have never seen anything credible suggesting this.

There is no translation, it's just a hard to pronounce Polish surname.

Yeah, when I created my Lemmy account I had to choose an instance before knowing anything about Lemmy yet. And .ml seemed like the default one to choose, given https://join-lemmy.org/ told me it is ran by the devs.

Oh well.

I don’t think he wasn’t believing in the force, he knew Jedi were real, he just wasn’t buying the mysticism surrounding it and didn’t think it’s such a big deal. He knew Vader is a powerful force user, but the Death Star is literally one shotting entire planets, so the force didn’t feel that significant to him in the grand scheme of things.

I sometimes find a small seed in seedless watermelons.