“Will the things help?”

“No the ones that help will be illegal”

Yeah that doesn’t even vaguely resemble what I’m saying.

Valve isn’t regulating your hardware and they aren’t forcing anybody to do anything.

Valve is not a bully here. They have a contract saying if you sell your product with me you can’t sell it someplace else cheaper just to use me for marketing and delivery.

Apple says you have to pay me to even have the right to sell your product and you can only sell it through me. If you sell it someplace else I want to cut of that too.

Google just keeps changing the nature of what you’re allowed to do with your own stuff and they take a cut.

If you feel bullied by Valve or some developer feels bullied by valve then you have a victim complex.

There are other marketplaces to steam. Steam doesn’t prevent you from installing from sources outside of steam. Steam doesn’t regulate your hardware or how you use it. If you want to sell on steam you can still sell elsewhere but it has to be the same price.

This means if you go to steam to find out about a game and then decide to buy it from the manufacturer’s website the manufacturer makes more money because they don’t have to give Valve a cut, and Valve might even authorize you to activate that product on steam.

Expecting valve to offer their marketing and delivery systems without any incentive for you to sell products through it would defeat the purpose of their platform.

Compare that to the other two chuckle fuckers in this mix:

Apple maintains an exclusive platform. Apple has taken specific steps to prevent people from installing software from sources that have not paid them for permission to make software for the hardware you rent from them.

Google maintains an exclusive platform. Google has taken specific steps to prevent people from installing from sources that have not paid them for permission to make software for the hardware you bought from third party vendors and manufacturers.
The ever shrinking accommodation to installing third-party software on your purchased hardware is anti-competitive, and defeats consumer choice.

Maybe they need regime change… And freedom. We should liberate Israel. There’s even an insurgent group we could fund for our proxy war against the mad regime.

Hot take, how about no.

I would go even further and say that they have a right to build a fully functioning national nuclear power grid including the ability to refuse ne and enrich several different types of isotopes for a variety of reasons.

I don’t love nuclear weapons, and we were on a global track to reduce them until we decided to give them to Israel and India while also demonstrating to the world that they are a required tool to protect you from invasion.

Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine and now Iran have all been severely punished for not having nuclear weapons at their disposal while North Korea gets repeatedly rewarded through non intervention just for maintaining theirs.

A tremendous amount of money has been invested to ensure that it is.

Microsoft was trying to build something they could sell for practical reasons as a cheaper alternative to land based data centers. For that purpose it is not cost effective.

Peter Thiel is trying to build something that will not be subject to laws so he can continue to develop horrors beyond human comprehension. For that use case it is possibly very cost effective.

I’m sure there’s some clinical documentation of all of this reefer induced disease then?

Surely your ER has to keep records and there’s something… Any kind of clinical evidence that marijuana causes this?

We’ve spent billions and billions and billions of dollars over decades and shredded civil liberties on the so far unevidence claims of marijuana’s danger, if you have actual evidence you have an obligation to come forward with it and present it for scientific review!

This removal won’t happen until just after the midterms. If it happens before that then the reptile won’t get his 10 years of Vance.

As soon as Republicans get slaughtered in the midterms for doing everything that Trump said he would do to disastrous effect they will blame him for those failures anoint JD and then absolve themselves entirely of any responsibility for the policies they enacted during the Trump presidency.

Time to try it out that old Soviet joke again and just sprinkle a little American on it:

A man goes up to a newspaper stand, buys a copy of the New York Times, takes one look at the front page, and throws it away with a disappointed look on his face.

Every day, he comes back to the newspaper stand, buys a copy of the Times, looks over the front page, gets disappointed, and then throws the paper away without opening it.

This goes on for a few weeks, and finally the man running the stand asks him, “Why do you keep buying a paper and not reading it?”

He replies, “I’m just looking for an obituary.”

“But there aren’t any obituaries on the front page.”

“This one will be.”

The original controller is pretty awesome. It was also really really cheap. I love them because it’s the only controller for playing games that were not designed for a controller.

You can’t build a rule from exceptions.

There are those few circumstances of uniquely certain guilt when you probably could make a very breathy argument in favor of executing people, but that is not something that can be easily codified into law and the legal fiction of “beyond a reasonable doubt” has already been reliably subverted in … Every country that currently has jury trials.

I love the idea that evil people get their comeuppance. I’m not so much a fan of giving the state or whatever perfectly ideal synergy of state and people exists in the utopic future the ability to murder without consequence.

To me it seems fairly obvious that that’s bad and that the entity capable of doing it justly is not within the capacity of current human culture to produce.

Unless the state is infallible, never making a mistake in or out of court, AND it is literally impossible to rehabilitate the offender, AND It requires fewer resources to execute a person then to keep them alive, then and only then is it not profanely hideous to sanction state murder.

So… video games are universally bad because some toxic people like them?

Am I allowed to like donuts?

Capital punishment is a barbaric practice that can not be justified by hiding it behind a jury.

This one policy is better in this extremely superficial description.

Neither country has workers rights on par with Europe for example.

Unlike other countries America taxes you if you live here or not. The main barrier to people living cheaper lifestyles abroad is their obligation to continue to pay American taxes for what amounts to no benefit.

They would have a weekend at Bernie’s before they would let the public know.

High. How’re you?