Anti bds laws around the country and state/city level funding to Israel is not going away.

I can see that they are Losing popularity but I don’t see them actually losing power, influence, or resources just yet

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.

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!

I usually go with the old tried and true, “Bart’s crematorium you kill 'em we gril em”

Oh my God I super want to collaborate. I don’t know what I can do to help but I have lots of bottles, cabinets and spirits!

If you’re a fan of whiskey I would recommend throwing an old bean and a bit of charred white oak into a bottle it’s decadent and lovely.

After you’ve extracted the beans there are so many things that you can do with them like adding it to apple butter or other jams and preserves. Slow cooked sweets really get every last drop of that tasty goodness out and somebody ends up with the bean in their jar. It’s a win for everybody.

I’ve only been doing it for a couple of years, and I’m nothing even vaguely approaching an expert. What you are doing is fucking legendary though and I’m super inspired.

I have had the best luck with everclear and distilled water instead of vodka because for some reason vodka always adds its own flavor that fights the awesome complex of flavors you get from the beans.

I think the water is essential too because the flavor is more than just the parts that are alcohol soluble. I find the home extracted stuff is ready to use in 6months but is done in 9 and that unlike the store bought stuff, it doesn’t seem possible to over do it. Sometimes I add it straight to milk or soda and regret nothing.

Not really sure how dark it is supposed to be but the difference between 6 months and 9 months is noticeable. I’m doing 10 beans per liter and I get three full extractions before I break the beans down for bean paste and soap.

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.

You need a balance of water and alcohol. I use 50/50 everclear and distilled water.

You can buy the beans in bulk on Amazon, it’s not even in the same league as getting fresh beans that haven’t been shipped but it’s light years beyond anything you’re going to buy that comes in a bottle.

You can buy a pound of beans for like $100 and with that You can spoil yourself rotten for the rest of your days or start churning out amazing gifts in 9 months.

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.

Too many people feel bored and are getting screwed so it’s easy for them to mistake who they are in this diagram.

High. How’re you?