They're overpriced to keep people from drinking more but also I agree with you.

The Sony policy is much more shady.

It's not.

There's a lot more in the agreement but this is the start of the licensing part.

Valve hereby grants, and you accept, a non-exclusive license and right, to use the Content and Services for your personal, non-commercial use (except where commercial use is expressly allowed herein or in the applicable Subscription Terms). This license ends upon termination of (a) this Agreement or (b) a Subscription that includes the license. The Content and Services are licensed, not sold. Your license confers no title or ownership in the Content and Services. To make use of the Content and Services, you must have a Steam Account and you may be required to be running the Steam client and maintaining a connection to the Internet.

(Emphasis mine)

Nah see my other comment. You don't own shit on Steam. In fact the agreement specifically says you may need to use the client and be connected to the Internet in order to even play your games. Like if steam shut down tomorrow and just stopped existing it's very possible they could legally just give you the middle finger and say sucks for you.

IANAL and there's more to it than just the contract you have with Valve as far as the law goes but the way the contract is written you have no ownership of anything on the platform.

The right to unhealthy food and choosing to slowly die of poor diet and lack of exercise - yeah that's fine, freedom and so forth. I'm all for letting people imbibe whatever drugs they want, including alcohol, as long as they're being responsible about it. You wanna grab some heroin and shoot up and pass out on your couch after a hard day at work. Go for it. Idgaf.

That, however, is very different than food being literally poisonous in a way that will acutely affect someone. Either through actual poisons or by being full of deadly and dangerous bacteria that will kill you.

That is unacceptable. It's not part of some slippery slope of limiting personal choice; it's a baseline part of a healthy and happy society we should all be striving to create.

Personally, I would also advocate for a gigantic sugar tax on all levels of production, refinement and sale. Starting at the crops and through to the sodas. Additionally, I would create a percentage based tax on manufacturers of processed foods based on a "healthiness index.". Healthy food you're paying no tax at all. Twinkies - yeah that's getting taxed the most. I do think there's a place for the state to intervene in ways to push the food supply towards being healthier and one of those is making foods full of sugar and trans fats expensive.

People should 100% be able to afford a treat, that's a whole other socioeconomic argument, but it's far too convenient and easy to get food bad for you as your main source of daily calories.

Anyways that's a far ways off from the original point which is that when you buy food at the store it should not contain poison or deadly bacteria.

It shouldn't be though. It really really really should not be a partisan issue or even an issue at all to think people deserve access to healthy and safe food.

Anon could be a girl, I don't think they specified their gender. I mean, if this wasn't fake and gay, it would be weird for a small girl to get a giant man as a roommate anyways but y'know could happen.

Did your car come with a manual you can read? I'd give it a once over if I were you, sometimes you'll find unexpected things about your car.

That's because it'd be redundant. /S just in case you think I'm actually mysoginistic trash

Also... why have I been unbanned?

Maybe they decided you learned your lesson.

Lots of people make stuff that has their last name. I mean I probably wouldn't call someone's child stuff normally but names get given to other conscious beings you create. What's the difference between the monster or a child?

Ooh thanks for teaching me a new word. I'm the same. It sucks how often I'm right about bad stuff that I think is going to happen. Cursed.

I'm not the commenter you replied to but I read their view more along these lines. That no large online video provider gives a good experience and while this is more competition for YouTube it's kind of like comparing two piles of shit - both stink.

Which idk never used it but yeah China has its own brand of suck compared with the West. Still, I agree it'd be good to have more cultural exchange - that's the sort of thing that over time leads to better relations between nation states and decreases the likelihood of war.

You know the older I get, the lesson of "there are no good guys" really keeps getting hammered home. This is just a reminder of that.

I still kinda long for and mourn the childhood and teenage years of the person I wish that I had been but wasn’t.

I think every single human on the planet feels that way. Suppose it's just part of growing up, the eternal trap we exist in where we know of the past and future but can only live in the present even in our minds.

I feel like I could have been a better person too, I was kind of an asshole with a short temper - maybe I still am an asshole - but the important thing is trying to improve. It's good you're working towards that, I'm still trying too. Besides, I think it'd be a real bummer if we couldn't try to improve ourselves, so hopefully humans as a whole can keep marching towards a better future.

I'm pretty sure that's only specific states or locales in the USA with liability laws for over serving. But also good luck to the prosecution proving a single bartender or establishment was the reason a person was overly intoxicated. In my non lawyer opinion a simple defense of "idk if she drank more before or after showing up or was on any drugs" would probably be more than enough to give reasonable doubt. But IANAL so maybe I'm off base.

I've never actually heard of a case of that being prosecuted in Ohio (where I live and we have laws about overserving customers). I'm sure if I look it up I could find something but it just seems like the sort of thing an AG would have difficulty getting charges to stick.

It's China they very much don't give a flying fuck about international copyright law, at least from what I've seen. Maybe I'm wrong about that.

What about this guy?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fang_Zheng

I'm pretty sure multiple eyewitness accounts corroborate the use of armored vehicles, tanks or APCs, running people over?

It's got an interesting history, go check it out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghaiing

Origin is basically it was a place where a lot of dudes got forced into naval service. It happened in many different port cities, it's just that the public conscious kind of just settled on Shanghai as where it happened a lot. Plus for some time Shanghai literally had a thing where British people there were not subject to local laws so as one can imagine it probably led to some less scrupulous folks taking advantage of that.

Idk I haven't really done a ton of research or anything this is all very surface level. Bad vibes indeed, getting knocked out by whatever drugs and waking up on a boat finding out you're part of the crew sounds like a pretty bad time.

I get it. There's a lot of propaganda out there (that goes both ways) about China.

For better or worse they're going to lead the charge into the 2100s, this is the dawn of the new Chinese century and the USA is busy handing them the reins as we implode our country.

I think China is a little friendlier overall in their foreign relations and while freedom of expression is important I would not say their society as a whole is better or worse than all the rest of the world. It feels like sometimes, from what I've heard and seen, China is "more" free in certain aspects compared to the USA (and definitely less free in others)

They're extra confrontational - that handle is satirical for sure.

Wow I genuinely had no idea there were that many kinds of those little bag clippy thingies. Or that people would take the time to be that invested in a joke. Maybe it's not a joke for someone idk but it seems like one to me.