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It seems so simple
If you're really attached to that bed and TV placement you could also just use mirrors? Idk seems easier
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It seems so simple
If you're really attached to that bed and TV placement you could also just use mirrors? Idk seems easier
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So close. Yet so far.
Honestly my first thought was that his name in Italian translates to "pizza dance", which is also quite funny
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You could say, I am an odd person!
But... Both of these functions are odd?
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How are you brewing?
I've really been enjoying my Bialetti brikka pot. It turns out that the trick with that pot is that you shouldn't fill up the water reservoir all the way up to the valve, because then it overheats easily.
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Denying same-sex marriage is unconstitutional, a Japanese high court says
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I believe this is because Japan works under a civil law system, which means that case law is subordinate to written law. This means that courts have much less power to impose their decisions upon the executive. Thus I think it is because the Japanese legislature never passed a law which explicitly allows for same sex marriage, the executive is allowed to deny these unions.
However this is based on a very surface level understanding of legal systems and I am by no means an expert. I find the language surrounding legal systems to be very confusing.
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TIL Happy Holidays literally means Happy Holy Day
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According to Wikipedia St Valentine was a bishop in modern day Italy about 300 years before Islam even formed. So while that is a nice story I don't think it's true.
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Lemmy is good right now because we're all lurkers
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Is there a reason why I should care if my account is active or not? Genuine question I just made my account two days ago
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Uncooperative
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People called Romans they go the house?
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Someone posted a can of beans saying Lemmy will upvote anything. But will Lemmy upvote SPAM?
I fucking love spam
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Randy Pitchford predicted Epic Games Store would kill off Steam 5 years ago. Now, the internet is mocking him as Borderlands 4 comes crawling back to Steam.
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Oh yes I see it now. You posted it right after my response. And I do agree with what you say there. I however do believe that the destinction between a true monopoly and a dominant market position such as steam has is essentially irrelevant in this context. In a market economy you would expect very few (or even no ? ) true monopolies except those run by the state. And not being a true monopoly doesn't stop dominant firms from being able exploit monopolistic powers.
However my point is that steam doesn't exploit it's market position while it could definitely choose to. On that we seem to agree I think
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Randy Pitchford predicted Epic Games Store would kill off Steam 5 years ago. Now, the internet is mocking him as Borderlands 4 comes crawling back to Steam.
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Steam is pretty much a monopoly because I expect something like 90% of pc game sales go through them. The thing is that being a monopoly is not necessarily bad, or illegal. It is abusing your monopolistic power to exploit consumers that is. Steam doesn't generally seem to do that
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"January" in European languages - Jakub Marian
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It could be Low German?
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How are you brewing?
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The brikka is just a very specific pot which has a rubber pressure valve in the stem to somewhat approach espresso-like brewing. I just noticed that when I don't fill it up all the way the coffee tasted better and less burnt.