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

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

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.

But... Both of these functions are odd?

If you're really attached to that bed and TV placement you could also just use mirrors? Idk seems easier

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.

People called Romans they go the house?

I fucking love spam

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.

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.

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