Well I find it a bit ironic to invoke the “free market” while simultaneously asserting they should not be free to choose who they go to market with. Isn’t the point of the “free market” that if Visa or Mastercard won’t facilitate the needs of the market, someone else will?
A Wikipedia scan by a layman (me) seems to say that is something that happened after their divergence from a common ancestor.
The dog’s similarity to the grey wolf is the result of substantial dog-into-wolf gene flow,[3] with the modern grey wolf being the dog’s nearest living relative.
The dog is a wolf-like canid.[7][8][9] The genetic divergence between the dog’s ancestor and modern wolves occurred between 20,000 and 40,000 years ago, just before or during the Last Glacial Maximum[2][1] (20,000–27,000 years ago). This timespan represents the upper time-limit for the commencement of domestication because it is the time of divergence but not the time of domestication, which occurred later.
Arguing that corporate “beliefs” (image management) and interests take priority over societal order is ridiculous.
Good thing I’m not arguing that.
Power and water are public utilities (as is internet, in some parts of the world but not all). Payment processing is not. If you want to argue that it should be, we’d likely agree.
Come on, that’s a bit of a stawman because I’m not in any way suggesting that businesses should be able to do whatever they like.
As I understand it yes, but that’s why I said it was an oversimplification in my post.
Well as long as they are independent businesses, why shouldn’t they?
If your argument seems to be “they are too crucial to be independent businesses,” I don’t think we’d disagree too much, but the fact is that they are right now.
I’m genuinely confused about what point you are trying to make.
Edited to add, why doesn’t someone who understands the point better than I do try to elucidate? Instead of just downvoting me for stating that I didn’t understand. Like what does corporate religion mean? I’m so confused.
These payment processors are businesses. They provide a service. Like valve does. It seems to me like you’re making an argument for valve, but not for these other businesses which only differ in the service they provide.
If your point is “our society is too dependant on a small selection of payment processors and we need better options,” that’s a separate discussion and one I don’t think I’d disagree with.
Why shouldn’t the payment processors get a say in the payments they process? Illegal or not, why should they be forced to process payments that facilitate things against their beliefs?
Steam could pursue other payment processing possibilities instead of acquiescing to their demands.
Kind of cuts both ways though, doesn’t it? The reverse of this argument is saying that the payment processors must work with Valve no matter what they host. Agree it disagree with them, but don’t the payment processors get a say in what they do or do not want to process?
Who is going to stop him?
I don’t mind these games existing, but I’m also not going to be too sad if they leave steam, ngl.
The point is that the killswitch doesn’t seem to do much, at least on Linux in my experience. I’ve never had it work.
Was this pc running Linux by any chance? I was in exact same scenario a few weeks ago. But only after I switched to Linux. Before that, never had any issues with protonvpn (or any VPN) and qbittorrent.
No problems since I did the same thing you did. Set qbittorrent to use only the VPN connection.
QR codes are incredible.
Edited to add, wow I didn’t realize liking qr codes was a hot take. I think they are fascinating tech!
This is not the appropriate community for this post. I encourage you to keep writing and sharing that work, but please do so in the appropriate places.
I genuinely have not seen a site that doesn’t work on Firefox in years. Probably five or more. Can you think of an example off the top of your head?
Fair enough. I mostly just meant to highlight that it’s kinda used for anything on the internet lately.
If you mean the games in question, well they aren’t obligated and they’ve clearly chosen they don’t care to bother anymore.