Ehhhh. There is a little more nuance to “thing that caused harm to you” - if my grocery store decides to stop selling some company’s granola bar due to poor sales, they’re probably not obligated to continue stocking it even if discontinuing it would cause harm to the granola bar producer. I would imagine there’s something in Valve’s terms that doesn’t obligate them to be a dev’s retailer any more than that developer is required to let Valve sell their product. And there is probably some clause in the contract between Valve and the payment processors.

As for the devs going against the payment processors… I have a hard time seeing a legal avenue there. It’s harder when there’s no direct relationship between the devs and payment processors and each party was likely exercising their rights under their individual agreements.

My bigger point is that suing for going against the desires of the users isn’t really a thing while trying not to get too deep into the weeds.

maybe [sue] for abusing their power as an oligopoly or going against the desire of their users?

You can’t just sue for [bad thing], at least not successfully. You can sue for [illegal* thing] or [thing that caused harm to you]. Lawsuits are designed to make you “whole” after suffering “damages” - sometimes you have to work really hard to prove the value of your damages if it’s not directly money-related (for example, emotional distress or pain and suffering)

The things you mention are also quite vague. What exactly constitutes an oligopoly? Laws have to give some definition to that when making something illegal or whatever, otherwise a court can essentially throw the whole law out for being so vague it can’t really be followed.

What’s more, when you talk about censorship or going against the desire of their users - what about the freedom for a business (any business) to conduct themselves as they want? If my customers all want chocolate cake, but one day I decide I can’t support my cocoa suppliers anymore and can’t afford ones that operate more ethically, should they be able to sue me for taking that off my menu?

* even illegal is kind of split into different areas, civil and criminal. You can sue if your landlord withheld your security deposit without giving an itemized list, because the law requires it in some states. You can’t sue someone for using a fake ID to buy a beer, because that’s not a civil matter and as a regular person you have no skin in the game

Basically, she knows (or was told) that she can only win in a district with constituents as batshit crazy as she is. In a state that has managed to collectively vote blue in other races, especially when there’s a runoff, she’ll go the way of Kelly Loeffler

I was just thinking about that silly interchange when I read that title!

“improper public comments” […] in a closed-door judicial conference

And releasing photoshopped knuckle tattoos to allege MS13 membership in a press release is what now?

Hmm. Iowa lists the home county on their license plates, so I’m going to say that’s a partially different state. But mostly, touché.

Between two states, and they chose a letter/number combination that looks like any other plate? 🤔

Hah, my sympathies. I’m in York for the night, enroute to Denver

Hope you enjoyed the festival! My in-laws are sorta from the area so I’ve been going every year for almost 20 years

I’m… NT-passing? 😅

How high are you right now?

Which ones?

This is America, where that’s considered a mid-sized SUV and pretty much everybody has one. But honestly I’m happy to see different colors here - pretty much every car these days is black, white, gray, or silver.

The adult grilled cheese is cheaper!

A little summary can go a long way for this guy

Though his career was initially met with little fanfare in the United States, he found success in South Africa, Australia (touring the country twice in his earlier career), and New Zealand. Unbeknownst to him for decades, his music grew extremely successful and influential in South Africa, where he is believed to have sold more records than Elvis Presley.[1][2] Information about him was scarce, and it was incorrectly rumored there that he had died by suicide shortly after releasing his second album.[3]

In the 1990s, determined South African fans managed to find and contact Rodriguez, which led to an unexpected revival of his musical career. This was told in the 2012 Academy Award-winning documentary film Searching for Sugar Man and helped give Rodriguez a measure of fame in his home country.

SGI (if you really can’t figure it out, stable genius intelligence)

Oklahoma

Of fucking course

Computer vibence

I dunno, were those Boeing crashes caused by a war-induced parts shortage?

Normally I’m not a fan of AI slop, but it feels like a perfect fit here