In the end all of the same to me. Different tools to a different means in a diffetent time.
Mormons where the tool of manifest destiny and only was allowed to exist or go as far as they did because they where useful to the state. And in the end they reshaped themselves to fit the needs of the state, and cleaned themselves up.
It was probably just the Mormons that ruined that for you.
I’m sure in a different time line where the Mormons where not so controversial and vitial in their role of stealing land from mexico and the natives then it might not of been so much of a bad thing.
But I think most of our laws against poly stem from the the feud between the united States and the Mormons. There was some drama about redrawing boundary lines or the Mormons wanted to succeed and the state/feds made poly illegal as one of many ways they targeted the Mormons. I think being poly was precieved as slavery. Which under the Mormons it probably was essentially slavery to be fair.
Ive still yet to find one I trust to not retain logs, accepts mail in cash/crypto, abd is around only 5 USD a month.
Its not that im unwilling to change just have not seen anyone mention a good alternative yet. I suppose I could look it up, but everyone claims to be private and in my opinion need to be raided fruitlessly to be proven otherwise.
You can just use a different distro and benifit off all the work that went into developing steam by using the open source tools they threw money at or directly helped along.
I can pirate games, buy from gog, use a different distro, run the game through lutris/bottles with proton ge, and never open steam, yet they still kind of help bring the community there.
Sense the steam deck came out there have been so many github projects for linux and gaming just due to the fact people feel like they are apart of the community. Steam tinkers launcher has been amazing and I wish I had that 8 years ago when I barely knew how to make a wineprefix.
And that shits happening all over again and we are going to get a lot of improvements with fex, and waydroid with the soon release of the steam frame. Fex and waydroid will be crutial for someone trying to fork android, or make a Linux based arch64 os. The work is already benifiting lots of people. Sadly gamesir seems to be the only one taking advantage of this and they’re rather shitty of a company.
Say what you will of steam being a monopoly, and still being a evil corperation I’m all for it. But the world is not so black and white and sometimes you gotta side with the bad guys because at this moment it benifits you more. At any time steam can start forcing digital ID to play mature games, or start doing weird shit.
I can’t say the same for companies like nvidia or epic who are now trying to weasle in. Who are completely closed source and don’t have anything that directly helps the community at large. Steam at least gives you the tools to make your own open source steam deck/steam machine competitor because if despite all odds you make a popular consolex most people are still going to end up putting steam on it. That dynamic can change at any moment, but in the now I’m allowed to pick my favorite corperation and willfully ignore a lot of glaring issues, because to me the benifit outways the down sides. If I’m going to get fucked I at least want it to be comfortable, maybe missionary with some mutual kissing. I don’t want someone just raw dogging me doggy style rough, and I don’t think it’s that wrong to have a preference.
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Despite all the criticism against them that I agree with I still personally like then and click in their videos every now and then.
What I appreciate the most is the are constantly pushing Linux often even if they are misguided, and they have a large audience of rather normal people.
I do think they are positively contributing to linuxs growth, and helps normalize devices like the steam deck.
We need more casual stupid users for Linux to ever hit the year of the desktop.
Probably something that is so basic or integrated into the distros I use that I forget about it because every time I use it, it just works.
I’m american so my perspective always gets warped into telling the story as if we are the world.
But yeah I agree with your point. More or less it was a fun snippet into history and relevant law.
It’s will all relevant because thats around the civil war and slavery. polygamy was kind of thrown into the same camp as slavery as I brought up. And to make it not from the perspective about the united states, much of the rest of the world was going through a similar experience and asking if slavery was nessisary. I can’t tell you who took the lead but I can tell you we certainly where not the first. So I guess maybe it wasn’t all because the Mormons, but who knows maybe it had a influence, the states could of still had it legalized.