Arbitration clauses should be illegal
this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2024
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I can understand that some activities or services are inherently risky and you shouldn’t be allowed to sue when you’re made aware of the risks - for example, suing a climbing gear company because it breaks when you don’t know how to use it and you become paralyzed.
But no sane world should allow someone to be exempt from accountability after they OPENLY acknowledge that they might be negligent, and that negligence may cause your death, just because you sign a piece of paper
I don’t know how solid a contract would have to be to protect against negligence especially if it is in some excess of standard practice. For a lot of stuff there are liability waivers but even those aren’t bulletproof
NAL, Contracts can't offer full protection from liability, that is a layman myth. What it can do is insulate the party from some level of liability. This is usually calculated as a percentage (the amount of which is determined in different regions different ways through years of previous judgements). Basically, it can reduce your percentage of liability, which in different states can offer different things. In some states, it can mitigate claimed damages, in others it can 'nearly' void liability, but it depends on how 'cause' is defined (in some states it has to be 100% in others 50-50 is enough to seek damages).
This feels like a scenario where the probably right wing judge would want to side with the corporation but their argument is so insulting he's forced to do the right thing. ALAB episode is gonna be a banger.
ALAB?
Cool! Looks very interesting, do you have an episode which you'd recommend a new listener be their first?
I've never actually listened to it I just knew what they were referencing. Might give it a go tomorrow because my podcast trough has been getting low this week.
Are you in need of podcast recommendations? If so let me know what type you like
Not who you responded to, but what’s your most radical rec (rad as in actual extremists speaking into a mic)? I’m tired of pods made by libs. I want to feel like a liberal listening to chapo for the first time.
I sadly dont know any really radical stuff, but Blowback is pretty up there.
There's also Eat The Rich where at least one of the hosts used to be houseless, which has made them madder than most https://archive.org/details/Ep-001-Waltons-Re-release.m4a they're sort of like if Behind The Bastards wasn't made by a fed.
Ghost stories for the end of the world is also relatively leftist for the most time, but it won't get you feeling like you're a lib sadly, and they have some libs on too. There's also not a lot of radicalism in it.
None of these are truly radical though, but it's the best I've got. There's also the Chapo series Hell of Presidents and Hell on Earth that are pretty leftist, though not radical.
Its not surprising though, most radical leftists are busy doing other stuff rather than producing podcasts. Or they're wanted by the state, so they can't really make them
Blowback is a far of mine, so our tastes definitely align to a degree.
Ghost stories is a guilty pleasure, they get far too woo woo for me to take them seriously. Comrades nonetheless.
eat the rich is new to me, I’ll def check em out. Thanks for the rec!
Since you didn’t say trillbillies, if you aren’t onto them yet they rule. Definitely walking the edge of legal speech when they get going.
Oh yeah I forgot to mention the Trillbillies! They're good, but I'm just not a big fan of the format, it gets too talky at times. All the podcasts do, but for some reason the Trillbillies are just too much to me. I think it feels like there's way too many inside jokes and interests that it just becomes too dense for me as an outsider
Revolutionary Left Radio?
I really need to listen to more of that. I checked out the Kim Stanley Robinson interview and it was great.
I think they're in the same feed, but Guerilla History is a good one if you like RevLeft and want a history focused show cohosted by Breht.
Edited out the long TWP plug after scrolling down 
My listen on release pods are QAA. Chapo and Some Even More News, second string are usually history stuff like the Dollop and Respect the Dead, if you got anything similar to Blowback I'd be real interested.
anything similar to Blowback
Kind of a leap but: the Anti Empire Project with Justin Podur has a few recurring history series covering a world civilizations overview, colonization and the scramble for Africa, and the politics in Europe in the lead up to WW1 iirc. The hosts are cool and just some big old nerd ass academics (compliment). It's less well produced than blowback for sure, but they do a lot of research for each episode usually and can get really in depth on a topic.
Will give it a spin for sure. 
There’s a sanctions series that’s good. Otherwise just pick one based on what you’re interested in, there aren’t actually that many episodes
Isn't there some law about how terms and conditions don't actually matter? I remember reading somewhere that anything out of ordinary stuff in a contract isn't considered valid, because we can't expect laypeople to read pages and pages of legalistic mumbo jumbo, especially not when they would have to do it so often for all the products we all have to have (near every time something updates, you get new ToS)
In this case the arbitration clause is likely part of that ordinary stuff in a contract, Disney is just misusing it to a wild degree
If we made :disney-cool: would that get hexbear sued?
Nah, just use steamboat willie
They know it's brazen but it works often enough that they do it anyway, especially versus the average person with no lawyer money. Bummer for them that they murdered a doctor lol
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This is just ordinary capitalism with humanism paint peeling off.
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When reached out for comment the woman could not be found as she has been taken, under the ToS, to be part of the Live Action Cast as part of the Disney Bio Imagineer customer experience program.
its happening!
Wtf?