Tinidril

After End Game they stopped being Marvel movies and started being Disney movies.

Nobody has forgotten the stutter.

Agreed. It's pretty telling that none of these corporations would accept an open ended arbitration clause in their dealings with any other corporation.

I could see very specific cases where arbitration makes sense with a very well defined scope. "Parties agree that disputes over widget quality related to this agreement are to be adjudicated by the Widget Quality Counsel". The courts are not always the best arbiters for every dispute.

However, what we have now is every corporation finding ways to slide arbitration clauses of global scope into every transaction. That is always bullshit.

Of the two, I think the Democratic consultants do more damage.

There are very few people in the world that are more worthless than Democratic political consultants.

That's a pretty generous summation of the problems with Biden's debate performance. It was also hardly a one-off. Every time Biden appears it's a coin flip for which Biden shows up, which is why he appears so infrequently.

You are absolutely right about how Trump's bullshit gets largely ignored by the press though.

Arbitration contracts, especially in click-through licenses, are always bullshit and should be universally thrown out.

It was pro-Israel protesters that rioted and pro-Palestine/anti-genocide protesters that paid the price.

Means testing is almost always a bad approach, but neoliberals love it. Verifying eligibility often adds administrative overhead costs that overwhelm the savings for the program. It also creates income traps where people are effectively punished for doing better, and such effects get worse over time as the eligibility requirements often don't get adjusted for inflation. Universal benefit programs are also harder for the right wing to vilify and terminate.

Progressive taxation policies are a much better way to address inequality issues.

Doesn't seem all that smart to me. Does the company offer an API to the device so consumers can write their own "server"? No, I'm sure they have it locked down behind some proprietary encryption scheme so that anyone who tries can be charged with violating the digital millennium copywrite act.