rant: A few months ago I got a flyer that I can now get Verizon 5G at my home. I read that as fiber and got so excited I texted my neighbor barely a mile away that finally after all these years I can get fiber to the home just like him. Imagine my anger when I realized that's not fiber dummy that's cell wireless.
What pisses me off is when the pentagon says "we don't know, but don't worry everything having to do with the security of the U.S. is perfectly fine!" Don't lie to me.
Arbitration seems like how courts-martials were in the early days... completely lopsided in favor of the State, except it's corporations now. Either we get rid of arbitration (which I don't think is gonna happen) or there needs to be regulations to bring it under control (whatever that may be, i have no idea myself).
Almost every service I use has, over time, switched me over to require the use of arbitration.
> Almost every service I use has, over time, switched me over to require the use of arbitration.
Many employers (even big-name tech companies) will not employ you unless you agree to forced arbitration for everything, including all labor law violations but for sexual misconduct charges. [0] It's really cool how fine the courts and Congresscritters are with the fact that many of the labor regulations and protections folks literally fought and died for a century ago have been quietly taken away from us.
[0] The carveout for sexual misconduct charges is to serve as defense against Twitter mobs and also to meet the Federal "Well, it doesn't cover literally every aspect of labor law, so it's clearly narrow in scope and targeted, therefor it's not an illegal [restraint]!" interpretation of case law.
Except now, with forum shopping & 5th district courts, companies are getting everything they asked for.
And the activist court will bend over backwards to make new pro-business pro-partisan (imo anti-human) precedent whenever they can. Hardly a symbol of partisan restraint, the Supreme Court has sent words down to the 5th, for example, in pretty bold terms. https://www.reuters.com/legal/musks-x-seeks-steer-lawsuits-c...
Isn’t arbitration a result of legislation? Why haven’t various Congress of both parties or a mix undone it? Or changed its regulations to make it more fair? I don’t think this is something for the courts to decide as much as legislators personally
Do they include crypto as part of their "digital industry" pollution metric? I mean it's all warm & fuzzy to want leaner, more efficient websites, but there ain't nothing like cranking hashes 24/7 @100%cpus.
I live in an area that observes DST and since most devices does the changeover automatically I've never noticed the switch. Only notice when other people start moaning about it. Wonder if it affects certain people more than others.
It deeply affects me. I’ve lived in places that have it and currently live where there is no DST. If my state implemented it I would try to negotiate with my workplace to keep the same actual hours so my schedule doesn’t change, if they refused I would consider moving, job or state.
Buyer beware with "lifetime**" guarantees. The asterisks and fine print often are enlightening.
Scammers always have an out too... go out of business and setup shop under a different name. I remember hearing a local tire shop offering some type of "tires for life" deal. They went "out of business" and the owners started a new shop.
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