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A wrongful death lawsuit against Walt Disney Parks and Resorts is serving as a reminder to consumers of the importance of reading the fine print when signing up for a streaming service or smartphone app. The lawsuit was filed by the family of a New York woman who died after eating at a restaurant in Disney Springs, an outdoor dining, shopping and entertainment complex in Florida owned by Disney. Disney is arguing that the lawsuit should be dropped because the plaintiff, the woman’s husband, once signed up for a trial subscription of the Disney+ streaming service. That service, they argue, includes a subscriber agreement in which the customer agrees to settle any lawsuits against Disney out of court through arbitration. Such agreements, which customers quickly consent to by clicking “I agree” when downloading an app or a streaming service, are so stacked against the consumer that it’s often difficult to offer good legal advice, said John Davisson, director of litigation at the Electronic Privacy Information Center. “The consumer is presented with this contract and really doesn’t have an opportunity to negotiate the terms,”Davisson said. “It’s yes or no.”

Breaking news: Tork belongs in the majors.

Exactly. Industry can’t effectively price gouge unless they either collude to do so, or else they are allowed to consolidate through acquisition. And government officials too often look the other way because the payoffs they get from all of it is just so sweet. That’s a bipartisan problem that, frankly, I’m not sure has any solution that is not preceded by some cataclysm.

She’s going after the money. If that’s not Trumpian, nothing is.

This is what we are fighting against, and what MAGA is leaning into. We are a nation rooted in superstitious mythology. Please make it stop.

I think it does matter because the cult has already maxed out. Practically nobody is rushing toward it; if anything, the cult is probably losing ten people for every one it gains. Where it matters is that Trump needs non-cult members to vote for him so he can win (assuming a free and fair election), and with every utterance from his mouth, he is losing any chance of getting those people aboard. Because if you vote for Trump, you’re going to have to defend your support for his ideas, even if you believe they are not your ideas.

That was me!

We had papers delivered right to our house by Mr. Schornak because we were basically Paperboy Central. All seven of us kids were Free Press deliverers, plus a couple other kids in the neighborhood would come to our house to get their papers. This went on from 1969 into the early 80s. To pay for the papers, we would get our money order and put it in the envelope and in the mailbox Sunday morning for him to pick up when he delivered the Sunday papers.

I used to "collect for the Free Press" (my door call) on Thursday and Friday nights, then clean up the rest Saturday morning. I too had 40-ish customers, and as I remember, I did not take my book with me. I tried to keep it all in my head. I'm sure one or two got by me each week. I also used to be paid by some in these new-customer coupons, like 10¢ and 25¢, and for my first year I would throw them out, because nobody told me they were like cash that I could submit with my money order from Arnold's Drugs to pay for my week's papers. Call me stupid if you want, but what I was was ignorant, I was eleven years old, and I actually got yelled at for it as though I was supposed to just know by osmosis what they were for. When I started it was $1.05 daily/Sunday, and I got tipped a nickel or a dime by maybe two-thirds of people, maybe 20¢ by a handful of them, and stiffed by the rest. But once the cost went up to $1.25 daily/Sunday, I started getting stiffed by two-thirds of people. End of the year I would either get a dollar for my Christmas tip, or the change from two dollars, and I still got stiffed by at least a third of my customers even then. People in Warren just sucked.

"Fresh things to eat"? Obviously, your Kroger differs significantly from mine, where half the produce is left rotting past the due date and a quarter of the shelves are left empty while they await the disposition of the Albertson's merger.

It wasn’t as cold for you News boys working after 230pm with the sun overhead as it was for us Free Press boys working at 530am before the sun came up in the southeast.

That’s because the rest of the world isn’t people with lives like ours. The rest of the world is riches and spoils to exploit.

It’s not something you can structure an entire campaign around. It’s one of those things that works for a news cycle or two, to help build your story foundation, and then you have to move on.

The media will tire of Trump when you and I and everyone else stop driving revenue into their coffers by clicking on Trump headlines.

Trump world says: you had four years to do this so why did you wait until now? Hmmmmm??

True as this may have been at that time, it was also a very different, basically wild-west country in the early to mid-19th century, where everyone was expected to come here and make his own way on his own, take what he could get on his own, which almost guaranteed violence. There was no police or otherwise public safety regime at all. We are now a country of ubiquitous law and order, and vast majority people subsume their baser instincts to law and order, and that goes double for strangers in a strange land.

How long before Trump claims that Walmart is lowering prices because they believe he will be elected, and then they'll rasie prices back up if Kamala wins? 1 big thing: Doling out discounts By Nathan Bomey Illustration: Brendan Lynch/Axios Price cuts are back. Why it matters: The inflation crisis made discounts hard to come by, but that era is fading fast. State of play: Price cuts and value offerings are piling up in a variety of areas, including: Retail: Walmart, a bellwether discounter, said today it has cut prices on 7,200 products in a bid to maintain what it calls "competitive price gaps" with its rivals. Other retailers that have recently announced price cuts include Target, Walgreens, Aldi and Ikea. Autos: Dealers doled out an average of $3,383 per vehicle in discounts in July, up 59.1% from a year ago, according to Cox Automotive's Kelley Blue Book. That was the highest level of incentives in more than three years. Restaurants: The fast-food business has pivoted from price hikes to meal deals, aiming to lure back customers. Burger King, Starbucks and McDonald's have all announced value meals. The big picture: It's not just lower-income consumers who are looking for deals. Higher-income shoppers are becoming increasingly price sensitive, too. Walmart raised its full-year sales forecast today, crediting wealthier household customers with fueling market share gains. Yes, but: Price cuts won't wipe out the substantial increases that have taken place over the last few years. For example, the Consumer Price Index released yesterday showed that food at home is up 26.9% over the last five years. The bottom line: Consumers are regaining an edge. Axios' Kelly Tyko contributed to this story.

Loss of freedoms in exchange for slightly cheaper food in some cases? Yes, please.

Let Kamala be Kamala!

lol "Let Trump be Trump". You know, because the guy we've been seeing lately has been just too reserved. He needs to take the gloves off and go! That's what undecideds and swing voters want: maxed-out rage and grievance 24/7. This'll end well. 🤣 Also, how do you like the personal message to J.D. in that tweet? Nice touch ... 💀

Glad you noticed I mentioned striking a balance.

If there were a game where you had to take a drink every time Andy Dirks called the split-finger pitch a “splitty”, I’d be dead of alcohol poisoning by now.

These are funny and I’m getting a chuckle out of them, and slappies may slap me for this, but I do hope they don’t go so far that voters on the margins, such as undecideds and fence-sitters and RINOs and Never Trumpers, decide that the Harris Walz campaign is as unserious as the Trump campaign and just stay home. I’m hoping they strike the right balance here.

Does it have to be “or”? Can it not be “and”?