No idea, that's my thoughts is the publicity will cost them more than just settling upfront with favourable amount for the spouse.

Maybe they are just hoping that small chance it goes through will offset many future liability bills. Many of us have signed up or will sign up for a Disney + sub and that basically means you e-signing for any product could waive your rights to sue in court for the other products or services that company carries. Could you imagine, it removes so much liability risk for these big companies.

white liberal woman is ready to wage a jihad against infidels

https://globalnews.ca/news/10702476/charlotte-kates-iran-tv/

A Vancouver activist facing a police hate speech investigation has surfaced in Iran, where she praised Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel.

Charlotte Kates of the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network appeared recently on Iranian state television; she spoke about being arrested in Vancouver and referred to Western democracy as a “lie.”

Vancouver police arrested Kates, 44, and initiated their investigation in April after she appeared at a Pro-Palestinian demonstration at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

This post was edited by duffman316 on Aug 17 2024 09:06am

Whatever for?
Disney has long abandoned any pretence of producing quality. As have most production companies, as far as I can tell.

The Trump cult's hatred of CNN is kind of bizarre when MSNBC is much more biased. CNN has contributors they pay who represent the cult perspective... MSNBC doesn't do that. And then there's Fox, which caters to the cult so much they had to pay 787 million dollars to Dominion because of 2020 election lies.

Charlotte Kates, the pro-Palestinian activist under investigation for hate speech, has been given an award by Iran. The human rights award is raising eyebrows given Iran's numerous international violations of human rights.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/grocery-prices-1.7295621

"Economics professor says No Frills store's decision to lock up cheese speaks to broader societal issues"

More and more were seeing this at grocery stores in various sections. There's always been petty theft especially around thinks like razor heads, condoms, etc. but i'd say this certainly is a sign of the times. By that I mean both a sign that crime goes vastly unpunished here and costs are through the roof so why not just take, there's little enforcement so stores will have to take action themselves.

This post was edited by SBD on Aug 19 2024 10:06am

"Broader societal issues" - like not punishing people for committing crimes?

Canada, car theft capital of the world now. Its just such minimal repercussions in the Western World right now. Unless you're posting mean online comments in which case, straight to jail. Car theft, believe it or not, no jail.

It used to be you were a fool for engaging in petty theft (poor risk-reward ratio), now it's the opposite