Re:Crypto foundation demanded employees endorse suicide pledge
by qoez on Monday November 09, 2026 @11:07AM
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I feel like it has to be a joke, but I wonder if such a clear "joke" would make other things in the contract possible to be invalidated in court given that if one assumes that part is a joke how can one tell what other parts are also supposed to be or not to be a farce in the contract.
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Re:Crypto foundation demanded employees endorse suicide pledge
by eqmvii on Monday November 09, 2026 @11:25AM
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nah, contracts sometimes even explicitly call out a severability or savings clause (where if one part is deemed illegal or unenforceable, it shouldn't impact the rest)
Contract law is surprisingly reasonable, typically focused on enforcing what people expect to be enforced and not standing on weird arcane rituals
Re:Crypto foundation demanded employees endorse suicide pledge
by Ylpertnodi on Monday November 09, 2026 @12:46PM
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...like suicide.
Re:Crypto foundation demanded employees endorse suicide pledge
by notahacker on Monday November 09, 2026 @03:14PM
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tbf, severability clauses tend to be designed for *the rest of the contract is still valid even if clause 3b is ruled to be incompatible with state law or inconsiste with other agreements" not "the rest of the contract is still valid even if a prominent part of it so fundamentally unserious people could reasonably believe the wider document was a mission statement or joke rather than a contract".
I suspect a good lawyer could get someone out of a "breach of contract" suit by arguing their client reasonably believed that what they had signed was not actually a contract since it was decorated like a DnD manual and included an obligation to commit seppuku...