Whether or not they ruled correctly is up to lawyers and judges more knowledgeable than I am to decide. I was just clarifying that the headline seems imply a completely different conclusion than the court actually made.

Right. This was an entirely non-issue from the start. The FBI said “we’re not sure if he was actually hit by a bullet or shrapnel” becuase they were investigating and hadn’t confirmed anything. But that distinction does not really matter in the first place. He was shot at, he was struck and injured, a bystander died, and the shooter was killed. All of the rest of it are just details, particulars that don’t change any of those facts. The FBI was speaking plainly about the facts at the time and Trump threw a hissy fit about it for no reason. All of that is par for the course and, frankly, boring. Then the media repeated, amplified and generated more outrage over a huge nothing-burger that made for a catchy headline. Find some real news to write about, Jesus.

These headlines are so misleading. The court is not saying you can advertise traditional wings as boneless, or that it can be a piece of meat with intentional bones in it. They’re saying that the term “boneless” refers to the style of wing (i.e. not a wing at all, but chopped up breast meat), a term that differentiates them from traditional bone-in wings. And the term is not a legally binding guarantee that no accidental bones are found in the wings.

That may still sound ridiculous, until you realize that it is not uncommon at all for a small piece of rib bone to remain attached to chicken breasts when butchered. I find them from time to time when I buy chicken breasts at the grocery store. If that bone isn’t caught and removed either in the processing of the whole chicken or in the final processing of the chicken breasts into boneless wings, that piece of bone CAN end up in the boneless wings your are served. In fact, from what i read, that sounds like exactly what happened in this case. What the court said is basically that restaurants are not liable for the presence of these little rib bones based solely on the fact that they use the correct and common term for the style of wings that happens to be “boneless”.

“Well the pope may be French, but Jesus is English. You’re on!”

You made a meme using one of my all time favorite movies. If I knew nothing else about you, that would be enough for my upvote.

I have a slightly different experience. I worked in IT in my job before this one and I could totally fix my own problem except they have my workstation locked down behind software restrictions, firewalls and admin access that I’m not granted so that I can’t perform the fairly simple fix.

So instead, I call support, wait 20 minutes on hold, and get tier 1 support. I explain the issue and all of the steps I’ve already taken and what actually needs to be done, and that I only need them to do it simply because they have admin access and I don’t. They then tell me, step by step, to do everything that I already said I had done while they mouth breathe at me on the phone. Then, when those things shockingly don’t fix the problem when done all over again a second time, they escalate it to teir 2 and tell me I will get a call back.

So I sit on my thumb for 30 minutes to several hours. Then get a call back from a nerd who recognizes a fellow nerd as I explain literally everything all over again (because teir 1’s notes are a single 5 word sentence like “user says the thing broke”) and says “oh, yeah, you’re right. We just need to do that. Here let me remote in and do that real quick. Done.” And now my problem is fixed. Thanks, Austin, you’re the best. Please can I have your direct line for the future, so I can skip this other nonsense? No? I get it, but damn.

I’m gonna make some tooth brushes in two marginally different styles and sell one in rainbow and various LGBT flag patterns for the left and sell the other in camo, thin blue line flag and gun metal grey patterns for the right. Market the hell out of both of them based solely on being ideologically polarized to those each side hates. Milk everyone on both sides of their cash. And when they finally inevitably find out that they’re both produced by the same company, I’ll gamify it, posting weekly sales totals for each line and promising 20% of the profits at the end of the year get donated the a non-profit supported by the winning side. Let them fight each other by paying me. Also, no matter how overwhelming one side was actually winning, my posts would always indicate that it is a really close race, so that if just a few more people bought them, it might make a big difference.

That’s all bullshit, I’d never do that because I’m not evil. But dozens of Libertarian sociopaths are taking notes right now.

I’m not saying it made sense in the context. The dude is a grade A moron. But he might have been using “co-ed” to mean “young female student,” a common phrasing.

Also could have been saying “co-ed”? If it was “colored” he definitely stumbled over his words or uwu’d it into “cowowed”

It sounded like “co-ed” to me.

Sounded like “co-ed” to me. If it was meant to be “colored” he uwu’d it into “cowowed”.

How else do you think they hire bands for their biannual child blood sacrifice parties?

Yeah, it came back from hiatus after George Floyd was killed and the police were attacking protestors, particularly the NYPD. They (rightfully) thought it would be in bad taste to make more copoganda at that time.

Right. My implication was that those things are sometimes or even often wrong, but they don’t have to be.

Right and a few other captains came in that ruined the culture of the whole precinct

If you just watch it as if this is the one precinct in all of New York with good cops thanks to the command of a fundamentally progressive but strong leader like Holt, you can maintain both your indictment of the greater NYPD and police in general while also seeing how progressive reforms and leadership can actually make a change for the positive in your community. There’s nothing fundamentally wrong with the law, with enforcing said law or with those who chose to enforce it, so long as law enforcement is held to account and not allowed to be overwhelmed with violent conservatives with authoritarian boners.

Is this what dyslexia feels like?

It’s always projection. A GOP accusation is almost admission at this point

Since when has precedent mattered to them? Or the current SCOTUS?

There is and they don’t