Hemotep
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It's been happening more frequently lately, so it wouldn't surprise me. But also I'm sure some of it is just laziness or over-commiting to too many things and just phoning it in. Especially in some of those big labs.
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A Broward County jury has awarded a Florida family $800,000 in a civil lawsuit against McDonald’s and one of its franchisees after a toddler was burned by hot chicken nuggets.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/19/business/chicken-mcnuggets-jury-award/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/19/business/chicken-mcnuggets-jury-award/index.html
Nee Lewman
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I mean McDonalds should know better at this point. I remember being outraged at the coffee litigation when it happened in the 90s but a couple of years ago I saw a documentary about how and why that case happened and McDonalds had done some stupid shit and been warned. It is was so much worse than the media made it out to be.
Texas’ abortion restrictions – some of the strictest in the country – may be fueling a sudden spike in infant mortality as women are forced to carry nonviable pregnancies to term.
Some 2,200 infants died in Texas in 2022 – an increase of 227 deaths, or 11.5%, over the previous year, according to preliminary infant mortality data CNN obtained through a public records request. Infant deaths caused by severe genetic and birth defects rose by 21.6%. That spike reversed a nearly decade-long decline. Between 2014 and 2021, infant deaths had fallen by nearly 15%.
Nee Lewman
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I’m not sure this data is going to move the pro-lifers. They’ll spin it as infant murders decreased by 100% or something.
Since we can’t compete with other countries as far as life expectancies or other good health statistics, I guess we are going to go for number one in the world for infant mortality.
Dtknuckles
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Yea this can easily happen to people in jail that were wrongly convicted.
Hemotep
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Fuck this country.
www.yahoo.com
Nebraska woman charged with disposing of fetus following illegal abortion sentenced to 90 days in jail
A woman accused of having an illegal abortion in Nebraska when she was 17 and disposing of the fetus was sentenced Thursday to 90 days in jail following a plea agreement.
mdmost
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His "War on Woke" is all he has. He has no policies. He just has grievance politics. That's why he's failing miserably. I hate Donald Trump but I hope Trump inflicts as much pain as possible on him before it's all over.
Americans Want the Supreme Court to Stop Behaving Like This — Slate
Yes, even Republicans.
apple.news
No surprise here
Here is a surprising labor law trend that is making its rounds through different states. Mostly Red States.
States are looking to lower the legal age to bartend / sell and serve alcohol. 7 states have already passed laws allowing just that so far since 2021. Iowa, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, New Mexico and Alabama.
Wisconsin is currently trying to pass a law that would change age from 18 to 14 and Idaho from 19 to 17.
I wonder what the driving factor is to allow kids to serve achol is? Is it about money and cheap labor? Also, that's a lot of responsibility with legal repercussions if they are caught serving alcohol to minors not to mention the fact of having to put them in a position to deny a sale.
States are looking to lower the legal age to bartend / sell and serve alcohol. 7 states have already passed laws allowing just that so far since 2021. Iowa, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, New Mexico and Alabama.
Wisconsin is currently trying to pass a law that would change age from 18 to 14 and Idaho from 19 to 17.
I wonder what the driving factor is to allow kids to serve achol is? Is it about money and cheap labor? Also, that's a lot of responsibility with legal repercussions if they are caught serving alcohol to minors not to mention the fact of having to put them in a position to deny a sale.
Cheap labor. It’s very difficult to find people to bartend when wages aren’t keeping up with inflation. They haven’t really thought of the repercussions of allowing minors access to alcohol, because this is a knee jerk reaction to staffing issues—since there are more laws attempting to drop protections for working minors—and it likely won’t be addressed until something bad happens. However, this bad thing will be punished as a “individual choice” issue instead of the systemic issue they are creating.
Turbo
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It’s truly eye opening when you learn the real facts of that case, how serious those burns were and how flagrant McDonald’s fault was. If anything that case should be the poster child for why lawsuits against large corporations exist and not the opposite.
A music festival in Malaysia has been canceled after the lead singer of British band The 1975 Matty Healy slammed the country’s anti-LGBTQ laws and kissed a bandmate on stage.
The on-stage incident at the Good Vibes Festival in Kuala Lumpur on Friday night prompted the country’s Ministry of Communications to cancel the rest of the three-day event.
Homosexual acts are illegal in Malaysia and punishable by fines and up to 20 years in prison.
In an expletive-laden speech during the band’s headline performance on Friday, captured in a video shared widely on social media, Healy said, “I do not see the point of inviting The 1975 to a country and then telling us who we can have sex with.”
“Unfortunately, you don’t get a set of loads of uplifting songs because I’m f***ing furious. And that’s not fair on you, because you’re not representative of your government. You are young people, and I’m sure a lot of you are gay and progressive,” he said addressing the audience. Healy added that the band considered canceling the show but decided against it to not disappoint the fans.
“If you want to invite me here to do a show, you can f*** off. I’ll take your money, you can ban me, but I’ve done this before and it doesn’t feel good,” Healy says in the video before bassist Ross MacDonald walks up to him and kisses him on stage.
Nee Lewman
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I was almost like good for him, maybe he isn't a worthless piece of shit and then he fucked it all with this nonsense:
It was a legitimate surprise when the conservative-dominated US Supreme Court ordered Alabama’s conservative-dominated state government last month to redraw its congressional map and include either a second majority-Black congressional district or something quite close to it.
It may be equally surprising that Alabama appears to have said no.
Instead of simply complying with the Supreme Court’s order in the Allen v. Milligan case, Alabama’s legislature redrew the congressional map to lower the Black voting-age population in the existing Democratic seat held by Rep. Terri Sewell from about 55% to just over 50% and then increased a second district’s Black population percentage to about 40%.
The new map approved by Alabama’s legislature and governor will go before federal courts for review in August, so this story is far from over.
And it will combine with fights over congressional maps in other states, especially New York, in such a way that control of the House could very much be at stake.
What the actual fuck
The Fed just raised interest rates again by a quarter point today. Interest rates are currently at a 22 year high.
Why do we make the act of recycling so difficult that even when we attempt to recycling there is a high probability that the material ends up in a landfill anyways.
Whether it's something stupid like other countries are no longer accepting our shipments to recycle since we don't do it here in the United States, thus forcing us to put it all in a land fill.
Or stupid bureaucratic laws.
Just heard a news story about a family owned recycling business in California who has all 8 family members arrested for defrauding the state of California and face years in jail for recycling illegally imported cans from the state of Arizona. Why? The recycling companies don't get paid for the raw material in California, they get paid out of the states rebate fund (bottle deposits). This means recycling plants/business in California can not recycle cans that were sold in a different state. Doing so is illegal.
This family run business has been accused of defrauding the state of California out of $7.6 Million over a 8 month period by recycling cans that came from Arizona. Under California law, it's not legal for them to process / recycle these cans. And if they happen to get cans from other states they need put them in the landfill rather than recycle.
Whether it's something stupid like other countries are no longer accepting our shipments to recycle since we don't do it here in the United States, thus forcing us to put it all in a land fill.
Or stupid bureaucratic laws.
Just heard a news story about a family owned recycling business in California who has all 8 family members arrested for defrauding the state of California and face years in jail for recycling illegally imported cans from the state of Arizona. Why? The recycling companies don't get paid for the raw material in California, they get paid out of the states rebate fund (bottle deposits). This means recycling plants/business in California can not recycle cans that were sold in a different state. Doing so is illegal.
This family run business has been accused of defrauding the state of California out of $7.6 Million over a 8 month period by recycling cans that came from Arizona. Under California law, it's not legal for them to process / recycle these cans. And if they happen to get cans from other states they need put them in the landfill rather than recycle.
Even crazier, I'm hearing people who live in California say that the state defrauds them when it comes to bottle deposits.
They have closed many bottle redemption locations and have placed limits on how many bottles you can redeem at once at full redemption value. They are instead, trying to push people into bulk redemption where you only get a fraction of the redemption value per can.
They have closed many bottle redemption locations and have placed limits on how many bottles you can redeem at once at full redemption value. They are instead, trying to push people into bulk redemption where you only get a fraction of the redemption value per can.