• cybermass@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    Fuck it, why make sure that words mean anything! Just allow everyone to lie and be dishonest all the time with no repercussions. I’m sure society will do just fine.

    • Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I guess once someone chokes to death on the bone of a boneless wing, the case will be revisited. Maybe… Maybe then it’ll be fixed… If we’re lucky.

          • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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            3 months ago

            Not just the courts, to do basically anything that has a cost they can continuously brush off as unnecess.

            The neighborhood around a local middle school had been asking for a crossing light in front of the school because it’s on a busy 4 lane arterial road. Kept getting pushed off by government officials that it wasn’t necessary. Crossing guards were enough. Which is fine, during the school day, but the school facilities like the various sports courts and fields are open for public use outside school hours.

            Took a 14 year old student being killed walking to school by a speeding vehicle on the way to school early before the crossing guards were there.

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      3 months ago

      Frankly, the real issue here is that “boneless wings” is a bullshit term in the first place. They’re just chicken nuggets, people!

      • FireTower@lemmy.worldOP
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        3 months ago

        This is an implied warranty of merchantability issue. They said boneless and it had a bone. In your watermelon example if you were hospitalized it’d be a valid claim to make.

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          3 months ago

          Noted. I’ll see you in the ER after I go in for an existential breakdown. If words don’t mean what they say they mean, what does anything mean? See a shrink, get labeled with PTSD, then I can sue the shit out of faceless corporate shitbags.

          The new American dream.