United Airlines upgrading to 4K TVs, still won't give you leg room

Some models of Airbus A321s and Boeing 757s will be seeing Panasonic 4K TVs in seatbacks along with USB-C charging ports and Bluetooth, so you can use your own headphones and have your devices fully juiced-up when you land. Which is pretty cool, or will be starting in 2025. I imagine eventually all of the non-budget airlines will be doing such upgrades.

Personally, except for the one time I flew trans-Atlantic, I don't use the in-flight entertainment unless it has mapping. I read books on my iPad and sleep. But hey, entertain yourself as you wish.

https://www.androidheadlines.com/2023/06/united-airlines-adding-4k-oled-tvs-for-in-flight-entertainment.html

For 2020 robocalls claiming voters would get mandatory vaccinations, violators get $5M fines!

AND COSMIC JUSTICE!

The robocalls targets black zip codes in cities with large black populations, with a black voice actress reading the following script:

Hi, this is Tamika Taylor from Project 1599, the civil rights organization founded by Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl. Mail-in voting sounds great, but did you know that if you vote by mail, your personal information will be part of a public database that will be used by police departments to track down old warrants and be used by credit card companies to collect outstanding debts? The CDC is even pushing to use records for mail-in voting to track people for mandatory vaccines. Don't be finessed into giving your private information to the man, stay safe and beware of vote by mail.

The robocalls violated several calls because they targeted cell phones and went up against anti-KKK laws. And the people behind them got nailed bigly.

But here's the best part. As a part of their supervised community service - they "...were ordered to work 500 hours of community service." The ordered community service consisted of registering voters in minority and low-income communities, the FCC said."

Oh, the irony! And the glee!

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/06/robocalls-claiming-voters-would-get-mandatory-vaccines-result-in-5m-fine/

A couple of good Supreme Court decisions today

Of course the big news is someone got indicted on a few counts of mishandling documents, but that's hardly worth talking about when we can discuss dog chew toys and nursing homes!

Jack Daniels sued a toy maker that makes parody dog chew toys, including one that largely duplicated the appearance of the very famous Jack Daniels' whiskey bottle, calling it Bad Spaniels. Jack Daniels makes lots of merchandise and claimed that the toy diminished their brand. A lower court ruled in favor of the toy maker, claiming that it was their First Amendment right under protected parody ruling. The Supreme Court, in a surprisingly unanimous ruling, said 'Nuh uh!' and overturned the lower court, citing Aqua's Barbie Girl song. I'm not kidding. Barbie Girl was quoted IN COURT.

The nursing home ruling is really good! The family of a patient sued the nursing home that a husband was in, saying that they doped him up on psychotropics, making him unable to walk or feed himself, then tried to transfer him to a state facility. The home claimed that the family couldn't sue to enforce his rights, the court ruled 7-2 'Uh-huh, they can', with - guess who? - Thomas and Alito dissenting. It's the last few paragraphs of the Jack Daniels article.

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/08/1181012952/supreme-court-jack-daniels-decision