I reached out to the person who made the PR and they said it was someone else's code they had inadvertently pulled in from another branch or something like that.
there is an instance where both values could be false making the statement true, or both statements being true and making the statement true, but that first statement could be null?
I am going to ask her about this code, I am curious. I am sure she has a reason for what she did here, and I love learning new things. and I am trying to learn the code base anyway.