• geese_feces [comrade/them, love/loves]
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    6 months ago

    https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/549/text?s=1&r=29

    Defending Against Imitations and Replacements of Yogurt, milk, and cheese to Promote Regular Intake of Dairy Everyday

    • Crowtee_Robot [he/him]
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      6 months ago

      You can't just skip entire words for the sake of an acronym! I'm irrationally angry at this!

      • Egon [they/them]
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        6 months ago

        The WWE used to have an event called the ARMBAR which was short for Andre Roussimoff Memorial BAttle Royal

        • Mindfury [he/him]
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          6 months ago

          nah, complete reddit backronym: it was only ever officially called the "Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal", people just wanted to work it into ARMBAR because of Jericho's list of 1004 holds

          • Egon [they/them]
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            6 months ago

            I'm pretty sure WWE themselves shortened it to "ARMBAR" several times, but looking for it now you're right, I can't find a place they've done that.

      • DragonBallZinn [he/him]
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        6 months ago

        Like it's doubly stupid because it gives up the ghost that the only reason it's being discussed is that the people making this bill have an axe to grind against vegan alternatives, and "promote regular intake of dairy"? For most of the world, that's zero.

        I'm tired of hearing sob stories about dairy company owners and how they need "our help" but it's suddenly "handouts are for the weak" when I suggest that maybe we should look into making housing or education or medicine or even food NOT luxury goods.

    • Beaver [he/him]
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      6 months ago

      Congressional staffers must have degrees in backronyming.

      • GinAndJuche
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        6 months ago

        It’s one of the things chat gpt is quite good at. I wouldn’t be surprised if a staffer hasn’t figured that out as well

    • MayoPete [he/him, comrade/them]
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      6 months ago

      Doing anything about abortion, trans rights or stopping a FUCKING GENOCIDE?!?

      Nah, gotta rename "Oak Milk" to "Oak Milk-like product"

      • Yurt_Owl
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        6 months ago

        Milk-like is my favourite game genre

      • DragonBallZinn [he/him]
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        6 months ago

        maybe-later-kiddo: Sorry, but doing the right thing makes the WhItE wOrKiNg ClAsS uncomfortable and will cost us big time on election day!

      • barrbaric [he/him]
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        6 months ago

        Noooo please let me keep my acronyms, I want to force every researcher to spend hours working through backronyms so they can give a cool name to their new type of wart removal cream or whatever.