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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Shame they changed it, I think it was kinda cute Microsoft named it after their execs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I'll just leave this reference on copper nanotubes right here.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11433-013-5387-8

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago

Idk it seems like an apt description of a.i. and how it literally has spread into every tech.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There was an empty box of these in my childhood home until my parents moved in the mid-00s.

Aydes

They dulled your taste buds so food would be less tempting. They got fairly popular in the 70s after the US decided that maybe putting amphetamines in OTC diet pills wasn't a great idea, and people were looking for other magic weightloss products.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

South park had an episode about a guy who advocated to give people aides to help them with getting fit and organize their life. Except it sounded like the dude went around saying he wants to give aids to children

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

That guy was Jared, the Subway spokesperson. That episode aged poorly, or really presciently, depending on your perspective.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Lots of misunderstandings possible with this selection of acronyms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSAM

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

This is even better than the project I managed to name UTI before my manager noticed.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Don't tell people you're going to ISIS while on a flight.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I recently saw the THE as an abbreviation. Yes, THE. Terrible to read but made for funny sentences.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

My mom used to work for a company whose acronym was ASS. Also her boss was cheap and didn’t want to pay for a sign that had the full name.

Yeap.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

As an outsider to the scientific community, I wanted to know more about whatever the heck Parafilm is. I’ve definitely been educated 😆

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Correction, he should absolutely call it that.