Isn't this an insurrection? Trying to disrupt an important function of Our Democracy? Also, the fire alarm could be expected to cause terror, so this is terrorism.
Stop using acronyms. No one knows what you're referring to when you do that. If you need to be that concise then you need to spend more time crafting a better thread title.
Yeah, you're right. So many people in my Twitter feed have been spamming about 'THE CONTINUING RESOLUTION' that I thought everyone must know. But I think it works pretty well even without knowing what it is, as the more relevant word is 'vote'.
It's a sore spot for me. Many years ago when I took my first job as a federal contractor I tried to maintain a notebook to keep track of all the acronyms I kept coming across. After completely filling that notebook I gave up and developed an intense hatred for acronyms. Exceptions are allowed for things that have where the acronym has supplanted the actual phrase it represents, like IP address or DNS, but if it isn't at that level then you really should just spell things out rather than assuming people know what you're referencing.
That's not even the tip of the iceberg that is the federal government's acronym fetish. It's genuinely upsetting how many things get turned into acronyms. I am not being even slightly hyperbolic when I say I filled an entire notebook.
My shop writing guide included instruction to spell it out once, then list the acronym, and use the acronym (or initialism) afterwards. I don't know if it was something the Department of Defense (DoD), the United States Marine Corps (USMC), or something specific to how our customers wanted our product presented, but it seemed like a good system. You never have to leave the document you're reading to find out what an acronym stands for, and you still get most of the space savings.
Oh, and if you were going to use a term once, don't bother with the acronym at all (broken for illustrative purposes above).
The reason for them is because specialized technical fields need them to communicate complex ideas quickly. Especially if you have to use the same few terms over and over again.
Management types adopted this because they think they sound smart like the techies when they spout off a mouthful of acronyms. Bonus points if you have to ask what an acronym means and they can act smug that they knew it and you didn't.
Kind of fun to watch the blurbs progress. It went from "I didn't pull the alarm - you're being silly/racist!" to, after the video was released, "I pulled the alarm but I didn't know what it would do!".
Note: He's a former school principle.
Next evolution by the media is "He pulled the alarm and here's why it was the right thing to do. So brave. Please clap."
Oh, and isn't it nice how doing anything that blacks ever did is 'cultural appropriation', but it is never 'cultural appropriation' when blacks take the names of other groups, in this case Arabic?
Isn't this an insurrection? Trying to disrupt an important function of Our Democracy? Also, the fire alarm could be expected to cause terror, so this is terrorism.
28 years in prison sounds about right, no?
Only 28 years for attacking our democracy?
550 years, like that coup plotter Fronald Drumpf, is more like it.
The democrats' ranks are filled with those of varying disposability. So far Bowman seems pretty disposable.
But I don't actually believe, beyond this initial show, he will pay any price.
Stop using acronyms. No one knows what you're referring to when you do that. If you need to be that concise then you need to spend more time crafting a better thread title.
Yeah, you're right. So many people in my Twitter feed have been spamming about 'THE CONTINUING RESOLUTION' that I thought everyone must know. But I think it works pretty well even without knowing what it is, as the more relevant word is 'vote'.
It's a sore spot for me. Many years ago when I took my first job as a federal contractor I tried to maintain a notebook to keep track of all the acronyms I kept coming across. After completely filling that notebook I gave up and developed an intense hatred for acronyms. Exceptions are allowed for things that have where the acronym has supplanted the actual phrase it represents, like IP address or DNS, but if it isn't at that level then you really should just spell things out rather than assuming people know what you're referencing.
Can't imagine why, with all the noble acronyms: FBI, CIA, NSA, LGBTP
That's not even the tip of the iceberg that is the federal government's acronym fetish. It's genuinely upsetting how many things get turned into acronyms. I am not being even slightly hyperbolic when I say I filled an entire notebook.
Yeah, when I started EOD during my first week (before I was on TDY), the SPOs all joined our group to work on our SOPs for the PDB (nt).
Got a good chuckle from this, even if I could only decipher half of it. You know what's up.
gg
My shop writing guide included instruction to spell it out once, then list the acronym, and use the acronym (or initialism) afterwards. I don't know if it was something the Department of Defense (DoD), the United States Marine Corps (USMC), or something specific to how our customers wanted our product presented, but it seemed like a good system. You never have to leave the document you're reading to find out what an acronym stands for, and you still get most of the space savings.
Oh, and if you were going to use a term once, don't bother with the acronym at all (broken for illustrative purposes above).
The reason for them is because specialized technical fields need them to communicate complex ideas quickly. Especially if you have to use the same few terms over and over again.
Management types adopted this because they think they sound smart like the techies when they spout off a mouthful of acronyms. Bonus points if you have to ask what an acronym means and they can act smug that they knew it and you didn't.
A university I went to had three separate Mates, two of which were building no where near each other.
I thought it was critical race 😂
Who even uses Twitter?
I do so I can call people gay commies, and see who embraces the label so I can add them to my enemies list.
Kind of fun to watch the blurbs progress. It went from "I didn't pull the alarm - you're being silly/racist!" to, after the video was released, "I pulled the alarm but I didn't know what it would do!".
Note: He's a former school principle.
Next evolution by the media is "He pulled the alarm and here's why it was the right thing to do. So brave. Please clap."
Stunning and brave black boldness.
To be fair, he had no way to know. He can't hear the chirping.
Our speech is violence, their violence is speech, etc
"I didn't know pulling the fire alarm would set off the fire alarm"
... what?
The proper answer to hearing some below room temperature IQ take like this is to hit them as hard as you possibly can, and then immediately say:
I didn't know punching someone in the face would mean that their face would get punched.
He might think it's a lever to silence the ceiling birds
Jamal might be telling the truth.
Sir, he just a dumb nigga
apparently he used to be a school principal
so he's either retarded or a liar. or both.
Former school principal?
Yeah, he's probably a complete dumb fuck.
We can't live in the same society with these people.
But.. He attempted to pull the fire alarm, because it would disrupt the vote.. therefore knowing what a fire alarm does?
Why do we put up with this?
Oh, and isn't it nice how doing anything that blacks ever did is 'cultural appropriation', but it is never 'cultural appropriation' when blacks take the names of other groups, in this case Arabic?
Lol they should start doing it before every vote then.
put him in the gulag with the j6 protestors.
and why were those people in mitch's office the other day not arrested either?
isn't the continuing resolution something you do basically just hours before the deadline? almost got into another crisis if so.
Matt Gaetz claimed a while back that CRs have been used for federal budgets for over a decade.
Yes, they delayed the crisis by a month or so.
Do they think him being so thoroughly incompetent would make this better somehow?