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In their defense, there has been an awful lot going on. The EFF reported on the expiration in the brief window when there were no authorizations: https://www.

In their defense, there has been an awful lot going on. The EFF reported on the expiration in the brief window when there were no authorizations: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/04/yes-section-215-expired-now-what https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/04/yes-section-215-expire... It's being reintroduced as the equally doublespeak "USA FREEDOM Reauthorization Act": https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/6172 https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/6172 I'd be interested to know if any behavior was changed during the few weeks that the permissions were not covered by either law.

adventured 5y ago
To be fair, they do have to reauthorize the Freedom Unmitigated Bill for Appropriations Reconciliation Defense act every year or we're not allowed to leave our homes. Those F35-Liberty planes aren't going to pay for themselves.
- vmception 5y ago
  this is the second backronym pun I've seen today, whats going on? rate-limit edit: I don't think Baader Meinhoff applies when I already know what a backcronym is and also have to extrapolate the first letter of all the words to get the joke. Was there a show or pop culture thing that has people leaning towards this joke? If anything, this could be a perceptive bias where I am forcing meaning into something, but a FUBAR Defense Act is exactly what that poster was going for. Who knows about the other one I saw earlier.
  - vlovich123 5y ago
    Likely just Baader–Meinhof phenomenon[1]. Interestingly, I think that phenomenon ignores the superset of when you actually had seen something multiple times before but for whatever reason started noticing the frequency more frequently (eg you’ve seen backronym’s before, but you’re happening but your brain has decided to notice them more because maybe you saw them in quicker succession than you’re used to). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion

adventured 5y ago

To be fair, they do have to reauthorize the Freedom Unmitigated Bill for Appropriations Reconciliation Defense act every year or we're not allowed to leave our homes. Those F35-Liberty planes aren't going to pay for themselves.

vmception 5y ago
this is the second backronym pun I've seen today, whats going on? rate-limit edit: I don't think Baader Meinhoff applies when I already know what a backcronym is and also have to extrapolate the first letter of all the words to get the joke. Was there a show or pop culture thing that has people leaning towards this joke? If anything, this could be a perceptive bias where I am forcing meaning into something, but a FUBAR Defense Act is exactly what that poster was going for. Who knows about the other one I saw earlier.
- vlovich123 5y ago
  Likely just Baader–Meinhof phenomenon[1]. Interestingly, I think that phenomenon ignores the superset of when you actually had seen something multiple times before but for whatever reason started noticing the frequency more frequently (eg you’ve seen backronym’s before, but you’re happening but your brain has decided to notice them more because maybe you saw them in quicker succession than you’re used to). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion