Comment on Epic lays out Google’s alleged “bribe and block” monopoly strategy in trial opening

• monk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The initialism is decades older than any iDevice. Go complain to people on USENET from before you were born.

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  • bassomitron@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    While true, it is a pretty bad acronym. IANAL on mobile is more cumbersome to write than, “I’m no lawyer/I’m not a lawyer,” and it’s safe to say the majority of folks using social media are on mobile.

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    • hedgehog@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      On mobile, the initialism takes a third or less as much time for me vs typing it out.

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      • bassomitron@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You must type it out a lot then, my autocorrect doesn’t pick it up.

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    • BURN@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not really though. It’s a caps lock + 5 letters. It’s still faster and less cumbersome than a multiple word phrase

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    • Jamie@jamie.moe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What if you want to tell someone that you’re not a lawyer, but you are into anal? Then it’s just efficient.

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• Zorque@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Sounds like you need to take your sex toy out, it seems to be chafing you.

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• hedgehog@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If you don’t want to see the initialism anymore, you could submit a PR to your Lemmy app that allows users like yourself to automatically expand it and similar initialisms and other shorthands in other people’s comments (preferably in a slightly different color so that it’s clear what happened when an word is erroneously or incorrectly expanded).

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