Initialisms are hard

May 12, 2025 7:27 AM

I love talking genetics with people who are as ignorant about it as I am

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I just really want to know what he thinks the D and A stand for.

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D*** & A** prolly

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Maybe ShadowRadar is just a fan of the writing team of Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning? (Collectively referred to as DnA, at least when talking about their Legion run, though I remember it also applying to Guardians of the Galaxy, and probably got used for other things they worked on together.)

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I’m pretty sure it’s pronounced “dunna”

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Drums 'n' bAss

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"Oh I'm so much fucking smarter than him." Gets common expression wrong in a way that makes no grammatical sense. Invokes God as if it's more than a fictional character..... Face it, you're both idiots.

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God ain't gonna 'safe' you either.

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I was hoping that was ironic.

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Verb
safe (third-person singular simple present safes, present participle safing, simple past and past participle safed)

(transitive) To make something safe.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 3

Love how I got downvoted for providing a literal definition of the word "safe" as a verb. Gonna double down some more?

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Benefit of the doubt, F and V are right next to each other on the keyboard, could easily be an innocent typo.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

maybe they heard "godspeed" and think "god safe" "It Just Makes Sense." (Pro-tip: if you don't know, but find yourself thinking something "just makes sense," you are very probably wrong. people that don't know look things up. the ones that aren't dumb, anyway.)

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Every time I get pedantic, I misspell something. I like to think it's the universe's way of saying, "Stay humble, dick."

1 year ago | Likes 43 Dislikes 1

Could be the universe but I think the idea that the brain is insulting itself is way funnier. Good advice in any way :)

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Yeah, sometimes my fingers work faster than my brian ........

1 year ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Dicks and assholes

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He's thinking of TnA

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I can see it

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What are you doing Step-DNA?

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No this is the gay version we use on Grindr, DnA. Similar principle. Use your imagination.

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Daisies and Angels, right?

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Comedy show? Gives off those vibes.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Titsnucleic Acid

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TitsNippleic Acid

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Drum & Ass

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Safe us.

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long as it ain't DEI rabblerabblerabble

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IT STANDS FOR "AND"?!? Aw shit.

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"nucleic"

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Look at their username, my dude.

1 year ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

oh hey thanks !!

1 year ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

If you wanted to join the DNC would you settle for a D&C?

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

dick & ass

1 year ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Dungeons Nucleic Dragons

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"DNA" is "AND" backwards. Checkmate atheists

1 year ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

This guy's DNF. Dumb As Fuck

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DNF - Dandified YUM

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

D&F

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JOE AN TONEY!!

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Dumb ‘n fuck

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7/10 - perfect response

1 year ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

5/7 even better

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Omg I forgot it's 5/7 sigh.

1 year ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

You get points for trying 👍

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Mad props to @Op for knowing the difference between an acronym and an initialism. Respect.

1 year ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I made a point of checking 😉

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Impressive you even knew to check. Most people call everything an acronym and leave it at that. It's obscure enough that it's not worth it to correct anyone but I try my best to use them appropriately and I definitely notice when someone else does!

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Dungeons and Asscheeks

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

On this round of "trolling or actually stupid"...

1 year ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Thank you for using the word initialism where the word acronym is inappropriate.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I think he's confused with T&A

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

D&A is a thing but it’s not anything to do with science. Well i mean i am assuming Dick and Ass is the gay version of Tits and Ass.

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I think you know perfectly well.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I've gotta tell my girlfriend we're gay now because I love her D&A. The family is not gonna take this well.

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I'm so tired of stupid people.

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I'm pretty sure I have made this exact joke at one point or another. You will have a much better life if you make the decision to presume that funny mistakes like this are just someone being funny until proven otherwise

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I'm tired of them making their stupid everyone else's problem. They can be stupid on their own time.

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"Remember, when you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It is only painful for others. The same applies when you are stupid"

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I'm tired of stupid being a badge of honour

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I'm tired of them electing idiots mostly

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It's the confidence in which they say unabashedly incorrect shit and then gaslight you like you're the one who doesn't know what you're talking about. It's why I genuinely go from 0-100 immediately with Republican fuck heads.

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Girl on my trivia team wrote marianas trench, I said it's mariana. She said well everyone says marianas so I'm right. Was mad at me, like I'm being the asshole for correcting her literally during trivia where we're supposed to know the facts.

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Stop taking smart people for granite.

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Awe, dog pause are so cute.

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I have a name you know

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I super duper hate looking stupid so I have learned to google fucking *everything* before I make an assertion.

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and while you're still googling, the stupid lies travel around the world.

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D&A: Dumb and asshole

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I have several scientist friends working in research-labs and science institutes who pretty much only interact with simmilar-minded people and are always surprised when I make such a statement ... I guess they live a happier life ....

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

we're making more every day, so get used to it

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Stupid people you can teach. I'm tired of people that do dumb things and then look at you like you are the crazy one for pointing it out, like throwing a cigarette butt into your yard while you are talking to them, or use the same wet spoon to get coffee and sugar and leave crap in BOTH containers, or sit down in one of your chair by "dropping full weight" and cracking the base then saying "you have shitty chairs". Fuck off back to your house and don't come back thanks.

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I had a guy from work one night walking back from a bar, we reached my house and he had another km or so to get to his, and I said see you later, and apparently he had to pee so he unzipped and started doing it against my fence. I pointed out, LOUDLY, that my garage ~5 meters away, had a toilet NEXT TO IT, so he looked at me weird, then moved about a meter, and started pissing against my neighbors fence.

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God safe us from Dihydrogen monoxide

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Didn't God flood us with that stuff?

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i am adficted… NOT EVEN ONCE KIDS

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DNA = Dungeons And Aragons

1 year ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

dungeons and acid, of course

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Drum 'n Ass

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DnD, DnA, what's the big difference, right?

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Don't forget DoA! The epic cinematic masterpiece of 2006

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Dragons & Arenas?

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Dungeons and Alligators.

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A Creole TTRPG

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/s /s /s /s /s

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DnA is an earlier version... the alpha test...
see, DnA is Alpha. DnB is beta. DnC is Candidate for release, and DnD is... Deployed or Delivered or Downloadable

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I thought DnB was Drum'n'Bass?

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shhh, don't ruin the joke, it has to follow from A being Alpha test

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I enjoyed the beta phase. Great for grooving.

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Deoxyribonucleic acid

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Did you just safe us?

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For a second there I was really worried that I wouldn't find this comment!

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You mean deoxyribonucleic AND acid.

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That’s science talk, and big words, and ain’t in the bible.

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Franks nucleic beans. Mac nucleic cheese. Kum nucleic Go.

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It’s because DA was already taken

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It’s Deoxyribonucleic “AND” acid

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Deoxyribonucleic *and* acid 😌

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Deoxyribo AND acid, dumb dumb! S/

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The S/, if unintional just made this 1000x better

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I came here to write the same thing. Well done. Have an upvote.

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Nah, And acids are what Tums sells /s

1 year ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

so you're saying I can trip balls if I lick a microdot of the stuff?

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Technically yes, if properly coded. For example, mRNA vaccines generate a protein in the cell. You can in principle make this a psychoactive chemical instead of a viral protein.

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yeah but that's RNA not DNA

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You can do the same with DNA, it's just efficiency may vary, and you need to go through additional steps in the cell meaning a different design.

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they are functionally the same, the second helix doesn't contain any more information, it's just better sealed for life time freshness

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in many ways sure, but i've never heard of mDNA and if we're talking about getting high off licking a microdot, getting high off mRNA isn't the same thing as getting high off mDNA, even if it's functionally the same, because one's one, the other's the other.
A 500cc scooter is functionally the same as a 500cc motorcycle, but they're still different.

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