• DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com
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      Let’s not forget the No Child Left Behind act which was a massive corporate property tax cut which elemininated funding for public schools which caused many across USA to shut down… Including ones in my own district, who went in a $27mil debt within like 2 years of that passing, and our school treasury complelty disappearing in shame.

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        Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography And Marketing

        Amazing. They actually integrated the hyphen into the acronym. But alas…

        The CAN-SPAM Act is occasionally referred to by critics as the “You-Can-Spam” Act because the bill fails to prohibit many types of e-mail spam and preempts some state laws that would otherwise have provided victims with practical means of redress.

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          Exactly where the arguable triple entendre comes in!

          • “Can spam” as in “put spam in the garbage can”.
          • “Can Spam” as in the literal canned meat product Spam that Internet spam derives its name from.
          • And now the third: “can spam” as in “you’re allowed to spam because this law sucks”.
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            OK, now I get it. My brain was too lazy to even try to decipher “triple entendre”.

            I’m still amazed by the hyphen. Is there a profession of literal wordsmith that comes up with such things? Probably got fired by DOGE.