Technology ConnectionsEvery time somebody abbreviates mother-in-law to MIL, I have to disengage my car nerd brain because that parses first to me as "Malfunction Indicator Lamp" aka the check engine light.
Matthias Wichert@TechConnectify I bet you LOVE r/JustNoMIL on reddit 😁
tifter@TechConnectify Mil-CD "Music Interactive Live CD" for me, because of the Dreamcast console 😅
Shawn "Fruan" Poulsen@TechConnectify My MIL's MIL isn't milspec. It's a real problem.
scy (not @ EH23)@TechConnectify Malfunction Indicator Lamp Flashing
Simon ZerafaWe just call them Outlaws in contrast to In-Laws 😉
clown event still possib-L@TechConnectify To be fair, most people's relationships with their mothers-in-law can also be summarized by a check engine light.
Finnley Dolfin@TechConnectify Every time uses pronouns “They\Them”, including myself, my dumb brain goes; “we can’t be silent ‘cause they might be giants. And what are we gonna do unless they are?”
@TechConnectify this happens to me with "first time mom"/"female to male" (FtM) and "monday to friday"/"male to female" (MtF) way too often
RDS (shawphd on Twitter)@SandyBeach @TechConnectify That “FTM stands for first time mom thing” always requires me to take a moment to recalibrate, too.
Jay@SandyBeach accidentally ending up on mommy blogs when I was looking for trans content was hilariously disorientating the first time
Martijn@TechConnectify as a Dutchy I'm instantly thinking about windmills
Asher: Pending A Physical@TechConnectify I think Milwaukee for a second every time.
Sam@asherd @TechConnectify I think of the old Milwaukee Road railroad, usually abbreviated MILW! 😜🚆
Yuki "neige d'aout" Hazuki 膤 ❄️ 
@TechConnectify There's a TLD for that, .mil
Too bad the US government is keeping it for themselves
Andrew@Yuki @TechConnectify ah yes the mother in law industrial complex
Jason, Human, Average 
@TechConnectify Not sure I see the difference.
Jeff@TechConnectify I doubt they use lamps anymore. Probably all malfunction indicator diodes.
Adam Haskin@TechConnectify Or MIL spec... Like Military Grade.
"Your MIL is coming over..."
"Like the whole thing. I don't know if we have enough rations to feed EVERYONE... Isn't that covered by an amedment?"
Sybren Stüvel 🧡🤍@TechConnectify and my camera has an "As F*ck" button. And Single As F*ck / Continuous As F*ck settings. It's so rude.
Mike@TechConnectify that's the CEL
Drayke@TechConnectify Mine immediately expands it to "MILitary", which works surprisingly often in context.
Jeremy Akers@TechConnectify OMG I thought I was the only one who had this problem!
Raker de W4WWW@TechConnectify Military here, cause I don't have a mother-in-law!
RetroSwim@TechConnectify My brain immediately goes "Hmm. Do you mean millimetre, millilitre, or thousandth of an inch?" before cracking on with the comprehension 🤣
Mike J👹🐀 🤘🏻@TechConnectify Military Industrial Lomplex.
@TechConnectify I live in fear of the day that CHMSL means something to normies
The GentleHacker@TechConnectify There's an entire 1970's era comedy routine in this conflation somewhere...
@TechConnectify 100 MIL is the spacing between pins in a DIL or SIL package.
The Cactus@TechConnectify I got used to the word MILF before I learned about MIL. I wish I had your problem.
AlBen@TechConnectify
😂 Acronyms are so overrated !
😂 Acronyms are so overrated !
dotbmp@TechConnectify I just think of Swedish miles
@TechConnectify The first time I saw “POC” used to mean “Proof Of Concept” I was very confused
Baral'heia Stormdancer ΘΔ🐲@TechConnectify I'm glad I'm not the only one that does this lmao