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Big Tech companies are finally getting the names we thought dystopian megacorps would have (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Meta Platforms. X Corp. tell me those aren't straight from a strangely prescient cyberpunk classic

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I always thought this for the financial market: Standard & Poor

Moody

The Fed (as in, the past tense of feed)

[–] intelati 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

fannie mae and freddie mac have this distinct dystopyian taste to me

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those are just nicknames people use because the real names are long and boring.

"Fannie Mae" is actually the Federal National Mortgage Association (aka FNMA). "Freddie Mac" is actually the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

TIL. I always wondered what the deal was with those names.