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| Wakanda free trade forever? Fictional nation removed from trade list |
| 2019-12-20 |
| [ARYNEWS.TV] The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said it removed the fictional country of Wakanda from an online list of nations that have free trade agreements with the United States on Thursday. Impeachment yesterday, Wakanda today? The Kingdom of Wakanda is the home of Black Panther, the Marvel superhero, and is portrayed in comic books and the 2018 blockbuster movie as an isolated African nation with the most powerful technology on the planet. Typical African nation, in fact. "While we removed the Kingdom of Wakanda from our list of US free trade partners, our relationship will always be strong #WakandaForever," the USDA tweeted from its official account. My mind just boggled. The agency did not immediately respond to questions. "Are you people crazy or just stoopid?" "Ummm..." A front man told The Washington Post that inclusion of the mythical African nation from the universe of Marvel superheroes was a mistake made as part of a test officials were running. "Yeah! Yeah, dat's it. It wuz some kinda test. You caught it, so dat means youse passed!" Francis Tseng, a New York-based software engineer who was looking for data on U.S. agricultural tariffs for a fellowship he is pursuing, first noticed the reference to Wakanda on the U.S. tariff list and called it out on Twitter. If he was pursuing a fellowship from USDA, he just lost it. Related: Wakanda: 2019-09-21 Tillerson accuses Netanyahu of having 'played' Trump Wakanda: 2018-12-08 Rex Tillerson Claims He Constantly Had To Tell Trump He Couldn't Bomb Wakanda Wakanda: 2018-09-02 Maxine Waters gives 'Wakanda Forever' salute from 'Black Panther' at Aretha Franklin funeral Related: USDA: 2019-12-15 5.9 Million Fewer Food Stamp Recipients Since 2017 USDA: 2019-12-11 Hemp: New year, new crop option USDA: 2019-11-20 Feds Hosted Meditation, Massage And Social Justice Retreat For 450 Employees, Including IRS Workers
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| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 This kind of goof happens fairly often. Programmers put all kinds of weird "funny" data into systems for testing and then forget to take it all out before the go-live. Back when I worked for DEC about 40 years ago there was a legendary incident where a customer got the error PPACB in his new operating system and called the help desk to say WTF? When looked up it turned out to be "pull plug and call Bob". That wasn't supposed to make it into the release version, needless to say. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2019-12-20 15:49 |
| #4 SS .. goes rolling... along ... |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-12-20 13:07 |
| #3 Bee/Not Bee is having its way with me in a dark, dirty, so dirty alleyway. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2019-12-20 12:53 |
| #2 Seriously not the Bee? Well, hell. At least between this and the Santa story, I'm even for the day. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2019-12-20 00:31 |
| #1 Not Bee? Oh, dear, that is really embarrassing. |
| Posted by: magpie 2019-12-20 00:16 |