alright hear me out:
* a function in your codebase that doesn't do anything
* it's not mentioned nor used anywhere, BUT, it does come with a big comment stressing how important it is to call the function every so often, and "you won't accept any commit that doesn't call it at least once"
* automod to block any contributor who calls the function in a PR

Realest shit you can say about any creative pursuit

@spacehobo augh lol! no i have not because i am a provincial american and also have to avoid obtaining forbidden knowledge about civilized countries' mass transit to stave off fits of envious rage

follow-up to my last post: to be abundantly clear, in https://icosahedron.website/@valrus/115719777462956614 i meant that both common meanings of ICE as an acronym are extremely terrible, not that one is terrible and one is innocuous. most of the (extremely good) replies i received—e.g. CBT, CNC—are also cursed but in a different way than i meant

@funkula yeah this is a good one

@funkula wait what's the communist one? marxist leninist something?

@jepyang this is also cursed in much the same way as "CBT" which showed up in another reply. is it something completely innocuous or [kinkshaming redacted]?

@pcy i know about "erotic role play" but are there other meanings i'm unfamiliar with?

@Louisa cursed in a different way, but very good answer. this also made me think of "MTG" which is related because i happen to be a client of Mindful Therapy Group

ICE also stands for internal combustion engine. is any other acronym this cursed?

@Erased_Citizen i could see this working with cream but milk would surely curdle

@Impzbot not enough!!!

@halcy halcyyyyyyy plz

@Impzbot just came across this post again. incredibly underappreciated post

@bnys we're gonna do great!!

@lrhodes Yeah but we CAN. We won't, but we *can*. We always could, and haven't so far, but we CAN