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I mean, I doubt that many UK natives know the name of the US Attorney General off the top of their heads. It seems like a reasonable mixup to me.

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Entirely reasonable! I didn't mean that one end of the stretch was less natural than the other, just that it was a long one.

(On another note, it's amazing how easy it is for a comment can sound like a bit of a putdown inadvertently. Even after years of practice trying to skirt around such misinterpretations. Tone of voice and body language must be the greater part of how we avoid this in person.)

Reasonable to think that a soft drink provider would ask FB to not use end-to-end encryption?

But I agree that AG should be expanded.

They realized that something was off, obviously. They were just saying it was confusing at first because without the context of knowing who Barr is, "AG" is a nonsense word. The only remaining parse is a soft-drink company.

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