USDA government office lists fictional nation Wakanda as trade partner...

[HipChick]

The US Department of Agriculture listed Wakanda as a free-trade partner - despite it being a fictional country.

A USDA spokesperson said the Kingdom of Wakanda was added to the list by accident during a staff test.

The department's online tariff tracker hosted a detailed list of goods the two nations apparently traded, including ducks, donkeys and dairy cows.

In the Marvel universe, Wakanda is the fictional East African home country of superhero Black Panther.

The fictional country was removed soon from the list after US media first queried it, prompting jokes that the countries had started a trade war.

Wakanda first appeared in the Fantastic Four comic in 1966, and made a reappearance when Black Panther was adapted into an Oscar-winning film last year.

The unusual listing was spotted by Francis Tseng, a New York-based software engineer who was looking up agricultural tariffs for a fellowship he was applying for.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-us-canada-50849559?fbclid=IwAR0mi8dcpEPQFr7MZ7b6dB4aKhCILlV8JnbOmRzJIMbZXCbitv2-hRAoo0Q

[Atticus]

1. But---but---it's right next to Button and just north of Nipple! nt

[Amishman]

2. Ha ha,not the first or last time Test data makes it into a Prod environment

A few jobs ago I was working a project for an automated underwriting system. Wrong endpoint specified and our test environment was briefly linked to the production core system.

We had policies being issued for half the characters of Game of Thrones before someone caught it.

This is also why I always prefer test data to be eye catching and absurd. John Doe probably wouldn't get noticed, but Arya Stark did.

[Igel]

5. And here I was thinking it was an inside joke.

One group of UCLA grad students in a certain department (which shall remain unnamed) had a a couple of authors that they put in their papers for publication. They wanted to see how many non-UCLA grad students they could get to cite her. And since the discipline had sub-disciplines, no one fake author could be an expert in all the various branches.

They'd say something that really didn't need a reference, or include her with the article/author they really had to cite. They knew that more often than appropriate people would cite articles and their references and not actually read the thing cited.

They celebrated when the authors showed up in published indices. And it was Big News when one of them was assigned a course reading which cited their fake author.

No, not professional. But truly fun, in an ubernerdy sort of way.

[maxrandb]

3. They must have dirt on Biden?

[HipChick]

4. Lol!