Sometimes they do rather inappropriate copium pieces when shits looking particularly bleak. That doesn’t excuse it, but it does explain it.

It’s only a clarification, not the definition of the significant terms

This document updates RFC 2119 by clarifying that only UPPERCASE usage of the key words have the defined special meanings.

ticket closed as “by design”

The ruling says that Wynn-Williams should stop promoting the book and, to the extent she could, stop further publication. It did not order any action by the publisher.

Emphasis mine. RFC 2119 strikes again :D

SHOULD: This word, or the adjective “RECOMMENDED”, mean that there may exist valid reasons in particular circumstances to ignore a particular item, but the full implications must be understood and carefully weighed before choosing a different course.

I’d ask how the Meta lawyer could sleep at night arguing such a bullshit and openly caustic line of rhetoric, but the answer’s probably “like a baby, in an extremely expensive and comfortable bed”

You just gotta be big enough that you can buy enough people. FAANG is there (though this is Wild West politics nowadays so who the fuck knows what’s gonna happen). But when you own the people writing the laws to control you… they’re not controlling you.

Honestly, if I had done something like this and they twigged to it, I’d consider just fucking off and joining the French foreign legion.

Thank fucking god.

lol I’m so exited for these to flame out hard

Not when it comes to the fash.

They do not get even the barest semblance of sympathy, mercy, or benefit of the doubt. Ever.

I find Wolfenstein 1 and 2 to be extremely therapeutic.

I’m confidently wrong a lot of the time too. But I mainly do that just to fuck with people.