[arscan]

> Protocols and standards like HTML built around "be liberal with what you accept" have turned out to be a real nightmare.

This feels a bit like the setup to the “But you have heard of me” joke in Pirates of the Caribbean [2003].

[paulddraper]

Or "There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses."

[FridgeSeal]

Sure, this holds for any government “current state” but it shouldn’t be used as an excuse to _keep doing dumb things_.