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[–] OhmsLawn@lemmy.world 86 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Hanlon's razor in action

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"

[–] Neato@ttrpg.network 59 points 8 months ago

If you cut costs enough, including in personnel and testing, stupidity is caused by malice. Not saying that's exactly what happened here but we've all definitely seen the effects when corpos decide to lay off thousands and their capabilities suffer.

[–] Godthrilla@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

I think it was the same intern that accidentally told Hawaii it was about to be hit by an icbm

[–] snooggums@midwest.social 8 points 8 months ago

While I like that saying in the context of not knowing whether it is malice or stupidity, it does need the context of 'Unless you know there is malice..."

Malicious people do stupid things too.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

I always included obliviousness in this as well. But one could argue that’s just another form of stupidity… 🤷

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

With At&T it's a big fucking razor