March 28, 2023
4:55 a.m.
Brian Inglis via tz <tz@iana.org> wrote on Mon, 27 Mar 2023 at 18:24:36 EDT in <60194c32-3a57-ec7d-56e1-0077d55b2c39@Shaw.ca>:
Perhaps emphasize how *stupid* these actions make the politicians involved look globally, and how widely they will be mocked, as these are great stories for opposition politicians, inter-/national broadsheets and especially tabloids, as well as hostile foreign government controlled media, providing opportunities to denigrate the government, people, and country.
Recognizing that policymakers and technical staffers and even politicans do read this list and its archive, language like this is setting ourselves up for defeat. -- jhawk@alum.mit.edu John Hawkinson