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marcusestes | 1 year ago

Came here to say the same thing. It’s a chilling font choice for a document like this.

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morsch|1 year ago

It also reads hilariously like a document from the SCP wiki, blacked out passages and all.

baryphonic|1 year ago

2006 was peak "Great Moderation," where there hadn't been any serious financial crises since the 80s. The consensus wisdom was that many of the policies of the 80s & 90s, particularly around inflation and reducing uncertainty, had made financial crises almost obsolete.

It seems dark today given that we know the outcome, but I'm sure at the time, Comic Sans seemed appropriate for a set of tools that they thought likely would never be used. Or maybe it indicates a certain hubris undone within about 18 months.

asdff|1 year ago

Wasn't 2006 just off the heels of the dot com bubble?

banku_brougham|1 year ago

Stares in Long Term Capital Management

divbzero|1 year ago

I bet they use Comic Sans for nuclear launch codes too.