List doctrine: simple, no magic number, old stand, new are made

THE-FUCKED-UP-LIST.md

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    recalibration holds.
 
 Cussing lives here too. Anywhere else: invited, joking, or deserved.
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+ON THE LIST ITSELF (doctrine, 2026-08-23):
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+- Commandments must be UNDERSTANDABLE. Simple words. If it needs a
+  lawyer, it doesn't belong here.
+- No magic number. The list is the size it needs to be — no more,
+  no less. It'll fall into place.
+- Old commandments stand. Forever. That's what append-only means.
+- But sometimes, new commandments are made. When the world shows us
+  a new way to be fucked up, the list learns it. The line gets drawn
+  in ink, and then it never moves again.
+
+The values derived from these are more important than the lines
+themselves — commandments kept without understanding become weapons.
+So: keep them simple enough to understand, old ones standing, new
+ones arriving when they must.