If all you can do is make snide insinuations then it would probably benefit all concerned if you bestowed the fruits of your prodigious wit on someone with the spare time to give them the consideration they doubtless deserve.
An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilizations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop.
That was the Dependency Principle; that you could never forget where your Off switches were located, even if it was somewhere tiresome.
'Excession' by Iain Banks