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  • easily3667@lemmus.orgtoFirefox@fedia.ioStop Being Weird
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    21 hours ago

    I associate the Midwest with a fake, forced, sense of “everything is ok”. If you know the meme of the cartoon in the kitchen with the kitchen burning up around it…that’s how I think of the default personality type in the Midwest. Don’t rock the boat. Do what the law says. Respect authority. All that stuff.

    So in this case the attitude of “listen, sure, this bulwark of the internet for 25 years may have just sold out and it’s terrible, but they have the power and if you don’t like it you should just use the one other worse alternative or suck it up and stop complaining”, to me, literally SCREAMS “I’m from Ohio, home of voting for the deregulation which poisons our land and makes it so our rivers literally catch fire”.





  • Weird take. Web browsers are document display systems that got a bunch built on top of them. Old websites are just documents. Web browsers are meant to render them. New websites are a single html entry point that hands all website construction to JavaScript which then creates a fake document in memory for the web browser to render.

    Which one is the convoluted, hard to implement and support one?

    Example: NYTimes website is literally a giant document. It could be pure html and lose nothing by being rendered on the server side…except capitalism. So it can’t be a document because the NYTimes needs to extract a reliable and consistent money stream from people, which means it needs to be enforced (according to them) and thus JavaScript.