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  • 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?

    Concrete 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.






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    Yeah, if they built cars people don’t want with batteries smaller than people want to buy, the wheels could just be as bad as normal cars.

    If everyone had switched to driving corollas and civics in the year 1990, we would have less micro plastics and a way cooler environment but… people hate each other and don’t give a fuck.










  • The additional incremental emissions are tiny relative to a new car. If we could convince the entire planet to keep cars for 30 years (jk only rich countries need convincing) the world would be a better place.

    I’ll add that with how streets are in the US, even new cars are not getting good milage. Mine is much newer but when my longest drive is like 20 miles and most of my time is <5 mile drives on surface streets…I get about 20 mpg…same as my car from the 90s.