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the true oldschool is webpages which are actually useful

these nerds think a black background and green text is oldschool but don’t know how to build an actually functional website

for ( const button of document.getElementById("search").querySelectorAll("button") ) {
button.addEventListener("click", ( ) => location.href = button.dataset.search.replace("%s", document.getElementById("query").value)) }

added a bunch of search engines to https://go.KIBI.family

sometimes i write code which might be useful to others

and sometimes i write code which no person should ever try to replicate

and i like to think that usually it is clear which is which

no changes to the underlying XML, or to the /Fortune/ page which renders it, i just parsed and extracted data from it instead of using an IFRAME

it’s a JS monstrosity

new ✨ Fortune ✨ code on https://go.KIBI.family

@Satsuma i mean it could be but i don’t know about it either then :P

@Satsuma well it needed to be serious enough to involve death but whimsical enough to not be traumatic and that was the first thing which came to mind

@Satsuma it doesn't this is actually a thread about TDoR

Are you ‘ out of town ?’ Do you ‘ give it up ?’

one must also consider that perhaps the reason why so many people die on international ski accident day is because it is in a dark, cold month which is difficult for skiers

what is important is to use international ski accident day to deglorify dangerous ski behaviours, educate people on ski safety, and implement measures to prevent deadly accidents from happening. the solution is not to eliminate all recognition of the fact that sometimes people on the slopes die, because they do.

i think the take that if we got rid of international ski accident day fewer people would die of horrific ski accidents is perhaps a delusion of grief. it is true that on international ski accident day, more people are thinking of skiing and thus show up on the slopes. more accidents do happen on international ski accident day. but if the day was gone, it's not like people wouldn't still ski or have accidents. they'd just happen on different days.

« Finally, as if this were not potentially alienating enough to female users, the Usenet guidelines also actively discourage appreciative and supportive postings in the name of reducing message volume:

In aggregate, small savings in disk or CPU add up to a great deal. For instance, messages offering thanks, jibes, or congratulations will only need to be seen by the interested parties—send these by mail rather than posting them. The same goes for simple questions, and especially for any form of 'me too' posting. (Horton and Spafford 1993) »

« Moreover, despite male concern with freedom from imposition, men are responsible for the majority of violations of negative politeness (my questionnaire notwithstanding) as well: It is men, not women, who post the longest messages, do the most cross-posting, copy the most text from previous messages (and respond, point by point), have the longest signature files, and generally take up the most bandwidth on the net. How can these behaviors be explained? »