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@coriander oh lots of people think minecraft is fucked up especially because of how villagers are treated but things are allowed to be fucked up in games

@kepstin @Packbat i disagree that the XML serialization of HTML5 isn't XHTML; it's in the xhtml namespace, has the mime type application/xhtml+xml, and most importantly is what i meant in the post

there are minor differences but generally the xml ones are “correct” and the html ones are “for compatibility reasons” (like uppercasing all tag names, despite nobody doing this in 2024)—with a few exceptions

@Packbat (a lot of web servers just default to this now because almost everyone in 2023 is writing HTML pages as utf-8)

@Packbat these instructions are for firefox but the process is similar for other browsers:

• open the Web Inspector (Tools > Browser Tools > Web Developer Tools)
• navigate to the Network tab
• reload the page
• click on the first request in the results (should be for the page you are on)
• in the panel that opens, look under “Response Headers” for “content-type”

if it says `text/html; charset=utf-8`, then no charset declaration is necessary

@Packbat *unless your server doesn’t specify a charset parameter in the content‐type, lol

@Packbat the charset <meta> tag is the last‐resort option; browsers will look at the Content-Type provided by the server first, so specifying it does nothing UNLESS your server doesn’t specify a content type. also, if you write XHTML, UTF-8 is the default option because all XML defaults to UTF‐8. if you’re the type of person who always closes your tags anyway, you might as well just write XHTML and save yourself some trouble

(XHTML is also distinguished from HTML by its content‐type; be sure to use an extension which your web browser will serve as XML not as HTML if you go this route)

@gaditb i think there is truth in that, but i’m not sure i fully believe it without qualifications

specifically, i think fascism or something like it is the end state you eventually wind up in when a society always chooses politically convenient lies over politically inconvenient truths. it has a foundation of misinformation.

the line between people actually believing misinformation and pretending to is (i think) pretty fuzzy. but what makes truth politically inconvenient is precisely the consequences it would have within people's ideologies: people are lied to BECAUSE they have ideologies which would not tolerate the current situation if they were told the truth. if people's ideologies were content with fascism, there would be no need for misinformation

this is an aside though, because my actual question is more along the lines of “is eliminating fascists enough to eliminate fascism?” i’m not convinced it is, and if fascists are the symptom and not the cause, then maybe the suffix -ist is doing something different than we might usually expect

@monorail @aescling that's the same time period as legends: arceus

@monorail @aescling nothing is confirmed and some fans are like “it's in the future!!” but nah i’m pretty sure it’s just https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haussmann's_renovation_of_Paris