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anyway bea called my homepage oldschool and yes it is but also that page uses Grid Layout and Fetch API

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what kids don’t realize is that for the first few decades of the internet, people wrote webpages which were useful to themselves rather than portfolio pieces for social media followers or potential employers

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the true oldschool is webpages which are actually useful

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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)) }

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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

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@witchfynder_finder “do we really need [organization we cannot possibly make bow to our whims]?” is not the statement of power they are trying to make it sound

@witchfynder_finder anyway, the answer is that China doesn't need International, Western-Organized Sports

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

@witchfynder_finder interesting omission of “International, Western-Organized” from that title

@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

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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.

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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.

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