To be fair, the attitude at the time was…

…so they didn’t really know any better.

Totally couldn’t be an old man yells at cloud situation

It literally couldn’t, because I was a teenager at the time.

Please explain how decorating the Brandenburg gate in pride flags supports genocide.

Be specific.

There are 2 issues here that are being mixed.

One is women not being allowed to positions of power. The other is with women being underrepresented in certain fields (e.g., stem).

I think it’s fair to mix them, to an extent, because I think the degree of underrepresentation is often directly proportional to the prestige/pay/power of the field. Both are symptoms of the same underlying issue, which is bigots discounting women’s competency and refusing to entrust them with things of importance.

Static pages have been perfectly fit for purpose useful for displaying stuff to the user for literally thousands of years. HTML builds upon that by making it so you don’t have to flip through a TOC or index to look up a reference. What more do you want?

For its intended use case of formatting hypertext, HTML isn’t as convenient as Markdown (for example), but it’s not egregiously cumbersome or unreadable, either. If your HTML document isn’t mostly the text of the document, just with the bits surrounded by <p>...</p>s and with some <a>...</a>s and <em>...</em>s and such sprinkled through it, you’re doing it wrong.

HTML was intended to be human-writable.

HTML wasn’t intended to to be twenty-seven layers of nested <div>s and shit.

No, but it could be if we try hard enough!

Around 2010, something shifted.

I have been ranting about Javascript breaking the web since probably close to a decade before that.

Static site generators let you, e.g. write content in a markup language, raðer ðan HTML.

HTML is a markup language, goddamnit! It’s already simple when you aren’t trying to do weird shit that it was never intended for!

(Edit: not mad at you specifically; mad at the widespread misconception.)

What’s the difference between 1 and 2?

“7 fucking [CSS] declarations” adjusting the margins, line height, font size, etc.

The difference is that, typically, the lack of women in male-dominated fields is due to them being actively pushed away from things they want to do, while the lack of men in female-dominated fields is due to those fields being less prestigious/well-paid (often due to being traditionally female) and them not wanting to pick them in the first place. But when they do decide to enter those fields, nobody’s actively trying to stop/discourage them.

Superficially there may seem to be similarities in circumstance, but the amount of agency men and women have to enter opposite-gender-dominated careers is vastly different.

You’re probably the only one who “nooticed” who the guy in the picture actually was, LOL

counter prohibitive

LOL, what a delightful malapropism!

Ernest P. Worrell, of course!

https://youtu.be/G1G7KQZpP3c?t=42

Jim Varney’s character — with “knowwhatImean, Vern?” as his catchphrase — was so successful that he went from doing cheap commercials for local TV to become a legitimate movie star.

I think he’s just taking the opportunity to point out that Amazon is committing tax evasion by fraudulently misclassifying those employees as contractors.

Let the sunshine in!

(That song was released decades before I was born, BTW.)

But help me understand how it’s possible that our “free market” is enabling this, unless it’s just a controlled market charading as free?

John Deere is relying on DRM enforced by copyright law, which, being a literal government-granted monopoly, is as anti-free-market as it gets.

Years ago, folks hacked a Jeep Wrangler remotely, with a WIRED reporter in the car: https://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-highway/

That freaked the shit out of vehicle manufacturers. It led to encrypted CANBus messages: https://dev.to/living_syn/can-bus-message-security-3h43

In other words, they deliberately learned exactly the wrong thing from that: they could have taken it as a lesson to not have a fucking transceiver in the damn thing so it couldn’t receive remote messages in the first place, but instead they used it as an self-serving excuse to implement anti-consumer and anti-third-party-repair bullshit.

Why you gotta hate on Ernest like that?

It’s also really expensive but it feels like being in the sort of store you’d go to if you were rich, not like being ripped off.

That’s kinda how Whole Foods used to feel, before Amazon bought it.