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I'm pretty sure it's explicitly intended solely as punishment for people who have javascript enabled.

Fwiw I think it's pretty hilarious.

Also I warmly recommend to view-source, the makeprogress() function is a true delight.

Abstractly it’s sort of funny as a joke against JavaScript, but it’s really not funny at all when the butt of the joke is people who have JS enabled on their browsers. It’s just elitist and obnoxious.

I like jazz and think rock/pop generally sucks. If I prefaced every blog post with “people who like rock are too dumb to understand the following” I wouldn’t be making a funny joke about music. I’d just be an asshole.

Oh come on, it's a loading bar, it takes one second. It's totally not comparable to calling people dumb if they have JS enabled, like you suggest.

It'd be more like prefacing a podcast about basic music theory with a 5 second pretentious jazz tune.

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