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I found it very readable w/ my default Javascript-diasbled configuration. It wasn't until I viewed the page w/o my plugins loaded that I got the message.

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People who are going to disable JavaScript, are going to disable JavaScript.

People who won't, wont.

Neither camp needs to proselytize the other, nor is it ever very effective.

And bragging about which side you're on is weird.

"I disable JS" always felt to me like the "I don't own a TV" elitism-brag.

To be fair, if you're going to just be a genuinely superior person than other people are, you might as well just brag about that superiority since there's nothing else it's useful for.

I guess the rest of the sentence is "... if TVs were a fundamental pre-requisite for modern life"

> Yeah, bro, I rub two sticks together to cook my own deer meet, because Big Grocery is tracking me

That's an amusing reference, been a while since I've seen one, I assume because computer screens make tvs pointless.

I wonder if there's a more current version? Not having a smartphone perhaps?

2005: I don't have a TV

2015: I don't have a smartphone

2020: I don't have social media

2025: I don't have friends

> computer screens make TVs pointless

...if you live alone in a dorm room?

Clearly I hit a nerve. I was just trying to make the point that w/o Javascript the example kinda fell flat. I didn't think I was bragging, but apparently I was. (I just prefer to turn on Javascript when I need it-- I find a lot of sites a lot less distracting w/o it.)

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