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British PHP uses 'perchance ... otherwise':

- https://aloneonahill.com/blog/if-php-were-british/#:~:text=E...

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33828509

It was this comment what made me realize #:~:text= in the URL isn't some custom, per-site JS hack or a weird way to name your anchors, but actual standard[0] way to link to a text on any page.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/URI/Reference/F...

Chrome and derivatives have a "Copy link to highlight" context menu, which also adds some text surrounding the highlight, but I removed that since it only has a single occurrence.

Newer firefoxes have that too

variable_dump is a bit rude, should be instead variable_answer_the_call_of_nature

PHP stands for Perchance Half-witted Politeness

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