FWIW: the Care Credit Card is legit. Having one has been a boon to me a few times by helping me cover unexpected medical expenses with reasonable interest rates.

It’s not the managers that are pushing for return to office, they’re just the messengers for senior leadership who have spent millions buying real estate and want the return on investment.

I think there’s a bit of both. Ineffective middle management (which is most of it) has no place in a world where they cannot lord over their minions in an office setting. So builds an echo chamber between executives (with real estate investment) and middle management (the existence of whose very job requires them not to understand and promote remote work), at the expense of the actually productive.

I find myself thinking more and more frequently how nice it would be to go back to the carefree days of the early 90s.

What a sad state of affairs that is.

> Improving people's ability to competitively argue for things they don't believe in seems a hilariously bad idea.

I disagree with this so very much.

High school debate was foundational for my adult ability to recognize that nuance exists. Arguing a position that you don’t personally believe in, and winning, is a massively useful tool in understanding that for the majority of topics there are reasonable, intelligent, and acceptable arguments for both sides.

This is a trait seeming missing from most other adults I interact with. Too many people accept blindly that there is a correct and incorrect position and no room in between.

All the recommendations for Kagi. I never imagined I would pay for search, but after using it for free the value proposition was abundantly clear.

Yeah, thanks to Kagi I haven’t used google’s search in a long time, and I’m happier for it.

Kagi made me realize how truly toilet-paper tier Google's "product" is. Kagi lets me block domains. Kagi doesn't fill my first search screen with ads.

F google.

For me who started using Google around two decades ago it is even more infuriating:

Google, both search and everything else, used to be top notch.

The very next item on the page is another huge graphic which says “unless you want it”.

Agreed...and honestly I didn't scroll any further. I saw, "No Javascript Required" and scrolled back to the top, went to the docs and looked at the example so I could see what this was like. Then I saw Javascript.

I just think that if you are saying so boldly that you don't need to use Javascript, then maybe your first example should be without Javascript?

Yeah, that seems like a reasonable take.

FWIW I kind of feel like “no js” may be a pipe dream today. I see a lot of talk about it but very few sites actually do it; there just seems to be a lot of pressure to use the next big JS framework in the community.

Also analytics and so forth.

I can’t seem to view the videos embedded in the article on iOS, which is disappointing because I really want to see that mosaic mode.

That's on Apple for not supporting WebM in Safari.

TIL that Opera was rewritten to be based on chromium. That makes me kind of sad.

Not super sad, because I haven’t used Opera in a decade, but still a little sad.

You can head to Wikipedia to quickly check what happen to the company beside browser abandoning Presto and moving to Chromium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_(company)

Personally, I consider this switch to Chromium solidified Chrome and derivatives dominance - with Presto-based Opera there was always a choice. It's also a shame they didn't released the code of this engine.