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[theweaselking]

Much like Batkid, Hawaii has found its own superhero. Except that instead of protecting the powerless from harm, he roams the streets with a sledgehammer and looks for homeless people in order to literally smash their possessions.

Remarkably, this vigilante isn’t just some random Hawaii resident, but five-term State Rep. Tom Brower (D-Idiot).

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[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

What a remarkably invidious form of "punching down" he's found. It doesn't get much more blatant or crass, does it?

-- Steve is surprised at the state and party of the malefactor, though. Beatin' on the poors is usually considered the hallmark of the other guys.

[skiriki.livejournal.com]

Now that's shittiest shit I've seen for a while. :( He shouldn't get voted for any government role ever again, on account of not considering a segment of population as people.

(Those who need some Nelson-like Ha-HA! "cheers" after shit like this should check out this link.)

[dantheserene.livejournal.com]

As someone posted on the Reason website, if that guy had an R after his name this would be frontpage on every outlet in the country.
Of course, Hawaii is a one-party state, so this guy operates with impunity. I still hope someone does something unpleasant to him with his own hammer for destruction of property.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

if that guy had an R after his name this would be frontpage on every outlet in the country.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA no. That would NOT happen.

I mean, not inherently. But seriously, "a Democrat treats people the way Republicans wish they could treat people" is only news BECAUSE he's a Democrat. And "Democrat treats poor people like a Republican wishes he could" will always be news. Since 1960ish.

[skington.livejournal.com]

Fuck you, ThinkProgress, for adding a persistent navigation bar that gets in the way of the standard "If I hit space bar or page down, I'll see the next page's worth of text in the article". Unless I right-click, inspect element, and deliberately add the style "display:none" what happens is that if I page down or hit space, I then have to scroll up to see the next few lines of text that your stupid navigation bar hid from me.

The especially-stupid part of this is that the navigation bar in question has the class "mobile-nav", but on a mobile device like an iPad you don't see the stupid navigation bar once you've scrolled down. Although negative points for designing the page in such a way that if you double-tap on just the article contents, not the navigation, it tells you "fuck you, I want to sell ads or something so you can't just focus on the stuff you want to read". So I hit the Readability button and will as a result never read another of their website's other articles because that also removes the potentially interesting links.

Seriously, are any of the people who design websites human and/or decent?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Seriously, are any of the people who design websites human and/or decent?

Of course not. That's why you always surf all websites, forever, with adblock and noscript. And if you can't find a nondestructive whitelist, you FAIL TO ALLOW THEM THEIR ASSAULT ON YOUR BROWSER. And if that means they go out of business because you didn't install their malware? GOOD. They deserve to die, starving and alone.

I may be bitter.

[skington.livejournal.com]

I run Safari on Mac OS X, and I have AdBlock, Ghostery and ClickToFlash enabled, but I draw the line at NoScript. For better or for worse, javascript is a required part of web browsing these days, and disabling all JavaScript unless you've personally determined that the site requires it is a bit too Amish for my tastes.

Also, I try to whitelist creator-friendly ad networks for when I go webcomic-trawling, although that's more difficult than it should be. Hmmm.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

My theory is, "ad" means "inherently hostile". If I visit your website, and see sufficient content and honesty that I might want to allow you scripting despite "script=ad" being an unalterable forever truth? I might whitelist your primary domain for scripting without unblocking ads. After all, several otherwise-competent people are stupid enough to require scripting, while still providing content. You might be one of them.

At the same time? Yeah, no, "ad" means "hostile attempt to aggressively hijack". And "script" means "attempt to inject ads".

I try to whitelist creator-friendly ad networks

No such thing exists. By believing in such a thing you are carrying web poison.

[skington.livejournal.com]

There are plenty of perfectly decent uses of Javascript that don't have anything to do with ads; most obviously the funky stuff like Google maps or Google docs, or the "make me an icon from this image by having me click and drag" page on LiveJournal.

Or being able to comment on a file on GitHub, submit it, and carry on reading the code, possibly making more comments, without having to reload the entire goddamn page.

And there's more subtle stuff as well; for instance, progressive enhancement so you can first return a slimmed-down website that loads quickly on mobile, and then on a desktop upgrade some of the navigation or furniture with funkier stuff. If you had Javascript turned off all the time unless the page blatantly needed it, you wouldn't notice this, and you'd have a worse web page as a result.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I should have been clearer: I know all the things you can do with scripting that aren't ads. It's just that many of the ways to deliver ads that might get through the other filters involve scripting, and lots of sites use scripting to show ads.

So I enable scripting on a per-site basis, after determining that I want to risk giving that site the ability to do user-hostile things. I default to scripting off on unvetted sites, because most of the uses of scripting on the live internet are user-hostile.

[skington.livejournal.com]

FWIW, I have AdBlock and Ghostery and I don't see ads. So you should be able to re-enable Javascript.

[harper-knight.livejournal.com]

It's not just ads though, there are other really annoying things that javascript does. I'm another of those that has scripting turned off by default with NoScript (or ScriptSafe, on Chrome) - it's not that much of a hassle to turn it back on individually. Although, because of the way my addon handles it, websites that use half a dozen cdn servers when they don't fucking need to really pisses me off.

I use Adblock and Ghostery too. Small inconveniences are made up for by not putting up with the inane shit some people put into their websites.