Still can have issues with javascript crypto miners. And there’s always the possibility of malicious javascript finding a way to escape its sandbox and escalate permissions.

Most websites would break, or not even display, without javascript.

I use NoScript – I’m well aware.

But a lot of those websites could function without javascript. A lot of websites use it unnecessarily, for reasons such as:

• They want their ads and trackers and other malicious code (such as soft paywalls) to work as intended.

• They want to add fancy cosmetic elements to the content and are too lazy to think about failing gracefully and still displaying the content if javascript isn’t working.

• They built the website in a framework that depends on javascript, and are again too lazy to bother worrying about graceful failure if javascript isn’t working, even if their content could, in theory, be displayed just fine without it. (Or maybe the framework developers deserve a bit of the blame for that laziness, since they could have made graceful failure a feature of the framework, but chose not to.)

In a hypothetical world where most browsers didn’t allow every website to run arbitrary code, then every website would be forced to take that into account and only depend on javascript when it’s absolutely necessary for the website’s core functions.

Honestly, it’s bonkers that the standard, default approach for all mainstream browsers is to let every random website in the world run any arbitrary code it wants on your computer.

Yeah, they usually attempt to sandbox it, but still. Sometimes sandboxes can be escaped. And sometimes the code can do significant harm while still inside its sandbox.

I think you underestimate how sycophantic these AIs can be. Especially once you push back a little and insist on having it your way.

But those experts don’t tell Mr. Senator “you’re absolutely right!” often enough.

The actual ‘grown up’ take.

They’re legitimate in that more voters actually chose Trump over Harris.

I’m not even really sure about that part. Not when half the country is using voting machines that are operated by private companies that just happen to have Republican ownership.

But, yeah. Doesn’t matter now. As soon as Harris conceded the race, it was over.

I still have my doubts about the legitimacy of the results.