Would you really teach your children "trust the New York Times and whatever the government says"? When both said Iraq had WMDs, did you believe them? In a perfect world we could all look at the source material (photos, videos, data, etc.) ourselves to figure out reality and there would be uncensorable platforms for individuals to call out corruption and reach the masses. This was the original promise of the internet and social media! Sadly the authoritarian left is insistent on defining "reality" and relishes censoring dissenting facts or opinions. Facebook and Twitter wields their "fact checking" and censorship on a might-is-right basis, which disenfranchises 50% of the population and is seriously incendiary to civil discourse.

https://webkit.org/status/#?search=preload

I found these neglected issues in WebKit Bugzilla:

- "implement Link: header" https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51940

- "Add support for " https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194539

- What is the date of birth and gender of this "legal person"?

- Is it a New Zealand citizen?

- How will the river enroll to vote? How will the river pay it's fines when it fails to vote?

- What will happen when the river breaks its banks and destroys property, and someone sues it for damages? Will it be in contempt of court for not showing up to appearances?

- If New Zealand enters a major war, can the river be drafted for military service? How do you fine or imprison a river for draft dodging?

- Where the river releases it's fluids at the beach, is it engaging in public urination?

- If a policeman issues it with a lawful order, and it fails to comply, can it be arrested?

https://www.hmsrichmond.org/dict_o.htm https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Australian_English_m...

> OPPO > Naval slang - short for opposite number - for the person doing the same job as one's self in another watch or ship. In the former case, since you relieved each other (in the old two-watch days), it behoved you to become friends; thus the word Oppo came to mean Chum. On a two-watch watchbill, the name of a man's 'opposite number' in the other watch was shewn against his own name in the opposite column.

There is more money in building products and coming up with workarounds than there is in improving the environments we all have to work with. There are also too few smart people in the world available to keep up with demand for both activities.

Instead of 10 people keeping IE up to date with modern JS language features, we had millions of people people trying to come up with and use genius solutions (Babel anyone?) to transpile and polyfill their code backwards. Instead of 4 people adding support for ES Modules to Node.js years ago, we have have many thousands of people trying to work out WTF to do on their own.

The solution is not to freeze technology in its currently deficient state and to be content, that attitude on behalf of environment maintainers is how we ended up here in the first place!

JS will be "mature" and infinitely more productive once basics like modules are implemented in all servers and clients. It will get better eventually.