[kelnos]

"I disable JS" always felt to me like the "I don't own a TV" elitism-brag.

[wredcoll]

That's an amusing reference, been a while since I've seen one, I assume because computer screens make tvs pointless.

I wonder if there's a more current version? Not having a smartphone perhaps?

[9d]

2005: I don't have a TV

2015: I don't have a smartphone

2020: I don't have social media

2025: I don't have friends

[OJFord]

> computer screens make TVs pointless

...if you live alone in a dorm room?

[9d]

To be fair, if you're going to just be a genuinely superior person than other people are, you might as well just brag about that superiority since there's nothing else it's useful for.

[mdaniel]

I guess the rest of the sentence is "... if TVs were a fundamental pre-requisite for modern life"

> Yeah, bro, I rub two sticks together to cook my own deer meet, because Big Grocery is tracking me