old webpages (like from the 2000s) are fast and snappy. new webpages take much longer to load.

This part is true, especially on phones, but those old webpages were not fast at all when they were first published.

I remember trying to watch videos on dialup Internet. I'd make it start buffering and then go do something else for half an hour before coming back to watch the video. I also remember avoiding certain websites even on DSL because they had 1 or 2 whole megabytes of JavaScript and it took forever to load.

Increases in bandwidth and processing power has made those old websites seem a lot more performant than they were at the time.

Today we can put a lot more stuff on our websites than we used to, which makes things slower, but we're also much more aware of major performance issues. Google uses it as a factor in their ranking algorithm, and offers a pretty intelligent tool to help developers figure out where to optimize their websites, so it's essential for most companies to optimize for that. Giant companies like Amazon and Facebook can ignore it because they'll always be on top, but the rest of us are getting really excited about new frameworks like solid and qwik that will make it a lot easier to optimize our sites.

Close encounters of the racist kind is a good read. Here's the most relevant part:

Consider the H2 series “In Search of Aliens,” which, before its demise, promoted the work of Jan Udo Holey, a German writer whose antisemitic books have been banned across Europe. (Holey’s pen name, Jan Van Helsig, is a blunt Dracula reference, i.e. Jews are bloodsuckers.) The History Channel’s long-running series “Ancient Aliens,” meanwhile, features David Childress, whose books cite and build on the work of James Churchward, who promoted an ancient empire called the “lost continent of Mu,” whose “dominant race” was an “exceedingly handsome people, with clear white or olive skin.”

The history channel is entry level nazi propaganda.

Unionizing and striking are effective, but they'll stop being effective if they become illegal. They're already less effective than they should be, because of legal restrictions.

Protesting is only useful for getting in the news and convincing people to consider certain issues when they vote. They will never directly cause change.

And boycotting is just plain worthless. You'll never get enough people to join a boycott for large corporations to care.

Corporations love for you to be distracted with the methods that are futile.

That's why saying not to vote is pro-corporation.

Voting and calling representatives is a futile approach. They’re a distraction at best.

That's conservative, pro-corporation propaganda.