it’s not that they dont give a shit (our masters, i mean, people like keith). they like it, or they understand that it’s the price of doing business, and wish it were over already. they’re just trying to half-assedly manage the public while it goes on.

this has very strong cyriak vibes: https://www.youtube.com/@cyriak/videos

as seen in terry pratchett’s last continent (i think that’s the one with the god of evolution)

i’m afraid it’s M$ or MiKKKroSSoft. your choice.

National Guard was only there to maintain peace. They weren’t ordered to break up a protest. But it went to shit

imagine being this naive. you must work at it.

so you’re allowed to do it once as long as you say you’re sorry afterwards? okay.

they liked 90s russia, when it was weak, full of child prostitutes and people were dying en-masse from substance abuse (and the barn doors were wide open so they could loot it)

how is this different from what tim walz did though?

i’d probably do

function cap() {
        prename 's/(^[a-z]?)/\U$1/' "$@"
}

it means it has to be invoked as cap *, but it also means that you can do cap foo* or whatever

when you create the alias, the shell substitutes the $1 (to nothing, probably) since your alias is in "" (double quotes).
now, if you swap the single and double quotes, then the substitution still happens, but at invocation time instead of at definition time.
you actually want perl to deal with this $1, so neither is good.

you have three options:

• write a function instead, as has been suggested
• use $'' quoting, which lets you put ’ (single quote) inside ’ (single quote) without going mad: alias cica=$'foo \'$bar\' baz'
• go insane and do this: alias cica='foo '\''$bar'\'' baz' (this is the old way, without bash’s $'')

IIRC microsoft got got about this in the ie6 days or so, looks like they found their way back to their old behavior

as long as they suggest it in welsh, sure. otherwise (or if anyone else talks to you in english, even your mum), you should pretend to aggressively not understand english. pretend you’ve never heard of such a thing.

what are you on about, there aint no bourgeoisie on the sun…

but without traditions, we’re just drifting aimlessly through life

it’s the fastest way to get crews for your navy

it wasnt puny wars, it was punic wars. their pun game was too strong. rome was regularly humiliated by clever wordplay and their best and brightest could only come up with a retort like “well your face is an ass!”

so there was no choice, they had to destroy carthage.

i mean, yeah. he’s a russian leader.

turns out, the west’s problem with russia wasnt (just) that they were communist. it was that they existed as a separate entity. in that sense, putin is the same as a soviet leader, without the communism.

no dear, that’s the palestinians. the ukrainians will be mostly fine once this war is finally over.

none. you dont need a DE, you can just run a tiling wm and some terminals…