ha! no, it’s literally 888.

The oldest use that the Oxford English Dictionary gives for less with a countable noun is a quotation from 888 by Alfred the Great

another thing to consider, they didnt often have the boss watching them while they worked. yes, the endless chores had to be done every god damned day, but your time was yours to manage to a large extent. want to pop off and chat with your neighbor for an hour in the middle of the day? who’s gonna stop you? who’s gonna look at your timesheet? what timesheet?

yes, let’s submit our language to the arbitrary opinions of some long dead english gentry idiot, why dont we. never mind how people have actually used the words for literal centuries at this point, we must uphold the bigoted idiocy of the english upper classes!

trying to wean europeans off their endemic alcoholism is whatever, i doubt you’ll achieve much, and this is probably not the way to do it, but at least it’s not a terrible idea in theory.

but i love this british practice of labelling socializing as “anti-social behavior”.

reminds me of another british article where residents were worried that teenagers would congregate in parks and stand around and talk to each other, and how this anti-social behavior must be stopped.

vidir is similar

there’s also rename (the perl one, not the shit one). i have fond memories of renaming albums with rename 's/(\d+)/sprintf "%02d", $1/e' so they’d ls in the correct order

i rely on this in my job. if i really need it, i’ll be using it often enough that it’ll always be in ^R distance :)

she sat down to a table with 10 zionists. now there are 11 zionists at that table.

eh, it’s calvinball. they could if the US said they could. but why would the US say that?

mmmmmm <3

no, tmux is a newer screen. some of us havent switched cos we’re too lazy i guess? i think the common wisdom is that it’s better. i havent tried cos i already know enough of screen and it’s fine for me

• atools, which includes als, aunpack, apack. so you can stop caring about the kind of archive and just unpack it. it also saves you from shit archives that have multiple files/dirs in their root.
• perl -e / perl -lne / …
• units
• bc - a calculator that’s actually good
• pass - the only non-shit password store tool i’ve found so far. no gui, uses gpg and git to do the encrypting and storage/sharing
• alias lr='ls -lrth' - so you can easily find the newest file, cos that’s frequently what you want
• unip - my script to look up things in the unicode db
• find -type f -exec xzgrep 're' {} + - because xzgrep cant do -r

oh yeah, and for the shell readline, alt-b, alt-f, ctrl-w, ctrl-u, ctrl-k, ctrl-a, ctrl-e

doesnt actually do anything on gnu rm, and hasnt in like a decade. but yeah, dont do it.

i used to recommend linux to people. but that also meant that i became their tech support person.

i no longer advise anyone to use anything. i just want them to not ask me to troubleshoot their stuff.

best the internet can do is chastity stuff

having a job improved my mental health compared to not having one and worrying about money.

well, yes, none of the dnd setting people think like medieval people at all.

but i take exception to this idiocy:

fundamentally incompatible with the European fantasy typified by Lord of the Rings, in which no fellowship can alter the fact that Sam is by birth a servant, Frodo a gentleman, Strider a king, and Gandalf a wizard.

has this person read the lord of the rings? sam becomes a land-owning gentleman at the end of the novel. he actually makes it out of his class.

to be fair, he’s the only one in the entire god damned book. there arent even many speaking roles for named commoners in there. sam, the gaffer, ted sandyman, farmer maggot, butterbur, gamling, ioreth. that’s about it. the vast majority of these are in the shire portions of the book.

edit: i forgot beregond and his son! but he may be a minor noble who has lost their land but kept the memory, or he may be a commoner of ithilien of numenorean descent. i dunno.

i’d say both.

so, uh. it must die or die? that’s the choice?

people above 60 and people below 59.

only that one year should you be allowed to use social media.

and that vision is … more austerity? more collapse for the poor and more champaign for the rich? fucking AI?