Lady @Lady@cat.family

my take is that perhaps we can criticize the united states for its ethical and moral failings WITHOUT needing to fall back on a tired argument where it is singularly responsible for the actions of other nations and other world leaders, as tho its purpose in society is to be both the ethical rule and the peacekeeper/enforcer of geopolitical events and the rest of the world is but a current or potential colony that gets a bit unruly sometimes, sometimes with permission and sometimes without

damn i love the cold war

oh are we attributing and analysing international events as though they were solely orchestrated by the leaders of the united states and maybe, at best, a couple of specially designated enemies there·of in their eternal struggle for the fate of the universe again

aspiring to bourgeois levels of luxury isn’t very “end the american empire” of you

look leftists, when you say “in a world where i am no longer plagued by capitalism, i would ⸺”, we all know that you are just spraypainting the american dream with a mildly progressive patina. you’re not selling revolution to anyone here

read to you by Simon Jones

as a kid i didn’t think Bartimaeus and Harry Potter had much to do with each other but as an adult i recognize that “actually, the magic of British exceptionalism is a farce upheld by colonialism and slavery” is definitely responding to Something

i don’t love depending on G·N·U Make but there simply isn’t another option for what i’m trying to do

i have multiple times done something like $(and $(VAR), -e $(VAR)) when actually what you need is $(and $(VAR),$(space)-e $(VAR))

for the record, G·N·U Make strips white·space from each argument to $(and …) and $(or …) before expanding, not just the first one, which is confusing and definitely not documented

@jamey or

("date +%s" | getline); print ($0 - mean) / 86400

worked for me if you want to keep it in awk 😂

(macOS uses a fork of "The One True AWK”, not GNU awk, by default so the question isn’t purely hypothetical)