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@pixx @egallager yeah, I was cussing about bash printf the whole time. But, I cuss about it all the time because you can't pipe to it without xargs, as well.

@pixx @egallager oh, wait, we can awk to save a few more chars. This is almost not terrible, and it does not require bash. It works in every shell I tested (csh and dash, which is a minimalist mostly POSIX shell, in addition to bash), while the nice `echo {a..z}` only works in bash.

seq 26 | awk '{ printf "%c\n", $1 + 96 }'

@pixx @egallager we golfin'?

seq 26 |xargs -I{} sh -c 'printf "\x$(printf %x $(({} + 96)))\n"'

They call options related to this "feature" "get a room", which somehow makes it more annoying.

OK, Discourse (the forum software, not "the discourse" about any current news) made me mad today, and that's not something that ever happens. I love Discourse, but this one is crazy.

I get mad when someone PMs me, and this damned forum software is telling people to do it behind my back. This is a support forum for an Open Source project, people are not allowed to ask for private help without paying for it. It is bonkers to recommend taking public conversations private.

#Discourse

@jonathankoren and, Xitter has been passing around the made up stuff about a gun and ammo with "trans ideology" etched into them. I don't know what the shooter was thinking, but right wing extremists commit the majority of terrorist violence that happens in the US, by far. So, playing this odds, the shooter is probably a right-wing extremist.

We'll know more eventually. The likelihood of getting away clean from an assassination in broad daylight with cameras/crowd is low.

@jonathankoren I mean, this guy wouldn't be out of place in this meme.

This seems to be the shirt. Made in China, of course.

Definitely a groyper?

@BlackAzizAnansi Newsom and Obama!

@MLE_online yeah, they're built real tough. I'm sure whatever is left of the engines is well past dead, but the chassis has to be sturdy as heck. Those things were in service for decades. Drop whatever running V8 you can find for real cheap in there (I'm sure it'll fit, whatever it is), good brakes and sturdy springs, and you've got yourself a runner. They're heavy, but Lemons isn't all that fast and looking cool is more important than winning.

@MLE_online those would be amazing Lemons cars. "Free" is well under the $500 limit, though you're gonna spend a lot more than that getting them driving again. #24HoursOfLemons

Like, I never paid enough attention to him to really understand it. But, I just spent an hour or so looking through his greatest hits, and it is stunning. The glee with which he celebrated death and violence, especially political violence, is hard to believe in a mainstream figure. I mean, if a leftist or even a "centrist" talked even once like he spoke every day, they'd be shunned and their funding/advertising would fall of a cliff.

He became a multimillionaire from this stuff.

It is remarkable how obviously this man worshiped death. I mean, many have been saying MAGA is a death cult, and were proven right by the COVID response. But, Charlie Kirk really believed, or very loudly pretended to believe, in mass death as a good in and of itself.

Setting an example. https://www.newsweek.com/charlie-kirk-death-penalty-public-executions-1873073

@voxofgod https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTkLLQjgoEU

@donray and, Daniel Perry (convicted of the murder of a Black Lives Matter protestor, later pardoned by Greg Abbott), and Daniel Penny (choked Jordan Neely to death on a subway), and a wide variety of other politically motivated violence.

Celebrated the pardon of Daniel Perry, who was convicted by a Texas jury of the murder of Black Lives Matter activist Garrett Foster in 2020.

Having to rethink some of my priors about magic. https://www.jezebel.com/we-paid-some-etsy-witches-to-curse-charlie-kirk

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/turning-point-usa-americafest-infested-antisemitism-1234930583/