Used to work retail and blindly and unethically chasing the metric at all costs was a sure path to carreer success.

Maybe once you run a whole-ass government, you’re no longer terrorist.

Seems to work for the US & Israel.

Not knowing is what makes us human.

“Passive income” is a crazy obsession, like water for fuel.

Cool! Thanks!

Is this standard PERL stuff? How I learn what all these things mean? One day I hope to write my own arguments.

Thanks! I’ll dig into this tonight. The man page could use a bit of work, too, if you’re feeling generous. A lot is assumed to be known.

Edit: Your entry is winning “shortest code” so fa r…

editted for clarity. thanks. I have a bad habit of not providing context. underdeveloped theory of mind.

Because I need to preserve the Season and Episode information.

Replace 'Star Trek The Next Generation Season ’ with ‘S0’

Replace 'Episode ’ with ‘E0’ or ‘E’ depending on digits

Keep episode title as is.

Yes, the “etc.” part. Imagine I have 7*24 episodes following this convention. How do I rename them all in one swell foop?

I’ll look into it. I’m going to be running a media server eventually, so thinking learning the command line arguments would be a good investment.

In this case, I’m moving these onto DVD and the truncated file names will all look the same on the DVD player, so I need to shorten 24*7 files.

Re-phrased the title. It’s a plain language question.

You know what really grinds my gears? When people use AI to write personal opinions–that’s not reality, it’s illusion, and that matters!

What you’re hoping for is that governments go back to protecting people instead of being used by the rich to transfer wealth from the citizenry.

Everyone knows gambling has zero social benefit and does a lot of harm. But none of that matters because you can show up to a few congressmen with a few thousand dollars and they’ll do what you tell them, and no other congress critters will get in their way because every other congresscritter wants support for their grifts.

Government is working hard to find a million ways to redistribute wealth upward. Public advertising of gambling is just one more sign of corruption.

I remember all the conversations I’ve had that started with the other person saying, “Can you believe so-and-so gets paid $x million dollars for playing [sport]?!?” and ended quickly with me asking, “Can you believe the owner makes $X million dollars for doing NOTHING”?

It’s more satisfying to downvote it.

That might have been a comment more about OTTERS specifically than extroverts. They are, after all, carnivores; the males are also inter-species rapist necrophiles.

The Earth King has pre-emptively invited you to Lake Laogai…

Yeah, I saw it for the first time when I was in my mid-30’s. Amazing show. Might be the inspiration for my first tattoo.

I saw one at the Goodwill last week for $20, so they’re still out there. Maybe you’ve been pretty good about clearing your space, but a lot of people just keep accumulating junk until they have to spenddown to qualify for a medicaid-covered nursing home, or, worse, leave it for their children to clean up.

And, yes, absolutely I love thrifting for the hunt… I’m I stopped watching Sex and the City at the end of Season 2 I have two copies of season 4 and one of season 5, but I’m waiting for season 3 to show up at the thrift stores.

That’s not hollywood, that’s humanity. We only have so much going on in our personalities, and whatever stories we tell have to to be relatable somehow. It would be perfectly possible to come up with a novel story, but it probably wouldn’t have any emotional resonance.

Horse opera to space opera is pretty hilarious, though. I’m spending more time with some older music–from the 1940s and 1950s. I firmly believe that 90% of everything is crap, and always has been; looking through the past is an almost automated “best of” filter.

That said, modern industry has some of its own tragic quirks; for instance, Netflix demanding its writers create shows assuming that people are only half paying attention (second screen viewing), or now AI’s ability to simulate music, at a time when the art of learning ANY skill, much less a musical instrument, is dying…

Thanks for the kind words about gaming; it was a struggle, because I loved how involved I got with it, but I’ve accepted it’s probably not going to happen again and it’s time to move on to other hobbies.