JubilantJaguar

The catastrophic typo has completely undermined your three paragraphs of beautiful typo-free blurb. Re-read your copy before posting, people.

And also in the oil giants, which are far worse for the world than Tesla.

Search results, sure. Personally I have rarely if ever wanted to save or share such URLs. But sure.

Sure, but my script only gets rid of the second and later parameters, i.e. ones with & not ?. Personally I don't think I've ever seen a single site where an & param is critical. These days there few where the ? matters either, but yes YT is a holdout.

automatically modify a YT link to a designated invidious instance or whatever

Surely that's the link that should be posted, then?

using your GitHub

It's not yours, it's Microsoft's.

This is a really good question. I've also been wondering why there seems to be no obvious go-to service for blogging, i.e. full-form authored text, in the same way there are for photos (Pixelfed), video (PeerTube), and of course microblogging and discussion forums like this one. Seems like an oversight.

Yes, there's WordPress. But IMO WordPress is just overkill for most use cases, with its massive database backend. Text is text, the web was designed for text and it worked before databases existed. A static site generator will generate a flat text site just fine (I've used them) but you need to host it.

Someday I’ll try self hosting but for now, I’ll pay for decent services.

Maybe you shouldn't even need to try?

I've changed my mind on this one. I used to believe in the utopian internet dream of everyone hosting their own stuff on their own domains. But managing domains and hosting are both a PITA. They require money, technical expertise (because security), and commitment (or else your site goes away). The URL of a blog article posted, say, right here is probably going to be more permanent that it would be on the average private site. And Archive.org is recording the content either way. I've come to the view that sites should be left to organisations, and individuals should do themselves a favor and just affiliate themselves to one of those sites. Against payment if appropriate.

Which leaves the question of which site?

You never define "clean".

To strip excess URL parameters (i.e. beginning "&", almost certainly junk) if the clipboard buffer contains a URL and only a URL (Wayland only):

if url=$(printf '%s' "$(wl-paste --no-newline | awk '$1=$1' ORS=' ')" | egrep -o 'https?://[^ ]+') ; then
  wl-copy "${url%%\&*}"
fi

On a road without dedicated bus lanes, then buses and cars are essentially fungible. Who wants to be stuck in a traffic jam inside a packed bus with standing room only?

If the bus has its own lane then it becomes effectively a different mode of transport with higher capacity and lower point-to-point time. At that point it will begin to induce its own demand. Similarly, new bike lanes and metro lines are always empty at first, then they fill up. And the resulting world is much nicer than the one where everyone was in a car.

The type of liquid should not make much difference. It's basically inescapable. At this point there's not much left to do except cross fingers.

Or drink tap water, which has far less of it and is obviously much better for the environment. To lose excess chlorine, just let the water stand overnight.

Rarely has a smiley been less appropriate.