Reading this made me wonder if I was having a stroke, because it seems like English but I don’t recognize so many of the words. 👴

Most cases of food poisoning come from bacteria on vegetables. Probably because people do eat a lot of raw vegetables, but don’t eat much raw meat.

Maybe in Spain?

If only someone had an article which explained it clearly. Oh well! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

They kept the records, but treated them as state secrets.

Why did you mention them not being US citizens then? 🤔

Could be Canadian, eh?

My own reading of that amendment is that it puts requirements on the US government, period. It does not limit things to US citizens.

Of course, I know that’s not the way the courts interpret the amendment. 😔

Can you give some examples? Do you mean the Supreme Court legalizing gay marriage in 2015? The #metoo movement in 2017? Black Lives Matter protests in 2020?

What do you think has gone too far?

You can be both?

I remember being annoyed when reading The Jungle because it correctly called out problems with industry, politics, and I think unions, but posited socialism as the way forward.

Now I see that I was just under the spell of capitalistic dogma, and it was completely correct in every way. 😄

I don’t know… it can last as long as the “great leader”. Spain’s fascism lasted almost 40 years.

Farmers tend to be right wing, and often exist as Republican counties in Democratic states. So probably also these farmers.

The global fertility rate (the number of child born per woman) has been declining since 1963 or so, and is almost at replacement level, which is usually considered 2.1 or so.

Population is still going up since global life expectancy is still rising, but the expectation is that population will peak in 50 years or so.

It’s also possible that the military had been using such a device for decades and it was actually prior art that invalidated the patent, but this was lost in the retelling. 🤔

My point is that if your variable can be None then you need the same pattern for the length check.

So for the Pythonic version:

if (foo is not None) and not foo:
   ...

For the explicit length check:

if (foo is not None) and (len(foo) == 0):
  ...

Honestly you’re probably better off using type hints and catching such things with static checks and not adding the None check.

You’d need to explicitly check for None if using the len() construct as well, so this doesn’t change the point of the article.

My ad blocker has blocked all pictures on this article, so I can’t say. 😄

Thailand has had a weird strictness around the king for a long time now.

We’ve had a similar ban in the Netherlands for a year or two now. Mobile phones were already not allowed in classes. Kids seem to have survived.