World War 1 was so traumatic for Europe because the terrible weapons of mass destruction that they had been using to dominate the rest of the world were suddenly being used on them.

I think this is probably similar for people in the US who are not in a minority now, along the lines you describe.

For real. After the Trump/Biden debate the entire world could see that Biden was too far gone to be President.

Trump can do whatever he wants. The Supreme Court said so, Congress won't complain, and he has already completed the first round of purges of the executive branch.

He could declare a horse his co-consul and the only downside would be some snarky mentions in some histories written by the senatorial classes.

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.

Born to be fucked? 🤔

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.

The weird thing is that the book presented the idea of only veterans being allowed to vote as a good thing, unironically. The Wikipedia entry is interesting:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers#Reception

That's Starship Troopers. 😄

I thought that it was the Spanish in Cuba who invented the concentration camp. Although both the UK and the US immediately thought, "great idea, let's do that!"

Don't you have mountains hills between you and England?

Is it true that modern factory jobs are sitting at a computer? I've watched a few "how stuff is made" videos and am always amazed at how much labor goes into almost every step.

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. 🤔

Sorry I should have just deleted that rambling text before posting, but oh well.

To be clear when mention gay there I just mean sexual attraction to the same sex, independent of any attraction or not to the other sex (or non-binary people or whatever).

I find labelling of sexual preferences a bit tedious. Having labels can be handy when they serve as a shorthand, but sexual preferences have all kind of identity-building connotations.

So, personally I think someone who identifies as a man is attracted to other men for any kind of sex, that's gay. Having preferences for what particular kind of sex doesn't change that.

I know a lot of people don't feel that way. For a lot of cultures and people what makes it gay is a man being poked with a dick, whether that's in your mouth or ass. That's why when they are trying to figure out risk for diseases they ask if you've had sex with a man, not if you're gay.

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:

 undefined

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

  

For the explicit length check:

 undefined

    
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.