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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. 😄

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.

Gabbard was raised in a multicultural household.[8] Her mother was born in Indiana and grew up in Michigan,[9] and her father, who is of Samoan and European ancestry,[8][10] was born in American Samoa and grew up in Hawaii and Florida.[11]

From the Wikipedia entry for Gabbard.

I guess you haven't seen Top Gun: Maverick yet?

The Republicans have spent 8 years purging the party of all non-MAGA members. Congress struggles to do anything against the will of Trump. I can hardly imagine it would get a ⅔ majority to overturn a veto.

China buys American food, I think.

Citizens United wasn't legislation, it was a Supreme Court decision. The only way to fix it following the current rules is to ask the court again or to change the Constitution. Of course, if you are willing to just ignore laws then you have many options (see current Presidential administration for examples).

I mean, the stock market is still up 5% or so from a year ago. Which doesn't refute your point that it's disconnected from reality, but rather that the wealthy people are not exactly suffering due to a single day or even a few weeks of market losses.

Sort of like Sulla or Caesar, but without the talent?

I am quite sure. I was out with a friend and he got fined for not carrying ID. The legal requirement starts at 16.

Both true and not true.

The idea that you have to register to vote is not normal in most democracies.

For example, in the Netherlands you have to carry ID at all times, whether you are voting or just going for a walk. You don't have to register to vote, you just get mail a while before the election with a paper that you take to the voting booth, which is usually a few minutes walk away.

Such a system prevents fraud (which is already a non-issue in the USA, even with its confusing and difficult system), and also makes it easy for as many people to vote.

The goal of voter ID laws is to provide ways to disenfranchise people, by making things slightly harder and create plausible points to not count some ballots.