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Nana Kwame Bediako, a property developer popularly referred to as Cheddar

Mr. Bediako — “THE BIG CHEESE”

(it’s way too easy, I know)

FUN IS HEREBY OUTLAWED FOR PURPOSE OF GREAT SOVI^WRUSSIAN TRIUMPH

Oh good, so I have to wait for them to reach “critical mass” for them to stop treating me like shit because I don’t celebrate their holiday?

My point was that I do not seriously believe that supporting them will lead to a better outcome. I’m sorry to see that you felt attacked.

I have left this community as a result of this thread, so I hope you will find peace in that.

Secondly, the U.S. is majority Christian. How would that marginalize the holiday?

Proponents of putting more religion in Christmas seem to eschew so much commercialism.

Do you really think making Christmas more religious would somehow stop people buying presents for each other and listening to Christmas music?

Of course not. The Christmas economic juggernaut won’t stop for anything at all. There’s way too much cash flow at stake. Most people still believe in gods and ghosts and jolly gift givers, so most will never become atheists or abandon the tradition. At the same time the “put Christ into Christmas” lot will never reach critical mass because the numbers of the truly faithful and deep-pocketed are dwindling.

WTF? It sounds like you do not like Christmas. I sympathize and agree with you. Why do you downvote and argue against my proposal to marginalize the holiday? Your hostility makes no sense at all.

It should be a minor holiday, celebrated by few. It shouldn’t be shoved in my face or yours. It shouldn’t be a two month PR shitstorm.

You misunderstand me. Take Christmas out of prominence in the society and put it back into the religious domain. Let them have it back, in a scaled back, watered-down way.

If you are atheist, why do you care what happens to Christmas? It was once a religious holiday, now co-opted by capitalism. Let it die a slow death along with the rest of Christianity.

I support efforts by the religious to put Christ back into Christmas. I really do. I agree that Christmas should not be about materialism and the economy and fulfillment of social expectations. It should be a small religious holiday celebrated by whatever real Christians are left.

It should be, buy a gift for a bestie, buy one gift each for family members, say some prayerful nonsense, and have a nice meal. Not people trying to outdo each other with decorations, or making sure we spend enough on everyone, or making sure the Christmas cards go out on time, or making sure we cut down a tree to display in our living rooms.

It’s the very materialism quoted in the article that brings me down. It’s the social expectations with Christmas that flood me with unhappiness and anxiety and make this such a miserable time of year. So I support them taking it back and scaling it back.

The healing of religion—and many such cases have been genuinely healed—comes, like the healing of any other abnormal condition, through the application of the truths of life and man as taught in Science. These truths include rational thought, scientific theory and experimentation, rejection of groupthink, and the elevation and celebration of fellow women and men as Equals.

FTFY

Yellow Stars of David will be handed out at the detainment camps; all inmates expected to wear them

In U.S. religion today, “the most important story without a shadow of a doubt is the unbelievable rise in the share of Americans who are nonreligious,”

“Unbelievable!” cries the righteous, convinced of their value

With luck, it’ll eventually get all the apemen. Time to let evolution pick our successors. Humanity is a dead-end.

My favorite way to implement this is with decorators. I used this to make a dispatch table for reading objects from a MySQL database.

(Yes I know I should be using UserDict below. You should too and don’t subclass dict like I did.)

class FuncRegistry(dict):
    """Creates a registry of hashable objects to function mappings."""
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)

    def register_for(self, key: Hashable) -> Callable:
        """Decorator to register functions in the registry.

        Parameters

        key: Hashable
            The key which should point to this function

        Returns: Callable
            Returns a decorator that registers the function to the key"""
        def decorator(fn: Callable) -> Callable:
            self[key] = fn
            return fn
        return decorator

qreg = FuncRegistry()

@qreg.register_for('foobr')
def handle_foobr(arg1, arg2):
    # do something here then
    return

qreg['foobr']('ooo its an arg', 'oh look another arg')

edit: formatting

As an armchair scientist and a Chicagoan, I support this stunt. :)

But seriously, as I observed elsewhere, 0.1 µSv/banana is way higher than 3.9 µSv/yr.

• if they get a tattoo advertising the public transport system.

No thanks

Are bananas next? 0.1 µSv/banana is way higher than 3.9 µSv/yr 😱

Indeed

‘Tis better to .split() in the cloud than never to .split() at all

Fantastic news. This will help me immensely!

Having it run locally would be even more help for my use cases. I often have lists of IP addresses in my sheets, and it would be helpful to ping them directly from Python code. But I can work around that with fping or nmap.

Sounds like this won’t be the right tool for your use case

No, that’s actual persecution. It’s not the “religious freedom” nonsense prevalent in the US.