While I agree with your sentiment, the EU is waaaaay more dependent on the Chinese market than the US. This bears catastrophical economical risks. Also the EU would probably harms itself way more than China, so it is debatable if this would make sense at all.

Yes, he’s great data scientist. He has more stuff on his webpage, e.g. bias analysis of the different polling institutes, be sure to check it out if you like!

Short version is they cannot govern without a coalition partner, but they gain other rights in the parliament, such as filling important positions in the administration. When they reach 1/3 of the votes, so 33% they have a Sperrminorität, which means they can prevent changes in the constitution and also hinder new judges in the constitutional court.

Source: https://dkriesel.com/sonntagsfrage

No, Putin’s Puppet Orban is who is breaking apart the EU, for many years now.

But I heard the US wanted to bomb the shit out of Iran anyway, if they don’t comply. Why would sanctions be necessary then?

Embarrassing

Sir, I will make sure to never bother you with a PR and my terrible, terrible code ;)

This is what I would come up with:

try:
    if len(foo) == 0:
    ...
except TypeError:
    ...

There is no need to add a None check, as foo being None should be considered as a faulty input. Avoiding the possibility of foo being None from the beginning using static checks or testing is of course the preferred solution. But in reality we do not work in such optimal environments, at least I can say that from the perspective of data science, where often procedural, untested code is produced that runs only a few times. But I get your point and I think both paths are viable, but I am also okay with being in the wrong here,

I am not saying it’s better, just that I don’t like the proposed way :) I would argue that being “pythonic” has even less value than the Zen, which I quoted because it’s true, not because it is some strict rule (which it isn’t anyway).

You could argue I also need to write that extra code for the if not case, as I explicitly have to check if it is None if my program somewhere further down expects only lists.

Hunting for those sweet milliseconds is a popular game in the Python community ;) if this mechanism is that important for your program, you should definitely use it, I would do as well!

But None has no len

if not foo:  

-> foo could be an empty list or None, it is ambiguous.

len(foo) will lead to an exception TypeError if foo is None, I can cleanly catch that.

It suggests I deal with a boolean when that is not the case. Explicit is better than implicit, and if not foo to check for an empty list may be pythonic, but it’s still implicit af

I don’t like it very much, my variable could also be None here

Absolutely agree. I just use it for some simple stuff like “every nth row in a pandas dataframe slice a string from x to y if column z is True” or something like that. These logics take time to write, and GPT usually comes up with a right solution or one that doesn’t need a lot of modification.

But debugging or analyzing an error? No thanks

No need to get snappish.

You never addressed my points but are discussing about something else.

Factual information, education should go on continuously on every possible channel to reach everyone. Yes, even 4 years before the election.

This is not what I said. I am speaking about election polls.

The media is not innocent in the rise of the AfD. Reporting about how strong the AfD is getting is the strategy we use for years now and it just makes the party stronger.

Regarding Volt: I recommend to listen to this interview with the German top candidate of VOLT, I’ll promise you won’t ever think again of wasting your vote for this party

Nobody should care for election polls 4 years before the next election.

I never said it should not be done, I just said the approach is likely not successful. I would be careful with the “centralist mindset”. Centralization towards instances or towards communities are very much different things.

Also, I don’t understand the feddit.org thing. Why is a German instance “feddit.org” as if it’s the main feddit instance?

I don’t really understand what you mean here, could you elaborate?

Most of the communities are empty or driven by a single person. I appreciate your efforts, but that:'s not how Lemmy works. Communities grow naturally, one by one. You cannot just create 20 communities and hope everybody is jumping in. We can be very happy we have some active communities such as !europe@feddit.org, that are not hosted on lemmy.world.

Besides natural growth, Lemmy is also about trust. It was not easy for !europe@feddit.org to gain trust back from its users after feddit.de failed, but over time it worked out and feddit.org managed to become a reliable and trusted instance within the lemmyverse.

Who promises us that europe.pub won’t go down in a month? Who moderates all these communities once they get bigger, that one posting person?

The ridiculous thing is, digital earnings like the billions from Meta, Google etc. are not getting counted into the trade by Americans. Wonder how the trade deficit would look like if we did that. Apart from that, nobody wants to buy your ugly cars here, they wouldn’t even fit to our streets. It’s not like you couldn’t produce something for the European market, if you wanted. Nobody is interested in something like the Ford F150

Why is the European Space Agency speaking up to this topic