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Re:Python's Preprocessor – Pydong by lhmadk on Friday August 23, 2024 @05:56AM (#41327640)
There are all sorts of easter eggs and jokes in Python, for example a joke about blind people that GvR prevented from being reverted:

https://marc.info/?l=python-dev&m=130991276326041&w=2

In 2024 suddenly everyone is grown up and corporate and has never done anything wrong.

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Re:Python's Preprocessor – Pydong by jszymborski on Friday August 23, 2024 @11:55AM (#41330051)
> In 2024 suddenly everyone is grown up and corporate and has never done anything wrong.

Trying to be considerate of others, even when they are different from ourselves, is indeed kind and good and does come with maturity. You needn't be corporate or have never done wrong to be considerate.

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Re:Python's Preprocessor – Pydong by 0x12343276 on Friday August 23, 2024 @12:10PM (#41330210)
Sure, but that is not the situation. Proposals of the original communists sounded good on paper, too. Then came Stalin et al.

They are saying that they are considerate. In practice they censor, get rid of opposition, talk rudely and haughtily to anyone not in their circle, publish defamatory and incorrect summaries of CoC "incidents" and mock people on Twitter.

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