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Re:In Memoriam: Tim Peters 1952–2026 by bongoman42 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @12:27PM (#50470891)
I was not aware of this, but I had an experience at PyCon 2022 in Utah where I realized how bad the Python community had gotten and turned me off them. I came to attend PyCon from India, I land up there with vaccination certificates and everything and they would not let me attend. Apparently, two vaccinations and a booster were not sufficient because the booster was 15 days past the 6 month mark. Also, they did not have Covishield (Astrazeneca in India) on their list. While I was rtying to explain this to them beside a wall with some 35 pronoun stickers to label yourself with, the guy would shush me if my mask even slipped a mm below the nose. While at the exact same venue, within the same lobby space, some gymnastics convention for high schoolers was going on and they had no masking nothing at all. It could not be more performative than this. I did manage to get in, but lost half a day.

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