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The British royal family are the descendants of the Norman William the Conqueror.

It's not entirely true that it's unrelated to Thanksgiving.

That day originally became a popular day to start Xmas shopping because a lot of people took that day off, since Thursday is a federal holiday, but the actual Thanksgiving festivities were over.

The name Black Friday comes from the nightmare experienced by store staff, shoppers, mall cops, etc on a day of extreme overcrowding and sometimes fights over discounted items.

The reference to being 'in the black' was invented afterwards to try and make the name seem more positive.

The marginal value of your time was not $0. You could have been doing something other than shopping with your time. That thing could have afforded you pleasure or had some other utility. The dollar value of that utility was not zero.

Even resting has some benefit to you. Unless your only alternative is some mildly unpleasant activity which doesn't allow you to rest, that time was not valueless.

Python 2 was supported for 20 years. Python 2.7 (largely compatible with other Python 2 versions - and including backported changes from Python 3.1 - was supported for 12 years).

The Python project went absolutely above and beyond to support users who wanted to drag out making not particularly complex changes to their codebase for over a decade.

During this same time they improved Python 3 in response to feedback and among other effects, made it less different and easier to port, from Python 2.

Many common packages supported 2.7 up to its end-of-life as well.

One of the reasons that Python is often a source of compatibility errors is that both distros and large standalone applications embraced Python in the early 2000s, became dependent on a particular version, and then refused to work with newer versions.

Python is not responsible for all the engineering decisions everyone writing in the language has ever made.