How to format your strings in Python

Python offers several main ways to format your strings: Using + operator between elements to create a string, eg name + ” is ” + age + ” years old” Using curly braces and format like “{} is {} years old”.format(name,age) Using f strings like f”{name} is {age} years old” Using join like ” “.join(name, …

Working definitions of racism

Any definition of Anti-Semitism, one of the most ancient forms of racism in this world, must include people like bin Laden and Adolf Hitler as being anti-semitic because they were. Still, it also must necessarily exclude people like Hannah Arendt, who, as a Jewish German woman in the 1940s who wrote some of the harshest …

Big changes in Armenia

Armenia is sending a delegation to Antalya, Turkey on March 1 to participate in a diplomacy forum, and Macron went to Armenia yesterday as Armenia announced it has frozen its participation in the Collective Security Treaty Organization, a paper tiger Russia set up as an “alternative” to NATO but so far has been rather toothless. …

The Simple Solution to Homicide

So I have a dataset that I have curated from public data over the last 7 years and continuously updated with the latest data. I include data focusing on political economics (look at this blog, surprised?) and it includes lots of variables. For this regression, I handpicked the following statistics: pfi 2021 is the Press …

Worse than Tories

UK and Germany back a sustainable ceasefire So why can’t the United States? David Cameron is the foreign minister of the United Kingdom. Yes, the same Prime Minister who led Britain into its largest foreign policy debacle since the colonial era. I disagree with David Cameron on most issues. He was a horrible Prime Minister …

Why the Western Balkans haven’t joined the European Union

A response to How the EU Failed the Western Balkans by TLDR News. The reason the Western Balkans have not joined the European Union is simple: the remaining Western Balkan states have not finished closing their accession chapters to join the European Union. If we use the Democracy Index, Montenegro, Albania, and Macedonia all had …