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  • I am a little curious about the conditional. I have a suspicion that this is a bit of over engineering.

    The problem you seem to be trying to solve is “I need to access the same data in multiple ways, places, or projects.” That’s what a database is really great for. However, if you just need to combine the same csv files you have on disk over and over, why not combine them and dump the output to a csv? Next time you need it, just load the combined csv. FWIW this is loosely what SQLite is doing.

    If you are defining a method or function that performs these ETL operations over and over, and the underlying data is not changing, I think updating your local files to be the desired content and format is actually what you want.

    If instead you’re trying to explore modules, imports, abstraction, writing DRY code, or other software development fundamentals- great! Play around, it’s a great way to learn how might also recommend picking up some books! Usually your local library has some books on Python development, object oriented programming, and data engineering basics that you might find fascinating (as I have)





  • There was not a world-wide flood that killed all creatures except a few dozen animals and a couple humans on a boat.

    The earth is more than a few thousand years old.

    Life as it exists today evolved over billions of years as a result of natural selection. It was not created over the course of a week.

    A young man was not resurrected after being crucified.

    Angels did not destroy Sodom with fiery meteors from heaven, and no woman was turned into a pillar of salt by an omnipotent (and benevolent!) god.

    A young man did not cure leprosy, create bread and wine from nothing or transmute water into wine, walk on water, heal the blind, or otherwise use magic to cure illnesses.

    I can go on.

    Btw claiming that there are no objective morals is not the same claim as “Christianity objectively determines morality.” My claim is about whether an entire class of things - morals - are objectively determinable. Yours is that they are objectively determined by a specific book.


  • Except true science can and very often does contradict religious belief. What face value reason Galileo was punished for is immaterial to the correctness of his claims. Whether the earth is the “moral center” of the universe is both unprovable and unproven. Maybe there’s another earth out there that is more moral than ours. Maybe the Bible is true, but was planted here by aliens from the true moral center of the universe and all the references in the Bible are about them, not us.

    There is no such thing as religious truth. Religion cannot make truth claims about things like morality because there are no truths about morality - it is necessarily subjective.

    That website is making a bunch of demonstrably false claims about geocentrism that are not worth the time to debunk. The earth isn’t even the center of the solar system, much less the universe.