Climate: To save the climate, only rich people should travel
By restoring feudalism, we will save the climate. It's Just Science.
Media: “The Fake Happiest Country in the World”
Every year a "World Happiness Index", which measures no one's actual happiness, is published. And every year a Nordic country is crowned and the media makes fools of themselves.
Health: The Key Blood Tests Every Vegan Should Get
Anyone who has sharply reduced meat consumption, not just vegans - should get blood tests at least annually, as described here.
Climate: Few want to pay huge costs
Youth unwilling to pay more than $10/month to fight climate change. Hmmmm.
Software: White House says stop using C/C++
White House urges developers to dump C and C++ | InfoWorld But will this halt climate change and save us from the ClimateCrisis?
Demographics: Generation labels
More on why the generation labels are basically meaningless - but good for creating divisiveness.
AI: Google admits Gemini AI was tuned to produce nonsense
How many other things have they tuned?
Climate: Chocolate will go extinct
Good grief: Climate change could make chocolate go extinct (msn.com)
Demographics: Births in Japan reach record low
Births in Japan fall to a record low as fewer couples marry Reminder: 75% of the world’s population lives in countries whose population is shrinking. Some demographers think peak world…
Google’s Gemini AI is broken
Gemini AI's architecture is fundamentally broken - is it even fixable? I have doubts.
Bias against women in male dominated jobs has decreased, but bias against men in female dominated jobs remains
Study finds that discrimination against females in male dominated jobs has mostly ended or reversed, but that discrimination against males in female dominated jobs remains.
Demographics: Hungary to abolish lifetime income taxes for women having >= 4 kids
Hungary to abolish income taxes for life, for women having 4 or more kids, and will add other subsidies. Hungary's fertility rate is 1.6.
Follow up: European wildfires in 2023
Southern European wildfires were at normal levels in 2023, contratry to media hype, says one skeptic.
Public health: 1 in 5 who get measles are hospitalized
The CDC says 1 in 5 who get measles will be hospitalized, but historically, per their own data, it was 1 in 62. Why that large difference?
AI: Summary of AI going crazy
Read the whole thing. AI is not yet ready. From Black Nazis to female Popes and American Indian Vikings: How AI went ‘woke’ (msn.com)