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)
Society: The culture of perpetual outrage
The "culture of perpetual outrage" is now everywhere. Sort of like The Force, it surrounds us and penetrates through us.
AI: Microsoft Copilot conflates two different people
I used to work with the Eric Larsen described in the first two paragraphs. The last paragraph is a completely different Eric Larsen (see that person’s bio here). The errors…
Climate: Climate change to end Oreos availability
Hey, It’s Just Science: Climate change is coming for your Oreos | Bloomberg News (businessmirror.com.ph)
Demographics: Britain’s Fertility Rate drops to 1.49
Below 2.1 and a population is shrinking (not counting effects of immigration).
Health, Climate: In the future, ideal weight will be mandatory
Goldman Sachs says weight loss drug usage will grow U.S. economy. Not long before achieving an ideal weight is mandatory?
AI: Chat bots run off the rails
Gemini AI flew off the rails demonstrating that it is incompetent or it has been tuned to promote propaganda messaging.