Starbucks has turned into a teen hangout. Sort the modern version of the old malt shop of the fifties and sixties. I stopped going to Starbucks a long time ago, even though I still drink coffee. It used to be the place to go for meetings and nice conversations with friends. Now, they're just installments at Safeway. And the ones with sit-down tables look like McDonalds. This isn't the Starbucks of when the dotcom era was still booming.
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Oregon in the news. A company (NW Natural) is being sued because they're supposedly responsible for the heat dome of 2021. Well, Cliff Mass would differ with that belief. But this is Oregon, where lefties reign, so the climate change religion is believed so strongly. Funny, we haven't had a heat dome since then. Is climate change improving, then?
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Nice review on the privacy policies of VPNs. I'm surprised about Mullvad and Surfshark, that the techie privacy sites tout. I already knew that ExpressVPN and NordVPN were not perfect. Nice to know that my VPN has the top rating.
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As if you didn't know. LLMs don't really understand math. They just provide you with what looks like it could be the correct answer. Some of them still provide convincing answers, though.
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These three articles came out today:
Worldwide efforts to promote having more babies isn't working. The first comment says it all: "More
legalised abortions as a method of birth control, more lesbian and gay
relationships; what did you all think was going to happen for the 21st
century especially?"
Human Lifespan Might Be About to Hit a Ceiling, Experts Say. Looks like human lifespan extension will hit a plateau.
Human age reversal: Fact or fiction? Maybe we can reverse aging. And if that happens, perhaps it would be good to have more babies. It would be great to reverse some of the damaging effects of aging, for sure.
Then there's this graph. Not all countries are experiencing a decline in birth rates. What will this mean for global demographics?
