Friday, July 28, 2023

Stuff

 

Stuff

When Watts plays, the Steelers win 59%, when he doesn't play, 9%.

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According to the latest figures, Japan’s population declined by 800,000 in the last year. That makes 14 consecutive years during which deaths outnumbered births.

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Ohtani pitched a 9-inning 1-hit shutout yesterday and hit two home runs. 
His day should be reported every day with the regularity of the weather or the stock market.

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Does anybody believe that Biden is making government decisions? So, if he's not, who is? And did we elect him? And, as an aside, are the people who support Biden's 'leadership" the same people who always talk about the risk to democracy?

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A 17-year-old boy was stabbed and killed in Pittsburgh’s Schenley Park.
The stabbing happened a little before 12:30 a.m. Thursday below the Panther Hollow Bridge.

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Originally a radical leftist, Vargas Llosa embraced neoliberalism long ago, but in the past few years, he has shocked many by endorsing Latin America and Spain’s rising authoritarian far-right movements.

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Only four of the 100 most-cited scientific papers on AI in 2022 were German. That compares with 68 for the U.S. and 27 for China.

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