Thursday, March 12, 2026

In search of good news

I'm told that petrol is selling at $2.50 per litre, the highest price since I can't recall when.  Thanks, Donald.

Oh, so poor widdle Joe Rogan feels "betrayed" by Trump, does he?  Actually, he was betrayed by his own gullibility, given that there was every possible sign from his first term that Trump:

a.    talks BS continuously and no one can believe anything he says; and

b.    was completely in the pocket of Netanyahu.  

I haven't bothered reading in detail what Rogan said, but it would not surprise me at all if he pivoted to the pathetic, "I take no responsibility for my bad judgement - it's all Democrat's fault" line that I have seen surface on X (Kim Dotcom I think).  That is:  "if it weren't for Biden hanging on for so long and then Democrats running such a bad candidate, I wouldn't have voted for Trump, who seemed the better candidate."   It's ludicrous.  

Anyway - give me some good news, someone?   

I've done Google search, and asked Perplexity too - there are positive stories, of course.  But few that are grabbing my attention.  

Well, there is this:  A new study indicates that yo-yo dieting might actually be good for you.     

Oh, my Chinese AI Kimi tells me that the global suicide rate has fallen by 50% since 2000.  The source for that seems to be Our World in Data, but I can't find a graph confirming that.   However, it does seem there has been a big drop in China:


    All the more reason to continue my Chinamaxxing, I guess.  😄 

Anyway, Kimi has pointed me to a New Years article at El Pais (the Spanish newspaper I think) with a list of 44 ways in which the world has improved over the last few decades.  It's pretty impressive.  

There, AI did cheer me up.... 

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