Population Trends: Perception Vs. Probability

Yes, we're hitting the eight-billion mark in living humans this week. When I was starting grade school, I think we were at four billion.

Now, though, we have some debate over how difficult things are expected to become, how quickly, and in what ways exactly.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/8-billion-global-population-1.6646018

Canada: Financial News for the Precariate

It's nowhere near UBI. It's still something more than we knew to expect before in the present context.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-canada-workers-benefit-eligibility-boost-pbo/

Missiles, Politics and Owls

Good evening, everyone.

A Putinist missile gone awry from Ukraine struck Poland, killing two people.

DT-45 has declared his 2024 presidential candidacy.

I'm not happy.

And then there's this:

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/02/1133260919/an-owl-twice-attacked-a-washington-woman-a-biologist-says-its-becoming-more-comm