https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-9-questions-im-obsessed-with
Especially #2
1. What's behind the socialist groundswell in the Democratic Party?QuoteIn 2013, the median age of respondents to surveys by the Democratic Socialists of America was 68. By the first year of the Trump administration, it was 33.
Elsewhere: college grads under some age (25 or 30?) went 84% for Mamdani
2. What technology is changing the world faster: AI or GLP-1s?QuoteBut when one zooms out to analyze the big macroeconomic indicators, where's the AI effect?
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Compare AI's record with that of the other major technological development of the 2020s: GLP-1 drugs. These drugs are already reducing obesity (and inflammation, and maybe cancer and dementia), which will likely extend average life spans. A study of GLP-1 data in Denmark found that the drugs are reducing long-term sick leave by 17 percent. A 2025 study from Cornell University found that households with at least one GLP-1 user reduced their grocery spending by 5 percent and shifted spending away from chips (10 percent decline) and toward yogurt and fresh fruit. Spending on salty snacks and alcohol is projected to plummet in the next decade, a trend to which GLP-1s are contributing.
6. Are balding, chubby guys with erectile dysfunction going to live forever?With a wink and smirk. Prompted by recent news of secondary positive health effects of GLP1 (chubby), propecia (balding) and Viagra and Cialis (ED).
If you are being medicated for those three conditions, you are also apparently lowering risk of all cancer (Viagra and Propecia), improving blood vessel health (Cialis), and all the GLP-1 knock-on benefits.