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Macro Oceans has opened up a pilot manufacturing facility in West Sacramento. Congratulations to the team on the milestone. Coverage by the Sacramento Biz Journal is here.

India is going surpass China as the most populous country in the world next year, according to Pew Research. China’s population is expected to decline by 46% by 2100 according to the UN’s middle of the road projection.

The population cliff ahead of China is astounding. And a fact that has been true all my life (China is the most populous country in the world) isn’t true any longer.

In the United States, 39% of adults say they believe “we are living in the end times,” while 58% say they do not believe we are living in the end times, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey.

Christians are divided on this question, with 47% saying we are living in the end times, including majorities in the historically Black (76%) and evangelical (63%) Protestant traditions.

From Pew Research. I wonder what the trend line is like here.

In the past five years, according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), “people have reported losing a staggering $1.3 billion to romance scams, more than any other FTC fraud category.” In 2021 alone, that number was $547 million, which was a nearly 80 percent increase compared to the previous year.

That is from RF Jurjevics at Vice writing about romance scams targeting women and the men who’s social media photos are used by the scammers. Found via The Browser.

From Ezra Klein’s show with Maryanne Wolf about the children’s show Cocomelon

[They] have set up a room, the place that makes Cocomelon, where they will have a kid watching the show. And set up next to it is another screen that shows an adult just doing normal household tasks, just sort of wandering around doing whatever you do in the house. And if the child becomes distracted from Cocomelon by what the adult is doing, they go back to the edit and they amp up the interestingness, the cuts, the whatever makes a Cocomelon episode interesting.

As a product manager, I admire the understanding of the use case and the commitment to execution, but as a parent…