Odds and Ends — 3 November 2021
Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, and Debt:
Global Supply Chains Are a Mess
Last year the global economy came juddering to a halt. This year it got moving again, only to become stuck in one of history’s biggest traffic jams. New indicators developed by Bloomberg Economics underscore the extremity of the problem, the world’s failure to find a quick fix, and how in some regions the Big Crunch of 2021 is still getting worse. The research quantifies what’s apparent to the naked eye across much of the planet — in supermarkets with empty shelves, ports where ships are backed up far offshore, or car plants where output is held back by a lack of microchips. Looming over all of these: rising price tags on almost everything.
Like clockwork pic.twitter.com/SBjFgdmAyy
— PlanB (@100trillionUSD) November 2, 2021
Laotian government budget expected to gain $194M from crypto miners by 2022
China Sparks “Panic Buying” After Telling Households To Stockpile Food Ahead Of Winter
Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:
Covid-19 Deaths Are More Likely Among Men, but Why?
While anti-vaxxer Kristy Swanson is in the hospital with COVID-19, I’m reminding the world that this is by far the best Buffy Summers. pic.twitter.com/Xn9ZSdCtG5
— Middle Age Riot (@middleageriot) November 1, 2021
Netherlands reimplements mask mandate as COVID-19 cases surge
Politics:
Giuliani Seeks to Block Feds from Seeing 3 Items
Rudy Giuliani is seeking to prevent prosecutors from seeing just three items out of the more than 2,000 items contained on electronic devices seized from him as part of a criminal probe. The items were contained on seven of the 16 devices seized under search warrants executed at Giuliani’s Manhattan apartment and office in April.
Thanks for making it easier to find incriminating evidence. We were getting tired of watching cute cat videos.
Raffensperger Warns of More Political Violence
The Georgia election official who defied pressure by Donald Trump to “find” votes and overturn his 2020 election loss in the state says the brutal condition of American politics could lead to more protests and violence like the Jan. 6 insurrection by Trump supporters. Said Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger: “What really bothers me the most is that people are now trying to minimize what happened on January 6. I find that really, highly objectionable … People need to know people did that.”
Adventures in delusional thinking: QAnon Backers Gather for Announcement From JFK Jr.
Half of Republicans Doubt Their Votes Will Be Counted
Well, if they really believe that, they shouldn’t bother voting. Problem solved.
Roger Stone Threatens To Run For Florida Guv If DeSantis Doesn’t Do Trumpy Election Audit
The Pandemic Through A Mirror, Darkly
Today we’re talking about inflation, ‘labor shortages’ which really seem to be code for people unwilling to work for pre-Pandemic wages and other issues that are immediate and often viewed through a short-term electoral prism. But we should have in the backs of our minds that we’re seeing shifts in mass behavior that at present we don’t really understand or understand only in the most limited ways. Social cataclysms of such duration that reach so deeply into everyone’s lives never fail to have transformative consequences that reach far into the future. This must be even more the case when they hit a society already in the midst of great social stress and instability.
Curtis Sliwa tried to bring his cat to vote. It got weirder from there.
Why 2024 is going to be way worse than 2020
Serendipity:
Spain energy crisis: Soaring bills hamper recovery from Covid
Badge thanks to @arcange
Meme credit: JustinDespair (source)
