A piece from today that points to the lack of guidance from companies in the last 3 months:
If you ask me it makes sense. But I am waiting for a significant correction for quiet some while now. Like the broken analog watch shows the right time twice a day, my crash predictions will eventually come true as well. OK, this time its real. I could bore you with the arguments for that outcome. But maybe just remember that by the end of 2020 stocks will be much much much lower than they are right now.
After having watched 2 Seasons and 1 Episode it might be that Dark is the best Netflix series I’ve watched.
The yellow jacket being worn by the “Jonas Kahnwald” is great. Trying to buy it the Internet has lots of lures out. It seems that one can buy it everywhere. On closer inspection sadly the resemblance ends with the color. Non of them are the real deal, 90% are not even close. Via reddit I found this from – sadly – 2 years ago:
Seems that two years is ample time for scammers to drum up lots of really fake offerings and SEO the living shit out of it. Most of the jackets are yellow, and thats that.
It would be awesome if the genuine jacket design produced in good quality. Anette Guther did such a fantastic job on the series overall. It would only be fair if Netflix puts a bit of a budget into a small production run of the jacket. Back in my day this kind of thing would have at least produced in a small series for cast and crew. But that was Hollywood. Netflix makes better content (sometimes) but the fringes and perks might be ‘streamlined’ here are there. For all what I know it could even have happened, and I am just unaware.
Since the design is so emblematic one doesn’t even need to stitch in a logo. Netflix would benefit from it as much as the people buying it: They would buy what they want, instead of getting ripped of by some Internet profiteers.
In the meantime, if you have not watched Dark yet: Congratulations. You have a couple of interesting hours ahead of you.
color the face orange and the morph will be complete. That one missing divorce is just a detail. Americans don’t sweat little stuff like that.
Aatish Bhatia wrote this wonderful tool that lists new Covid-19 against existing one on two log axes. It can be super informative, since different countries have different policies. By its nature this way of showing the data syncs countries up in terms of the start of the spread. On the left part one can clearly see that there is a very similar initial spread.
Countries like the UK or Canada stop the rise and eventually are able to lower the number of new infections. I could imagine that once masks became the social norm you would see this clear decline. But this is a wild guess.
Sweden is strange, just based on the data it seems to have gone through different phases with different levels of mitigations. I don’t know enough about that countries specific measures to be to able to find reasons for the mix of up and steady movements.
After the US had broken the natural spread it actually looked better than the other countries in this image. Then, suddenly it did no longer. I have not found that anybody made a plausible explanation attempt for this. Unfortunately fact finding is not a goal in itself in the public discourse in the US. As I have written before the right is probably waiting until dead people start piling up again, before they cite the BLM protests as a cause. The left is just using the increase as support for the ‘see, he can’t deal with it’ message. While I agree that he can not really, I still would love to know what caused this pattern.
A pattern that will kill thousands and thousands people in July and August. Unless it is just the sudden brilliance of the US testing industry. Nobody in their right mind would believe that. Sad state that one has to wait for body bags. I will revisit this page August first to see who was right, the man in charge or myself.
Edit: Now it is August 1st. And Covid is killing more than a thousand people in the US every day. There is still no clear reason why this would be, but it happens. F*ing sad to be right. I’d rather be wrong.
Arte zeigte gestern den Film Auf Einmal. Casting kann wirklich als gelungen bezeichnet werden. Eine Einschätzung die man auch auf die Wahl Altenas als Drehort und die Ausstattung erweitern kann. Gerade die hyper reale Textur der Innenarchitektur verleiht der literarischen Sprache einen wirklich interessanten Kontrapunkt. Das Stück brilliert in den Nebenschauplätzen: Das Heer der allesamt 29-31 jährig scheinenden Bankangestellten ist wirklich prägnant in Syene gesetzt. Dabei spielt es nicht wirklich eine Rolle, wie realistisch alles den nun ist. Die Fiktion von Asli Özges Stück hat ihren Ursprung im Deutschland der Zehnerjahre. Unprätentiös weiterentwickelt trägt sie, und bildet einen durchaus anschauenswerten Rahmen für die Handlung. Um die es ja dann auch geht. Mir hat sie gefallen. Der Film weckt Interesse auf die Serie Dunkelstadt des gleichen Regisseurs.
Anmerkung: Das ich nun ja gar nicht schreiben kann, stört mich eigentlich und ganz offensichtlich nicht. Hier tut es mir aber dann doch leid. Der Film hat es nicht verdient mit so derartig schlecht aneinandergereihter Worten beschrieben zu werden. Sorry. Besser geht eben leider nicht. “Jetzt geb dir doch einfach mal Mühe” fruchtet nicht. Seit sehr langer Zeit.
Sadly 126 workers died in a jade mine accident in Myanmar, the country known as Burma in colonial times.
Nine years ago 1 worker died from radiation in the Fukushima accident caused by the tsunami that in turn got caused by an earthquake.
In Germany said Japanese disaster caused the ‘Energiewende’. Nuclear power plants were to disbanded. Yes, 9 years ago climate change already was a thing. Contrast that to the ‘plan’ to stop the mining and burning of coal by, wait for it, 2038.
In 2020 I doubt that parts of the US public would tolerate it well, if a Hollywood movie, helmed by a British director no less, would let people climb around Mount Rushmore.
The monument in Dakota is much less ancient than people might think now. For us it has always been around. Depicting people from the beginning of the US, but it was only 18 years old when Hitchcock created his masterpiece.
I had no idea that during election years gun sales were up. Lets face it: The US is a semi-developed country. Leading in the number of aircraft carriers under sail, nuclear war head, Covid-19 deaths, prison population, entertainment, GDP.
Sometimes a headline exposes the lack of geographic knowledge: I asked myself if Russia and North Korea even share a border. The answer were: No (memory) Yes! (maps) No, not a land border (zooming in)
And, as so often, the headline spawned thoughts in the wrong direction: the event tool place on the ocean anyway.
Even though much of it was brewing before he came into power, he really really really wants to be associated with it:
