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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.

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.

Edit: Derek Thompson wrote yesterday in the Atlantic about the same topic. Probably much more fun to read his piece instead.

Taking the US covid-19 death and infection graphs from world-o-meter on July 2nd and aligning them in the time axis so that the first peaks match seems to reveal a couple of things:

• deaths will soon rise, and significantly.
• on the left side there are deaths before there were cases. The most coherent explaination is the the lack of testing in the beginning.
• while cases did slowly go down after the first peak, deaths did so to a greater extend. Probably since medicine caught up with treatment. Not one miracle drug but good old care and health care pros doing what they are doing. Because, well, they are awesome. Smart, dedicated, caring, just awesome. I hope they never venture on to the Internet and see how stupid and ignorant we all are.

In light of that situation somebody tweeted this:

If there ever was the essence of a turd-tweet, then this is probably up there. Yes he sputters non sense non stop. Pre reign, or now. It is just all self serving nonsense. What makes this one so bad is that this comes from the person who could save those hundreds of thousands of lives. I am of the conviction that there are no evil or good people per se. Just people in circumstances. But once in a while specific people are in power and put a significant and always unnecessary spike on human suffering by nature of them being in charge. This man qualifies. The US is in deep trouble since a small but ardent part of the population got convinced that his stupid man is the only option if you want ‘law & order’. For them it is him or anarchy. People outside of his camp really could do better in communicating that this is not the case.