I am bored. Kevin McCarthy just lost his 7th vote for Speaker, amassing his usual 201 votes. Matt Gaetz switched his vote from Byron Donalds to Donald Trump. Here are a few miscellaneous charts to keep you entertained while we continue this dreary process.
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Lucy and football?
Honest, it will be different this time....
And another mass shooting / murder suicide in Utah! Is this responsible for all the extra murders? Gun nuts doing mass murder then suicide? We need a chart.
If only they would do the suicide thing first.
Looking at the Kevin McCarthy vote chart, one is reminded of the definition of insanity.
I cannot fathom the "Number of Friends" chart. What do Low, Medium, and High mean?
Short, normal and stoned.
I wanna know, too.
Number of Friends episodes played per day, by channel number?
That is just the percentage of people with a "Low" number of friends - meaning 0-2, etc. So people are reporting less friends now than 30 years ago.
He's lost the eighth ballot too. It just won't be official for a bit.
Chart of candy bar size changes since January 2014,
https://i.redd.it/k6c0qbpt61y81.png
and this on top of how shrunk they already were.
Except for, ooh, Jaffa cakes. What the hell are Jaffa cakes?
Glad you asked! Per wikipedia:
Now I want one. Better yet, a whole box.
They sound ok.
The default assumption among media about Biden is that he is "historically unpopular." For example:
NPR
The Hill
FiveThirtyEight
CNN
WaPo
NY Mag
Others
Based on the chart above, it looks like his approval is historically normal.
The last chart could easily be more informative with just a bit more complication:
1) Include bars for the top 3 vote-getters in each round.
2) Make it a time-series bar chart by adding a dimension for votes x round of voting in the last 5-8 Congresses; this would require rotating the graph 30-45 degrees so that a z-axis going off to the left is visible. 4 candidates received votes in 2021 (2 each recvd 1 vote), because some blue-dog dems had promised to oppose Pelosi, but she, being Nancy Pelosi, nevertheless won easily (or at least it looked easy).
The friends chart reminds me of this joke: Jesus' greatest miracle was having a dozen close friends in his 30s.
Well, actually only 11 unless you count Mary Magdalene. Judas and Jesus had a bit of a falling out, you could say.
Heh.