Coordinates

 

Y Axis Charlatans

Stole this graph from Joseph Moore over on Yard Sale of the Mind. A distorted Y-Axis is one thing that is guaran-damn-teed to set me off, so I am very pleased to find someone who agrees with me. 

Joseph has a few things to say about the statistics of death. Coincidentally, I had something to say about it yesterday. Realized later that perhaps I should have included gun deaths in my comparison. They are in the same range. Oh well, maybe later.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, I have got my puzzle solving program completed. I mention it here because I am using the X & Y coordinates to locate the puzzle pieces in the playing field. Well, the program is 'complete', but there is a bug in there somewhere, so it is not actually able to solve the puzzle. All the little bits and pieces seem to work just fine, but there is still something very wrong, I just can't see it.

Meanwhile, also at the ranch, our internet connection died yesterday morning. It's back now, but it still seems to be a bit crippled. Earlier this morning I couldn't reach most websites including gmail and this one. When feedly came back, I found a post on Schneier on Security that claimed the big ransomware evil doers were down and out. Heck of a coincidence that they go down and MY internet goes down at the same time. What if the ransomware dudes decided to skip the small fry and just fuck the entire internet? I suspect it wasn't malicious, it was just typical sloppy, commercial business operations. The one guy who was keeping the stack of server farms from turning into a cluster fuck took the day off and all the other nitwits were in meeting about some kind of panty-waist chickshit. i.e. nobody was watching the fucking store. Or it might have been a guy with a backhoe.

Death

 

Annual Number of Automobile Accident Deaths

Annual Number of Drug Overdose Deaths

I was surprised to find that that number of deaths from drug overdoses was so high. In the last few years it has exceeded the number of deaths from automobile accidents.

Every year about three million people die in the United States, about one percent of the population. Most of those deaths are old people.

The combined total of the automobile accident deaths and drug overdose deaths is less than 150,000, which is about five percent of the annual total for all causes.

"During 2020, COVID-19 was listed as the underlying or contributing cause of 377,883 deaths (91.5 per 100,000 population)." - Provisional Mortality Data — United States, 2020

That means COVID related deaths were about 10% of the total.

Death

US Population and Annual Number of Deaths, 1950 to 2017
As you can see, up until the summer of love (1969) the number of deaths every year is about 1% of the population. It has dropped a bit since then. No explanation for the slight bump in the the population around 1969-1970.

Marcel posted the numbers and I put them in a spreadsheet because that's who I am.

Numbers from Monday Evening

Funeral Whalers?

Let's Talk FUNERAL STRIPPERS
Tawain! Haven't heard much about Taiwan lately ever since big brother Red China started throwing their weight around and snarfing up all the bandwidth devoted to news about Asia.

The documentary she mentions (at the 2:30 mark), Dancing for the Dead: Funeral Strippers in Taiwan is available on Amazon.

Via Randy & Jack

Death

Murders in Chicago vs. American War Dead
Kind of puts things in perspective.

Via Bayou Renaissance Man

Murder

There is always an article about some murder or another in paper, but in the last couple of weeks there have been three really bad cases. Bad because they involved children. There was the woman who threw her two kids off the Sellwood Bridge into the Willamette River in the middle of the night, the man who shot his two kids and himself at a nature preserve south of Hillsboro, and the woman who killed a pregnant woman for her baby. I just hope we are done with this kind of thing for a while. Three incidents in two weeks is just too much. Probably put us on the map. The kids who were killed in Hillsboro went to the elementary school two blocks from my house.