pyesetz | Random Links of the Day for Wōdnesdæg (Reply)

Weather. The lowest low in the recorded history of meteorological lows is currently in the Bering Sea. This is expected to produce unseasonably-warm weather for me throughout January, by sequestering all the cold out West.

Racism: In Boston they have now taken down a statue of a Black man kneeling before a Republican. The original statue in Washington DC had been paid for in 1876 by freed Blacks, but this Boston copy from 1879 was funded by a “circus showman” who had white skin — the colouring of the money-donors’ skins is supposed to explain why the two statues are being treated differently.

Incompetance? These numbers do not add up. Only 87% of the people expressed one of the three opinions about how financial institutions have been responding to the pandemic, yet somehow this chart-row extends all the way across and is labelled “100%” at the bottom right. All the charts in the linked article are like this, but Fig. 1 is where it’s most egregious.
I think they should either include an outlined white box in each row for the “no opinion” people or just rescale each row to be 100% of something: “Of the people who expressed an opinion, 29% approve of how financial institutions have been handling the pandemic”.
This chart is from Probit, Inc., which is part of EKOS Research Associates. These people present themselves as a professional polling company. They seem to be implying in this article that they were paid for this work by the Government of Canada using tax dollars. I expect clearer, less obviously-wrong charts from suppliers to Her Majesty’s Government, monarch in right of Canada (Head of the Commonwealth, Fidei defensatrix).

Insanity? In the news: Anthony Quinn Warner’s ex-lawyer tried to warn cops over a year ago that Warner was building a bomb in his RV. Being a lawyer, he now claims that the story should be about Warner’s ex-girlfriend, whom he apparently was representing at the time when he told the cops that he (still) represented Warner. But the girlfriend seemed suicidal so there wasn’t much the cops could do with the wild story about her ex-boyfriend.
Pic unrelated, because I couldn’t find any usable pictures of Attorney Raymond Throckmorton of Nashville TN.