Favorites November 24th 2021

Jason Furman @jasonfurman

And my favorite, people kept buying a lot in supermarkets even as their restaurant spending returned to normal. I've tweeted about that before.

Jason Furman @jasonfurman

People are buying MUCH more food than every before. Purchases for off-premises consumption (e.g., supermarkets) are 8% above trend while food services (e.g., restaurants) are very close to trend. These numbers are adjusted for inflation so a real increase in quantity or quality. https://t.co/w8oYFSKeQz

I do not understand what's going on here... food waste? More expensive calories? (meat/dairy instead of grain).

Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell

I feel attacked

Felicity Disco @FelicityDisco

Breaking: Yet another task I was dreading for days took 15 minutes. No, I will not learn anything from this.

I have dreaded tasks blocking other dreaded tasks.

John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch

Here’s a reworking of a brilliant @PaulMainwood chart using the same format: As boosters roll out, lines turns red, and then arc upwards as waning immunity is reversed. You can already see early signs of 50-69s beginning to turn as they go from blue to ... I wanna say lavender?

Boosters: you should get one.

Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston

if you ever wondered what it was like to join the New York Times as part of Wirecutter 🙃nymag.com/intelligencer/…

The Wirecutter staff is on strike btw

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

New German coalition sounds awesome — less coal, more immigrants, teens voting amp.dw.com/en/germanys-sp…

Teens voting is very unpopular, definitely not worth campaigning for in the US, but I at least agree that it's a good idea on the merits.

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

SF is having a police strike

sfchronicle.comSan Francisco police just watch as burglary appears to unfold, suspects drive away, surveillance video showsSecurity footage shows an incident from a cannabis dispensary that was burglarized last...

Seems relevant to the recent increase in buglaries.

Brian Deese @BrianDeeseNEC

Worth stepping back and taking stock: A year ago, there were 21.1 million unemployment insurance claims the week of the Thanksgiving holiday. This week, 2.4 million.

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla

JPMORGAN: “.. we are revising up our tracking of current-quarter real annualized GDP growth from 5.0% to 7.0%” https://t.co/AZV67ezVzM

Would be nice to see an increase in his approval rating, but maybe that’s too much to hope for.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

There was this extensive pressure campaign to get left of center people to refuse to go on Rogan, it was fairly successful, and it is now backfiring in an incredibly predictable way.

Anna Merlan @annamerlan

Joe Rogan is solidfying his ties with the far right, while at the same time returning to be one of the most prominent faces of the UFC and a linchpin of Spotify's podcast network. And no one making money from any of this seems to mind a bit: https://t.co/cZ5wxPNwLs

While Rogan is unsavory, he's got a massive audience of people who aren’t particularly politically engaged, if you want to appeal to median voters, this is who you have to talk to.

Noah Witherspoon 🎃 @mahalis

more useful travel learnings: if the restaurant says they’re not accepting credit cards because the electricity is out, and you idly wonder “then how are they refrigerating anything?”… maybe take that question a little bit more seriously. especially when it’s a sushi restaurant.

Are they running the kitchen by candle light?

Colin McMillen @mcmillen

South Korea is remarkable for being a country that is doing quite well by most objective measures of education, health, employment, personal & press freedom (etc) despite having had quite a long series of former presidents jailed for corruption https://t.co/izfauRYAiL

Carrington Clarke @carringtonAU

Former South Korean military dictator Chun Doo-hwan has died at age 90. This means all living former South Korean Presidents are currently in jail.

Seems like an indicator of a country changing so fast that politicians don't realize previously acceptable corruption is no longer going to fly.

Mike F @DeputyWarlock

My family's special Thanksgiving eve tradition is everyone gets to have one bite of the raw bird before bed as sort of a teaser for the big day

Happy Thanksgiving Eve!

Eventually I’ll get around to publishing that Cranberry Sauce Recipe