The Side Effects of Endorphins

Portion of Americans who say that the election was one of the most stressful events of 2024: 3/5

Portion of me who thinks the election is one of the Stressful events of next year. 1/1

January 2025 • Source: YouGov (NYC)

Who say that they didn’t care who won and “just wanted it to be over”: 3/10

Portion of me who wants to live in another country 4/5

January 2025 • Source: Talker Research (Brooklyn, N.Y.)

Estimated percentage of corporate spending in the 2024 election that came from the cryptocurrency industry: 44

January 2025 • Source: Public Citizen (Washington)

Percentage of Americans who own cryptocurrency: 7

January 2025 • Source: U.S. Federal Reserve Board of Governors

Percentage change since 1982 in the portion of profits that U.S. corporations spend on philanthropy: −37

F%ck Musk, Gates, Trump Zuck

January 2025 • Source: Giving USA (McLean, Va.)

Percentage change since 2021 in the portion of Americans with a favorable opinion of Elon Musk: +25

Portion of me who thinks he is a foolish clown, 3/3

January 2025 • Source: YouGov

Estimated percentage change since 2022 in preorders of new iPhones: −27

There is hope.

January 2025 • Source: Similarweb (Givatayim, Israel)

In sales of flip phones: +76

January 2025 • Source: International Data Corporation (Needham, Mass.)

Portion of Americans aged 18–30 on social media who describe themselves as influencers: 1/4

I know 25 percent of them

January 2025 • Source: IZEA (Orlando, Fla.)

Portion of self-described influencers who have never been paid for this work: 1/2

Rank of mental illness among the strongest demographic predictors of an American plotting an act of terrorism: 2

Its the F***ing Guns

January 2025 • Source: National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (College Park, Md.)

Rank of serving in the military: 1

Its the F***ing Guns

January 2025 • Source: National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (College Park, Md.)

Portion of Americans who say they go to great lengths to avoid conflict: 7/10

January 2025 • Source: YouGov

Who believe that World War III is imminent: 4/5

Well if we divide through by 4/5 it will be WW 2.4

January 2025 • Source: Talker Research

Percentage change since 2013 in U.S. box-office revenue for comedy movies: −31

January 2025 • Source: The Numbers (Beverly Hills, Calif.)

For horror movies: +70

Thats kind of funny.