[RD] Daily Graphs and Charts II: Another 10,000 to come.

[Farm Boy]

Same reason as everyone else. Cost. They're pinched by the Russian war screwing up thier staple calorie supply line. I'd guess they can't afford as good food as they could a couple years ago. Maybe it's corrected by now. Some prices are back down. Takes a while to shake out in the butt section, tho.

I'm going to guess, that if we're very lucky, we might live to see the Ethiopians and Sudanese get fat. But that's wishful thinking.

 

[Samson]

Average lifespan of passenger cars at each year end in different countries

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[Arwon]

Data is not beautiful

 

[Samson]

Data is not beautiful

That graph is not bad for Australia. I am not sure how you make your cars last twice as long as Belgium or Ireland, I would imagine your climate is better for rust but rust proofing is so good these days I cannot believe that is it.

 

[Arwon]

Oh I just mean it's really hard to read lol

I'm guessing this gap is a function of cost tbh. New cars are real expensive.

 

[Samson]

Oh I just mean it's really hard to read lol

I'm guessing this gap is a function of cost tbh. New cars are real expensive.

Oh yeah, it is real ugly. New cars are much the same everywhere before tax, because they are global commodities, right? If governments can extend the life of cars within their country by a factor of two by changing their car import tax rules from Begium's to Australia's we all should have your rules for the environments sake.

 

[The_J]

I guess the car culture, repair costs, and regulatory requirements all have a part in this.

 

[Birdjaguar]

I wonder to what extent the data is driven by owners deciding or car reliablility in that environment. Most lines at or below 18 years are pretty horizontal. SK, OZ and Finland are the big exceptions.

 

[Samson]

I hesitate to make any sweeping generalisations about nationalities, but I wondered how much of the data is to do with crashes. One could say that Belgians drive fast, the Irish like their drink and some Koreans do not need much booze to be dangerous behind the wheel.

Am I right that Australia has very strict speed limit and drink drive enforcement?

 

[really]

Oh yeah, it is real ugly. New cars are much the same everywhere before tax, because they are global commodities, right? If governments can extend the life of cars within their country by a factor of two by changing their car import tax rules from Begium's to Australia's we all should have your rules for the environments sake.

Ireland has significant additional taxes on cars compared to Australia.
https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_price_rankings?itemId=206

practically it is probably damper climate + salt on the roads in winter + Ireland seems to drive 50% more.

The dates are relative too. It covers Irelands boom time when a lot of older cars were scrapped and replaced by new cars. There would have been a government scrappage scheme to get old cars off the road.

My banger was 16 years old when I traded it in last year.

 

[Samson]

COVID has given us shortsightedness

 

[Narz]

COVID has given us shortsightedness

We're devolving into spending more than half our day staring @ a 2D screen a couple feet from our face, use it or lose it I guess

 

[Arwon]

COVID has given us shortsightedness

Pretty sure I had that before covid

 

[Samson]

Pretty sure I had that before covid

From the article:

The COVID-19 pandemic didn’t just reshape how children learn and see the world. It transformed the shape of their eyeballs.

As real-life classrooms and playgrounds gave way to virtual meetings and digital devices, the time that children spent focusing on screens and other nearby objects surged — and the time they spent outdoors dropped precipitously. This shift led to a notable change in children’s anatomy: their eyeballs lengthened to better accommodate short-vision tasks.

Study after study, in regions ranging from Europe to Asia, documented this change. One analysis from Hong Kong even reported a near doubling in the incidence of pathologically stretched eyeballs among six-year-olds compared with pre-pandemic levels.

 

[Arakhor]

There is some evidence that children spending time outdoors is actually vital to our eye health. It's theorised that a lack of sunlight during primary school age can cause faulty regulation of eyeball growth and thus lead to an epidemic of myopia, particularly in East Asia, where children spend so much time indoors studying at an early age.

Staring at screens all day can easily cause eye strain, but does not seem to lead to increased rates of myopia.

 

[Arwon]

Man I spent plenty of time outside when I was as kid, and I still needed glasses at age 10, and now am so myopic I can't find my glasses without having my glasses on, and gave to be checked for detached retina every year, and already had some preventative laser treatment to keep part of it from tearing away.

Just lost the eyeball lottery I guess!

 

[Arakhor]

Ouch! Sorry to hear that! As I recall, some 20% of us will need glasses by the time we're teenagers, simply due to genetics, but the incidence rate doubling (or even more!) in recent years seems to be lifestyle-induced.

 

[Samson]

I reckon Randal has never tried riding a unicycle.

 

[Samson]

 

[Samson]

Source

Also

Spoiler Legend :

Number of working-age adults from 1950 to 2100 in the reference scenario in the ten most populous countries in 2017

Working-age adults are defined as individuals aged 20–64 years. Past data are from GBD 2017. GBD=Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study.

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