Interesting and informative pictures

[tinywheels]

Wrong thread, possibly?

Interesting that even this bike needs locking, informative that paris has a bike theft problem possibly worse than ours.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Interesting that even this bike needs locking, informative that paris has a bike theft problem possibly worse than ours.

I have seen similar locally and took it to be tongue in cheek as the kiddies bike has been there for a while.

 

[tinywheels]

I was impressed by the heavy duty lock

 

[PeteXXX]

Medieval times, apparently.. ⚔️
E&OE

 

[PeteXXX]

E&OE

 

[PeteXXX]

E&OE

 

[markemark]

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E&OE

...if you exclude humans.

 

[PeteXXX]

...if you exclude humans.

Do we kill 1,000,000 a year?

 

[markemark]

Do we kill 1,000,000 a year?

Depends how you view it and how far back you take action/inaction. I would say the actions of governments kills and saves in the millions. Several million die each year form starvation. I would suggest that governments could prevent this. In fact they could also make a huge dent in the malaria deaths each year. But is inaction the same as causing?

 

[Alex321]

Do we kill 1,000,000 a year?

Excluding war, intentional homicides are about half that.

Once you add in war, it will almost certainly be more than that.

And that is only intentional killings. If you include accidental killings (most of which are cused by some form of negligence), it will be more again.

 

[Witzend]

On that subject, a sobering one, especially for those who had a Ché poster in their wall at uni.

 

[classic33]

 

[presta]

 

[Punkawallah]

Excluding war, intentional homicides are about half that.

Once you add in war, it will almost certainly be more than that.

And that is only intentional killings. If you include accidental killings (most of which are cused by some form of negligence), it will be more again.

According to the UN, about 500,000 died from homicide in 2021. Some 900 died from legal executions and 240,000 from war in 2022.

 

[markemark]

c1.2m + die each year in road traffic. I would suggest the majority are by humans where at least one of them was negligent as opposed to mechanical or medical emergency.