Sometimes. You should hang out with some kids with FASD or serious development disorders.

The freakonomics book is BS and not filled with much or any factual evidence. Check out the podcast "If books could kill" where they do a deep drive episode on it debunking the claims.

For other reasons this is happening in Italy too, but always in a decentralized way. Cities like Milan, Boulogne and Rome are becoming very attractive for students and workers, but also very expensive because of the lack of rentals room and houses.

The case of Milan is emblematic, in the mind of many people it became the go-to city if you want to have success (study in a high level university, find a good job with a good salary, have a good career path or run an innovative business). The price to rent an house or a room increases so much that many people live very outside the city center, in places not well connected with the public transportation.

This says absolutely nothing other than the central limit theorem exists. Christmas is not seemingly any more or less deadly than average.

Between any given day, the amount of murders that happen is going to fluctuate a lot due to the relative rarity of murders. If you average lots of these days, or 365 of them in the case of a year, it converges toward an average.

You can think of each day as a "sample". Lots of days is a larger sample. This convergence is explained by the central limit theorem.

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_limit_theorem

Yes, I wonder what happened in 1980. /s

People don't realize how important kids are to our survival and mental well being. They can also drive you crazy of course but the joy they bring outweighs the annoyance.

The title is blatantly MISLEADING. Its statement cannot be derived from any data shown in the map. The map shows "population density" and only highlights how densely Paris is populated compared to the rest of France. Even for this metric (population density), comparison to Italy is not possible without colorbars. AGAIN: the title is just wrong, the map allows no conclusion over the de-/centralized nature of France and Italy.

As a french person it’s awful if we are honest.

Most of the politic and economic activity happens on Paris meaning that’s where the jobs are too, many people have to go live in Paris to study or work making it an overcrowded and super expensive city.

Extreme centralization is honestly a terrible way to run a country.

I mean I see how it’s kind of efficient to have all the decision centers at the same place but it’s no fun for the average Joe who has to deal with it.

Then one foggy Christmas Eve

Santa came to slay

Rudolph, with a knife so bright

Silent, to n’er cause a fright

Santa never even saw him

Never had a chance, you see

Don’t bring a knife to a gun fight

He won’t even count to three!

That’s the actual count on Christmas Day, year by year. It’s a different number each year.

In addition, cold batteries drain faster than warm ones.

Rudolph the sawn-off shotgun

Had a very shiny nose

He took out all the family

They used to be so very close

A country that was not invaded recently. A country that is actually a collision of 3 different states that even today try to keep their unique identities and show how different they are from the rest.

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I was going to say something about former Italian city states too, but you've said it much more eloquently

> Im guessing here, but maybe they're counting Kosovo as a part of Serbia. That would maybe explain this.

Kosovo [just makes up the difference](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)). So, they'd be around equal if that was the case.

Here, on the other hand, there's a noticeable difference.

The argument from the freakonomics guy is that in around 96 the generation who were born once abortion was legalised started to become adults. At that time you had a huge reduction in the number of kids being born into situations where they were unwanted/ couldn’t be cared for/ or there were drugs etc involved. With that reduction came a matching reduction in the number of people growing up to be disfunctiknal adults.

Or something like that.

Randomness and disparate sample sizes/an ugly line graph

This is fascinating, thank you for sharing. You can see how the countries’ different histories affect them today.

It’s more than that.

• https://www.acs.org/pressroom/presspacs/2022/acs-presspac-june-8-2022/lithium-ion-batteries-that-last-longer-in-extreme-cold.html

>When temperatures fall below freezing, cellphones need to be recharged frequently, and electric cars have shorter driving ranges. This is because their lithium-ion batteries’ anodes get sluggish, holding less charge and draining energy quickly.

Though if I were in Norway, I would put in a kerosene heater, since as you mention, it’s a battery drain.

A generation of men with undiagnosed PTSD and drug induced mental illness from the 60s and 70s working its way through the system is my guess.

Important note is that newer EVs use heat pumps which are much more efficient than resistive heaters

What is that 110% rule of thumb based on?

Electric cars don’t have a hot engine to rely on for heating the cabin and instead use resistive heaters. Huge power draw. There. Saved you a click. Shame on OP for posting without this explanation.