Tero Rinne
LightNews LightNews
terorinne.bsky.social
Tero Rinne
@terorinne.bsky.social
71 followers 380 following 0 posts
Posts Replies Media Videos
Reposted by Tero Rinne
ourworldindata.org
There are huge differences in death rates from road injuries, even across high-income countries
Horizontal bar chart showing number of deaths from road injuries per 100,000 people in 2021 for 16 high-income countries; deaths include drivers and passengers, motorcyclists, cyclists, and pedestrians. Highest is Saudi Arabia at 45 per 100,000, followed by Oman 36 and United Arab Emirates 20. United States 11, Chile 9.5. Mid-range examples: Australia 4.8, Italy 4.8, Canada 4.4, France 4.4, Spain 3.7, Germany 3.3. Lower end: Japan 2.2, United Kingdom 2, and Norway, Singapore, and Sweden each 1.9. Annotation states that death rates in Middle Eastern high-income countries are 10 to 24 times higher than in those with the safest roads. Data source listed as IHME, Global Burden of Disease (2024); note that the metric is age-standardized for cross-country comparisons; image marked CC BY.
November 11, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Reposted by Tero Rinne
cristianvlad.bsky.social
Wonder why this scene looks so familiar...
#WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕
November 5, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Reposted by Tero Rinne
moultano.bsky.social
Perhaps instead of Columbus Day we can celebrate Columbian Exchange Day where we celebrate the food pairings that had never been possible before, peppers and onions, chocolate and coffee, basil and tomatoes.
October 13, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Reposted by Tero Rinne
danmckee.bsky.social
“What’s the charge? Eating a seal?”
October 13, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Reposted by Tero Rinne
mollymckew.bsky.social
Really interesting article on policing strategies and what may yield better results for communities — aka, solving crimes
Clearance rates for different types of crimes in the United States, 2023 Murder Assault Robbery Rape Vehicle theft 58% cases cleared 46 28 27 8 Source: Jeff Asher, F.B.I. • By The New York Times Compared with its peers, America overall does an unusually poor job of solving killings. The murder clearance rates of other rich nations, including Australia, Britain and Germany, hover in the 70s, 80s and even 90s. Several issues, including a lack of resources, the sheer volume of cases and a distrust of the police, have converged to make the jobs of American detectives much more difficult. "It's a serious problem," said Philip Cook, a criminal justice researcher at Duke University. In the 18th century, the Italian criminologist Cesare Beccaria devised the deterrence theory that criminal justice systems worldwide have depended on since. He cited three primary principles to deterrence: the severity of a punishment, the speed at which someone is captured and the certainty he or she will be found. American policy often focuses on severity. In recent decades, lawmakers responded to spikes in crime by increasing the length of prison sentences. They paid less attention to the certainty and swiftness of punishment. Yet those two other factors may matter more to deterrence, some experts say. If people don't believe the police will catch them - and quickly - then the length of their punishment won't really matter. Empty threats won't deter them. "The certainty of being caught is a vastly more powerful deterrent than the punishment," concluded the National Institute of Justice in its review of the evidence.
July 7, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Reposted by Tero Rinne
alala55.bsky.social
June 19, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Reposted by Tero Rinne
maxkennerly.bsky.social
Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.
katearonoff.bsky.social Kate Aronoff @katearonoff.bsky.social · Jun 18
Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
June 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Reposted by Tero Rinne
brujofaolan.bsky.social
June 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Reposted by Tero Rinne
paulrusof.bsky.social
I am officially one of The Ancients, Keeper of Knowledge of the Before Time
Post to the subreddit r/AskHistorians: What was navigation like for vehicle drivers in the United States before the internet and GPS? Before GPS devices and smartphones/cellular internet networks were a thing (Garmin company was founded 1989), millions of Americans were already getting around driving without the use of those inventions. How did they navigate? Did everyone need stacks of maps? Were drivers frequently lost? Did everyone have to understand the interstate system and use intuition to guide them? How burdensome was driving before GPS? Did drivers pay people to calculate an optimal route for them?
June 4, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Reposted by Tero Rinne
briantylercohen.bsky.social
In a healthy information environment, this would be front-page news.
June 1, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Reposted by Tero Rinne
tomgauld.bsky.social
My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com Books
Title: How to focus on writing your book There follow eleven tiny images telling a story. The captions read: Turn your devices off (a writer with a phone and laptop. The screens are dark). Put them in a drawer. Lock the drawer. Throw away the key. Leave the house. Do not look back. Keep to backroads and hedgerows. Feel your old life slip away. (the writer has shed his clothes) Sleep by day. Forage in the evening. Write by the light of the moon When you have a passable first draft, commit a minor crime and use your phone call to contact your agent. (the naked writer is in a prison holding a phone while an unamused police officer looks on).
May 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Reposted by Tero Rinne
profgalloway.com
He’s pulled the knife half way out of the economy’s back, but the injury (no longer a reliable trading partner) will take years to heal.

#stupid
April 9, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Reposted by Tero Rinne
ianwelsh.bsky.social
If you want parks, libraries and museums defunded, I consider you both a barbarian and my personal enemy. Fucking trogdolytes.

But it is funny to watch America destroying its universities/libraries/museums -- the intellectual underpinnings of its power.
March 23, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Reposted by Tero Rinne
anderspucknielsen.dk
This post will be quoted everywhere, and I hope journalists will remember to fact check the numbers. U.S. didn't even spend half the amount that Trump claims, and in fact Europe spent more than U.S.
chadbourn.bsky.social Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · Feb 19
Trump, the most thin-skinned man in politics, goes full on for Zelenskyy.
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump Think of it, a modestly successful comedian, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, talked the United States of America into spending $350 Billion Dollars, to go into a War that couldn't be won, that never had to start, but a War that he, without the U.S. and "TRUMP," will never be able to settle. The United States has spent $200 Billion Dollars more than Europe, and Europe's money is guaranteed, while the United States will get nothing back. Why didn't Sleepy Joe Biden demand Equalization, in that this War is far more important to Europe than it is to us — We have a big, beautiful Ocean as separation. On top of this, Zelenskyy admits that half of the money we sent him is "MISSING." He refuses to have Elections, is very low in Ukrainian Polls, and the only thing he was good at was playing Biden "like a fiddle." A Dictator without Elections, Zelenskyy better move fast or he is not going to have a Country left. In the meantime, we are successfully negotiating an end to the War with Russia, something all admit only "TRUMP," and the Trump Administration, can do. Biden never tried, Europe has failed to bring Peace, and Zelenskyy probably wants to keep the "gravy train" going. I love Ukraine, but Zelenskyy has done a terrible job, his Country is shattered, and MILLIONS have unnecessarily died - And so it continues..... 212 ReTruths 706 Likes
February 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Reposted by Tero Rinne
satuhelin.bsky.social
Romaniassa on käynnissä hurja somesaaga. Ehdokkaan epäorgaaniselta vaikuttava, poikkeuksellisesti kasvanut TikTok-suosio saattaa johtaa siihen, että koko presidentinvaalien ensimmäinen kierros mitätöidään.
Mies nousi äänikuninkaaksi puskista, ja nyt Romanian presidentinvaalit saatetaan perua hänen takiaan
Călin Georgescu sai yli kaksi miljoonaa ääntä ilman, että gallupit osasivat sitä ennustaa. Riittikö muutama päivä ennen vaaleja alkanut Tiktok-suosio vaalivoittoon?
yle.fi
December 2, 2024 at 7:09 AM
Reposted by Tero Rinne
alexblechman.bsky.social
One of the astronauts stranded in space hearing eerie noises is the same guy I wrote about for ClickHole back in 2015
Picture of astronaut Barry Wilmore with ClickHole quote “You never know true beauty until you see Earth from space, or true terror until you hear someone knocking on the space station door from outside. You look through the porthole and see an astronaut, but all your crew is inside and accounted for. You use the comm to ask who it is and he says he’s Ramirez returning from a repair mission, but Ramirez is sitting right next to you in the command module and he’s just as confused as you are. When you tell the guy this over the radio he starts banging on the door louder and harder, begging you to let him in, saying he’s the real Ramirez. Meanwhile, the Ramirez inside with you is pleading to keep the airlock shut. It really puts life on Earth into perspective.”
September 2, 2024 at 4:44 PM