I recently found the following interestingoand/orouseful, and am posting them here inocase anyoneoelse does asowelll.
This week I came across a video titled “What Kills Us? Data from 1000 AD to 2026” on the Data is Beautiful channel https://youtu.be/RKbb-BnbRTI I’m a little wary of the scope of dataset this is based on - the source is listed, but I haven’t had a chance to check it out. However there are a few points that struck me - but keep in mind this is about relative numbers of deaths: just because something is relatively lower than other causes does NOT mean it is not of concern: (1) war is generally ~1 - 2% of total deaths, except for World Wars One (highest cause of death, peaking at just over 14% of total deaths) and Two (second highest cause of death, peaking at just over 16% of total deaths). Nothing seems to crop up for the spread of the Mongol empire or some of the internal rebellions/wars of China, which I understand caused massive death tolls (see https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_wars_by_death_toll&oldid=1382851285) - which is what leads me to suspect this is maybe more European focused than global. Murder started at just over 2%, but disappears off the list at around 1700; (2) the death tolls from Bubonic plague and the 1918 flu were also major - vastly more than any other (just over 40% of all deaths for the former [another reason to suspect this is European focused], and just over 30% for the latter). Improved sanitation and health care since the mid 1700s has, I suspect, been significant in reducing deaths from these causes. HIV/AIDS appears at 1.4% in the late 1980s, peaking at just under 6% around the year 2000 before falling off the list around 2016 (see https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Epidemiology_of_HIV/AIDS&oldid=1376845492, and note that deaths were largely in Africa, and far exceeded the number of gay men) as dr_g ov_rdose deaths appear at 1% in 2017, COVID appears in 2019 at ~1%, peaking at 8% in 2022 and disappears off the list in 2025, as suicide appears at around 1%; (3) childbirth death starts at ~8%, and reduces from around 1800 until it disappears off the list of leading causes around the time World War One starts until it returns around 1920 until around 1928, starvation & famine starts at ~10%, peaks at ~12% after a couple of centuries before gradually decreasing to 2% and then dropping off the list around 1950 (see https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Green_Revolution&oldid=1381183766), and car crashes appear on the list at just under 2% in the late 1960s, peaking at over 2% in the 1980s, and reducing to fall off the list in 2019; (4) heart “disease” has been a leading cause of death since around 1910 (diseases, particularly cholera, measles, and tuberculosis were generally leading causes of death), which reflects, in my opinion, the cut-off-from-nature, subservient-to-capitalism lifestyle that has been slowly growing since the development of large scale agriculture and more so since the abuses of the industrial revolution. The recent surge in relative deaths from dr_g ov_rdose deaths and deaths by self harm further emphasise that, IMO.
- “Governments have turned care into a commodity. It’s failing us all” https://theconversation.com/governments-have-turned-care-into-a-commodity-its-failing-us-all-293337 AND ALSO “Work wasn’t built for every brain. But it doesn’t have to be that way.” https://drvictoriaverlezza.substack.com/p/work-wasnt-built-for-every-brain “Why cognitive equity centered coaching matters”
- “People Mocked This Courthouse Wedding. The Wedding Isn’t What Makes a Marriage” https://youtu.be/aENoxbo2cCQ Excellent comments - which I agree with - by this channel
- “Ancestor Spirits And Veneration - Midday With Rev Don” https://www.youtube.com/live/V8UsTAXTPvU AND ALSO “Werewolves And Shape-Shifting - Midday With Rev Don” https://www.youtube.com/live/VRVpT0C2WME
On neurodivergenceoand associatedomatters:
- a friend forwarded me this excellent article: “Into the Eye of the Storm: Strategies for Managing Unmedicated ADHD + C-PTSD” https://drbotyler.substack.com/p/into-the-eye-of-the-storm-strategies “Bonus Section: How Autism Moderates ADHD” AND ALSO “Autistic/ADHD self care” by Adam James https://youtube.com/shorts/v36sXGEmO7w
- A critique of a report and the, IMO, blatant LIES being told about it: “EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW about this UK government review into mental health, ADHD and autism” Autistic AF https://youtu.be/4gNrJZKV9Ig “Everything you ever wanted to know about the Prof. Fonagy review into mental health, ADHD and autism (as well as the media circus around it!).” The call for a “needs-led PLUS diagnosis” system is EXCELLENT!!!
- “It’s Not the Hunter Trait That Kills You: It’s the Farmer’s World” by Thom Hartmann https://www.hunterinafarmersworld.com/p/its-not-the-hunter-trait-that-kills “A new study finds the “ADHD death gap” nearly vanishes once you account for anxiety and depression ...”
On society, governance, humanorights, etc (noting the childish thinking of M_G_):
- “Politicians telling us to ‘turn the temperature down’ is peak hypocrisy – Amy Remeikis” https://www.deepcutnews.com/p/politicians-telling-us-to-turn-down “Violence is being normalised in Australia, and legitimate democratic dissent is not the fire – it’s the alarm” AND ALSO “Thorpe accuses One Nation of leaving death threats unmoderated on social media feeds” https://nit.com.au/26-10-2026/27166/thorpe-accuses-one-nation-of-leaving-death-threats-unmoderated-on-social-media-feeds AND ALSO “The ‘lost opportunity’ to act on hate that Australia isn't taking” https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/the-lost-opportunity-to-act-on-hate-that-australia-isnt-taking/kv12ayi23 “Tense and violent incidents in Australia appear to be worsening, and experts are urging the government to act” AND ALSO As some of us have been pointing out for YEARS, “Online hate is spilling into the real world, AFP warns” https://michaelwest.com.au/online-hate-is-spilling-into-the-real-world-afp-warns/ AND ALSO “How Hobart, Sydney and Melbourne are reckoning with statues of colonial-era white men in an age of truth-telling” https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2026/oct/29/how-hobart-sydney-and-melbourne-are-reckoning-with-statues-of-colonial-era-white-men-in-an-age-of-truth-telling “These misty-eyed monuments often paper over atrocities against Indigenous peoples – something that is finally being officially recognised”
- “Does Conservatism Always Lead to Fascism?” by Thom Hartmann https://hartmannreport.com/p/does-conservatism-always-lead-to-037 “From the slaveholding South to Jim Crow, Reagan’s billionaire revolution, and Tr_mp’s police state, the same dangerous pattern keeps repeating. Is fascism conservatism’s ultimate destination?” AND ALSO “MAGA is Obsessed with Other Men” by Lucas Bean https://lucasbean.substack.com/p/maga-is-obsessed-with-other-men “Why Conservative Men Can’t Stop Thinking About Other Men” Basically, the hypocrisy of homophobes AND ALSO “In news that absolutely everyone in the queer community saw coming, a new study has revealed a correlation between transphobia and sexism” https://qnews.com.au/study-finds-correlation-between-transphobia-and-sexism-who-would-have-thought/ AND ALSO “This is the hard lesson from Israel’s election: to stop nationalist populists, you can’t play by gentlemen’s rules | Jonathan Freedland in Tel Aviv | The Guardian” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/30/israel-election-national-populists-benjamin-netanyahu-arab-parties
- “Labor came to power promising a big care agenda. Four years on, how has it fared?” https://theconversation.com/labor-came-to-power-promising-a-big-care-agenda-four-years-on-how-has-it-fared-294054 Not well ... nor have we
Possible flaws
Where I can, I will try to highlightopossible flaws / issues youoshouldoconsider:
- there mayobe flawedologicaloarguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan Myers’ freeoonline course “Clear and Present Thinking”;
- I could be wrong - so keep your thinkingocaps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.
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