One of my favourite random things when reading novels where people get murdered is to count the number, work out the population homicide rate, and laugh a bit because it's usually worse than Columbia in the 1950s by A LONG WAY
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The current series I'm reading has had ~20 murders in a rural area in about a year, and given the population would be at roughly 100 homicide deaths per 100k Colombia, 1954, 38 per 100k
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We tend to think that murder is relatively common, but in Australia (where these books are set) the homicide victimisation rate is about 1.5 per 100k people per year, or 0.0015% risk, overall, and about half that in rural areas
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Yelling is considered rude, but I do mutter it to my wife who then angrily shushes me
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