Fun fact - zip codes used to somewhat correspond with phone numbers until the late 90s - you could use the first 3 digits to narrow down a geographic location, the following 3 for a population center like a city or county, and the remaining 4 are independent. That’s no longer the case nowadays though.
Not so fun fact - in the US the zip code eerily corresponds to your life expectancy, quality of life, and access to important services and quality education. Even if you leave after your developmental years, that starting location can impact your entire life.
Back when I spent the night at a Swedish airport I spent most of the morning shooting the shit with a lady coming back home from some tropical place. She’d previously worked in a government position, and after clearing up some gender confusion, she told me that before 1990 the final digits in our personal identity numbers used to correspond to where you were born as well as your gender. Nowadays it’s just your gender.
Our “person numbers” are essentially your date of birth combined with 4 digits, YYYYMMDD-XXXX.
Thus if you’ve a PID looking like 19890221-0271, you can infer that the person is a man born in Stockholm on the 21st of February 1989. This isn’t a valid PID however, as it doesn’t pass the Luhn algorithm.
Minor segue; trans people can and do get their PID changed to reflect them being man/woman rather than the gender assigned at birth. Non-binary people are unfortunately not represented.
Back in 1990 they changed the “place of birth” bits of the PID and is now assigned randomly. Up until then there were also a range of digits assigned if you were born outside of Sweden and had emigrated. Perhaps in the future they’ll do away with the gendering and just have the numbers assigned randomly.
now you are making me angry at my little brother. he moved, voluntarily, from a good QoL area to a moderate QoL area. Easiest measure to judge by, the average life expectancy for the towns he lived in, he went from 89 to 85. He did that over politics, not money. Little dipshit.
Housing in the US tends to be separated out by class and ethnicity. US society is designed to perpetuate class and race relations with little social mobility, and to treat people primarily according to their class and race rather than by their individual differences. People try, but everybody tries so that cancels out.
So most of the variance in quality of life someone will lead is determined by their race and class which are accurately measured by ZIP code (plus birth year).
The cool thing is this proves capitalism is more about class warfare than about profit. Trump can bankrupt a casino but because he’s upper class he kept getting offered money faster than he could waste it, while a lower class person who gets rich by chance is treated like an invader and gets systematically mistreated until their quality of life returns to the norm.
What Tiresia mentioned, along with other factors such as pollution and industry zoning as well (housing near industrial areas for example has higher rates of cancer)
The Autistim guy I know can tell you US zip codes so you don’t have to look them up
Fun fact - zip codes used to somewhat correspond with phone numbers until the late 90s - you could use the first 3 digits to narrow down a geographic location, the following 3 for a population center like a city or county, and the remaining 4 are independent. That’s no longer the case nowadays though.
Not so fun fact - in the US the zip code eerily corresponds to your life expectancy, quality of life, and access to important services and quality education. Even if you leave after your developmental years, that starting location can impact your entire life.
Back when I spent the night at a Swedish airport I spent most of the morning shooting the shit with a lady coming back home from some tropical place. She’d previously worked in a government position, and after clearing up some gender confusion, she told me that before 1990 the final digits in our personal identity numbers used to correspond to where you were born as well as your gender. Nowadays it’s just your gender.
Our “person numbers” are essentially your date of birth combined with 4 digits, YYYYMMDD-XXXX.
Thus if you’ve a PID looking like 19890221-0271, you can infer that the person is a man born in Stockholm on the 21st of February 1989. This isn’t a valid PID however, as it doesn’t pass the Luhn algorithm.
Minor segue; trans people can and do get their PID changed to reflect them being man/woman rather than the gender assigned at birth. Non-binary people are unfortunately not represented.
Back in 1990 they changed the “place of birth” bits of the PID and is now assigned randomly. Up until then there were also a range of digits assigned if you were born outside of Sweden and had emigrated. Perhaps in the future they’ll do away with the gendering and just have the numbers assigned randomly.
Or they might not.
now you are making me angry at my little brother. he moved, voluntarily, from a good QoL area to a moderate QoL area. Easiest measure to judge by, the average life expectancy for the towns he lived in, he went from 89 to 85. He did that over politics, not money. Little dipshit.
Elaborate on the life expectancy thing, please?
Housing in the US tends to be separated out by class and ethnicity. US society is designed to perpetuate class and race relations with little social mobility, and to treat people primarily according to their class and race rather than by their individual differences. People try, but everybody tries so that cancels out.
So most of the variance in quality of life someone will lead is determined by their race and class which are accurately measured by ZIP code (plus birth year).
The cool thing is this proves capitalism is more about class warfare than about profit. Trump can bankrupt a casino but because he’s upper class he kept getting offered money faster than he could waste it, while a lower class person who gets rich by chance is treated like an invader and gets systematically mistreated until their quality of life returns to the norm.
What Tiresia mentioned, along with other factors such as pollution and industry zoning as well (housing near industrial areas for example has higher rates of cancer)