• dbtng@eviltoast.org
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    2 days ago

    Ya, totally. You make an obvious point.
    The only problem with that is that almost all of the humans that have ever existed … exist right now. Until we mastered this planet, there were very very few of us. We are now the most numerous mammal on the planet, and that’s by a far degree. There’s more of us than there are rats.

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      42 minutes ago

      almost all of the humans that have ever existed … exist right now

      This is wildly untrue. The recent estimation of how many humans have existed is around 100 billion. Half of the total population of humans ever to exist was before the year 0, with the other half since then.