• unexposedhazard
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    16 hours ago

    There are a lot of people in the world. Like a loooooot. Even if the % of non normies is only like 0.01% of the population that would easily explain those boats.

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      11 hours ago

      If there was a plague that had a 100% human infection rate and killed 87% of the people infected it would still only set back world populations to around the start of the 1900s

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        True. The start of the 1900s was no time for messin’ around and making babies. We had to go work in the mines

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      This is the real answer and the reason online bubbles are so sad.

      There’s so many different way to live your life and we are atrofied around a couple of equally bad options.