This was the standard answer. Or was it 19?
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The average growth rate from 10,000 BCE to 1700 was just 0.04% per year.
Wow that’s crazy to me. I had always envisioned humans steadily spreading and growing constantly. I had no idea that we were basically treading water for so long.
I love stumbling across random information like this. I had no idea that mint spread so aggressively - and will likely never need this information. But it’s fun to learn.
jballs@sh.itjust.worksOPto Space@mander.xyz•Astronomers say new interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS is 'very likely to be the oldest comet we have ever seen'English0·1 day agoUniversity of Oxford astronomer Matthew Hopkins is part of a team of scientists that think 3I/ATLAS, discovered on July 1, 2025 by the ATLAS survey telescope, is around 7 billion years old.
I don’t know how I missed hearing about this until now!
jballs@sh.itjust.worksto FuckMusk@lemmy.ca•Is it just me, or has Musk stopped using Baby Damien as a human shield?English0·2 days agoDamien huh? This whole time I thought his name was Kevlar.
jballs@sh.itjust.worksto politics @lemmy.world•We could assassinate Trump sunbathing, Iranian official claimsEnglish33·2 days agoYeah I don’t know why they think Trump would ever sunbathe. His orange hue doesn’t come naturally.
jballs@sh.itjust.worksto Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Newsmax's Greg Kelly: "Maybe Epstein is a patriot, for crying out loud. Maybe he was just doing what he was told, and it had nothing to do with the girls."English10·2 days agoKELLY: It’s totally crazy.
Well I agree with him on that part.
Maybe he drank it in 60 seconds?
I used to be in a barbershop quartet in Skokie, Illinois. The baritone was this guy named Kip Diskin, big fat guy, I mean, like, orca fat. He was so stressed in the morning…
I feel bad you’re getting down voted, because I was thinking the same thing. If the reply was just “Brian.” I suppose it would have made more sense to me. But since they tagged his full name first, it was throwing me off.
Seriously, could you imagine if delicious food that we enjoyed just lazily drifted down from the sky? Hot wings from heaven sounds dope as hell.
That’s actually a brilliant review and sums up my feelings on having played League of Legends for several years.
This made me physically gag.
jballs@sh.itjust.worksto politics @lemmy.world•James Gunn, Nathan Fillion and more on MAGA outrage over director saying Superman is an immigrant: ‘I don’t have anything to say to anybody’ spreading hateEnglish4·4 days agoNetwork anchor Kellyanne Conway said of the film, “We don’t go to the movie theater to be lectured to and to have somebody throw their ideology onto us.” Jesse Watters added, “You know what it says on his cape? MS13.”
MAGA is so fucked up it’s impossible to tell if they’re serious or not.
Lol the caption said Caleb humbled that guest, but she definitely didn’t give a fuck.
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Yeah they’re nothing like they used to be. I don’t bother with them anymore.
jballs@sh.itjust.workstoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•CCTV found. Client list lost.English16·5 days agoThat quote makes me laugh. At face value, it says that an FBI agent confirmed someone did indeed have an authentic laptop.
4 times a week now!