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[–] rockSlayer 160 points 3 weeks ago (17 children)

There's a story that Wong Wifu, the great Chinese martial artist... had a fight with a guy and beat him. Then the guy gave him this light tap. Wong looked at him and the guy just nodded. That was it. He had given him the death touch. Wong died.

Then and there?

No. About eighteen years later. That's the thing about Dim Mak... you never know when it's gonna take effect.

[–] BananaTrifleViolin 74 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Statistically if you're born, at some point you will die. Being born is deadly.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Life is a sexually transmitted disease with a 100% fatality rate

[–] Klear 25 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

planning for a busy weekend?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

When did we run out of unique souls and added in NPCs?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

About 90-95% of humans have died at some point in their lives so yeah very likely we will follow suit at some point.

[–] Joeffect 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It's more than that... I know you were joking but ...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimates_of_historical_world_population

Yeah it's estimated but it's a shit ton of people so it's more like 99.9%

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

You underestimate the effects of population growth. There was a lot of time in prehistory but the population at any given point was tiny compared to today.

[–] Num10ck 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

i remember an old article that said DNA shows that all current humans can be traced back to 7 women during the ice age.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

There were probably more around at the time, all the other bloodlines just died off.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

And they were all neighbours in the same age and shared a WhatsApp group.

[–] Joeffect 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Those people were alive and died it doesn't matter... There have been more people dead than are currently living by a lot.

We don't care how many people were alive back than compared to today. It's the total amount to how many have died...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

We don’t care how many people were alive back than compared to today.

But that is exactly the ratio you claim to be 99.9% when in reality it is closer to 93%.

[–] Joeffect 3 points 2 weeks ago

No your right, my bad I'm terrible at math and sick

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Hang on there based on the image, 7.95 billion alive today, 109 billion have lived and died, that's like 93% death rate not 99.9%. Is there some other figure on the page you're basing the 99.9% off?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Lies, damned lies, and statistics.

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