btsax comments on US reputation hits 'depths not seen this century' – and 'may never recover'

US reputation hits 'depths not seen this century' – and 'may never recover' (www.rawstory.com)

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[–] btsax@reddthat.com 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

The last mass extinction was 65 million years ago and humans are like 0.2 million years old

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[–] oatscoop@midwest.social 1 point 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Late Pleistocene extinctions -- 13-50 thousand years ago.

Youngest Toba Eruption -- 74 thousand years ago. Almost all of humanity died, with an estimated surviving population of 3 to 10 thousand. We hadn't even invented agriculture at that point.

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