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[–] 44 points 5 months ago (10 children)

You got me in the first half, ngl

But either way, comparing absolute numbers can be misleading. How many monkeys live on this planet and how many bananas? Think about it.

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  • [–] 23 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    That's a good point! I also want to know how they calculated that humans ate only 6 monkeys in 2025...

    This is deeper than it might seem!

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  • [–] 22 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    I think someone pulled those numbers out of a dark orifice. 74 million bananas seems laughably low. A quick research yielded about 9*10^11 (nine hundred billion) bananas being consumed world wide per year. I got that number by dividing the 109 million tons of bananas that were consumed world wide in 2022[1] with the 120g average weight of a banana[2].

    I don't think it's possible to get reliable numbers for monkeys consumed as bush meat. However, in 2012 there was an estimate of 3000 gorillas being killed as food each year in Cameroon alone[3]. So it's probably safe to assume that the number for monkeys is much higher.

    [1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/banana-consumption-by-country [2] https://www.scaleforgram.com/blog/how-much-does-a-banana-weigh [3] https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/african-monkey-meat-that-could-be-behind-the-next-hiv-7786152.html

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    I thought nine HUNDRED BILLION BANANAS is FUCKING INSANE but actually that's about 1/3rd a banana a day, which is how my coworker always ate them. I'd say "hey, are you gonna finish your banana," and he'd say "yeah, tomorrow."

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  • [–] 37 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    I bet we ate more than 6 though.

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  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    yeah, maybe 6 endangered great apes that are highly watched

    Monkeys? I bet AT LEAST millions, they are common bushmeat.

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  • [–] 20 points 5 months ago

    No way, every human eats like 3 monkeys while they're asleep at night. The monkeys are chasing the spiders that we eat.

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  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago

    picture reminds me of this

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (6 children)

    DISGUSTING, THAT MIGHT AS WELL BE CANNIBALISM

    IT'D BE LIKE ME EATING BAUTISTA

    OR AN AMERICAN SHORTHAIR

    I'M GOING TO VOMIT, CARL

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    is this a niche reference im not getting

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    Is it actually good, or do people find it ironically funny?

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  • OBVIOUSLY ITS GREAT, I'M THE MAIN CHARACTER

    (jokes aside, DCC is genuinely one of the best series I've read in a very long time.

    The premise is super dark. 99.99% of the world's population is dead by chapter 1, and the rest are forced to battle it out in a "world dungeon game show" for the universe's entertainment. And the whole dungeon is run by a sadistic AI that turns up the crazy to 11 for views.

    It's funny, and the humor gives way for the emotional gut punches to hit harder.

    In terms of literary value, it's got some political commentary, and makes some incredibly based statements about the late stage capitalist hellscape we live in, but they're pretty obvious and not any kind of deep symbolism.

    It's a popcorn action movie about a guy in his underwear and his ex girlfriend's cat. It's great.)

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago
    [–] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    *Only six that we know of. Also 6 sounds like a lowball number, given the fact there are cultures that are known to consume unconventional animals as delicacies. And the bored rich who will dish out ungodly amount of money for stupid shit, just for the sake of exclusivity.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    I can't imagine it's considered unconventional in places where monkeys are prevalent. Perhaps in city's and such but rural folks with access to a large population likely wouldn't give a rats ass what people outside their communities expect

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    That's a lot of radiation that humans collectively ate

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    No way we ate only 6 monkeys. Have you been to china?

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