• NannerBanner@literature.cafe
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    3 days ago

    I think we can’t really count the 40 million as his kills, unless we count all the descendants of the other mongols who raped their way across the continent, and I think that would tip the scales towards fuck winning.

    • Nomorereddit@lemmy.today
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      3 days ago

      Id review that hell out of that data. Fascinating to learn if they created or ended more life…as a team.

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        3 days ago

        Well there’s a study saying that the Mongol pillaging led to a small but measurable drop in global temperature so I’m going with kill.

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          3 days ago

          I go back-and-forth with that data point. Because while that is measurable and does exist, there’s also tons of data to the contrary.

          Here: researchers argue that the “Genghis-Khan-caused global cooling” idea is overstated: the modeled CO₂ drop from Mongol-era depopulation is extremely small (far below what’s visible in ice cores), natural forces like volcanic eruptions and solar variability overwhelmingly dominate climate shifts of that period, population-loss estimates are highly uncertain, any localized reforestation would have been offset by land-use changes elsewhere, and no clear cooling signal appears in proxy climate records at the exact time of the Mongol conquests.

      • NannerBanner@literature.cafe
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        3 days ago

        Point of order though: is one sexy time counted as one fuck, or is all the sex, as long as it’s the same partner, counted as one fuck?