• dogs0n
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    5 days ago

    fun fact: animals, exluding humans, kill about 1 MILLION of us humans a year, most of which are not sea animals.

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      5 days ago

      Wow that’s 0.0000003% as much, which is conveniently exactly the same ratio as my balls to your mom.

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        5 days ago

        It’s also accounted for almost 100% by mosquitos, specifically the diseases they carry…so not really the mosquitos at all. Quick searching shows snakes following mosquitos with 100,000 deaths caused per year. In any case, the scale is prodigiously unbalanced. Human animals kill trillions of non-human animals, almost entirely for their own pleasure. Non-human animals kill a few hundred thousand human animals (or a bit over a million if you count mosquito-borne disease) in self defense or by accident.

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        4 days ago

        I guess people eating a basket of shrimp are balanced out by people sharing one cow with several hundred others.

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      5 days ago

      Isn’t like more than half that number diseases like malaria spread through mosquitoes

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        5 days ago

        Yeah, the numbers are different everywhere, but mosquitoes cause at least 50% of that million.