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[–] NannerBanner@literature.cafe 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] NannerBanner@literature.cafe 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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?

[–] Nomorereddit@lemmy.today 1 points 4 days ago

Excellent question, perhaps we should separate sex and childbirth from sex.

[–] ProfessorHoover@infosec.pub 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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. 

[–] Nomorereddit@lemmy.today 1 points 4 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.