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Just a guess based on "covid" and "candles", a ton of people negatively reviewed candles for not smelling good/right/at all, not realizing they had lost their sense of smell from covid at the time.

I know my spouse had the realization our cold was covid because we couldn't smell the candles we had bought (and smelled) the week before.

Yankee candle rating dropped sharply (or at least statistically significant) during covid with reviews of them being negative because they had little to no smell.

Loss of smell being a covid symptom.

Edit: oh and yeah it would go up and down based on larger outbreaks. So it followed the early waves of mass outbreaks basically 1:1

You got some responses but here is an article about it https://www.newsweek.com/covid-scented-candles-reviews-1551248

Sure, but forget 50 kiloyears. Just considering the events of the last century is sufficient to make me marvel that we haven't sterilized ourselves -- and the rest of the planet. But, as you say, it's early days yet. I'm sure we'll manage to irrevocably cock it up any moment now.

Dinosaurs is a clade, not a species. Humans belong to the clades hominoids and simians, which have been around for 13 and 42 million years.

or even to know that we were even here.

What about our megafauna extinctions, nuclear tests, mass biosphere degradation and destruction, the Anthropocene extinction event, the fish bones of 2-6 trillion fish we torture to death every year, the bones of trillions of monstrous chickens, anthropogenic climate change, plastic... and soon the upcoming anthropogenic climate-change cascade and the Anthropocene mass-extinction event?

Thanks. I guess there's nothing for it but to venture deep into the woods at night, alone and carrying only a high-power laser pointer and a large sign reading "for the love of everything pure and good, abduct me!"

^(I^ ^consent^ ^to^ ^reasonable^ ^amounts^ ^of^ ^probing)^

Okay you had to pick the stupidest person on earth.

Can confirm.