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1. blaufu+(OP)[view] [source] 2026-01-29 17:28:36
Did I miss something here? Or is Bonesaw just completely trolling?

>The true population of the world, Bonesaw said, was significantly less than 1 billion people.

Even if we assume Bonesaw is correct and China has 500M people, India has 300M people in the cities and 0 rural population... that's only 200M left to reach 1B between all of the Americas/Europe/Africa and the rest of Asia.

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2. indoor+i3[view] [source] 2026-01-29 17:41:58
>>blaufu+(OP)
Maybe he's trolling, maybe he's a schizo or a conspiracy theorist. Regardless, the author thinks (as do I) that this is obviously ridiculous.
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3. blaufu+r4[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-01-29 17:46:36
>>indoor+i3
Yeah I should have been clear that I'm disagreeing with Bonesaw and not the author here, whose article I enjoyed. I was just genuinely confused how one could add "500M + 300M + rest of world" and arrive at "significantly <1B", but I haven't been on Xitter in a minute now.
4. flerch+n6[view] [source] 2026-01-29 17:55:23
>>blaufu+(OP)
Was that a mistranslation, and instead the meaning is that the true population is 1 billion fewer than the generally accepted ~8 billion people? So more like 7 billion?
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