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[โ€“] Justice@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If we're talking literal cavemen, like hunter gatherer societies that hadn't really discovered the technology of farming yet, then I'd believe the world was fucking ending for about an hour. Then be like "oh... it didn't... back to figuring out how to not die today."

[โ€“] Chronicon@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

probably more like 20 mins tbh. it's not that noticeable until very close to totality

but yeah for those 20, sheer panic lol.