Very normal and rational reaction to Bibi's hateful drivel. I prescribe you nothing, come back to my office when you're in the all caps, three exclamation marks stage.
You're really getting out of your way to miss my point. The number of professional writers is some orders of magnitude bigger than the number of billionaires, so much so that taking some arbitrary subset of writers of approximately the same size is easily done.
Another counter example (because I'm really nice like that): some contemporary French writers, just from memory:
Annie Ernaux
JMG Le Clezio
Amélie Nothomb
Michel Houellebecq
Erik Orsenna
Virginie Despentes
Patrick Modiano
Christine Angot
Jean Echenoz
Sylvain Tesson
Marie Ndiaye
Virginie Grimaldi
Marc Levy
Alain Finkielkraut
Michel Onfray
Mélissa da Costa
Andrei Making
François Cheng
JC Rufin
Yes I know, it's not 43, but I could easily go to my local bookshop and find 180 more, and again 43 billionaires is a lot for 70 million inhabitants. In any case the number of 500 writers in the article is laughable.
But that's not the main point. What gets on my nerves is that the author of the article is cherry picking facts to entertain an idea. I could deliberately try something like "but you know there are more astronauts than true painters" and refute everything opposed to this with No true Scotsman fallacies.
The article proves absolutely nothing and the author makes a mess of logical thinking, while managing to blur what the wider perspective is supposed to be.
I am feeling that I posted really something offensive. But I just reposted a meme from Reddit that had 12k upvotes. I know I shouldn’t have done that. I don't know if I break any rules or not. If I really break any rules then Mod remove this post.
You see, a woman would have never thought of that simple solution, because her diminutive brain functions are only used for household tasks and cannot adapt to complex problem solving. This is why they shouldn't drive or vote.
Yeah a German king during the 12th century, sure, one of the many German kings of that time, like, uh, Hans, or, say, Helmut, yeah why not. Don't tell me it was Conrad III, that little piece of shit was not the real king of the Germans.
If the board is infinite, it means that bishops, queens and rooks can move an infinite distance and then must move at an infinite speed, constantly breaking the laws of physics. While knights, pawns and kings, having finite moves, travel at regular speeds.
The potential high energy collision during a castling would flatten the galaxy.
Promotion from a low energy pawn to a high energy queen would require the consumption of a black hole (approx.)
100 meme points??!!? For a meme of that quality? An image alone would be at least 100 meme points! But a full video! Just keeping it in my meme folder costs me 80 meme points, and think that I want to make a profit, especially since my poor grandmother, who was the original owner of that meme, is now in such a terrible condition.
No, I wouldn't part with it for 100 meme points. You must be a meme robber to propose such a shameful price!
I say, good day to you, if that's your final offer. But maybe you can be reasonable and offer a reasonable price.
Yeah I put Tabasco sauce on my eggs. Too bad if that makes you think I am absolutely unhinged. I don't care, but glad you noticed. This is a good 2500 on the Scoville scale, you know. I would say that it's equivalent to being hit in the balls by a Canyonero driven by a rabid scorpion. But I don't mind it. In fact I also put some on my pizzas, that's how easy it is for me. Did I mention that I have a gun? Yes I am heterosexual, very much so.
Yeah I won't do that. Can't go through the pain of showing them my account name. 'Dad why are there all these x at the beginning and the end of your ridiculous name?'
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Whose idea was it to broadcast this?
This isn't a game for the faint of heart ( lemmy.world )
Israel sharpens its tone to Spain: "The Inquisition is over. Those who harm us, we will harm them" ( www.elnacional.cat )
TIL Making a living writing books is more or less as rare as becoming a billionaire ( www.theintrinsicperspective.com )
You get paid for that? ( graph.org )
I am feeling that I posted really something offensive. But I just reposted a meme from Reddit that had 12k upvotes. I know I shouldn’t have done that. I don't know if I break any rules or not. If I really break any rules then Mod remove this post.
They don't make 'em like this anymore ( lemmy.today )
Useless red circle, I know, but in my defense I didn’t put it there, it was already like this when I found it.
Rook. ( lemmy.dbzer0.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/6214928
A sing along I checked wasn't a recent repost, but if it was it would be the right song for it. ( www.youtube.com )
I'm glad they included lyrics, because it clears up some tricky verses.
Men Without Hats - Safety Dance ( www.youtube.com )
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Bone rule ( slrpnk.net )
Sorry, man. Can't come over tonight, I'm working overtime at the hotdog factory, putting bones in these wieners
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How to Talk to Your Cat About the One Rule ( i.ibb.co )
Important note: This is not my cat. I found this picture on the internet.
The detail is "where do they park?" The answer is they don't. ( aussie.zone )
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