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And sacred C4! Blessed be mighty O’Neill of the magic play-doh.
And sacred C4! Blessed be mighty O’Neill of the magic play-doh.
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:
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.
Just one then, there are 43 billionaires in France (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_French_billionaires_by_net_worth).
And there are around 40 people in the French Academy alone. That’s only a small part of French writers.
And 43 billionaires is a rather big number. Compared to Pakistan or Colombia where the comparison would be even more skewed.
Frankly the whole article is just bizarrely defining metrics to fit the narrative.
Given the respective numbers of professional book writers and billionaires, I doubt it very much.
Well, you have to admit they are by far the best feature of bing
Bold move.
Your favourite movie is absolute garbage and is only liked by tasteless philistines. The plot is obvious, the actors are hamming it, the direction is bland, and everything looks fake and pompous.
My favourite movie, on the other hand, is a masterpiece with a clever scenario, excellent and subtle acting, a work of genius by the director and the technical team. And one of the best soundtracks, too (it’s Universal Soldier)
Na, und? Warum spielst du nicht mit dem Nachbarskind?
Then lied about them being dead
Then lied about them being alive.
Well they might have been right at some point, let’s give them the benefit of the doubt…
Strangely, the only thing that looks real is the piece of broccoli
You can also debug post-mortem with the minidump or the core dump file with WDT on Windows. Great fun and a good way to brush up on your assembly skills
‘Set C4 to stun’, to stun do death I mean
How nice of them. I hope I can pay for this feature!
Not to be confused with Yo Ma-Ma
I’ve seen Yo-Yo Ma at a concert and he actually plays his funny guitar with a kind of large chopstick
Now there’s LinkedIn between Facebook and Instagram
Wow, the hubris is real. Ever heard of impostor’s syndrome? Because you obviously don’t suffer from it