So this is why there is a “Block user” option. Thanks for clearing that up

You know that Hitler was not only a famous painter, surely? I know it’s not a competition, but I’ve heard the guy has done some fairly bad things

🤓📕🦋 is this democracy?

I’ll get there eventually

Wow, the hubris is real. Ever heard of impostor’s syndrome? Because you obviously don’t suffer from it

Currency to buy what? To buy gold of course, which was a famous Aztec staple. They were very fond of it. Never heard the expressions “I hunger for gold”, “as delicious as a gold ingot”, “this cake must be made of gold”? All proofs of the sacred place of gold in the Aztec kitchen. It is known, look it up on YouTube.

Gadget Hackwrench

Congratulations to Gwyneth Paltrow and Benedict Cumberbatch for their baby

I wonder how failure is defined (maybe it’s in the article). Because SW companies don’t really care about making SW work, the only measure of success is selling SW teams to bullshit customers for as long as possible.

Lei Feng, the epitome of temperance? He was very fond of long and hard poles, or so I’ve heard.

(And I like how everything is slightly wrong in this meme. Too bad no one was purged in this list)

Italian coproduction if I remember correctly, it’s a weird B-movie and I wonder how they managed to keep using the intellectual property for it.

Is an appeal after a jury trial possible? I thought i had heard it was final?

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They will rip your dick out, Jamie send that video of jacked hairless chimps

Oh the flattery! No it’s nowhere near a stalactite

Lol your 12! Get in your grave grandpa

Against genocide -> antisemitic

Against antisemitism -> islamophobic

Shame on you OP, shame on you.

make a coffee

make another coffee

masturbate

Sounds like a solid office day to me

Speak for yourself

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.

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