Praying is a little bit like music though… Now that I think of it, breathing has this weird rhythmic quality. Maybe ban it plz?

Very sensible, thank you. I’ve seen a picture of a flower today, I’m still shaking. Witchcraft!

No such thing as a national flower for France. And if there was one it wouldn’t be the iris anyway. And many other countries don’t have that concept either.

This is some bullshit made up by an American florist trying to sell flowers to people who identify as 1/67th Slovenian.

Take that, kangaroos.

Sorry I can’t help with additional info, as you said there’s little to find. It’s referenced on DW at least, but not much more is given there

A bloody discord FFS, I’m not going there.

But then I guess it’s not open source, if we can’t find the source.

I don’t see myself installing a distro for which you can’t even find the license? How do you even know you have the right to install or use it?

Anglo-saxons got the UWU, nice

Astronauts now: we need ice cream, stat! These space travels are very uncomfortable.

Cosmonauts then: I will jump through the atmosphere with this glorified handkerchief to slow me down

(Me in my armchair, also now: all these guys are such losers. I could do all that any day. But not today, maybe later though)

Please include these major subgroups of the military:

• (Group1) Harambe apologists
• (Group2) Never nude
• (Group3) Catholic chaplains

Gamers handle that every day, and they’re not protected!

I’ll get there eventually

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

Every 5 seconds, everyone is stealing a Hyundai Elantra. You stole 2 while reading this comment.

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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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.

Ah OK, good point. I tend to forget that ‘good enough’ is not what other people might want in their measurements precision

The H word?

?? It’s correct, what’s the issue here?

I’ve been called “heterosexual white male”, won’t Musky do anything about that? I’m literally crying, we’re the most attacked majority, life is unbearable for us!