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The riverbank booksellers of Paris refuse to move for the 2024 Summer Olympics (english.elpais.com)
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[–] macrocephalic@kbin.social 58 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fuck the Olympics. This stinks of a way to sterilise the city of anything that isn't new, shiny, plasticky, shit. Let them stay.

[–] beta_tester@lemmy.ml -4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They want to relocate only a fraction of the stands, not all of them. It doesn't sound like they want to get rid of them

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

It always starts this way.

Fuck the Olympics.

[–] SilkenTofu@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If by only a fraction you mean over half then I suppose you're technically not incorrect...

[–] snooggums@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Hell, 3/2 is a fraction.

I know the saying is implying it is a small fraction, but I really hate the saying because it is so vague. Like pennies on the dollar, it could mean 200 pennies and be technically correct!