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Comment by margalabargala

4 hours ago

Exactly. The only thing that could be considered a black swan event is something foreshadowed or predicted by no one ever, even in fiction.

If all rivers suddenly turned to wine and killed all the crops? Not a black swan event, water gets turned to wine in the bible.

As you can see this attitude makes the phrase "black swan event" very useful.

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Rooster61  1 hour ago

That would be a burgundy swan event.

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