Gaius Appuleius Diocles Is The Highest Paid Athlete Of All Time Earning More Than $15B.

No. You can’t compare inflation this way. It’s unsound for a variety of reasons. A better way to do it is to look at purchasing power parity vs. today with goods that existed then and that exist now. Even that is by no means perfect, but it’s better than the garbage numbers from the article.

Diocles was indeed very wealthy, but at most (depending on how you do the calculations above), he won no more than $200 million or so in today’s money. He wasn’t even as rich as Michael Jordan or other top-earning athletes.

Whether I use the Oxford comma or not depends on how the sentence's rhythm is affected by it. It's a question of sound and voice in context, not formal consistency. Drives my proofreaders mad.

— Karl Schroeder (@KarlSchroeder) August 20, 2019

Exactly. There are few truly perpetually fixed rules in language and usage, but a lot of people require these because they have no feel for the flow. If you can flow, there’s no linguistic place you can’t go, you know?

Social justice performative ridiculousness is moving so fast now I have no idea what is considered offensive or not, and I sort of keep up with that out of morbid curiosity.

If I don’t know, imagine the traps that is bound to spring for the average good-intentioned person? Seems like we could do better, but we won’t.

I must be deranged, but I don’t think buying Greenland is such a terrible idea, if Denmark were willing to sell. Everyone seems to think it’s just insane but we bought Alaska and there was of course the Louisiana Purchase.

I know it’s against international law, but when have we ever respected that? It seems more of an anti-Trump position to think the Greenland purchase idea is so bizarre rather than examining it on its merits or lack thereof.

The main demerit of the idea is that we have far more important issues to focus on, I think.

The only thing I know for sure about the 2020 election is that I will not under any circumstances vote for Joe Biden.

I believe that many of the negative misconceptions about a car-free lifestyle are rooted in attempting to conceive other modes as 1:1 replacements for cars. They are usually not!

I will illustrate this with the "private jet to Monaco" example.

— Laura Goodfellow 🚌🏃🏼‍♀️ (@transitrunner) August 19, 2019

While this is true in some areas, there’s basically nowhere that we visit in Florida that we could travel to sans a car. We couldn’t get to any of the state parks, most of the local parks, and we’d almost never be able to hike or explore. It would just not be possible. We’d be stuck at home all the time.

This is the case for about 90% of the US. The lifestyle she’s talking about works for people in about 10 urban areas in North America and that’s it.

Sure, we could change the system and make it work for more, which I am all for, but right now this deliberate asceticism would greatly impoverish my life and my experiences. As mentioned, we’d be stuck at home nearly all the time, or be forced to spend vast amounts on taxis or similar, while still unable to get to 90% of the places we go for recreation.

I like the ideas, but I see no signs of execution or the likelihood thereof anytime soon. Meanwhile, I am not going to make my life vastly worse and far more expensive to make some other person feel good. Not gonna happen. And that’s the impasse, isn’t it?

This harvard genius hasn't figured out that *animals* are an essential element in healthy eco- and agricultural-system function.

"Processed food" for the "lower-class"? Do they even understand the sh*^ they are saying? https://t.co/VQmnZnpxab

— Joe Norman (@normonics) August 18, 2019

Pinker is one of the biggest morons the world has ever produced, but he’s echoing the standard liberal line there, unfortunately. Look at the garbage that is in those things, though:

Yuck. No one should be eating that regularly. Might as well eat a “soup” of peas and canola oil, except with all the good parts of the peas thrown away.

Why “Friends” is still so popular.

Friends is a terrible show about insufferable people I’d hate in real life (except maybe Phoebe), and though it wasn’t a simpler time as this article styles it to be, the 90s was a hopeful time. Sure, it might’ve been false hope — but you don’t know that when you’re living it.

There was really no such thing as social networking and the sociality destruction that caused. Surveillance was still relatively minimal. The internet and browsers worked correctly. But most of all, I think it was the hope.

Even Gen Zers who weren’t even alive when the show began its long run can detect the great expectations we had then and yearn for that which they’ve never experienced. I understand perfectly. Though I am not nostalgic for the 90s, I do miss that sense of the future being unbounded, that we could and would create something better.

Now we know that we cannot and will not and that’s a severe blow indeed.

It’s shocking how often we have to express that disabled people exist. https://t.co/GtTuB2Bm4y

— Crutches&Spice ♿️ Crutch Girl Summer (@Imani_Barbarin) August 18, 2019

I’ve been very disappointed with so-called “progressives” lately, but never more so than with the banning plastic straws fiasco. This is another example above where the erasure of disabled people is part of this evil trend. Some “progress.”

man I’m all for post-scarcity neo-Victorian industrial policy with maglev characteristics, but if our institutions can’t stop Epstein from getting ganked in a jail cell in lower Manhattan then who is going to do the Green New Deal

— Isaac Wilks 🎤🐢 (@wilks_isaac) August 16, 2019

This is what I mean when I say that we need new minds, or to use Aurora’s phrasing a different kind of human.

Really, how big of a moron do you have to be to think Epstein committed suicide? That event is truly separating those enmeshed in the establishment narrative from those who have any desire at all to have a clue.

BTW, the hyoid bone is only broken in a “drop” style hanging, not how Epstein allegedly hanged himself (which of course he didn’t), which was by leaning forward.

Geek culture is really tiresome and boring. And repetitive. And repetitive.

Negative bond interest rates aren’t good, but consider that the cash in your wallet and bank account is effectively a negative interest rate bond when contrasted with inflation. It pays about -2% per year at present.