Starmer kissing the pinkie ring paid off I guess, well done to him for navigating that

That Sandevistan

From the wiki link above:

… soldiers of the Rhine army who rose against Tiberius… demanded to be paid a denarius a day, and they got it.[3]

One Sistertius is worth 1/4 of a Denarius, and 1/2 a Sisterius can buy a loaf of bread.

So 1 Denarius a day = 4 Sisterius = 8 loaves of bread a day

If we assume 3 USD is the price of a loaf of bread now, then these soldiers were being paid 24 dollars a day. Seems pretty low, but I guess bread was maybe more expensive back then?

Soldiers now make around 60 USD a day (random googling), so we’re dealing with a factor of 3 error which doesn’t seem so bad

I smile and say “family’s good”, and then I point at the sky and talk about the weather so they know just how bad it really is

Where did that 15 billion number come from?

Diocles’ lifetime winnings, as recorded in Roman inscription CIL 6.10048, totalled 35,863,120 sesterces (HS) over a working life of 24 years. From this, he would have been paid an unknown sum by his management team, or his owners; his status as slave or free is not certain, nor is the likely amount of his total share.

• Plugging that into this website: https://testamentpress.com/ancient-money-calculator.html, gives ~ 390 million USD

• Reading this stack exchange post, gives ~ 60 million USD

• Reading the wiki page on Sesterius “A loaf of bread cost roughly half a sestertius”, where bread now costs about 3 USD, so that’s ~ 24 million USD

Still a lot obviously, but where did that factor of 10-100 come from?

Yes please, more conservatives in power that’s what this country needs… what is this

I also have a needless follow up statement to OP’s tongue map

Schweigefuchs

Woah. I think I’ve misjudged a few people who seemed otherwise quite normal… thanks for the extra context

Dont forget the Grey Wolves symbol: heavy metal finger sign, but curl the end fingers slightly

You see them in germany sometimes…

thanks

well it’s good to hear they’re adapting

All at once today. I need a break, but don’t know how to deal with the fallout of what’s coming, and know that putting it off will only make it worse. Nothing more stressful than the uncertainty itself

not shown are the passengers chained together, two-by-two as they have to pedalo each of their wheels to move the bus forward, and in order to keep them all synchronized so that they don’t fold into each other, the conductor at the front is beating a drum so that they all pedal in unison

Sardinia is a weird country. Go to any house in Cyprus, and they have had solar heating panels on their roofs since the 1970s. Go to any house in Sardinia, and it looks exactly identical to the usual painted concrete mold of a Cyprus house, but not a single solar heating panel in sight.

It’s like the entire island collectively decided that they were reliant on Gas for heating their homes, despite an overabundance of sun

is 9anime not good?

SESSEL

D’aww

I saw this meme a few days ago… I think I have a new account to block

There were no funds to manage.

Or so you kept claiming