A bunch of finance emails are included, as Brady discussed the economic concepts of deflation or inflation with others.

I guess Melanie Pinola lives in a world where the prisoner’s dilemma doesn’t exist.

You are the reason you aren’t finishing your novel, but I’m glad you’ve found an excuse that makes you feel better about it.

Bullshit. No chance you knew the character’s name.

How delightfully retrograde.

on-field misconduct... basically the only kind of misconduct he can properly investigate and punish.

You mean because he actually stayed healthy and contributed on the pitch?More importantly, what’s the point of that argument? That Monreal is older? So what? We’re talking about title contention this season, not potential for the next decade (and make no mistake, both Blind and Shaw’s value is tied to their potential,…

Why do you think Brady needs to prove he’s innocent in order to appeal Goodell’s clear overreach under the CBA? The discipline process is under scrutiny, not this single decision.

They’d love to see what kind of union business he’s sending back and forth.

She also wasn’t “on the staff” in 2014; she was on the team. She joined the staff earlier this year.

I would make the counter argument to the balcony: It’s nice to be able to sit on the balcony after you get back from port while getting ready for dinner as the ship is disembarking, or for an early morning while you pull into port. And being on a higher deck puts you closer to the pool, which means you can run back to…

Everything you do on a cruise involves your on-ship ID/room key. You use that to get your free drinks, and it checks off a tally in their computer system. The system locks you out of being served after the limit (even if you tried to pay for each drink), hence the “buy bottles” workaround.

A prime example of this in action is illustrated on Royal Caribbean’s site. They outline the various drinks packages, with the top dog being the $55 per person, per day drink-til-you-fall-in-the-ocean “Ultimate” package. To put that into context, my last cruise was 12 days long. For those that chose this package,…

Sadly, we’ll probably be saying the same thing about Anthony Martial and Youri Tielemans soon enough.

You ascribed “cultural differences” to civilizations that saw themselves as racially distinct simply because, with 2,000 years of perspective, they look awfully similar. You’ve chosen to ignore historical context in favor of a modern narrative.

I don’t really support the form of this argument, but I appreciate any knock on Lena Dunham.

This is a reasonable take, but keep in mind that, in Coates’ view, only whites were capable of the technological and social innovation required to both exploit slavery and advance technology sufficiently to kill everyone via global warming. No one else possibly could have arrived at those conclusions.

Thanks for applying the perspective and terminology of 2 millennia of philosophical consideration rather than the reasoning of the day to this assessment. That was constructive.

But I don’t know enough to truly argue against your assertion or to expand on mine.

Capitalist Unironically Enjoys The Fruits of His Labor’s Critique of Capitalism by Ta-Nehisi Coates