even more quiddities and agonies of the ruling class - a new rolling new york times thread

I am not kidding when I say that article is the best thing the New York Times has done in 2016

the seething hatred roiling just under the veneer of newspaper professionalism makes for v addictive reading

Is that even a common Jewish stereotype? I've heard a lot, and I've never heard that one.

god yeah that is a satifying read- he is made to seem like such a piece of shit and yet it's just quoting him and giving him the space to do that to himself. the mystical egotist CEO persona is a thing, and it's so ripe for satiric puncture. I really feel sorry for those people sitting at that table tee-heeing on cue.

I'm sort of wondering whether they guy's Jewish, it seems super-weird in 2015 for a non-Jew to think it's OK to say that, and to a reporter no less.

shaming late shaming

Am I an asshole for wondering how hard it is to be somewhere on time? Presumably she had at least a day's advance notice of the meeting.

plus, free breakfast!

all of these dudes just remind me of the internet billionaire on the good wife. with the hoodie.

http://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2015/01/the-good-wife-season-6-episode-12-recap-4.jpg

although they are all just sad shadows of miles on 30something.

http://popdose.com/wp-content/uploads/dclennon-vi.jpeg-300x246.jpg

people who are into late shaming have prob never had to take public transit a day in their lives.

people who are into late shaming have prob never had to take public transit a day in their lives.

And yet people who take public transit a minimum of five days a week, and who presumably know how unreliable it is, make some version of this excuse every time they're late getting somewhere, instead of thinking, "This appointment is particularly important - I better leave 30-60 minutes earlier than I might otherwise."

as a regular public transit-taker and somewhat habitually late person (who has improved a bit over the years but has further to go), this ^^^

i am literally always on time but this guy is such a capitalist daddy asshole caricature it's making me seriously rethink my assumption that it's important in every situation.

most curious about those years between competitive swimming and landmark forum. what a sad human being.

if anything it's good to be late every once in a while because it's an easy way to allow others to be empathetic towards you team-building.

Also used the phrase "coconut time" when referring to Miamians.

Not NYT, but incredible: http://www.elle.com/beauty/health-fitness/a28600/amanda-chantal-bacon-moon-juice-food-diary/

p sure she is from the actual moon

okay ilxor glenn alerted me to this parody and i am laughing:

https://medium.com/@boobsradley/between-my-hectic-job-and-nourishing-social-life-it-s-not-always-easy-to-find-the-time-to-make-aa9c48a5458b#.c4mv5we4w

"Breakfast is the same thing, every day: denuded feldspar. I soak it overnight in Mexican creek foam to create a pudding, which I suck from a vinegar-soaked sponge. It’s truly hands free, which lets me simultaneously do my sun grunts and marinate my anus in squeezed orange pith."

"Then it was time to visit my west side shop. I spent the shank of the afternoon in a throne made of pygmy bone ivory, focus-grouping new juices and crêmes while picking my teeth with a minature sceptre made from the Dalai Llama’s sundried phlegm."

https://twitter.com/yourauntdiane/status/180354164046569473

please, please god, let schwantz's be a parody.

 I often alternate this with my other lunch staple: a nori roll with umeboshi paste, avocado, cultured sea vegetables, and pea sprouts. This is my version of a taco, and it's insanely delicious. These ingredients are all pantry staples, so I eat some version of this everyday.

the Medium parody one did indeed remind me of Aunt Diane's tweets.

so much real stuff on the internet can remind me of an old mark leyner novel. people striving to be NEXT LEVEL.

^^ omg so OTM

lol fuck, hadn't thought of Mark Leyner in a while but so true

"cultured sea vegetables" is prob dulse or seaweed but i like picturing her chomping on a sea squirt

Mark Leyner had a novel out like two years ago and it's FUCKING AMAZING you guys

This is good to know, I haven't checked in for twenty years.

Is it...something different?

I loved those books, btw, but was ripe for it...dunno how I'd feel now

It really is pretty different. The old ones I thought were funny and crazy, this one I think is funny and crazy and a work of real literary merit

cool I will check it out

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/20/fashion/millennials-mic-workplace.html

Unbelievably transparent hit piece about mic.com by Ben Widdecombe. Super gross

The woman the author makes out to be a bimbo ("I, like, had to fax...") is an award winning journalist with a masters in gender's studies and has interviewed world leaders

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/culturebox/2016/03/in_defense_of_the_new_york_times_trend_piece.html

A trend story about snake people, by The New York Times

fgti otm, that "fax" quote reeked of cherrypicking a moment to make someone sound way more stupid than they actually are. To say nothing of reducing her work to "makes videos about manspreading"

also i have no time for that slate piece, whose main thesis is "c'mon, total bullshit is delightful lol"

Demand fewer articles about millennials more trend pieces about how foreign cab drivers love America, can't wait for us to invade their countries

Faxing is a totally stupid way of communicating anything award winning journo OTM.

also i have no time for that slate piece, whose main thesis is "c'mon, total bullshit is delightful lol"

― intheblanks, Saturday, March 26, 2016 7:42 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think Slate is OTM: it's fun to spot trends and you don't have to make a big deal out of it. but admittedly i hold that opinion somewhat contrarianistically, as someone who used to cry foul at every quid ag but now that the chorus of people who do so every time on twitter is louder and more annoying than the quid ags themselves

http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/04/15/five-things-i-wont-miss-at-the-times-and-seven-i-will/

4. Articles that celebrate the excesses of the 1 percent – like the recent real estate piece explaining that members of a certain class of homeowners feel they need something called a “four-pack”: a pied-à-terre in New York, a beach house in the Hamptons, a ski villa in Aspen and a winter condo in Miami. These were especially disturbing on days when, after getting off the subway, I once again had seen a particular diminutive woman who seemed for a time to be living in a crate in the Times Square station – or any one of the New Yorkers who lack even one humble home.

not the NYT but so beautiful in so many different ways.

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/may/02/further-future-festival-burning-man-tech-elite-eric-schmidt

“We’re so privileged to come to these spiritual places – Further Future, Tulum – but not everyone can,” the audience member says, asking Piorkowski how he should reconcile that.

“It’s all about balance. We are the ones meant to be the air, not the earth,” Piorkowski said. “So you have this group who can travel. The purpose can never be to enable everyone to travel because that would create imbalance.”

“It’s important what we do here,” Scott said. “That’s what we keep saying. We’re shaping the future. These are the people who not only can do it, but these are the only people who can.”

"It’s a curated, self-selected group of adults who have jobs,”

Curated and self-selected

lollllll at the air/earth quote

pretty much perfect for the thread:

http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-hawaii-millionaire-fight/

although I will say that in spite of the x-treme quiddagginess, there are insights in there to be found about extreme wealth inequality, greed, and resource-hogging. First they came for the millionaires. Actually it's the other way around, first they came for everyone else. But if even the millionaires get treated as "second class" it says something about what wealth inequality does.