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

this is why we need more original children's literature not these cynical IP cash grabs

I think there are a few people working on that

Not quid-ag, but this story about a rift between Dickens societies made me smile (and has good photos).

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/19/nyregion/a-dickensian-divide-but-united-in-holiday-cheer.html

is wanting H Clinton to be elected to ANYTHING a quiddity?

http://theslot.jezebel.com/the-new-york-times-s-boner-for-a-hillary-clinton-mayora-1790904716

don't see how it could be given that it's an extremely widespread sentiment outside the ruling class

really? for her to be reality-show mayor?

you said "anything"

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/weddings/165-years-of-wedding-announcements

ON LIKE DONKEY KONG

a four-week series

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/magazine/should-you-report-a-green-card-marriage.html

But it is the nature of the nation-state arrangement that states have a right to regulate who crosses their borders. You may disagree with one feature or another of our system, but over all it is fairer than many others.

ha!

And if someone abuses it by the sort of fraud you have described, they are not only breaking the law, they are jumping a queue that millions of other people have formed by applying properly and then waiting their turn.

this could only have been written by someone completely ignorant of how US immigration works.

or the ICE!

the other ethicist piece from last week makes me wanna kill

Our daughter has been dating a young man for five years. She is a senior at a public university. Her boyfriend has completed two years of community college and one semester of private college and recently tried to transfer to her public university. He owes the private college tens of thousands of dollars. The private college won’t release his transcript without full payment, so he couldn’t provide the transcript to the public university, and thus it denied him final admission.

Three months ago, our daughter asked us to help. We offered to give him $10,000, which he was reluctant to accept but then agreed to after our urging and reassurances. Two and a half months went by as we waited for him to raise the rest of the money and negotiate terms with the private college and its collection agency. However, two weeks ago, we withdrew our offer after discussing the issue with our friends and family, who strongly warned us against such a financial entanglement.

My wife, friends and family feel certain that we did the right thing. Their reasoning is that creating a financially dependent relationship in which Mom and Dad’s money can be counted on whenever it is needed is a bad precedent to set for our daughter. Others have said that her boyfriend will eventually be grateful that we did this: If he finds a way to pay off the loan and go to the university, he will value it more and be more proud of himself. Further, my wife says that my daughter should be doing more herself to help him rather than asking us for the money.

I agree with all that, and yet I really feel for her boyfriend as a person, a young man, who has had to deal with many family misfortunes not of his making. He has paid for all his community college himself. He screwed up by going to the private college and not making payments. I don’t see him as the right person for my daughter in the long term. We’ve never felt really close to him. And yet I feel as though we handled this poorly and there may still be another option. What are your thoughts? Name Withheld

It’s worth noting the background problem here: This young man was drawn into debt he can’t afford by the private college that he attended. Taking advantage of vulnerable people — in this case, a young man with ambitions and neither money nor family support — is a paradigm of exploitation. Nor is the college’s decision to withhold his transcript entirely rational, because that reduces the probability that the college will be paid in the end. Our president-elect has said he wants to help with student debt, but the plans he has described so far do not suggest a program that will solve this young man’s problem, and recent Republican orthodoxy runs against plans for college-debt refinancing or forgiveness. I doubt, in short, that there’s relief for him in sight.

None of this is your fault, of course. But I agree that you’ve handled this situation poorly. Making an offer and then withdrawing it was unkind — worse, surely, than never having made the offer. And I’m puzzled at the notion that “creating a financially dependent relationship” is a “bad precedent” to set for your daughter. She hasn’t proposed that she should be able to rely on you whenever she needs to for the rest of her life. She’s asking for help for the man I assume she’s planning to make a life with, so that he can get on with his education. With the right start in their life together, in fact, they’re much less likely to have to ask for help in future.

But the rest of your circle probably wouldn’t feel as they do if your daughter were the one in trouble. I suspect that they’ve misdescribed their objection: What they really think is that it’s not worth investing in a young man if he isn’t going to end up in your family. That’s not a crazy thought, especially given your doubts about him. So I suggest you tell your daughter the truth. And if she stops speaking to you for a while, you can reassure your wife and friends that she won’t be asking for money from you again anytime soon.

This was an answer hiding in plain sight. The Muzaffarpur area produces about 70 percent of India’s lychee harvest, and around the affected villages, “you really couldn’t go 100 meters without bumping into a lychee orchard,” Dr. Srikantiah said, referring to a distance of 330 feet.

lol

Heaven forbid Americans have to parse metric.

We speak Murican here

surprised it didn't say 'a distance roughly the length of a football field'

not sure it's worth the link but Travel section's "36 Hours" feature yesterday was Brooklyn SOUTH OF WILLIAMSBURG!

loool

The stress of having to taste a wine you ordered before the whole bottle is served to you:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/13/dining/should-restaurants-offer-guests-that-first-taste-of-wine.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FWines&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection&_r=0

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/parenting/wp/2016/12/12/a-woman-in-a-restaurant-complained-about-my-kids-heres-how-i-responded/?tid=hybrid_experimentrandom_1_na#comments

1 - that's fake news
2 - what a very weird thing to put in a major newspaper

She leaned in and said, “Your children are charming to no one but you.”

She started to flounce out. Her back was turned to me, but I knew she must be smirking, pleased by her clever insult. She wanted me to be shamed and stunned. I tried to formulate a quip about how our kids would help pay for her Social Security someday. Instead, I said: “I hope someone takes care of you when you’re old.”

She stiffened and whirled around. “B —, I have a great relationship with my children,” she snarled. “And they never behaved like this!”

She stormed out of the restaurant. Evidently, I’d hit a nerve.

better response would have been "I'll pray for you"

"You just became clickbait"

"Lady, if you were real I'd sock ya right in the kisser"

not nyt but very facepalm-y
https://www.timeout.com/newyork/blog/people-are-selling-supreme-branded-metrocards-online-for-hundreds-of-dollars-022117

:/

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/feb/22/im-tired-of-law-but-is-a-career-break-right-for-me

"I also needed to start earning more as my fiancee has exacting standards”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/19/your-money/who-will-listen-to-a-billionaires-troubles.html

ilx will listen

What can be done to fix the game of baseball? The New York Times would like to hear from readers.

GUESS WHAT, motherfuckers?

ask the Black Sox

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/27/silicon-aa-cost-of-living-crisis-has-americas-highest-paid-feeling-poor

Another tech worker feeling excluded from the real estate market was 41-year-old Michael, who works at a networking firm in Silicon Valley and last year earned $700,000. Sick of his 22-mile commute to work, which can sometimes take up to two and half hours, he explored buying a property nearer work.

“We went to an open house in Los Gatos that would shorten my commute by eight miles. It was 1,700 sq ft and listed at $1.4m. It sold in 24 hours for $1.7m,” he said.

Although he said his salary means he can afford to live a decent life, he finds the cost of living, combined with the terrible commute, unpalatable. He’s had enough, and has accepted a 50% pay cut to relocate to San Diego.

“We will be unequivocally better off than we are now.” He said he won’t miss some of the more mundane day-to-day costs, like spending $8 on a bagel and coffee or $12 on freshly pressed juice.

http://www.hardtimes.com/assets/1/13/SlideShowDimensionMain/htchomepagebanner.png

yeah it's the New Yorker but

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/06/per-ses-seven-course-kids-menu

There was a blog that took kids to a bunch of high end Bay Area restaurants, it was adorable.

--he says sarcastically (I hope)

https://thebolditalic.com/a-four-year-old-reviews-the-french-laundry-the-bold-italic-san-francisco-b6b92b919ff3#.oexlqjdg9

https://i.imgur.com/nzL0SLi.png

can only hope 1-down is "swole"

and 2 down is "totes"

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/17/realestate/suburban-just-dont-call-her-a-jersey-girl.html

i posted on trump thread too but uh what is this

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/03/18/style/donald-trump-jr-business-politics-hunting-twitter-vanessa-haydon.html?smid=tw-nytstyles&smtyp=cur&referer=

jfc that montclair article

https://i.imgur.com/PKOhMEl.jpg

http://cdn.financialsamurai.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/cropped-Financial-Samurai-Main-Banner.jpg

(no fancy bags)

looool

crazy how those vacations and million-dollar homes and BMWs really add up

https://frinkiac.com/meme/S12E05/274816.jpg?b64lines=ZmluYW5jaWFsIHBhbnRoZXIsIGVoPw==

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C7sRoaZW4AE9RDB.jpg

It's true, if you take away the expensive cars, 3 vacations per year, expensive house, expensive food, $12000 worth of children's lessons per year (!), these people live a fairly average life.

I mean, rich people are just middle class people who make and spend a lot more money, we're all the same.