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

I think we can't totally discount the possibility that this artist is trolling us too, like basically going for what that commenter is describing? I mean “I don’t care about it as art,” he said. “I care about it as something that makes me a more interesting human being.”

that sounds like trolling

i don't know, do you think that psychiatrists think their case studies are interesting as human beings, or just... interesting...?

I think we can't totally discount the possibility that this artist is trolling us too, like basically going for what that commenter is describing? I mean “I don’t care about it as art,” he said. “I care about it as something that makes me a more interesting human being.”

― Will Chave (Hurting 2), Friday, 27 July 2012 16:53 (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this wasn't the artist, this was one of the guests

this seems totally fine to me tbh

i hope that they get the plague and die.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/automobiles/autoreviews/you-cant-beat-it-with-a-stick.html

Priced from $26,795, this is the ILX that screams “compromise” at the top of its little 2-liter lungs, with standard cloth seats and just 150 breathless horses from a version of the Civic engine.

the ILX seems limited to fans of zing-it-yourself compacts at a relatively high price.

too much time on nyt

http://storify.com/jcstearns/lessons-from-the-fake-new-york-times-wikileaks-op

hey, in the interest of fair play, i read that article about the girl tavi who had the fashion blog and now has the rookie site and she seems cool and her site looks great and smart.

don't want to hate every young person in the new york times. makes me feel bad.

"in the spirit of sassy magazine" is always a good move. plus, john waters loves her and that's good enough for me.

wish more websites looked like the rookie site for real! so easy to read and navigate and pleasant to look at.

http://rookiemag.com/

ya tavi is awesome

yep rookie is great and i wish i was as cool and smart at 28 as tavi is at 15/16

nothing to hate about tavi.

Rookie is great and I wish it was there to read when I was 12+ years old. So much better than so many teen girl mags.

LONG ILX THREADS HATE THIS ONE SIMPLE TRICK:

1. Click on the Permalink of the message right after the cutoff.

2. The URL will now contain something like "bookmarkedmessageid=3669956"

3. Change that number to something smaller and you will be jumped back to an earlier point in the thread without loading the whole thing.

― Godzilla vs. Rodan Rodannadanna (The Yellow Kid), Friday, July 27, 2012 12:52 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark

I feel dumb for not having thought of doing this myself!

i tried it on the long orig breaking bad thread & it didnt seem 2 work

Which part didn't work? The only maybe tricky part is that if you don't make that number small enough, you won't get any older messages. And if you make that number too small you'll be at the first messages. Usually lowering it by thousands or ten-thousands is enough.

i have tried it and it worked

What I do with a long thread is open it at my bookmarked spot and then hit permalink on the first post while the rest is loading.

fyi you can also click on the permalink for the last post before the fold and then just click “view previous page"

View Previous Page has only ever worked sporadically for me.

i enjoy that scott is all 'that tavi girl'

View Previous Page has only ever worked sporadically for me.

― Godzilla vs. Rodan Rodannadanna (The Yellow Kid), Friday, August 3, 2012 4:46 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/nyregion/four-men-sharing-rent-and-friendship-for-18-years.html

men. living together.

i was looking for a thread on like manchildren or something to post this on but i guess this is close enough because lol nytimes not so much these guys are the ruling class

"Shyaporn Theerakulstit, actor and audiobook narrator"

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/fashion/montauk-feels-the-effects-of-too-many-hipsters.html

In the meantime, longtime residents are left to harken back to that first crowd that had to endure an invasion of newcomers, the Montauket tribe. As Mr. Devlin’s wife, Eileen, joked on Friday as the restaurant prepared for another busy night, “Now I know how the Indians felt.”

Nope. No you don't.

it notes clearly that she was joking

yah what gives

Another showed a rifle and the words “Defend Montauk.”

printing hipster shirts against hipsters u might be a hipster

also isnt the fedora more of a broish affectation

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/nyregion/four-men-sharing-rent-and-friendship-for-18-years.html

men. living together.

― goole, Saturday, August 4, 2012 1:57 PM

this was hilarious! The comments, though, are mostly horrifying.

quiddities thread has made me insensitive to the real articles, i want all the stupid setup cut so i can get right to the aughs

so by hipster they just mean young money?

http://i.imgur.com/aXnRN.jpg

well

If by hipster you mean a person that doesn't just jump on the patriotic bandwagon, then sure.

wrong thread lol

haha I thought you did that on purpose. it worked.

For the past eight months Mr. Brown has been dating Monica Ross, 25, a bartender and actress. “She was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar,” said Mr. Brown of the night they met.

this has to have been intentional, right?? also how do you think she feels about her name being two friends characters

this isn't actually the NYT and sort of not appropriate for this thread but i don't know where else it goes?

http://nymag.com/news/business/themoney/jeff-greene-2012-8/

couldn't get past: “I wish we could spend more time here,” he says. “Honestly, we have so many great homes.”

Mo homes you got, the mo agonies you have

Greene calls his loss “a huge mistake on behalf of the people of Florida.”

“I wasn’t as crazy as I was perceived to be,” he says in his defense.

hahah

Etc. etc.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/14/education/a-hamptons-summer-surfing-horses-and-hours-of-sat-prep.html

haha the url alone has so much Q&A crammed into it

not the new york times but its a slow news week and this is sooooooooooooo courtney:

http://newyork.grubstreet.com/2012/05/courtney-love-new-york-diet-includes-babbo-brooklyn-fare.html

like, let them eat cake x infinity.

"Then someone always gets chicken potpie and potato salad from D.D., you know, Dean & Deluca. If I can't afford D.D., I just don't eat."

so many quotable lines though. would end up just cutting & pasting the whole damn thing.

literally lots of cake. awesome,

'Sometimes I forget to eat'

thank god i have never known any people like this

(In November 2022, five months after the coffee shop encounter, he was asked to step down amid betting allegations.)

Amazing tidbit to include in a wedding piece.

“I’ve never been to a wedding like this,” said Stanley Wang, a regular at the McElwee-Atcheson poker nights.

This could easily be a McSweeney’s satire piece. cannot believe people like this actually exist

The LinkedIn profile sharing and spreadsheet thing is what sent me over the edge into “these people are actually cartoon demons”

otm, cannot even begin to imagine the addled brain that finds that a "fun" idea

Zohran Mamdani is wrong — of course billionaires should exist
https://www.ft.com/content/d441c292-33d5-4be7-8d98-5fea2b2f3aa0

This latest hit piece on Mamdani is truly incredible, 3 authors to break the news that a South Asian man born in Uganda identified himself as Asian and African American on an application to a college that he didn't get into. The story came from hacked information, provided by a white supremacist who the NYT agreed to keep anonymous.

A white supremacist trying to turn Black voters against him — transparent and disgusting. He's literally an American citizen born in Africa. Africa has a lot of different kinds of people, breaking news. The best part is this:

After Mr. Mamdani was elected to the New York State Assembly in 2020, he continued to grapple with the issue of racial identity, successfully cosponsoring legislation requiring that when the state collects demographic data, it include categories for New Yorkers of Middle Eastern and North African descent.

“The inability of these boxes to reflect the breadth of New Yorkers’ lives and their backgrounds is something that has also influenced my legislative work and my advocacy,” he said in the interview.

Like, he actually recognized the limitations of the forms and worked to broaden them!

Jamelle Bouie posted that he removed several posts critical of the story (such as "I think you should tell readers if your source is a Nazi") because they violated the Times social media policy.

Quisling behaviour tbh

bouie is an opinion columnist. he’s literally employed because of his opinions. why on earth would the times want him to be “neutral” on social media

in what way is mamdani not african-american

the times doesn't want bouie to be "neutral" on social media, they just don't want him (or any other staffer) to be overtly critical of the paper and its editorial decisions. they even let him keep up a post in which he was personally critical of one of the writers of that mamdani article (who is a freelancer and not a times staffer).

bouie (evidently) will do as he’s told. he’s not an important player here. I would just love to hear an argument that those designations he chose on his application are inaccurate

hey the times is just asking questions

They’re Rich, They Travel and They Love to Complain
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/style/olivia-ferney-travel-rich-clients-tiktok.html?unlocked_article_code=1.f08.874s.xhWRselbqBOF

(latest aggregation of people to fire into the sun)

this story is not quite quid ag, but it definitely wouldn't be the same without the wealth/class disparity involved. insane, infuriating and sad in equal measure:

The Baby Died. Whose Fault Is It?
When her son died in utero, a venture capitalist went to extremes to punish her surrogate.
https://archive.is/SssTh

Fucking hell that Wired story. So many horrific details but “if I cannot give him honor, sue the hell out of these people, and have some sense of justice … how can the investment founders say, ‘Cindy, you’re the best?’” is hard to beat.

Definite crossover with ‘Is the US a dystopia’ thread, not just the grim capitalism elements but with how fucked up the care for women who lose their pregnancies is and also some sinister race stuff for good measure. Awful.

yeah, that story is truly insane

honestly i wish nothing but harm upon Bi

That story is awful and Bi is further evidence that tech ghouls are some of the worst people on the planet.

God. I couldn’t click through to the story but the thumbnail was enough. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/09/23/realestate/dana-perino-house-tour.html

yuck. the insane thing is they actually expect people to pay for this!

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/nyregion/432-park-avenue-condo-tower.html

We’ve all seen this bizarre Olivia Nuzzi puff piece right

https://archive.is/HWEn9

They chose favorite parts of each other, she writes: He chose her mouth. She chose his nose. They shared a “common language, common skepticisms, common ideas about what was beautiful, common beliefs about what was valuable.” She didn’t care that he was 39 years older than her. She liked him just the way he was. They both “moved through the world with amused detachment and deep sensitivity, contradictions that worked somehow in concert.”

This is about animated corpse RFK Jr btw

🤮

ok lol

https://www.telos.news/p/part-1-how-i-found-out

🤮

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/world/middleeast/hillary-clinton-tucker-carlson-riyadh.html?unlocked_article_code=1.IFA.zmJY.H7dBAnflwrJR&smid=url-share

I know that's not really what this thread is for, but sheesh

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/dining/food-delivery-apps-doordash-uber.html

Between raising two young boys and putting in long hours at a marketing job in Atlanta, Kevin Caldwell can almost never find the time to make dinner. So he and his husband spend about $700 a week to order in.

“I am so burned out and tired, I would rather just throw my credit card at the problem and delay that unhappiness until the bill comes,” he said.

His 4-year-old son doesn’t read yet, “but he can put together an order” on the Chick-fil-A app, said Mr. Caldwell, 39. “I am impressed, but I am also terrified.”

He frets about the waste he’s creating with delivery boxes and bags. He’s frustrated by the rising cost of ordering in, even though he’ll often opt to pay extra to get faster service. And he misses entertaining guests as often as he once did. His formal dining table, he said, is “collecting dust.”

🤮

Evocative of the New Yorker cover from this week, which I considered posting to “Is the US a dystopia” even though it seems like it’s intended to be an admiring, sentimental winter scene

https://media.newyorker.com/photos/6973e746a8ae567cdc5f717f/master/w_960,c_limit/CoverStory-DeSeve_SnowDay.jpg

not the times but this is great https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/fake-rockefeller-fake-cartier-party-crashers.html

the comments section is *chefs kiss*