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

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/business-39896838/a-cheaper-tastier-way-to-eat-lunch-at-work

“She knows that we have a problem with pizza,” said Mr. Tolia, a hedge fund manager for Bengal Capital Trading. “There’s a lot of dough, and the sauce is not as tangy and present as on some other pizzas that I’ve had. But this is really about the crust, and that’s really original.”

Of the price, Mr. Tolia said: “I’m not the right person to ask. I’m a sucker for these kinds of things.”

I am 100% certain this guy talks about women the same way he talks about pizza

“I’m not the right person to ask. I’m a total asshole.”

Not really the right thread but this is the closest we have to "Rolling Eat The Rich"

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/03/business/economy/high-end-medical-care.html?_r=0

this is truly amazing.

http://nypost.com/2017/06/11/inside-gwyneth-paltrows-ridiculous-goop-summit/

oh man,

that made my day

it just keeps giving and giving and GIVING.

“integrative photosynthesis,” “spiritual Wi-Fi,” “laterality to the body,” “neuro-vegetative signs” and “the ontological experience called your life.”

“What makes water wet?” he asked, more than once. “I nearly got a master’s in electric chemistry asking that question.”

“This is not a convention,” he said. “It’s a pilgrimage. We are here to hold the light, the consciousness, for a different way of being.”

we are all mere pawns of something called The Field, which Stutz described as “the invisible force that makes things happen that you can’t do on your own.”

The enemy of The Field, they claim, is Part X: “a devil living inside you, a demon. He wants to f—k you up any way he can.”

Children are here, Sami continued, to teach their mothers how to be “a great digestive enzyme,” to help their children “metabolize their experiences” while leading the mother towards her “divinity.”

This is basically an early stage of a scientology-like cult

Why is the sky blue? Why is water wet?
Why did Judas rat to Romans while Jesus slept?

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Next up was “The 10-Minute Facelift with Dr. Julius Few,” a room-clearing demonstration in which Few sliced holes in a volunteer’s face. After explaining that his patient was under a local anesthetic, he pushed a threaded needle through his volunteer’s left cheekbone to her lower jaw, then reversed course while tugging tight.

Those who remained groaned and gasped. The doctor was unfazed.

“I do think Gwyneth and I are alike, in that we think the best things in life are simplest,” he said, dabbing up the wounds. “This procedure starts at $3,500 and lasts two to three years.” Few’s quick addendum: Blindness is a potential side effect.

oh my god

the best things in life are simplest,” he said, dabbing up the wounds.

i actually say that all the time when i'm dabbing up the wounds....

http://adequateman.deadspin.com/new-york-citys-parking-rules-have-turned-me-into-a-soci-1796548088

Pissing away money on ZipCars and rentals doesn't sound like it was pissing away money IMO.

Objectively, alt-side parking rules are a civic good: The street cleaners sweep up the curbside detritus that is a fact of life in a city of eight million people, and without an ordinance to temporarily assure that parked cars are out of the way, the accumulated filth would be unimaginable

this is bullshit. no other country on earth does this, and lots of them are cleaner than new york. cars in the way isn't the problem.

really love the social q's column https://t.co/Ogtf2iOnef pic.twitter.com/pdG7bbKBdt

— Sapna Maheshwari (@sapna) July 6, 2017

I don't know if this qualifies, but I'm trying to make sense of this:

"Heather Lile, a nurse who makes $180,000 a year, commutes two hours from her home in Manteca to the San Francisco hospital where she works, 80 miles away."

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/17/us/california-housing-crisis.html

While they do pull down huge salaries, the problem with most of these supernurses is they can't drive above 40mph.

the housing crisis in the bay area is completely real and has been for years afaict. It all seems stupid and horrible and completely avoidable

for sure but, you know, still...

it's insane.

http://www.siliconvalley.com/2017/07/08/the-latest-silicon-valley-housing-idea-on-a-landfill/

DC also has its fair share of people who have household incomes in that range and commute 2 hours but that's because they want the big house in the country, not because we have taken completely dumbass stances on density and transit from the 1950s

Also didn't San Mateo catch fire when a landfill exploded, like, recently? Or am I getting the facts wrong...

that was a gas line right?

pg&e

that wasn't landfill-related; it was a poorly maintained pg&e gas line in san bruno (in san mateo county).

that article notes the median house price is a "staggering" 500k. it's 800k in Melbourne now :( how are we worse than fucking san fran wtf

I think the 500k figure is statewide

looks like it's more like 1.5 mil for sf

Ty for the corrections

happy for my parents and their san jose home anyway

looks like it's more like 1.5 mil for sf

Jesus, as a median, thats insane.

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New Harlem Resident Declares War On Jingle-Happy Mister Softee Man

She continued, "I said, 'It’s illegal for you to have your music on anyway, so could you please turn it off?"

His response: "Fuck off."

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not being on this list with nj.com and dilbert.com has got to hurt

dcurbanmom.com
wtop.com

drain the swamp

liberation.fr on this list!? jeez

expats presumably?

Mookieproof OTM

My wife hatereads dc urban mom so we are presumably part of that 23%

I was momentarily sympathetic to Mackenzie because I thought it said the music played from 7:45AM to 9PM. That might drive me to murder.

tbh the mister softee jingle *is* pretty annoying (and must send the drivers completely insane) but . . . maybe mackenzie wasn't meant for city living

wonder how she'd do with a retro-kitsch infinite blaring loop of some guy with an old-timey new yawk accent proclaiming ICE CREAM! GET YER ICE CREAM! ... ICE CREAM! GET YER etc

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/28/realestate/what-to-do-when-youve-picked-the-wrong-suburb.html

thing is, I can imagine a similar article being written like this every decade or so going back to the 50s

https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.nytimes.com/2017/07/27/science/study-happy-save-money-time.amp.html

Sorry for the Amp link. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/27/science/study-happy-save-money-time.html

I feel that one though - I felt like a horrible yuppie asshole when we hired a housekeeper to come in every other week as it was such a direct violation of my life-long scandinavian midwestern "how dare you think you're better than anyone else" ethos. But not having to spend 2-3 hours every weekend doing cleaning shit was so, so worth the $50 or whatever we paid each time, especially after having a baby.

it's weird isn't it. if you think about it, going to a restaurant is way more decadent, but it's hard to picture anyone feeling guilty about it.