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

The gold standard is 30 chews

Staring at the sun?

The gold standard is 30 chews
That's the science law

the mad kid had four chews

Is there any way around the Times paywall?

open a private browsing window? incognito mode?

you just have to realise it's in your mind and you can use your energy to sense beyond it

Incognito doesn't work on the Time paywall.

some of it is up on Twitter:

They’ve dug out some Wellness Loonies in The Times today. It’s proper give ‘em enough rope journalism. pic.twitter.com/n2RtNSlmR2

— Dando Shaft (@lennylaw) January 12, 2019

nice.
http://pbs.twimg.com/media/DwvZJmHXQAAwWGz.jpg%3Alarge

well maybe not so nice. but it's a good read.

i want to read her "everything falls apart" diary

Seeing the top of the thread I got curious what she is up to now, and I learned that she has recently published this:

https://www.amazon.com/Moan-Essays-Female-Emma-Koenig/dp/1455540552

I don't really feel any kind of way about that, except that it's just further confirmation that the female orgasm must be a lot more interesting than the male orgasm, because I can't imagine reading even one essay about that, let alone a whole book of them.

Can’t bypass the paywall, but if nobody in that article’s weighing/examining their dumps (German shelf toilets, anyone?) they’re just dilettantes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/16/style/clogs-no-6-moms

For years, black Lululemon yoga pants and Uggs were the axis of the mom uniform, until the media cruelly shamed women out of them. Then last year, a pair of deliberately beaten-up-looking $500 Golden Goose sneakers and what is known as simply the “Amazon jacket,” a $130 parka, was seen on moms in Chappaqua and Short Hills alike.

But in Brooklyn recently, a decidedly more bohemian expression of middle-aged fashion has emerged.

This ensemble is made up of two accessories: Part 1 is the No. 6 clog, which has become ubiquitous in upscale Brooklyn neighborhoods and on celebrities like Keri Russell, Julianne Moore and Claire Danes.

Part 2 is the Salt strap, a thick, detachable handbag strap woven from bright colors, made to hook onto luxury bags, as Salt’s Instagram account promotes vividly, like the $2,500 Gucci, the $3,300 Hermès, a $2,600 Celine or a $1,700 Chloé.
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Earth-mother message aside, a pair of No. 6 clogs can cost upward of about $450, and the strap, at $140, is marketed with bags that 99 percent of women can’t afford.

Ms. Martin compares the woman who dresses like her peer group to the bonobo ape: a female-dominant species that leaves its kin behind and bands together to form new communities to fend off male aggression.
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“I think it’s less acceptable now, at least in some circles, to be totally oblivious to the problems in the world,” Ms. Mair said. “So perhaps by wearing the strap, these women want to be seen as acknowledging issues elsewhere by supporting a social cause.”
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“Right now, the handbag industry is missing an ‘It’ shape and an ‘It’ brand,” said Debbie Forman-Pavan, a luxury and contemporary accessories consultant. With this strap, she said, women can give their $4,000 Hermès bag or their $500 Michael Kors bag a “little face-lift for just 140 bucks.”

If only an actual face-lift cost so little — am I right, ladies?

He makes 1.2 million dollars a year.
He’s unhappy because his work feels meaningless.
He can’t take a pay cut because he feels locked into the lifestyle.

He's one of America's many wealthy elite who are miserable with their lives. https://t.co/W0ZEE9VAol pic.twitter.com/0sOvUrHXLe

— NYT Magazine (@NYTmag) February 22, 2019

he's not wrong

Pobrecito

in that his work is likely meaningless and he's made stupid decisions that lock him into massive monthly payments

i wonder how it feels at the tippy top of maslow's hierarchy

squirm, finance worm!!! squirm!!!!!

Man, if he was normal guy rich - like 175k/yr - I might feel a smidgeon or compassion. But that fucker earns more than six times that, so he can eat butts.

One classmate described having to invest $5 million a day — which didn’t sound terrible, until he explained that if he put only $4 million to work on Monday, he had to scramble to place $6 million on Tuesday, and his co-workers were constantly undermining one another in search of the next promotion. It was insanely stressful work, done among people he didn’t particularly like. He earned about $1.2 million a year and hated going to the office.

“I feel like I’m wasting my life,” he told me. “When I die, is anyone going to care that I earned an extra percentage point of return? My work feels totally meaningless.” He recognized the incredible privilege of his pay and status, but his anguish seemed genuine. “If you spend 12 hours a day doing work you hate, at some point it doesn’t matter what your paycheck says,” he told me. There’s no magic salary at which a bad job becomes good.

This is someone who might benefit from effective altruism. Why not give most of your salary away if that's how you feel?

he can't afford to -- he can't even afford to make $600K at a job he might like better -- because he's 'locked into a lifestyle' or something

locked in the turret at the top of maslow's hierarchy of needs ;_;

he should let down his hair. but then he'd have to grow out it first i guess. life is hard!

real answer is take a year and rework your finances in your spare time, work for two years past that and then retire. honestly, if you told me i had to work a job that would make me miserable for the next three years but then I could be financially stable enough to own a house, raise a family and live fairly humbly, i would take that offer 7 days a week.

8 days a week if you had given me that option in my thirties!

A good guillotining would solve all his problems IMO

He should be “locked into” a guillotine imo https://t.co/BPpuU07cX5

— Kim Kelly (@GrimKim) February 23, 2019

i bet his flesh would be very nutritional

this is from a few weeks ago

https://dzwonsemrish7.cloudfront.net/items/2l0p221I3W380k2X2k0Y/IMG_9102.jpg

DO YOU SEE WHAT THEY DID THERE

lmao wtf

Saying you are "locked in" to a lifestyle is just a way of saying "I don't want to give up my lifestyle" while avoiding the sense of personal responsibility that "I don't want" entails.

kinda how i'm feeling about listening to michael jackson music right now tbh

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D1oha8aX4AIGPGh.jpg:small

Signed, Aghast Lucrezia

Lucrezia would be a good name for a ghast in a fantasy novel.

https://nypost.com/2019/03/13/son-defends-parents-caught-in-college-admissions-scandal-while-smoking-blunt/?utm_source=facebook_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site+buttons&utm_campaign=site+buttons

http://i.imgur.com/HCY9393.png

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/05/nyregion/gentrification-one-percent-manhattan.html

omg, this line made me want to vomit

Every morning at 8 o’clock sharp, the jackhammering begins. All day long the drilling and banging and beeping go on. Only on weekends and the holidays of the politically potent — Christmas and Rosh Hashana, for example, but not Martin Luther King’s Birthday — does it cease. It was supposed to end last December, then in February, then this month. Now, they say, it could last all summer.

this is full of gems. good find.

Debby Brown, who has lived on the block for 50 years. Ms. Brown says her dog, Dorian Gray, has been prescribed a tranquilizer because of the noise.

Ms. Beauvoir is a Haitian-American jazz singer. She’s married to Pierre Bastid, a 64-year-old Moroccan-born Frenchman who made a fortune in energy, and recently dabbled in Alpine hotels, restaurants and pharmaceuticals. He has also been a trustee at Juilliard, and has endowed a scholarship there for struggling jazz musicians. In 2015, the couple, who live primarily in Brussels, helped produce “Living on Love,” Renée Fleming’s short-lived Broadway debut.

Ms. Beauvoir has described herself as a mambo, or voodoo priestess

Man, I really don't have neighbors like this in queens

I know that violinist! Bummer that ran her outta there.

The one pcters are in our midst more than we know, they just are good at dressing down

just to back up a sec, is the writer trying to imply that Martin Luther King's bday is an African American holiday, the way Christmas is Christian and Rosh Hashana is Jewish? Because, if so, oof.

they're implying that white christians and jews have influence that african americans don't i think

it's kind of an insane juxtaposition though