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

You can have his morning nicotinawhatever and resveratrol for only $4.20/day

https://www.bulksupplements.com/products/nicotinamide-mononucleotide-nmn?variant=32133357699183

headphones have been shown to increase music enjoyment, which produces MGN5, a sub-chemical component of i am a total dillweed

I know this guy is a type and there are surely no shortage of reference points out there for him but reading that really reminded me of the High Maintenance webisode Qasim (would link but I see the web series was moved behind HBO's paywall when they picked it up)

on assholes (specifically james bennet, mostly when he was at the atlantic): https://jenzerb.medium.com/i-left-my-career-in-prestige-media-because-of-the-shitty-men-in-charge-and-they-are-still-in-4963374ec6b8

wow.

jesus

not ny times related but mnuchin's wife's vanity project

Conservatives are getting better at displaying realistic human emotion and it’s making the left nervous https://t.co/bFFxpvR9ER

— Scout Tafoya (@Honors_Zombie) January 29, 2021

https://assets.fishersci.com/TFS-Assets/CCG/product-images/VN00020610-DCAP.JPG-650.jpg

oh my god, is that a lowkey remake of Lubitsch's Trouble in Paradise?!?!?

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/realestate/luxury-high-rise-432-park.html

last name Abramovich, primary residence is London, oil and gas fortune...

HMMM

there are a lot of oh hell no moments in that one but getting stuck in an elevator 1200 ft in the air is top of the list

for me it would be to feel the sway of the building during one of these recent insane windy storms while I stared out the window at clouds and rain. luxury!

so i just saw the NYT include the name of Mike Daisey's new monologue "What the Fuck Just Happened" in the internet edition which made me wonder how many times they've printed the word "Fuck" in the paper where it's not an excerpt and it's more often than you might think:
https://www.nytimes.com/search?dropmab=true&query=fuck&sort=newest
including this humdinger of a typo
http://i.imgur.com/CHRq26k.png

"Mike Daisey's new monologue" a real world No Way SNA

That looks like a OCR error, not a typo. It was correct in the original paper.

xp

i meant a transcription typo

no fuchs left to give

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/23/sunday-review/covid-friendship.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage&fbclid=IwAR1D85wWVHzd5qnkob3z0hBYhFhHBNqMl8CCseOTiLISpK4ULc6Ao2TUYNk

features:
- managerialization (if that's a word) of friendship
- employing academic experts to explain normal human shit that everyone understands
- a san franciscan who joined a friendship "pod"
- excessive PMC navel-gazing

i'm not sure i have the emotional bandwidth rn

By Kate Murphy
Ms. Murphy has written several articles about various aspects of life during the pandemic, including why Zoom is terrible, why you should stop using toilet paper and why we’re all socially awkward now. She is the author of “You’re Not Listening.”
No shit

why you should stop using toilet paper and why we’re all socially awkward now.

Sentences where the assertion in the first clause answers the implied question in the second

lol

There must be something in the Times style guide that says "write each article as though everyone reading it either (1) makes at least $200,000 a year or (2) has parents who make at least $400,000 a year."

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/10/business/starbucks-shortages.html

“Tasha Leverette with a guava green-tea lemonade at a Starbucks in Atlanta. Her favorite drink is a peach green-tea lemonade, but she hasn’t been able to get one.”

On the one hand, yes, this is a very first world thing to complain about and not at all worth a NYTimes profile interviewing disappointed customers, but at the same time (unpopular opinion ahead), I don't feel coming out of a global pandemic is the time to shit on people for missing their small comforts.

also starbucks regulars aren't the ruling class

Starbucks is basically just an upscaled Dunkin Donuts now. It's also an interesting lens through which to view larger global supply chain issues occurring right now.

Maybe more like frivolities and agonies of American consumerism, but not ruling class. Starbucks are in highway rest stops now - you see truckers getting coffee there.

I assume someone has written about how bad all the second-wave/Friends-era coffee places were, old charcoal beans and sugar - like if Blue Moon was at the head of the craft beer revolution.

haha, a semi-forgotten bit of my high school/early college past.

My first introduction to the concept of a latte/cappuccino was the beatnik coffee bar in So I Married An Axe Murderer I think.

I assume someone has written about how bad all the second-wave/Friends-era coffee places were, old charcoal beans and sugar - like if Blue Moon was at the head of the craft beer revolution.

― Joe Bombin (milo z), Thursday, June 10, 2021 10:53 PM (twenty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol this kind of place is a super-popular chain here called Beans and Brews. i call it pees and poos.

I participated in my share of poetry nights

fake quid
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/what-old-money-looks-like-in-america-and-who-pays-for-it

Not surprisingly, "old money" is very, very white. Also, thin, blandly good-looking and impeccably dressed, coifed and manicured.

damn, for some reason i couldn't get that rat-pelt dress picture to show up. maybe a moderator can add it.

I did an image search on 'rat pelt dress' and found:

https://www.incrediblethings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/dorothy-costume-for-your-rat.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/I8z1GMI.jpg

most popular article on the website

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/28/business/gen-z-workplace-culture.html

This week, in "no really, this generation really IS selfish and demanding!"...

(and once again completely forgets Gen X exists)

shh, we're best forgotten

https://i.imgur.com/ixw8A3d.jpg

Most popular!!

apart from the number, feels like a front-page headline from like 1926

I say, the whole town's positively crackin' over that blue-chip art from the Macklowe's bittah divoahce!

Real Estate Mogul Taunts Ex-Wife With 42-Foot-Tall Photo of New One

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/10/nyregion/harry-macklowe-patricia-landeau.html

The onion couldn’t do it better …

doesn’t really fit the thread, but how about “pressure on china after tennis star’s ASSAULT accusation”? #metoo makes it sound like a fucking tiktok challenge

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

Pretty awful story that

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/23/realestate/why-an-npr-quiz-show-panelist-loves-her-messy-apartment.html

just go away

lol i almost posted that