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

Privilege is in crisis and Something Must Be Done.

I'm out of free articles, but that is quite a headline

Gonna be honest with you, reading that article came at a cost even for us NYT subscribers

"Is Popsy gone yet?"

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, August 11, 2022 1:05 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgiJ0OS9LwU

What to do when you inherit a château https://t.co/KDMwHgCPru

— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) September 17, 2022

not if but when

finally someone who understands my bat corridor needs

New York is a place singularly obsessed with reinventing its own rituals and power moves — and there’s nothing like sharing agnolotti with friends before dusk on a Tuesday to demonstrate you’re a master of your own universe

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/20/t-magazine/eating-early-new-york-restaurants.html

wait till they meet my grandma, she eats so early they’ll probably give her her own column

As tenants face increasingly high rents, publicly traded corporate landlords are reporting some of their highest margins ever. For smaller landlords, the situation can look very different. https://t.co/iLNvpR4UB6

— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 27, 2022

Just a small lil landlord of 6000 units

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/liberapedia/images/7/75/Toodamnhigh.jpg

ongoing in my immediate neighborhood
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/07/nyregion/dog-attack-park-slope-brooklyn.html

TBF (although I don't know that this really matters), it sounds like that guy's company manages rather than owns those apartments, i.e. is the property management company? Or am I misunderstanding?

6000 just seems like a less shockingly large number for a management company to manage than for a "small" owner to own.

What's shocking is including a 6000 unit landlord (whether he's a middleman or outright owner of the properties) in your sob story about the struggles of "smaller operators."

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/09/technology/minecraft-universe-developer.html
offered without comment


except “a squared plus b squared equals c squared”

fantasy guest feature - Didion writing this (not to discredit the actual writer): https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/09/us/california-high-speed-rail-politics.html

It’s time to stop scrolling when you see shit headlines this this :
“When the Tax Agency
Won’t Let You
Deduct Your Reindeer-
Herding Dog”

On the same day, three New Yorkers—a trader, a lawyer and a social worker—ordered cocaine from a delivery service. Within hours, all three were dead from fentanyl. https://t.co/JOSFKf91v0

— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) October 23, 2022

Dealers also cut it into cocaine, a stimulant, to be more potent and addictive

So dealers cut their upper with a downer to "be more potent"? This sounds like my friends debating whether some batch of x was "heroin based" or not circa 2000, but they worked at TGI Friday's and not the WSJ.

Giorgia Meloni and the Politics of Power Dressing

The first female prime minister of Italy can’t avoid people caring about what she wears, but she can use it, our fashion critic writes.

not as thread appropriate but jesus:

Jeff Bezos Says He Will Give Away Most of His Fortune

The Amazon founder, estimated to be worth $124 billion, suggested in an interview on CNN that he would donate most of his money to charity during his lifetime.

xp
When fashion dictates, you're living in a fashion state!

hey bezos don’t talk about it just do it

https://archive.ph/2022.12.28-193921/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/27/travel/babies-flying-first-class.html

https://www.washingtonian.com/2022/12/28/home-cocktail-lounges-for-entertaining/

“ A separate outdoor entrance into the lounge amps up the speakeasy element. “You feel like you’re going out to a bar, right?” Healey says of the space. ”
NOT REALLY THO

“It’s that essential question: Does first class buy you the right to avoid hoi polloi and their kids, or do you need to fly private for that?”

for millennia, philosophers and theologians have agonized

Essential

There’s no minimum age restriction on first class seats?

"Babies in First Class"

Tell me that isn't a deliberate double meaning

xp Not according to that linked NYT article. Can you imagine?

I am not heartless and would never wish harm on a child, but

When Dr. Amy Guralnick, a pulmonologist, took her 3-year-old to Israel from Chicago in business-class seats, the woman next to her immediately switched her seat to coach to avoid being around the baby. The man who claimed the abandoned business-class seat was loud and obnoxious and spilled his drink on the baby, who slept throughout the entire 12-hour flight, Dr. Guralnick said.

heh

I don't really like kids but I cannot imagine choosing coach for 12 hours over being near one.

This bit makes no sense:

If it seems like the child will be a disruption to others, parents should select another section of the plane, Ms. Swann suggested.

Because the losers in other sections of the plane don't have eardrums too?

tbf everyone should stop having children

xp Maybe she was referring to the wing.

tbf everyone should stop having children

― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu)

people on here have yelled at me a lot for saying this

it's cool to not agree with that point! i have good friends who have created babies and i get that there's a biological compulsion that i somehow don't have hardcoded so it's a little like suggesting "just eat less." even so, can't help but feel that intentionally making an additional human right now as a planned investment in the future is a level of general optimism and self-abnegation that's beyond me.

it's cool to not agree with that point! i have good friends who have created babies and i get that there's a biological compulsion that i somehow don't have hardcoded so it's a little like suggesting "just eat less." even so, can't help but feel that intentionally making an additional human right now as a planned investment in the future is a level of general optimism and self-abnegation that's beyond me.

This is why I feel OK with eating meat and owning a car and probably not recycling as much as I could — I've already done my part for the environment by not having any kids.

People who do not want kids definitely should not have them.

People who do not want to fly with kids had better take the bus.

complaining about people having kids because they might bring them on a plane is of course the quiddiest of agonies and ignores the fact that the state or church might well have forced them to conceive!

I could not have a baby because I'd be afraid to spill my drink on it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHXKNUlzAEM

I could not have a baby because I'd be afraid to spill my drink on it.

I probably spilled a few drinks on the kids when they were little, but nothing compared to the various fluids they spilled on me.

Also the first class argument is hilarious. If I could've afforded first class when I flew with the kids as babies I absolutely would have. Coach seats are cramped enough without having a kid on your lap. (Also my kids never cried on planes, but maybe I was just lucky.)

Mine never did, either, except maybe while landing.

This bit makes no sense:

If it seems like the child will be a disruption to others, parents should select another section of the plane, Ms. Swann suggested.

Because the losers in other sections of the plane don't have eardrums too?

You stick the kid in that other section, then you stay where you are and enjoy the silence