You also forget the absolute morons like my parents who only take their car to the dealer mechanics for repairs because…oh wait, there’s no actual reason for it, they’re just idiots.
― beard papa, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 19:48 (one year ago) link
The benefit to going to the dealership is also record-keeping for your warranty. I have saved receipts from oil changes/work on vehicles exactly zero times in my life, if you always go back to the Toyota dealership it's in their system.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 17 May 2022 19:54 (one year ago) link
The mark-up on routine maintenance is astronomical. I’ve had two dealerships give me different estimates for some routine work, and then taken it to a mechanic who did it for 1/3rd of the price…no problems.As far as my experience and the experience of every single person I’ve ever met goes, this is pretty universal.Milo has a point re warranties and such, and I think that the sitch might be different if you’ve had a lobg term relationship with your car dealer, but generally, getting a car serviced at a dealer is an enormous scam afaic.That said, my point was sort of indirect— namely, that dealerships have tons of employees, from sales to mechanics to secretaries to cleaners to environmental consultants etc. Big businesses!
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Tuesday, 17 May 2022 20:50 (one year ago) link
They may be wealthy and proportionally overrepresented in government but they don't *feel* that way so it's a wash https://t.co/VlbjACiguI— Will 🦥 Menaker (@willmenaker) May 17, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 17 May 2022 21:36 (one year ago) link
losing my fucking mind at this lmao https://t.co/w5hjsNbimI pic.twitter.com/YKPtf08IJZ— David Mack (@davidmackau) August 21, 2022
only with close friends — and the national media!!!!! pic.twitter.com/1r8CozGgCK— David Mack (@davidmackau) August 21, 2022
― President Keyes, Monday, 22 August 2022 01:49 (one year ago) link
Not sure where put this, but a true social media self-immolation by NYT film critic Lena Wilson:
Lena Wilson explains why she reposted Amandla Stenberg’s DM about her #BodiesBodiesBodies review, which Wilson dubbed a “95-minute advertisement for cleavage”:“I don’t want this person who has more social power than me to think that it’s fucking okay to do something like this.” pic.twitter.com/S0BadaoRWV— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) August 19, 2022
― President Keyes, Monday, 22 August 2022 18:30 (one year ago) link
I only made it ten seconds into the video where she extols her genius as a cultural critic and that's why she has a Times job rather than nepotism.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 22 August 2022 19:30 (one year ago) link
Lena Wilson explains why she reposted Amandla Stenberg’s DM about her #BodiesBodiesBodies review, which Wilson dubbed a “95-minute advertisement for cleavage”
Trying to understand the syntax of this sentence is giving me a headache.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 22 August 2022 20:22 (one year ago) link
it just puts "body" by meghan thee stallion in my head, a much more interesting thought tbh
― (grim) pump track (wales) (map), Monday, 22 August 2022 20:26 (one year ago) link
bodyodyodyodyodyodyodyody
― (grim) pump track (wales) (map), Monday, 22 August 2022 20:27 (one year ago) link
I assume it means that someone named Amandla Steinberg made a film (?) called "Bodies Bodies Bodies" (and not called "#bodiesbodiesbodies"), and that Lena Wilson, a film critic, reviewed it and in her review referred to the film as a "95-minute advertisement for cleavage," and that Amandla Steinberg then DM'd Lena Wilson about it, and something in that DM upset Lena Wilson, who then posted the DM. And the quote is Lena Wilson saying it's not ok for Amandla Steinberg to write a DM like that, as opposed to being Amandla Steinberg saying it's not ok for Lena Wilson to post her DM? Although I have no idea what would give one vs the other of them "more social power."
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 22 August 2022 20:31 (one year ago) link
sorry to keep talking about lena wilson but someone share this passage from the about section of her website where she literally talks about "her martyr-like dedication to socially conscious cinema" like babe you talk about disney channel original movies for a living pic.twitter.com/CwvJKYBhJA— official trustbusters stan account (@trillmoregirls) August 21, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 23 August 2022 20:04 (one year ago) link
brb just finishing the syllabus for the tig notaro class i’m teaching this fall at brown
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 23 August 2022 20:11 (one year ago) link
for PKD fans and any climate adaptation reporters:https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/03/climate/cooling-clothes-climate-change.html
― youn, Sunday, 4 September 2022 15:23 (one year ago) link
Hmm, not sure “country fans don’t care that an artist used the n-word” is the heartwarming underdog story this article thinks it is. https://t.co/w5madJPKkq— Michael Hobbes (@RottenInDenmark) September 13, 2022
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Tuesday, 13 September 2022 15:20 (one year ago) link
interesting analysis of the housing market:https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/25/upshot/starter-home-prices.html
Two responses might be to build smaller (with the implicit acceptance of cultural centralization and the distinction between urban, suburban, and exurban life) or to try to decentralize and enliven local communities (that is, favor greater distribution of coverage, the long tail in culture, etc.). I wonder which would result in less environmental damage and greater happiness overall.
― youn, Sunday, 25 September 2022 15:07 (one year ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/02/realestate/accord-ny-ulster-county.html*vomits*
― calstars, Sunday, 6 November 2022 13:29 (one year ago) link
I am honestly not mad at all and I'm living pretty close to there myself. There's so much under-used rural and formerly agricultural land that no one is going to do anything else with. Tons of basically abandoned industrial buildings from when knife-making & mills pulled out of this whole area. Population density is very low and electorally it makes sense for people with further left values to percolate into the area and flip it.
I'm happy for anywhere that fosters a healthy, accepting LGBTQ community in this sometimes-cesspool of hatred. There are Lee Zeldin signs EVERYWHERE right now and that's appalling. A random neighbor I talked to on the street last week ended up shouting epithets about women and non-white people in broad daylight. People have had 40 years to make their communities better and this is what they've spent their time doing.
I worry far more about majority-minority places like Newburgh that are in the process of being gentrified out of their minds and pushing everyone into rural poverty where there are no support systems or transit.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Monday, 7 November 2022 14:17 (one year ago) link
I'm open to new information and I'm not unaware that transitioning to a service economy isn't good for everyone and the class analysis of the situation is not uncomplicated, but afaict there's not much else going on around here except Q-Anon-adjacent seething, gun ownership promotion, and growing numbers of Latinx and non-white people moving into areas without adequate community institutions.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Monday, 7 November 2022 14:24 (one year ago) link
If you're mad, please do something about it like donating to the Newburgh LGBTQ Center or Mutual Aid Beacon (full disclosure I work/volunteer there) or Fareground (food justice) or housing justice efforts in Ulster County at https://ucchj.squarespace.com/ and https://housingjusticeforall.org/
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Monday, 7 November 2022 14:36 (one year ago) link
Keep Ulster Weird imo
https://elections.ulstercountyny.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/HudsonRowen.jpg
https://elections.ulstercountyny.gov/i-voted-sticker-contest/
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Monday, 7 November 2022 14:45 (one year ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/12/nyregion/tal-oren-alexander-official.html
“How Two Luxury Real Estate Agents Spend Their SundaysTal and Oren Alexander start with a morning workout, then frequent exclusive clubs, show million-dollar-plus listings and watch football.”
― curmudgeon, Monday, 14 November 2022 16:07 (one year ago) link
assholes: they're just like us
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Monday, 14 November 2022 16:20 (one year ago) link
In 2019, they sold a 24,000-square-foot penthouse at 220 Central Park South for $238 million to the billionaire Ken Griffin.
I'm surprised he's that successful!
https://e.snmc.io/i/600/w/9cd638346804e48aa73a6ec095b4a18a/4675434/ken-griffin-ken-griffin-at-the-organ-the-cuckoo-waltz-Cover-Art.jpg
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 02:54 (one year ago) link
His dreams got better.
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 04:20 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FhiQLw2WYAAFip5?format=jpg&name=small
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 04:23 (one year ago) link
This latest bullshit about gen z “discovering” cameras has to be a new low
― calstars, Saturday, 7 January 2023 19:27 (one year ago) link
really embarrassing how easily the koch heiress Hannibal Lectered this journalist https://t.co/7zg2541AST pic.twitter.com/7Gm7A2FHX9— protagonist of this site (@siteprotagonist) February 24, 2023
― Chris L, Friday, 24 February 2023 13:18 (one year ago) link
A very good scathing piece in the NYT about the Tory party and UK politics in general. What makes this doubly depressing is the NYT’s devotion to their own ruling class and also that a piece like this will never get published in a mainstream UK publication.On the House of Lords:
Still unelected, the chamber now enables a kind of legitimatized corruption: A prime minister can give any ally — a fellow politician, a family member, a journalist, a press baron, a party donor — a job for life as a legislator, regardless of suitability, with full state approval. According to a recent analysis, one in 10 Tory peers has given more than 100,000 pounds, around $125,000, to the party. In any other context, we would know what to call such a practice.
In film and literature, most of the country’s favorite characters and story lines contain at least a seed of the Tory nation — the Old Etonian James Bond, who breaks the rules with a gentleman’s charm; the humble wizardry of Harry Potter, who risks it all to save his enchantingly regimented boarding school from evil outside forces; and the magic of Mary Poppins, the English nanny who wants only to keep the house in order.
Often Labour politicians seem keener on receiving the blessings of the current system — a peerage, a knighthood, a royal invitation — than on changing it. The current Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer, decidedly follows this path. Idealism and hope are scorned in favor of pragmatism and common sense, two terms that, in Britain, almost always seem to mean cleaving to the right.
If there is hope, it’s that buried within Britain, suppressed by a political system constructed in the Conservatives’ favor, other visions of society exist. This is precisely what the Conservatives are committed to stifling.
Neither Britain nor the more Tory-voting England is fundamentally Conservative.
― Everybody's gonna get what they got coming (gyac), Friday, 28 April 2023 13:26 (one year ago) link
Not read the piece yet, will try and do so later.
I would agree that the country is Conservative, but there is a fragility there too. 2017 is where I saw it the most. But in general the thing there has been crushed and we are in a bad place with the riots I see in France a distant hope.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 28 April 2023 13:40 (one year ago) link
ahh i just posted about this in the ukpol thread soz
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 28 April 2023 14:53 (one year ago) link
Isn't it a standard leftist canard that voters are progressives in their hearts but are somehow hoodwinked by powerful structural forces into voting more conservatively?
― o. nate, Friday, 28 April 2023 15:28 (one year ago) link
xp I don’t read your non-TC posts, sorry king
― Everybody's gonna get what they got coming (gyac), Friday, 28 April 2023 15:36 (one year ago) link
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Friday, 28 April 2023 23:09 (one year ago) link
That article isn't saying people are progressive in their hearts, it's saying that the way voting is structured in the UK makes it impossible to know one way or the other
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 28 April 2023 23:21 (one year ago) link
This is abysmal. https://t.co/CNnoJN7Db6— Isaac Chotiner (@IChotiner) May 7, 2023
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 7 May 2023 14:18 (eleven months ago) link
Thought you would be posting this
My coronation highlight? This clusterfuck of a paragraph from the New York Times on how Anglophile Americans have been marking the occasion. pic.twitter.com/sHbl6YentA— Jon Lipsey (@JonLipseyMedia) May 6, 2023
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 7 May 2023 14:30 (eleven months ago) link
Spent plenty of time mocking the colorful pomp and circumstance, then went to a bit of a Kentucky Derby party and realized the apple really doesn't fall that far from the tree. I met an old lady who woke up early for a coronation party, then changed outfits for the Derby party.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 7 May 2023 14:44 (eleven months ago) link
loool since when is Buck's Fizz non-alcoholic? Have they ever MET a Britisher?And ah yes, the traditional breakfast pie. Coco Pops with a crispy mashed potato topping iirc.
― kinder, Sunday, 7 May 2023 18:43 (eleven months ago) link
not the nyt, but in the wall street journal* today there is a story of techies whose paychecks & stock compensation don't go as far as they used to. one guy got genuinely screwed over by facebook. but one woman amassed a $500K "brokerage account" balance by the age of 27 and decided to take a year off. now she has a new job at a higher salary, but no stock. so...she's cutting costs by washing her dog herself instead of going to a groomer.
* i get a free subscription through work.
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Sunday, 7 May 2023 18:51 (eleven months ago) link
People with household incomes over $200K a year who are like "who can afford a carton of eggs anymore, am I right???" are the stock in trade of this thread, I can't even be bothered to find a link, I feel like it's basically a weekly column at this point
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 7 May 2023 19:18 (eleven months ago) link
eh $200K a year isn't really the stock in trade ... it depends where you live, and if you have more than one child, you could be middle class and wishing you could afford to buy a house or wishing you could afford to pay off student loan debt ... classic quid/ag is more like john's example
― sarahell, Sunday, 7 May 2023 19:38 (eleven months ago) link
I don't want to have a big fight about this but fundamentally yes I think people who make $200K and live in New York and aren't saving anything and wish they had more money are more part of the ruling class than not. And, whatever you think about their membership in the ruling class, they make up a much larger share of the New York Times's readership and implied "we" than do the people buying $5m condos.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 11 May 2023 17:28 (eleven months ago) link
I have never made more than 50 grand in a year in my entire life. Anyone making 200k a year is absolutely a member of the ruling class afaic.
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Thursday, 11 May 2023 17:45 (eleven months ago) link
otm
― ꙮ (map), Thursday, 11 May 2023 17:49 (eleven months ago) link
Ditto! Maybe I'm warped by having lived paycheck-to-paycheck until I was in my early 30s, but making 100k would make me feel like I was set for life (even here in not-so-cheap Chicago).
― blatherskite, Thursday, 11 May 2023 18:50 (eleven months ago) link
When I do my taxes at the end of the year I'm sometimes shocked by how much money has flowed in...and right back out again. (Usually somewhere between 60-75k, never more than that.)
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 11 May 2023 19:17 (eleven months ago) link
I've never gotten more than 20K a year in my entire life. I don't have any withholding, so I only do my taxes so I can get a chunk of EITC money.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Thursday, 11 May 2023 19:24 (eleven months ago) link
i'll probably crack 50k this year because of djing. i bought myself nice sunglasses to celebrate 😎 maybe i should have read an ny times article about it first tho
― ꙮ (map), Thursday, 11 May 2023 19:25 (eleven months ago) link
https://www.curbed.com/article/cost-of-living-nyc-calculator.html
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 22 May 2023 15:06 (eleven months ago) link