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

jfc

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DkLc_C5X4AAR-Rw.jpg:small

airbnb is the new nato sounds like something that was conceived while conversing with an Uber driver on the way to the Maidan

CENTRISTS: confronting someone in a restaurant is so horrible, no one is polite anymore
ALSO CENTRISTS: hey everyone check out how awful my new coworker is

In what workplace is it customary to refrain from welcoming a new employee until they prove they deserve it?

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/sarah-jeong-and-the-question-of-context

really appreciated this

(via jelani cobb)

Wtf, who is Elizabeth Williamson?

anyway...

love too remove the reporters bylines from the homepage while making the terrible oped section columnists more prominent

you cant just take their names off, man.. they're not the fucking ny yankees

Traveling on private jets is costly, but it may be the most efficient way to tour colleges. It is worth it to people who have more money than free time and no desire to pack into the family car for an interminable drive, said Mr. Henderson.

One of the newest tour services will be started after Labor Day by XOJet, a private jet chartering company, which plans to transport students and their families to five college hubs: Atlanta, Boston, Miami, New York and Washington. The service is being offered in a partnership with Mandarin Oriental hotels and Ms. Siegel.

The package can top $30,000 per trip, and can even hit six figures if families move among multiple hubs. Aware of the high price tag, XOJet is pitching its bundled service as less expensive than the individual costs of the flight, hotel and counseling.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/31/your-money/college-tours-private-jet.html

no different than any other service enjoyed by the 1%, this is just how they live

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/11/realestate/goodbye-silicon-valley-hello-east-village.html

The large closets — “the biggest I’ve had in my life,” Ms. Sinclair said — have enough storage space for the craft materials she uses for her feminist tableware line, Oddtitties.us.

VAGCHINA

https://hmmdaily.com/2018/11/09/when-will-bret-stephens-stop-getting-picked-on/

As one of the Times‘ token conservatives, he finds himself in the uncomfortable position of being an underqualified quota hire. He figures he’s now supposed to tell the readers they’re wrong, but he’s never developed the skills of argument or persuasion that might allow him do do that.

token?

refuse to visit a internet web site called hmmdaily

finally someone's taking on the NYT opinion columnists!

🙄

it’s basically scocca.me and if he wants to tee off on dummies I for one could use the chuckle

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/20/style/alcoholism-drunks-in-love.html

What a bunch of fucking lightweights

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/02/style/best-bath-new-york.html

For $7,000, you too can bathe like a very wealthy person... Just feet away, from behind a slim panel of glass, the rest of New York may be exploding into chaos. You will not notice.

OK OK it's the london times but this is some primo elite class nonsense
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/4a937872-1339-11e9-8239-c0a124428b01

8.20 I turn on my HumanCharger, a device that looks like an iPod with an earpiece that shines light into my ear to give me energy.

While I’m having my coffee, I fill out a spreadsheet on my computer inputting my weight, my urine pH

I often take a nootropic drug called aniracetam, which switches my brain on and gives me clearer thinking.

11.45 I switch on my Himalayan rock salt lamp, which adds minerals to the air.

5.00-6.00am I wake up, then journal. Then I go outdoors. I often go to Hyde Park, take off my shoes and stare at the sun

7.00-7.30am The first thing I do is scrape my tongue, using a copper tongue-scraper, to get rid of the toxins that accumulate overnight.

I chew everything as much as possible. The gold standard is 30 chews

6.10 When I’m back, I lie on a bed of nails for five minutes, which helps me connect with my body after a day looking at a screen.

there's currently 30% off HumanChargers.

http://www.earlightswindle.com/

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.
...
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.
...
“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.”
...
“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 ;_;