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.
“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?
― jmm, Friday, 22 February 2019 20:58 (five years ago) link
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
― mookieproof, Friday, 22 February 2019 21:02 (five years ago) link
locked in the turret at the top of maslow's hierarchy of needs ;_;
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 22 February 2019 21:06 (five years ago) link
he should let down his hair. but then he'd have to grow out it first i guess. life is hard!
― macropuente (map), Friday, 22 February 2019 22:36 (five years ago) link
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.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 22 February 2019 22:59 (five years ago) link
8 days a week if you had given me that option in my thirties!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 22 February 2019 23:01 (five years ago) link
A good guillotining would solve all his problems IMO
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Friday, 22 February 2019 23:45 (five years ago) link
He should be “locked into” a guillotine imo https://t.co/BPpuU07cX5— Kim Kelly (@GrimKim) February 23, 2019
― j., Saturday, 23 February 2019 00:11 (five years ago) link
i bet his flesh would be very nutritional
― macropuente (map), Saturday, 23 February 2019 00:37 (five years ago) link
this is from a few weeks ago
https://dzwonsemrish7.cloudfront.net/items/2l0p221I3W380k2X2k0Y/IMG_9102.jpg
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 8 March 2019 14:00 (five years ago) link
DO YOU SEE WHAT THEY DID THERE
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 8 March 2019 14:03 (five years ago) link
lmao wtf
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Friday, 8 March 2019 16:18 (five years ago) link
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.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 8 March 2019 16:57 (five years ago) link
kinda how i'm feeling about listening to michael jackson music right now tbh
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 8 March 2019 16:59 (five years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D1oha8aX4AIGPGh.jpg:small
― mookieproof, Thursday, 14 March 2019 17:48 (five years ago) link
Signed, Aghast Lucrezia
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 14 March 2019 17:51 (five years ago) link
Lucrezia would be a good name for a ghast in a fantasy novel.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 14 March 2019 17:54 (five years ago) link
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
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 14 March 2019 17:59 (five years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/HCY9393.png
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 5 April 2019 17:28 (four years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/05/nyregion/gentrification-one-percent-manhattan.html
― DJI, Friday, 5 April 2019 20:10 (four years ago) link
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.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 5 April 2019 20:13 (four years ago) link
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.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 5 April 2019 20:15 (four years ago) link
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
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 5 April 2019 20:17 (four years ago) link
I know that violinist! Bummer that ran her outta there.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 5 April 2019 20:32 (four years ago) link
The one pcters are in our midst more than we know, they just are good at dressing down
― calstars, Friday, 5 April 2019 20:40 (four years ago) link
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.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 5 April 2019 20:42 (four years ago) link
they're implying that white christians and jews have influence that african americans don't i think
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Friday, 5 April 2019 20:45 (four years ago) link
it's kind of an insane juxtaposition though
― moose; squirrel (silby), Friday, 5 April 2019 20:45 (four years ago) link
yeah I got it but it's kinda o_O, especially since MLK day is not an african american holiday
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 5 April 2019 20:46 (four years ago) link
i mean yes it does read like martin luther king's birthday is a holiday in the african american religion but i don't think that's the intention
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Friday, 5 April 2019 20:47 (four years ago) link
Anna Sorokin, the fake heiress accused of being a society scammer, was found guilty. There is an Instagram account devoted to her style in court. Our chief fashion critic @VVFriedman explains why courtroom fashion actually matters. https://t.co/oskPoRuiXF— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 28, 2019
― j., Sunday, 28 April 2019 03:50 (four years ago) link
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― blokes you can't rust (sic), Sunday, 28 April 2019 11:45 (four years ago) link
i pasted in a url from their link-shortener, you goon
― j., Sunday, 28 April 2019 14:54 (four years ago) link
This is just an editing issue, but am I wrong that this should be "coffeeshop talk"? I feel like I'm going crazy.
The raisin industry runs on what Mr. Overly calls “coffee shoptalk,” which is to say, gossip.
Mr. Overly does not believe that Mr. Barserian was behind the threats; only that he knew they had been made. “Did Kalem know?” he said. “I would presume that he would because of, he knows everybody, right? And the coffee shoptalk will get that stuff out there. So I would assume that he’d heard about it. But I can’t verify that.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/27/style/sun-maid-raisin-industry.html
― ☮ (peace, man), Monday, 29 April 2019 12:27 (four years ago) link
diff between
coffee shoptalkraisin shoptalkcoffeeshop talkcoffeeshop shoptalk
― j., Monday, 29 April 2019 12:46 (four years ago) link
lockerroom raisins
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 29 April 2019 14:43 (four years ago) link
Talk among yourselves. I'll give you a topic. Coffee shoptalk is neither a form of shoptalk nor an activity that involves drinking coffee, discuss.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 29 April 2019 14:46 (four years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/03/travel/Nobu-Ryokan-Malibu.html
"A ryokan in name only"
― :∵·∴·∵: (crüt), Saturday, 4 May 2019 18:48 (four years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/05/14/style/generation-xers.htmlimmensely lame
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 14:57 (four years ago) link
On Nov. 16, 1987, when the 20-year-old “Cosby Show” star Lisa Bonet eloped with the singer Lenny Kravitz, it was black Gen X point zero for rule breaking, style making and boundaries shaking.
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 16:25 (four years ago) link
It's cold outside and my hands are drySkin is cracked and I realizeThat I hate the sound of guitarsA thousand grudging young millionairesForcing silence sucking soundForced into this conversation
So I say shine let your planets collideThis is the darkening down of my mindWe could be making it oiling like crimeWe could be making it staking last dimesIf you want to seize the soundYou don't need a reservation
Now if you want to seize the soundYou don't need a reservation
The torch is passed it's yours to returnLay at their feet now use it to burnFor marketing the use of the word generationA false alliance of money persuadingForcing silence sound suckingForced into this conversation
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 17:10 (four years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/17/books/review/upheaval-jared-diamond.html
Gratifying review
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 19 May 2019 05:20 (four years ago) link
I find Giridharadas's public persona irritating about 85% of the time but this is exactly the context in which I'm into it.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 19 May 2019 14:32 (four years ago) link
Yikes. Won’t hurt sales, tho.
― rb (soda), Sunday, 19 May 2019 14:32 (four years ago) link
maybe giridharadas should review thomas friedman's columns
― mookieproof, Sunday, 19 May 2019 17:57 (four years ago) link
yeah i posted it because it felt like one section of the paper reviewing another
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 19 May 2019 20:53 (four years ago) link
That's a good review, but I remember liking Guns Germs and Steel a lot at the time and thinking it seemed like a pretty sound theory -- are there any good critiques of it worth reading?
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 20 May 2019 19:07 (four years ago) link
I recently signed up for the NYtimes cooking / recipe box feature. The comment section is awesomely A&Q, and I can't tell which comments are trolling and which ones are sincere. Here are some reader responses from a salad dressing recipe posted by Samin Nosrat. I like to imagine the voices of the people who wrote them:
"EssieDee1 day ago / The best green salad in the world? I had a better one in St. Remy De Provence in 2012 . . .""David o.5 days ago / Did a very Canadian thing. Instead of honey, added maple syrup. Added a nice touch, it did.""Dora1 week ago / To claim that most Italian extra virgin oil is adulterated while Greece, Lebanon and Spain’s is pure is simply untrue and irresponsible as it damages the reputation of so many honest small Italian oil producers. The entire industry is plagued with abuse and buyer beware from whatever provenance. I have to laugh at the Lebanon reference from personal knowledge."
― remy bean, Monday, 20 May 2019 21:58 (four years ago) link
Metropolitan Diary: Turn It DownDear Diary:In fall 1999, I was single and I decided to have a party where single men and women could meet. The caveat was that everyone I invited had to bring an equally unattached friend, presumably someone they were not romantically interested in.The party was a great success, and at around 10 p.m. the doorbell rang. I opened the door to two men dressed in dark clothes. I introduced myself as the hostess.“Come on in, gentlemen,” I said. “The party is just getting started.”The older of the two stepped forward.“Excuse me, ma’am,” he said. “We’re from the 20th Precinct, and we had a noise complaint from one of your neighbors.”I started to offer to turn the music down while apologizing for any inconvenience when the younger of the two officers stepped into the apartment. To my surprise, he took my hand and started dancing with me.We danced until the song ended. The officer leaned toward me.“I’m getting off at 11,” he said, before asking whether he could come back after his shift ended.“Of course,” I said. The officers left.Around 11:30, the younger officer returned. He ended up being one of the last guests to leave.— Melaney Mashburn
Dear Diary:In fall 1999, I was single and I decided to have a party where single men and women could meet. The caveat was that everyone I invited had to bring an equally unattached friend, presumably someone they were not romantically interested in.The party was a great success, and at around 10 p.m. the doorbell rang. I opened the door to two men dressed in dark clothes. I introduced myself as the hostess.“Come on in, gentlemen,” I said. “The party is just getting started.”The older of the two stepped forward.“Excuse me, ma’am,” he said. “We’re from the 20th Precinct, and we had a noise complaint from one of your neighbors.”I started to offer to turn the music down while apologizing for any inconvenience when the younger of the two officers stepped into the apartment. To my surprise, he took my hand and started dancing with me.We danced until the song ended. The officer leaned toward me.“I’m getting off at 11,” he said, before asking whether he could come back after his shift ended.“Of course,” I said. The officers left.Around 11:30, the younger officer returned. He ended up being one of the last guests to leave.— Melaney Mashburn
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 30 May 2019 18:02 (four years ago) link
wake up, melaney!!!
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 30 May 2019 18:29 (four years ago) link