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

"How will bullshit urban luxury malls aimed 95% at tourists and foreign investors survive Covid?!" *clutches Van Cleef & Arpels pearls*

http://i.imgur.com/ZmlnxJW.png

I looked both of them up and yep, I want them both dead.

which theater?

oh lord just read that piece

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/nyregion/coronavirus-honeymoon-nyc.html

i want to hear the podcast version of this, in the podcastiest voice ever

aw, that was pretty cute and harmless imo, not that quid-aggy

Here's the latest.

I don’t know about you, man alive, but the idea of sun-kissed beaches of dazzling beauty doesn’t “fill me with ennui”, it sounds fucking amazing. Then again I don’t have an adult son who’s a bonafide member of the working class who has blessed my quirky roadtrip honeymoon with the immortal benediction “that sounds cool”.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/nyregion/coronavirus-honeymoon-nyc.html

i live in the rust belt and my eyes just rolled so hard reading this that they popped out of my head and are now bouncing down one of my city's grand avenues

the better to soak in the handsome architecture of your charming burg

my new wife

jeez i didn’t even savour that the first time. thank you. i think

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/wealthy-investors-are-as-worried-about-the-postcoronavirus-future-as-everyone-else-ubs-survey-070043263.html

The mounting human and economic costs of the worldwide COVID-19 outbreak have forced dramatic changes to daily life on people across all income levels. Conventional wisdom holds that the wealthy are insulated from the disruption caused by the novel coronavirus, yet UBS’s Investor Watch found that a clear majority of high net worth individuals are at least as worried about the future as average people.

not so much on thread topic but Bari Weiss is out at NYT

NEW: Bari Weiss has published her resignation letter to publisher A.G. Sulzberger https://t.co/FZLfuqzRMQ pic.twitter.com/OKgSYKGBCG

— Jeremy Barr (@jeremymbarr) July 14, 2020

Seems like she’s confused about the difference between “being incredibly condescending about colleagues and lying about your workplace” and “being bullied”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/05/nyregion/coronavirus-leaving-nyc.html

Rebekah Rosler, a therapist and doula, decided to leave, even though her family history in New York goes back to the 1870s, she said. Her parents are in Manhattan and her grandparents lived on the Upper West Side and in Brooklyn. “I love, love, love the city more than anything,” Ms. Rosler, 40, said.

But on March 24, she fled her two-bedroom home in Stuyvesant Town with her husband and their children, a 4-year-old and 2-year-old twins.

“I had never felt an energy like that before, like the city was on the brink of something, and I don’t know what it is,” she said. “I was like, ‘We need to get out of here right now.’”

The Roslers broke their lease and are searching for a new home in Connecticut. They hired a company to pack up their apartment and ship their goods to a storage unit in Danbury.

She said that the recent violence in the city and subsequent curfews only validate her decision. “I live near Union Square, and it was terrifying to watch what was happening,” she said. “It made me realize what a relief not being there is right now.” She added that she supported the protests but was in “full-on mama bear mode.”

couple with three children flee their union square apartment because of "energy on the brink of something," hire professional movers to pack up their house, mother says she is in "full-on mama bear mode," story at 11

Won’t somebody, please, think of MY children???

speechless @ this article

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/business/camera-surveillance-san-francisco.html

"an alternative system of urban security"

I esp liked the last section entitled "Privacy Fears" which...didn't really address that?

generally a great idea though, put survaillance in the trusting hands of tech moguls

I saw that article, read one sentence of it, said to myself, 'guillotines,' then clicked out of it

I like the idea of letting the actual citizens decide what to share with the cops vs the cops just having a million cameras running 24/7 that they can monitor.

why can't we not have both

a clear majority of high net worth individuals are at least as worried about the future as average people.

Yes. They are extremely worried that their investment portfolios may lose substantial value, thus threatening to drag their future lifestyle down to the level of those with only moderately high net worth. If they can't make that half-million dollar donation to a top Ivy League school, there's not much hope their children will do any better than getting into Syracuse or Duke.

my god pic.twitter.com/mCHdo0j6vJ

— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) July 24, 2020

lol they've already removed that quote in the second graf

Why does anyone ever agree to appear in these articles?

Because they are sick freaks with a lust for attention, I assume.

Guy who says he used to go to afternoon tea at the St. Regis but can’t now because of Black Lives Matter Plaza says ⁦@MayorBowser⁩ betrayed him so he’s leaving D.C. This whole read is... something else. https://t.co/uXD2fZvIFT

— Martin Austermuhle (@maustermuhle) July 25, 2020

What an enormous self entitled prick.

The whole thing is enraging but this paragraph maybe takes the cake.

Real city people have no bandwidth to lay down dead in the street or start fires as part of a “protest.” Look at our day: after our miserable commute to work, we have long days in the office, followed by happy hour, client dinners, drinks, maybe a fundraiser or two or having cigars at Shelly’s—and that doesn’t include going to the gym, picking up dry cleaning, seeing our actual friends or spouse, and that miserable commute back home. Quite honestly, we don’t have time for your cause—of which there are so many, so very many causes, so much so that even a city as liberal DC just does not care.

I'm not clicking on this article but there's no way that paragraph is real, somebody is taking the piss.

That guy’s twitter is exactly what you’d think

He's real, regular Fox News guest and runs a lobbying firm for the energy industry. His Twitter is a piece of work, guillotine would be too kind.

Sorry xpost

I’ve witnessed the birth of entire neighborhoods: Shaw, 14th Street, The Atlas District, Navy Yard, Ivy City, The Wharf.

Um dude u must be really old because most of those neighborhoods date from the 18th century

erm 19th mostly but still

I presume he’s moved to West Virginia so I hope he gets eaten by a bear.

she told me she was from “Brook-LAN?”

His Twitter is a piece of work, guillotine would be too kind.

We always talk guillotine, but we never talk dull guillotine.

Just 20 pounds of dull steel repeatedly dropped until it either cuts through, breaks his neck or he has a heart attack.

Real city ppl don’t have arduous commutes their jobs. . . in the city. Dude clearly a suburbanite from Gaithersburg.

I saw that article, read one sentence of it, said to myself, 'guillotines,' then clicked out of it

― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Monday, July 20, 2020 12:21 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

this. every time i open this thread. i don't know why i keep coming back.

I think it's because I like thinking of guillotines

Real city ppl don’t have arduous commutes their jobs. . . in the city. Dude clearly a suburbanite from Gaithersburg.

Yeah I was gonna go with Potomac tbh

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/08/in-the-hamptons-the-rich-are-buying-up-quarantine-mansions

pretty sure Quarantine Mansions is a J.G. Ballard book

I had a Times Pick comment on a Bret Stephens column yesterday lol.