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

They should now, yeah. I mean assuming she meets the criteria for coverage under the plan.

bottom line is that the insurance companies should be vilified but it's much more fun to make fun of a woman for having a plate to carry fancy food on

― a literal scarecrow on a quaint porch (forksclovetofu), Thursday, October 15, 2015 9:40 AM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Or really just for using a fancy French word for a plate. For all we know it was just a plastic plate with some grapes and cheddar cheese cubes.

xp I don't know why the insurance company wouldn't cover it. That was just reflexive defense lawyer talk about meeting the criteria for coverage.

it's hardly paranoid to think that her insurance company's / insurance lobby's pr teams are going the extra mile to make sure she's properly shamed so that the next plaintiff who goes this route doesn't think twice

Went to the party
Couldn't eat the d'oeuvres
Insurance companies are a bad trip

Well it is possible that the cost of the surgeries exceed the yearly maximums, but that seems unlikely since this lady lives in Manhattan and likely has pretty decent insurance and this is wrist surgery.

"it's hardly paranoid to think that her insurance company's / insurance lobby's pr teams are going the extra mile to make sure she's properly shamed so that the next plaintiff who goes this route doesn't think twice"

I don't see how any amount of shaming is going to make someone think "well I'll just pay the $127k". That's a lot of money for most people (even people who live in Manhattan walk ups).

Yeah I agree I don't see that motive. It's either homeowners' policy pays or they pay, so there's no benefit to shaming her.

her own insurance WANTS her to sue. that's the point.

I don't see how any amount of shaming is going to make someone think "well I'll just pay the $127k".

So sort of like a legal, socially accepted form of blackmailing?

how did you guys miss this one??????? I CRIED SO MANY TEARS READING THIS. SOMEONE HELP THESE PEOPLE!

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/10/your-money/work-life-balance-poses-challenges-regardless-of-wealth.html?WT.mc_id=2015-OCTOBER-FB-MC9-AUD_DEV-1001-1031&WT.mc_ev=click&ad-keywords=AUDDEVREMARK

THANK YOU for the disclaimer...................

(A pause here: Parents with inflexible jobs or who are paid by the hour with no sick time would surely relish the challenge of choosing among high-quality day care, a nanny or one parent working from home to meet child care needs. They have it tougher than people I’m writing about here.)

He should have added to the disclaimer that of course those people are drab and boring and what could we possibly learn from their struggles and the strategies they've adopted to work through them.

omg! I must make a decision instead having it all simultaneously! O, my poor head!

this is a really good tip for anyone really:

"Now, he said, they make more money working as brokers focused just on properties above $5 million and they also have more control over their schedules."

ok, now that I went back and read the full article (I had to stop after a person quoted talked about "crushing it at work"), I can't believe how boring and lacking in any real content that was. Maybe I shouldn't be surprised by that, but there weren't even examples of the so-called "maniacal efficiency," or any, like, strategies for balancing work and life. Make time to play with your kids, have a routine, ok, thanks corporate overlords, thank god we have these founts of wisdom as models for the plebes. It's basically just cheerleading about how rich people are even better at having families than everyone else.

kind of a poky little kitchen they've got, raise your standards millionaires

Her husband, she said, “has a breakfast meeting, I have a call with Europe, my daughter wants to play baby mermaids, my son is starving, our dogs are barking, I need to get out the door for a work meeting and there’s a dinner at night.”

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/17/wealth-therapy-tackles-woes-of-the-rich-its-really-isolating-to-have-lots-of-money

Hmmn I wonder if there is an easy way of solving this have an insane amount of money... Probably not.

not going to click on that obvious bait for hate-clicks, already spent too much of my life doing that.

http://observer.com/2015/10/a-boutique-drop-in-meditation-studio-is-coming-to-new-york/

bizarro, lodro rinsler is mentioned in the buddhism thread as a hacky author of buddh-esque pop philosophy.

connections everywhere. namaste

also wondering how long i could sneak by w "chief spiritual officer" on my work email sig

"chief spiritual officer"

xp!

Who wants to give me seed money for a chain of boutique bathrooms? With adjustable mood lighting, touchscreen TVs, wi-fi, curated playlists for your listening pleasure, hand-woven bathroom tissue of the softest, most absorbent cotton, artisanal soaps at the gold-plated sinks and attendants to hand you fluffy hand towels. Options available in both #1 and #2, ranging from $25 for a quick pee to $150 for the deluxe BM.

BM deluxe - the nickname that never caught on :(

Also, all of your waste products will be recycled for compost, so you know you really have a zero footprint.

With an app so you can find them, of course -- Püper.

Sorry, I already trademarked that for my Yelp of public bathrooms.

You know, if you built it on the back of a truck, so the super fancy bathroom comes to you, you'd really have something.

there's a real gold rush on this shit huh

With an app so you can find them, of course -- Püper.

― something totally new, it’s the AOR of the twenty first century (tipsy mothra), Thursday, October 22, 2015 11:23 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Shitr

An uber of mobile bathrooms is almost a pitchable idea actually -- all those times when you're in a big city like NYC and can't find a public restroom or don't want to wait in line for starbucks. Like it obviously wouldn't succeed but I wonder if you could actually convince a VC.

Shitr and Puper are total 2011 names, if this were launched now it'd be called GottaGo

just don't let the marketing go to the people who made those ghastly inescapable ads for the product that you spray in the toilet to seal up smells (?) or whatever that was, with the "posh british lady" giving the pitch.

DumpTruck

lol

PottyWagon

Lamborweewee

Turdis

(for nurds)

A virtual bonfire of quiddities here: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/realestate/escape-from-brooklyn.html?_r=0

In early 2013 there was a now-infamous article in The New York Times that referred to Hastings as “Hipsturbia,” about creative types moving there from Brooklyn. But the reality is Hastings, like every other suburb I’ve seen, is not hip. In some sense hipness is inextricably tied to urbanity and coolness with a certain aloofness. By contrast, the environment here simply seems friendlier. I chatted with our mayor at a party; the clerk at the mom-and-pop pharmacy smiles at me; my children lit up when we bumped into their babysitter in the stands at the high school football game. As a 41-year-old that’s cool to me.

Little pink houses for you and me (starting at $949,000).

a grand prewar two-bedroom, which, after years of saving, we had barely managed to purchase for just under $700,000

Hastings does seem like a pretty nice town though if you can actually afford a $900,000 house, agree not "hip" but has a record store and some brooklynish farm-to-table type restaurants, and a very idyllicly situated downtown that is right on the river. Better than living in some BMW-strewn Long Island wasteland. When we had brunch there my perceptive three-year-old exclaimed "This is the Berkshires!"

Luckily, just as we had counted on, there was intense interest and a bidding war. Ultimately, the apartment sold for several hundred thousand over our asking price of $949,000, and in a bit of kismet, for the exact same price as our new home in Hastings.

hastings is a pretty nice town in the way that thousands of others (with or without river views) throughout america are. at the very least there are few 'loud' people

anyway, moving to the suburbs is an understandable choice but good lord save us from the insanely wealthy ppl insisting that they're still cool