We get a new cast of characters this time. Meet Claudia Ward, who works and lives in a .3 million apartment at 15 Broad Street, and thinks terrorists can't just walk up a flight of stairs instead. pic.twitter.com/Q4c9T2BLz9— Second Ave. Sagas (@2AvSagas) January 22, 2018
― Righteous wax chaperone, rotating Wingdings (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 14:02 (six years ago) link
wow
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 14:40 (six years ago) link
Man, I've heard some dumb NIMBY fig leaf rationales, but this is among the most transparent
― Dan I., Tuesday, 23 January 2018 14:58 (six years ago) link
wow, waaaaaht?!
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:31 (six years ago) link
also, anyone who thinks it's "easy for a person to just slip through" has never waited for or ridden in a subway elevator
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:32 (six years ago) link
lol seriously
― Righteous wax chaperone, rotating Wingdings (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:32 (six years ago) link
From the comments
...the article has done an excellent job at doing exactly what the developer of the new high rise wants - to divert attention from the real issue here. That is, that for a mere $20m they are getting a massive amount of additional air rights to build the tallest residential tower in Nee York. The developer’s crocodile tears for the disabled are a joke. No one wants to take services away from those who need it. But by making this a tale of “rich vs. disabled” that whole issue has been obfuscated.
There may be merit to this, which makes their decision to leverage terrorism even uglier. Would be surprised to learn that any of these people lived in the neighborhood before 9/11. Also fuck this lady for posing with her kid. If you are this concerned with your family's safety maybe move somewhere not literally called ground zero.
― Empire Burl Ives (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:00 (six years ago) link
IDGI. If the point is that the development is bad, oppose the development. If the point is that they are paying too little for their variance, then protest that they should build TWO subway elevators, or an elevator and a park, or w/e.
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:10 (six years ago) link
They probably see meeting the developers head-on as a lost cause. "But shrapnel!" looks like a Hail Mary pass
― Empire Burl Ives (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:29 (six years ago) link
well the issue becomes that the villain is actually the city, broadly speaking, who have been giving away incredible deals for absolute peanuts for ages. they should be demanding that these developers top up the NYCHA maintenance and capital budgets. or just, y'know, tax the shit out of them so the city can fund things reliably. both unthinkable it seems.
― Righteous wax chaperone, rotating Wingdings (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:41 (six years ago) link
something tells me the residents of a building called "Downtown By Phillipe Starck" might be incapable of waging a principled fight in this area
― Empire Burl Ives (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:55 (six years ago) link
This is the same lady protesting the elevators lol pic.twitter.com/a8lc6Inzvc— sensei-tional🌹 (@plumpearpeach) January 23, 2018
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:44 (six years ago) link
wow that's quite an account https://twitter.com/lgerstman
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:53 (six years ago) link
oh my god
― Empire Burl Ives (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:54 (six years ago) link
waldorf-astoria: *not* pet-friendly
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:54 (six years ago) link
i love that she lives in the downtown area of the capital of planet earth and she's constantly shocked by the noise
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:59 (six years ago) link
I kind of hate myself every time I start digging through someone's personal social media for stuff like this, but damn hers is ripe for it.
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 18:13 (six years ago) link
loool her example of "noise/air polution" is trash pickup
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 18:14 (six years ago) link
NYC needs more trash pickup I’m pretty sure, or less trash
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 18:38 (six years ago) link
there's entitled and then there's
.@APPLEOFFIClAL please consider making the alarm clock more difficult to turn off. Perhaps requiring a code. #missedmyflight— Linda Gerstman (@LGerstman) May 3, 2015
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 18:39 (six years ago) link
every tweet is an absurd complaint
― marcos, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 18:40 (six years ago) link
I love it. So happy this woman exists.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 18:44 (six years ago) link
She's like golem made out of links in this thread
― Empire Burl Ives (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 20:16 (six years ago) link
honestly hundreds of this woman exist, and they all have yorkies
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 20:17 (six years ago) link
the yorkie is basically an avatar for their delicate, overly-fluffed little egos
I like imagining that they are all named after cute spots on recent tour of Tuscany
― Empire Burl Ives (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 20:19 (six years ago) link
new york is not the capital of planet earth. i used to think that but no. london had a claim but not any more. i don't think there is one. sorry OT i know
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 21:29 (six years ago) link
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/10/fashion/weddings/a-commitment-for-more-than-one-lifetime.html?referer=http://m.facebook.com
― gr8080, Saturday, 17 February 2018 15:31 (six years ago) link
Wow. People are interesting.
― Jeff, Saturday, 17 February 2018 15:46 (six years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/16/nyregion/how-salt-bae-restaurateur-spends-his-sundays.html
― mick signals, Saturday, 17 February 2018 16:12 (six years ago) link
those "how i spent my sunday" things that i have read seem like they are inherently designed to make you dislike the person upon reading all the things they do on their sunday routine. first, they are fortunate enough to have a sunday routine. it gets worse from there.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Saturday, 17 February 2018 17:06 (six years ago) link
yeah but the way this guy throws salt
― Rhine Jive Click Bait (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 17 February 2018 17:36 (six years ago) link
the salt guy didn't bug me so much. i like salt.
― scott seward, Saturday, 17 February 2018 17:53 (six years ago) link
when my salter has racing gloves on and puts his hips into it, that's the best salt
― Rhine Jive Click Bait (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 17 February 2018 17:56 (six years ago) link
a 35-year-old bachelor (with 13 children)
― louise ck (milo z), Sunday, 18 February 2018 01:50 (six years ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/p/BQIbjS3j4yD/
― mick signals, Sunday, 18 February 2018 02:49 (six years ago) link
oh my god these fucking babies
Leave the Twitter mob. Think for yourself. Listen for yourself. Turn of your political bloodlust. Learn how to disagree as a civilized adult. Stop bullying people. Just stop it. @bariweiss, I'm with you. Be strong, lady. This too shall pass.— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) February 17, 2018
― Simon H., Sunday, 18 February 2018 03:23 (six years ago) link
like I get that female public figures get the brunt of online raging out but she did a racism and never even apologized
― Simon H., Sunday, 18 February 2018 03:25 (six years ago) link
she did that thing where you're trying so hard not to be racist that you end up saying something a little bit racist
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 18 February 2018 09:56 (six years ago) link
i thought bari weiss' original tweet was meant well, if inaccurate? but then she weirdly dug in on it and now it's all free speech or something idk
― mookieproof, Sunday, 18 February 2018 10:11 (six years ago) link
It has vastly more to do with existing antipathy towards Weiss and the broader trend towards mainstream papers seeking “balance” by recruiting right-wing hot-takers than the tweet everyone is pretending to be up in arms about.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Sunday, 18 February 2018 10:17 (six years ago) link
Justifiable antipathy-she is awful.
there's something a little unsavoury about weiss standing back on her twitter perch and congratulating nagasu for doing her job well, as if she'd just taken out the trash
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 18 February 2018 10:31 (six years ago) link
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/20/travel/saigon-ho-chi-minh-city-family-vacation.html
Which is why, on our last day before flying to the beach, I booked a van to the Cu Chi tunnels, the underground former Viet Cong base, about 90 minutes outside Saigon, that is a major tourist draw. At last, the kids could roam and climb, and gawk at the admirably barbaric traps used to catch enemy soldiers, while I pointed out ponds that were really bomb craters and told them about a war I was born too late to remember firsthand. And, of course, we clambered about in the three-foot-high tunnels, which is any kid’s dream but drew rivers of sweat even from this smaller-than-average American.
When we emerged, Sandy (who could stand fully upright in the tunnels) explained: “You ate a lot of dinner — that’s why you didn’t fit in the tunnel. You ate a lot of food — like Anna and Elsa!”
Sasha was more succinct: “This place is pretty amazing!”
As my heart warmed, I also realized: Oh my god, my kids are … tourists. They like it easy. They like fun. They’re on vacation. What did I expect?
― rb (soda), Thursday, 22 February 2018 17:07 (six years ago) link
Admirably barbaric, indeed.
“At first, my wife, Jean, and our daughters Sasha, 7½, and Sandy, almost 4, were game.”What is with people and ages? Can’t he just say 7 and 3?And there’s something disgusting about this guy and his kids playing in these tunnels like they’re in a fucking playpen at a McDonalds.
― calstars, Friday, 23 February 2018 21:13 (six years ago) link
calstars hates the kids
― mookieproof, Saturday, 24 February 2018 00:21 (six years ago) link
Just wait until I bring my 4.47284 year old into his bar.
― Jeff, Saturday, 24 February 2018 00:24 (six years ago) link
that's definitely too many significant figures, unless you're counting the hours
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Saturday, 24 February 2018 00:36 (six years ago) link
He sounds like both an extremely shitty dad and nowhere near the adventurer he fancies himself.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Saturday, 24 February 2018 04:31 (six years ago) link