https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/sarah-jeong-and-the-question-of-context
really appreciated this
― k3vin k., Friday, 10 August 2018 02:19 (six years ago) link
(via jelani cobb)
Wtf, who is Elizabeth Williamson?
― Frederik B, Friday, 10 August 2018 07:18 (six years ago) link
anyway...
― k3vin k., Friday, 10 August 2018 18:23 (six years ago) link
love too remove the reporters bylines from the homepage while making the terrible oped section columnists more prominent
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 14:50 (six years ago) link
you cant just take their names off, man.. they're not the fucking ny yankees
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 15:18 (six years ago) link
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
― mookieproof, Saturday, 1 September 2018 19:12 (six years ago) link
no different than any other service enjoyed by the 1%, this is just how they live
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 1 September 2018 20:25 (six years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/11/realestate/goodbye-silicon-valley-hello-east-village.html
― louise ck (milo z), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 06:05 (five years ago) link
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.
― nickn, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 06:45 (five years ago) link
VAGCHINA
― Jeff, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 11:54 (five years ago) link
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.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 10 November 2018 04:45 (five years ago) link
token?
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 10 November 2018 04:52 (five years ago) link
refuse to visit a internet web site called hmmdaily
― macropuente (map), Saturday, 10 November 2018 05:01 (five years ago) link
finally someone's taking on the NYT opinion columnists!
― President Keyes, Monday, 12 November 2018 14:06 (five years ago) link
🙄
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 12 November 2018 17:17 (five years ago) link
it’s basically scocca.me and if he wants to tee off on dummies I for one could use the chuckle
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Monday, 12 November 2018 17:22 (five years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/20/style/alcoholism-drunks-in-love.html
What a bunch of fucking lightweights
― calstars, Sunday, 23 December 2018 01:15 (five years ago) link
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.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 3 January 2019 13:11 (five years ago) link
OK OK it's the london times but this is some primo elite class nonsensehttps://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.
― twitter is bad not good (||||||||), Sunday, 13 January 2019 11:01 (five years ago) link
there's currently 30% off HumanChargers.
http://www.earlightswindle.com/
― koogs, Sunday, 13 January 2019 13:24 (five years ago) link
The gold standard is 30 chews
― Rhine Jive Click Bait (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 13 January 2019 14:23 (five years ago) link
Staring at the sun?
― jmm, Sunday, 13 January 2019 15:13 (five years ago) link
The gold standard is 30 chewsThat's the science law
― mick signals, Sunday, 13 January 2019 18:54 (five years ago) link
the mad kid had four chews
― Rhine Jive Click Bait (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 13 January 2019 22:57 (five years ago) link
Is there any way around the Times paywall?
― louise ck (milo z), Monday, 14 January 2019 00:24 (five years ago) link
open a private browsing window? incognito mode?
― Rhine Jive Click Bait (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 14 January 2019 00:27 (five years ago) link
you just have to realise it's in your mind and you can use your energy to sense beyond it
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Monday, 14 January 2019 00:28 (five years ago) link
Incognito doesn't work on the Time paywall.
― louise ck (milo z), Monday, 14 January 2019 00:32 (five years ago) link
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
― seandalai, Monday, 14 January 2019 00:36 (five years ago) link
nice.http://pbs.twimg.com/media/DwvZJmHXQAAwWGz.jpg%3Alarge
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 14 January 2019 01:07 (five years ago) link
well maybe not so nice. but it's a good read.
i want to read her "everything falls apart" diary
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 14 January 2019 01:12 (five years ago) link
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.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 14 January 2019 01:25 (five years ago) link
Can’t bypass the paywall, but if nobody in that article’s weighing/examining their dumps (German shelf toilets, anyone?) they’re just dilettantes.
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 14 January 2019 02:39 (five years ago) link
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?
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?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 18 January 2019 16:25 (five years ago) link
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
― mookieproof, Friday, 22 February 2019 19:52 (five years ago) link
he's not wrong
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 22 February 2019 20:03 (five years ago) link
Pobrecito
― Norm’s Superego (silby), Friday, 22 February 2019 20:03 (five years ago) link
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
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 22 February 2019 20:21 (five years ago) link
squirm, finance worm!!! squirm!!!!!
― j., Friday, 22 February 2019 20:23 (five years ago) link
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.
― rb (soda), Friday, 22 February 2019 20:27 (five years ago) link
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