I'm assuming that because the writer called the podcast "trendy" they decided to use some hep language to convey trendiness. Therefore you associate the podcast with someone cool, who covers a beat--like a policeman!
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 10 August 2022 19:47 (one year ago) link
I am treating my family to a special vacation in Alaska. My grandson, 28, and his wife are unable to join us; they are expecting a baby soon. I’m sorry they can’t come, but I was shocked when my grandson asked me for a cash gift equal to what I would have spent for them to join us on the trip. He suggested I donate the money to the baby’s college fund. I am stunned! I was happy to help them with wedding expenses and part of the down payment on their first home. But I told him this is not how life works. Was I wrong?
POPSY
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 August 2022 09:59 (one year ago) link
What's the play here? If you're 28, your grandparent has got to be old enough that you're going to get that cash in the near term anyway.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 11 August 2022 13:42 (one year ago) link
I am shocked, shocked that my grandson would want money.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 11 August 2022 13:44 (one year ago) link
you're going to get that cash in the near term anyway.
Especially if we're talking about when someone now a baby goes to college! Just wait! What, you think you can invest it better than grandma and grandpa? They're in position to book an Alaska cruise for an entire extended family, so probably not!
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 11 August 2022 15:06 (one year ago) link
i mean yeah but also, grandpa, just say of course, we’d like nothing better, and be done with it, and you’ll have done something that makes everyone happy. instead of this, which is bad!
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 11 August 2022 16:05 (one year ago) link
Or just say no, and then don't write into the NYT parading how you put your entitled grandson in his place.
― jmm, Thursday, 11 August 2022 16:38 (one year ago) link
yes pretty much any other option
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 11 August 2022 16:55 (one year ago) link
Dear Ethicist, my question is that I have an axe to grind.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 11 August 2022 17:01 (one year ago) link
"Is Popsy gone yet?"
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 11 August 2022 17:05 (one year ago) link
Only Murders in the Building have you hankering for the Upper West Side? These sheet-pan rugelach will make you think you're at Zabar's.— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) August 17, 2022
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 18 August 2022 09:22 (one year ago) link
The quiddity and agony of your kitchen needing a kitchen
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/16/realestate/back-kitchen-scullery.html
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 16 September 2022 17:46 (one year ago) link
lol this article is literally about quiddities and agonies of the ruling class: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/16/nyregion/trinity-grace-church-school.html
First paragraph:
As we have seen over and over in recent years, privilege is in crisis. Undone by guilt, jittery about an authority it is not eager to relinquish, lost in internal conflicts and contradictions, privilege has earnestly worked to rebrand itself, at times alienated its longstanding constituents, backtracked, corrected, wrung its hands.
It doesn't get better.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 18 September 2022 15:29 (one year ago) link
My god that may actually be too irritating to read in full, and I tried
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 18 September 2022 16:30 (one year ago) link
Privilege is in crisis and Something Must Be Done.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Sunday, 18 September 2022 16:31 (one year ago) link
I'm out of free articles, but that is quite a headline
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 18 September 2022 16:42 (one year ago) link
Gonna be honest with you, reading that article came at a cost even for us NYT subscribers
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 18 September 2022 16:49 (one year ago) link
"Is Popsy gone yet?"― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, August 11, 2022 1:05 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, August 11, 2022 1:05 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgiJ0OS9LwU
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Sunday, 18 September 2022 17:21 (one year ago) link
What to do when you inherit a château https://t.co/KDMwHgCPru— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) September 17, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 18 September 2022 20:44 (one year ago) link
not if but when
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 18 September 2022 21:55 (one year ago) link
finally someone who understands my bat corridor needs
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Monday, 19 September 2022 00:25 (one year ago) link
New York is a place singularly obsessed with reinventing its own rituals and power moves — and there’s nothing like sharing agnolotti with friends before dusk on a Tuesday to demonstrate you’re a master of your own universe
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/20/t-magazine/eating-early-new-york-restaurants.html
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 September 2022 20:01 (one year ago) link
wait till they meet my grandma, she eats so early they’ll probably give her her own column
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Wednesday, 21 September 2022 01:41 (one year ago) link
As tenants face increasingly high rents, publicly traded corporate landlords are reporting some of their highest margins ever. For smaller landlords, the situation can look very different. https://t.co/iLNvpR4UB6— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 27, 2022
Just a small lil landlord of 6000 units
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 28 September 2022 22:36 (one year ago) link
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/liberapedia/images/7/75/Toodamnhigh.jpg
― the floor is guava (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 29 September 2022 01:26 (one year ago) link
ongoing in my immediate neighborhoodhttps://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/07/nyregion/dog-attack-park-slope-brooklyn.html
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Friday, 7 October 2022 17:01 (one year ago) link
TBF (although I don't know that this really matters), it sounds like that guy's company manages rather than owns those apartments, i.e. is the property management company? Or am I misunderstanding?
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 7 October 2022 18:45 (one year ago) link
6000 just seems like a less shockingly large number for a management company to manage than for a "small" owner to own.
What's shocking is including a 6000 unit landlord (whether he's a middleman or outright owner of the properties) in your sob story about the struggles of "smaller operators."
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 7 October 2022 18:51 (one year ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/09/technology/minecraft-universe-developer.htmloffered without commentexcept “a squared plus b squared equals c squared”
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 10 October 2022 20:53 (one year ago) link
fantasy guest feature - Didion writing this (not to discredit the actual writer): https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/09/us/california-high-speed-rail-politics.html
― youn, Monday, 10 October 2022 21:11 (one year ago) link
It’s time to stop scrolling when you see shit headlines this this : “When the Tax AgencyWon’t Let You Deduct Your Reindeer-Herding Dog”
― calstars, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 21:16 (one year ago) link
On the same day, three New Yorkers—a trader, a lawyer and a social worker—ordered cocaine from a delivery service. Within hours, all three were dead from fentanyl. https://t.co/JOSFKf91v0— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) October 23, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 23 October 2022 16:22 (one year ago) link
Dealers also cut it into cocaine, a stimulant, to be more potent and addictive
So dealers cut their upper with a downer to "be more potent"? This sounds like my friends debating whether some batch of x was "heroin based" or not circa 2000, but they worked at TGI Friday's and not the WSJ.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 23 October 2022 20:36 (one year ago) link
Giorgia Meloni and the Politics of Power Dressing
The first female prime minister of Italy can’t avoid people caring about what she wears, but she can use it, our fashion critic writes.
― rob, Monday, 14 November 2022 14:21 (one year ago) link
not as thread appropriate but jesus:
Jeff Bezos Says He Will Give Away Most of His Fortune
The Amazon founder, estimated to be worth $124 billion, suggested in an interview on CNN that he would donate most of his money to charity during his lifetime.
― rob, Monday, 14 November 2022 14:25 (one year ago) link
xpWhen fashion dictates, you're living in a fashion state!
― nickn, Monday, 14 November 2022 17:34 (one year ago) link
hey bezos don’t talk about it just do it
― lets hear some blues on those synths (brimstead), Monday, 14 November 2022 17:36 (one year ago) link
https://archive.ph/2022.12.28-193921/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/27/travel/babies-flying-first-class.html
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 28 December 2022 19:58 (one year ago) link
https://www.washingtonian.com/2022/12/28/home-cocktail-lounges-for-entertaining/
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 4 January 2023 17:54 (one year ago) link
“ A separate outdoor entrance into the lounge amps up the speakeasy element. “You feel like you’re going out to a bar, right?” Healey says of the space. ”NOT REALLY THO
― calstars, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 18:25 (one year ago) link
“It’s that essential question: Does first class buy you the right to avoid hoi polloi and their kids, or do you need to fly private for that?”
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 4 January 2023 18:28 (one year ago) link
for millennia, philosophers and theologians have agonized
― doctor w00t (cat), Wednesday, 4 January 2023 18:39 (one year ago) link
Essential
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 4 January 2023 19:00 (one year ago) link
There’s no minimum age restriction on first class seats?
― calstars, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 19:01 (one year ago) link
"Babies in First Class"
Tell me that isn't a deliberate double meaning
― jmm, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 19:02 (one year ago) link
xp Not according to that linked NYT article. Can you imagine?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 4 January 2023 19:02 (one year ago) link
I am not heartless and would never wish harm on a child, but
― jmm, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 19:05 (one year ago) link
When Dr. Amy Guralnick, a pulmonologist, took her 3-year-old to Israel from Chicago in business-class seats, the woman next to her immediately switched her seat to coach to avoid being around the baby. The man who claimed the abandoned business-class seat was loud and obnoxious and spilled his drink on the baby, who slept throughout the entire 12-hour flight, Dr. Guralnick said.
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 January 2023 20:04 (one year ago) link
heh
― calstars, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 20:15 (one year ago) link