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

yea the whole idea of pedestrians having the right of way is just not present in latin america xps

I loved how in La Paz, Bolivia, on most streets cars were going in both directions in all parts of the street, like there were no lanes, no directions, just "I want to go there", made for some fun taxi rides

my brother lived in Hyderabad for a while & said that his driver (quiddities) hit pedestrians like every day

I got hit by a taxi in Istanbul. Turks are some crazee-ass mfers on the road.

these young turks and their driving

From that "habits of rich people" link:

"4. 63% of wealthy listen to audio books during commute to work vs. 5% for poor people."

damn the audiobook market must be boomin

2. 80% of wealthy are focused on accomplishing some single goal. Only 12% of the poor do this.

so 'making it through the week' is not, like, a 'single goal'??

lol this list is gold

11. 6% of wealthy say what’s on their mind vs. 69% for poor.

From that "habits of rich people" link:

"4. 63% of wealthy listen to audio books during commute to work vs. 5% for poor people."

damn the audiobook market must be boomin

― polyphonic,

What they don't tell you is that 98% of those are 50 Shades of Gray.

no, they are business books

just like the audible.com commercial guy says

i LOVE to READ

but WHO has the TIME?!?

NOW i can listen to BUSINESS BOOKS in my CAR

the wealthy jerk off in their cars vs. poors jerk off on the bus

How do you drive while listening to an audiobook and not miss 50% of it?

just let it wash over you, if it feels like you're understanding it then you can count it as 'read'

i listened to an audiobook on a long boooooooring drive recently and it made my experience much better
audiobooks are for people who like podcasts that are 9 hrs long

memories of boy scout trips as a kid where we always listened to audiobooks of tom clancy novels on the drive to the campground.

15. 44% of wealthy wake up 3 hours before work starts vs. 3% for poor.

perhaps this is because wealthy people only start work at noon?

i tried to listen to the game of thrones audio books driving across country but damn those shits are interminable and so much worse than the tv show so i just read the wikipedia summaries instead

the worst thing about my audiobook was that the woman reading it sounded a little like terry gross, but otherwise it was v entertaining.

I would catch myself daydreaming and have to rewind sometimes

the only one I've ever done is a bootleg of the William Gibson books on tape reading of Neuromancer which RULED

i listened to The Game on audio book

highly recommended.

I got hit by a taxi in Istanbul. Turks are some crazee-ass mfers on the road.

The cab I took from the airport in Istanbul didn't exactly hit anyone, but the driver did sort of poke a pedestrian aside with the side mirror.

cab I took to the airport in Istanbul drove like 150 kph and a cop saw us but the driver waved and pointed to us in the back, and the cop musta said, oh he's got passengers, no biggie, and on we drove

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/21/fashion/social-networking-App-allows-women-to-rate-men.html?pagewanted=all

it's like an amazing game of quiddities - gender hideousness - tech people bingo

gross

78% of the wealthy were born wealthy. 0% of the poor were.

'Alison Schwartz, a former assistant to the literary agent Amanda Urban, known as Binky'

cmon

Way to bury the lede, Times:
"She said she drew from Cosmopolitan and Glamour magazines to come up with the app’s supportive voice."

On the upside the people doing the reviewing, the people being reviewed and the people trusting hashtags for relationship advice all clearly deserve each other.

http://www.theawl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/photo2-e1385384598732.jpg

that's kind of sweet. maybe it's just because I think she's cuet.

44% of wealthy wake up 3 hours before work starts vs. 3% for poor.

I get up 3 hrs before sometimes bcz 1) I am a slow riser and 2) every successive apartment I can afford is further away from my job.

I wake up 3 hours before work because my toddler wakes up 3 hours before work

i wake up 3 hours before work because i am slow and i ride my bike 10 miles to work and i am a teacher so if i am late everybody leaves

I work in my sleep

*starts waking up 3 hours before he needs to be at Wal-Mart job*
*does aerobic exercise four times a week*
"Ok, so how long does this take before I get rich?"

i wake up three hours before work because im a breakdancing policeman

seems like the true measure of success is that top 10 or 20% of the wealthy people who get to do all of the poor people stuff while staying wealthy

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/21/fashion/social-networking-App-allows-women-to-rate-men.html?pagewanted=all

― thighs without a face (c sharp major), Thursday, November 21, 2013 10:08 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

photo on this is perfectly hilarious

Ms. Chong founded Lulu with a friend, Alison Schwartz, a former assistant to the literary agent Amanda Urban, known as Binky.

And this sentence is known as Clunky.

Billionaire Bunkers: Beyond the Panic Room, Home Security Goes Sci-Fi

Al Corbi’s residence in the Hollywood Hills has the requisite white walls covered in artwork and picture windows offering breathtaking views of downtown Los Angeles, but it has more in common with NSA headquarters than with the other contemporary homes on the block. The Corbi family doesn’t need keys (thanks to biometric recognition software), doesn’t fear earthquakes (thanks to steel-reinforced concrete caissons that burrow 30 feet into the private hilltop) and sleeps easily inside a 2,500-square-foot home within a home: a ballistics-proof panic suite that Corbi refers to as a “safe core.”

Paranoid? Perhaps. But also increasingly commonplace. Futuristic security technologies–many developed for the military but sounding as though they came straight from James Bond’s Q–have made their way into the home, available to deep-pocketed owners whose peace of mind comes from knowing that their sensors can detect and adjust for, say, a person lurking in the bushes a half-mile away.

they're gonna need some skynet robots if they want to keep ruling us from inside their safe cores

http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2013/12/what-we-hate-read-2013

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304367204579268301043949952

Really dunno where to put this

This thread or shit that looks like an onion article?

here - too many past tense indicative sentences w/o sufficient historical irony

real resigned view of education dere

Apart from mathematics, which demands a high IQ, and science, which requires a distinct aptitude, the only thing that normal undergraduate schooling prepares a person for is... more schooling. Having been a good student, in other words, means nothing more than that one was good at school: One had the discipline to do as one was told, learned the skill of quick response to oral and written questions, figured out what professors wanted and gave it to them.

agree 100% wasps have funnier clothes and names than nerds

I don't think there's any shortage of people willing to do boring but well-compensated jobs.

They were alive and breathing, and they had such names as......Robert McNamara.

the only thing that normal undergraduate schooling prepares a person for is... more schooling

Forgot to tell you I went back in time to when I was 16 to write that article.

Insistence that WASP rule resulted in a nobler, less corrupt and self-interested society is breathtakingly myopic. Yes, when one group dominated, they did indeed fashion of the nation a fine playground for themselves. I hardly think it's coincidence that the decline of American WASPocracy maps so comfortably onto the rise and consequences of the civil rights era. I mean, sure — the wealthy society WASPs I know do tend to be liberal progressives, heavily involved in community and charitable work, tightly bound by puritan propriety, and averse to flagrant displays of power or wealth. At the same time often racist, smug, exclusionary, cruelly blind to the concerns of anyone not in their circle, etc...