Certainly anyone who has attended primary school here
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On the less evil side of annoyances:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/17/m...ail-order.html
Like knowing how to order off a menu, ordering a drink is something that needs to be learned. And finding your signature cocktail is an intellectual endeavor — an examination of yourself and your predilections — as much as it is a gustatory one. It has taken me a lifetime to find My Drink, a slow but steady culmination of all the glasses I’ve had before and all the times I’ve anxiously ordered at a bar.
But it’s not just experience and self-awareness that help you find your drink; it’s having the language to tell a bartender what you’re craving, what you like and what you don’t. As with food, “cocktails exist on a spectrum,” says J.M. Hirsch, the author of “Pour Me Another,” which offers tasting words like “refreshing,” “sweet” and “warm” to help you hone your preferences. For Hirsch, using “language that you can taste” is a necessary step toward helping people understand what’s in the glass. It’s also, he says, “a good way to build connections between glasses.” And these connections are, ultimately, what can help you discover a new drink.
Whenever I have a nightcap of Fernet, for instance, I’m reminded of other amari I’ve sipped — Montenegro, Nonino and Cynar — journaling in front of the Duomo in Crema, Italy. That image of past me stirs fond memories of the many ice-cold Cynar spritzes I’ve enjoyed with friends at Bar Pisellino in the summer. Those bubbles float into my Champagne years, when a colleague and I would go to the underground Flūte in Midtown for weekly Champagne Tuesdays. Another wine I love is sherry, which reminds me of a martini I had at Our/New York, a vodka bar and distillery that became my after-work watering hole for a couple of years (the martini was “dirty” from a splash of sherry). The bar manager at the time, Rustun Nichols, showed me that my go-to martini was actually a 50/50, an evolution from the Bond-inspired Vesper I thought I loved but found difficult to choke down in my early 20s. Now in my 30s, a 50/50 goes down easy.Comment
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Same meme, different thread.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/07/t...-industry.html
Then there's this one, about the same thing, with the same reliance on a handful of techbro anecdotes.
https://sfstandard.com/business/is-s...gaining-steam/
In other words, my whole article is saying "This is what a few people said, so it must be true, even though it clearly is not true. At all."Any changing sentiments about remote work in the tech world haven’t yet shown up in the data. San Francisco’s office vacancies are at record highs, and foot traffic Downtown lags far behind other U.S. cities compared with pre-pandemic numbers.Comment
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This is bad.
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1678411088738615296
The Athletic started as promising hyperlocal coverage in all markets with dedicated beat reporters, got bought by the NY Times, announced that they'd stop covering some sports closely and not trying to have beat reporters for all teams, and now the NY Times is eliminating its sports desk. So instead of two potentially great sources covering sports in different ways, we have one source that doesn't really do anything all that well.
At least the print edition will be better than whatever the LA Times sports section will be. They will no longer have any coverage on events after 3pm the previous day--no box scores, no game stories in the paper, etc. What's the fucking point?Last edited by Incandenza; 10-07-2023, 15:33.Comment
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This is more than annoying...because it's true.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...260630d0f0021bComment
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Any headline of “X is not as Y as you think” is a good indicator that the argument to follow is asinine.Comment
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I'm astonished to find out that David French isn't a Boomer.Comment
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The problem with Ok, Boomer is that a lot of kids seem to think everyone older than 20 is a boomer.Comment
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David Brooks is sad that he wasn't included in that trio of Incredible Takes.Comment
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Not even the worst section of today's paper. The framing of pretty much every article on the Hamas/Israel story is, entirely expectedly, just awful.Comment
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It’s not a trio. It’s a quartet. If you click on that to see the whole image, it includes a Maureen Dowd piece giving advice to Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce.Comment
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The NY Times is one of a handful of the most overrated institutions in US culture.Comment
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Why is every word in the headline capitalized apart from in? NYT style guide?Originally posted by ursus arctos View PostComment
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It's pretty common in many US publications. Prepositions don't make the capitalization cut.Comment
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The NYT actually mixes it up depending on the type of headline
https://www.frontpages.com/the-new-york-times/
I once knew what they called each type, but that was a long time agoComment
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Not annoying, but great article about the NYT from David Roth
https://defector.com/hiding-and-seek...new-york-times
But if every single visible aspect of this story has been unappealing and insulting in its particulars, it's worth sparing a moment of consideration for the invisible aspect. The double-bylined Times blow-by-blow of Gay's last days as Harvard's president, after a rundown of various incidents—Ackman tweeting some things that were true and some other things that weren't, those uncomfortable conversations about the alma mater in Turks & Caicos—notes that "newspaper articles about Dr. Gay and the board kept coming."
That is less a passive or exonerative construction than an admission of where and how the Times sees its role in all this—as the invisible hand of respectable opinion, a tidal force that carries things forward or back. To be fair, the paper will also write stories about how diversity as a concept and corporate practice are overwhelmingly popular, and about how virtually none of the dire implications of those antisemitism hearings were grounded in observable reality, and about how all that deep concern about antisemitism has already been abandoned by Congresspeople and activists alike in favor of a more open-ended campaign against older targets. The coverage is honest in that way, but crucially less so about the bigger question of how all of this vapor and gossip and recursive rich-guy umbrage became a story in the first place.
It would be foolish and exhausting to speculate on the role that Times editor-in-chief Joseph Kahn (Harvard '87, Harvard M.A. '90) played in pushing this story; there is nothing to do but speculate, there. Power works in different ways, and if Ackman–style public meltdowns are the loudest and most overt expression of that work, and Rufo's store-brand Rasputin act are the most obviously motivated, they are not the only ones. There is also the Times' understanding of itself as the author of the discourse, and all that ostentatious invisibility—the decisions about what is and is not a story, or what is and is not up for debate, that only show up in the negative.
You already know how that works; we are soaking in it. Someone at the institution decides that there is or ought to be, say, a debate about the safety or advisability of trans health care where no such debate actually exists, and then the debate is manufactured to suit that sense—in and through stories about that debate. And then, at some point down the line, some laws are promulgated that reflect that debate's terms.Comment
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JFC
Alabama Hails Nitrogen Gas Execution, a New Attempt to Address an Old Challenge
Fending off doubts and criticisms, Alabama’s attorney general hailed a new execution method as “humane and effective.”
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The guy they killed called it in advance. It's OK though because the Supreme Court was fine with it.Comment
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