Still waiting on all those Manhattan Zillow listings from billionaires threatening to leave if Mamdani won

Had some of this last night. Exquisite

(as in fact you say in a post above)

I feel like an underrated point in all this is the supposedly peak DEI excesses of the 2010s coincided with a golden age of TV—it has never been as good before and may never be as good again imo!

4a) The community wasn't consulted / There needs to be more process / No one told me about this meeting that I somehow found out about

4b) I've lived here for XX years which means my opinion matters more

5) CRIME!!

6) No really will someone please think of the parking

3) I live nearby and I don't like it [Typically this comment is masquerading as "I am a self-appointed expert on fire safety/ecology/utility infrastructure/historic preservation/ gentrification/view corridors/public health/parking (See #1)]

A correction from my now-caffeinated mind: I did not use the word "invoke" correctly.

"Inculcate" maybe, though that makes me sound condescending, which I suppose I am being here.

(I'm sure I'll get around to doing my actual job at some point today.)

Is the person who decided to cast Seth Rogan as a ruthless totalitarian the same person who decided there should be cafés without caffeine?

But anyway, I agree with you and my general view is because we live in a media universe constantly flooded with shit, no one is able to perceive the connection between last year's shit and this year's shit. We need more chroniclers of shit to have any prayer of reviving a culture of accountability

Yeah. Klion has been very on point in chronicling Bari Weiss's role in all this. And Tressie McMillan Cottom clocked the Letter for what it was at the time, though I think the receipts for that are on a podcast or something

David Klion did something like this earlier this year

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

You know you're a real thought leader when your idea is that we should insert many layers of process before making a very obvious decision that everyone agrees with

I mean, I already checked out of the coffee shop concept when they started making them all feel like an Apple store. Coffee shops should feel like a cave with distressed furniture and old books lying around