It's worth keeping in mind that whatever the speaker intended, other people can turn it into a euphemism.
I thought it would have something to do with inserting healing objects in her vagina. I was excited to get to "2 centimeters of free Goop products" but was ultimately disappointed.
Inserting items in her guest house. Do keep up.
Technically, she's a nepo baby, but she's so much more famous than her parents that it seems incorrect.
3 They gotta get that scent on those candles somehow
Or maybe that's just my age. My dad always saw Carrie Fischer as the kid of Eddie Fischer (who I wouldn't even remember except for Carrie and Elizabeth Taylor) and Debbie Reynolds.
I somehow only realized over this summer that my dad's cousin is married to GP's cousin.
Dad's other cousin. I should say that these are step-cousins he acquired in college, so he didn't grow up with them. But it is quite a well-connected family.
He should try renting out his house.
Anyway, I've come to the conclusion that the gig economy and things like Airbnb are basically tax evasion and insurance fraud where successful and defrauding people bad at assessing risk where not.
Which I guess is why hiring Paltrow makes sense.
That's kinda true, but also kinda not. For example, Airbnb's that are tiny homes on some locals' property in a rural tourist area don't obviously fit into either category. They're a way to get around building restrictions that stop hotels from being built for sure, but they can absolutely be profitable even if you're charged taxes and proper insurance.
I completely agree that Uber has that problem. Airbnb I think only sometimes does.
The thing about Uber is that I remember what the taxi was like here before Uber and Uber is still better.
But if Airbnb was really useful and going to be a continuing part of a good economy, they would have hired Taylor Swift.
It may not be too late to but her Cornelia Street apartment and turn it into a Taylor-themed AirBnB. If you have $18m.
As it happens, I don't have $18 million.
My health insurance company is offering me up to $200 if I get an online coach from them. Maybe they will let me have 90,000 coaches? Personally, I think they just want to be reassured that I'm taking my blood pressure medication.
We made a lot of money from Airbnb the year we lived abroad- maybe $60k gross? It didn't take any housing off the market because I was coming back occasionally and we were only gone 8 months so there was no long term rental possibility. We kept it up for a couple more years doing high demand weekends at $1000 a night (sporting events, graduations) but it's a pain to move personal stuff out of the way so we stopped.
you know you'll get old and the ways of the youth will seem unfamiliar and fraught
This happened to me a few years ago. I feel like I'm mostly spectating another generation's world these days.
It still seems like everyone older than me is the problem. That and having to piss six times before lunch because of blood pressure medication and coffee.
$1000 a night
What do you have, a grotto?
Yeah, sometimes I think about doing that for graduation, but as you say cleaning up is a big pain.
everyone older than me is the problem
This is the case, but everyone younger is kinda weird.
Something better than sex, within walking distance of Harvard.
Everything is within walking distance of Harvard if you have enough time.
Everything is within walking distance of Harvard if you have enough time.
the sea tho
31: Harvard Welcomes the Inaugural All-Pedestrian Class of 250000023!
The AI Paltrow replacement will be even worse. Influencers will be the first to have their income eaten by AI.
I have a theoretical idea I'd like to try-- as I get older like everyone above, I've come to appreciate how the past is another country. So my idea is to use this common sentiment, which presumably is shared by Trumpies and their fellow-travelers at the periphery of my social life, to plant a germ of sympathy for actual immigrants. The same dislocation and discomfort that comes from looking at weirdos older and younger, that feeling is something we all share with geographical immigrants.
Influencers will be the first to have their income eaten by AI.
Not enough AI fake fans spending money or too many AI fake influencers?
The AI influencers are the real ones, the opportunistic teens and worse adults who don't really mean what they say about skincare or nutrition, those are the fakes.
Logan Paul bragged about walking out of Oppenheimer after explaining that human speech is incomprehensible to him.
That is, Logan Paul shows that it's possible for humans to adapt even more effectively than Paltrow or the Kardashians have done, we may be able to compete with AI after all.
I know that AI can copy Paltrow's nipples barely covered by a thin top, but where's the heart?
Does anyone else have the problem that Facebook is now often mostly AI generated soft core porn?
No. I get guns and old people stuff.
Not old-people porn. Just like "Aren't you great because you can dial a rotary phone".
I am very interested to know whether the ad feed algorithm responds to spoken words heard by a telephone-- I mentioned peaches yesterday, looked at fb two hours later and there's the ad. There have been a few other instances where something spoken but not typed or in the stream of pages I've looked at appears. Definitely aggregated by IP though, so also need to include activity of other household members. This is one of those questions that the internet isn't all that helpful for-- there's basically a Google platform, a competing Meta platform. Are there others? Is Thiel allied with either of these?
Farmers market peaches are out of this world delicious right now, btw.
Aren't you great because you can dial a rotary phone
That's a euphemism
You know how to dial, don't you? You just put your finger in the hole, and make tiny little circles.
Gen Z are more about making letters with their fingers.
Gwyneth Paltrow's Montecito neighbors piled a bunch of rocks to prevent people from parking by a trailhead, then sued under CEQA when the county tried to remove them. (It took a while, but it looks like they're losing hard enough they will have to pay the county for legal fees.)
the region ... referred to as Xizang
Now that's how you euphemize.
I keep hearing about the Youf Em Asia.
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Bleg: I have followed a couple of bloggers to substack. When notes opened up I've spent some time there commenting on people's notes.
A week ago I was contacted by a substack PR person to say, "in addition to authors we've wanted to highlight some of the readers, and we've noticed that you've been engaging and leaving useful comments. Could I send you a couple of interview questions over e-mail?"
I was flattered, it's so unusual for me to be an early adopter, and I said yes. We've had a back-and-forth and it's moving forward.
Two questions for the group here:
1) Is it better if I do or do not try to mention unfogged as my "home-blog" in my capsule description of myself?
2) They asked if I was comfortable sharing my last name. It's clearly a substack thing -- they obviously encourage their authors to use their real names. I don't mind; I don't think there's much risk, but I have a long acquired habit of preferring pseudo-anonymity. How cautious should I be?
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This is the kind of thing I would also stress out about.
Tell them your real name is Wry Cooter.
It's silly; it's fun, but I doubt more than a couple dozen people will read it and care, so I shouldn't stress out about it. But I am curious if anyone has an opinion.
the one thing that I am excited about. They asked for a photo; I said "no" they then offered that if I submitted a photo they would turn it into a stylized illustration (like the one here). That is too good to pass up.
Mentioning Unfogged is fine unless someone pipes up and says they're uncomfortable with it.
Ha, it doesn't matter, because they're not going to mention some non-substack blog to their audience.
This place was never monetized, probably because Standpipe was in charge at the crucial time.
Could have probably made at least twice what Crooked Timber does.
61: we'll see. I think the cynicism is warranted.
I got a notification that someone followed me on Substack. I was puzzled.
I spent some of this afternoon reading about the various names of Tibet. I wonder if we should start saying Böd to get under Zhongnanhai's skin. But possibly that has more specific and/or ethnic connotations for Tibetans, like using Myanmar instead of Burma apparently does there.
Who will write the "Welcome Substack Readers!" post?
But to be earnest, I would be wary of the fans of some of Substack's most prominent writers.
I am unsure what direction substack will head, but without Notes I wouldn't have noticed that Sherman Alexie has a substack, and it's really good. For example: https://shermanalexie.substack.com/p/my-fathers-novel
"According to the results of preliminary analysis, due to the deviation of the actual parameters of the impulse from the calculated ones, the Luna-25 spacecraft moved to a non-calculated orbit," Roscosmos said in a statement. It then "ceased to exist as a result of collision with the surface of the moon."
country's first Moon mission since 1976, when the Soviet Union launched the Luna-24. That robot lander successfully returned to Earth carrying lunar soil samples for scientists to study. In the Luna-25 mission, Russia was racing to beat India, whose Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft is approaching the Moon's South Pole region and is scheduled to make its landing on Wednesday.
|| speaking of nepo babies and prominent substack writers, whoever here said MY was on a GG trajectory, your comment is aging well so far |>
50 reminds me of what seems to be a comically obvious attempt at arson fraud or possibly the lead in to a BBC murder mystery, or, I feel legally obliged to state, perhaps just a completely innocent sequence of coincidences:
There is or rather was a famous pub in Lancashire called the Crooked House, which subsided partly about 200 years ago and as a result was crooked. Doors and windows at an angle, sloping floor. All very entertaining, perfectly structurally sound, and legally protected for reasons of age and quirkiness. It closed recently and, despite attempts to keep it as a pub, this local couple bought it.
And: it turns out they also own the quarry/landfill immediately adjoining the land on which the pub is built.
And: less than a week after they bought it, the pub mysteriously burned.
And: it burned so completely because there was a mysterious six-foot pile of earth and gravel blocking the access road so the fire engines couldn't get to the pub, almost as if... as if it had been placed there deliberately to prevent the fire brigade reaching the fire by someone with both
a) a motive to destroy the pub, such as, to pick a hypothetical motive at random, wishing to expand one's nearby quarry/landfill site on to the land the pub occupied;
and
b) access to a large JCB digger.
And: two days after it burned, the owners sent, of all things, a large JCB digger to flatten what was left of the pub, without permission.
And: it turned out that they had hired, in a twist that I'm sure has left everyone reading this utterly taken aback, a large JCB digger from a nearby plant hire company shortly before the fire.
And: this isn't the first mysterious fire that's happened on a property that this couple owned.
And: the police are treating the fire as arson.
And: despite the fact that the pub's remains are now a crime scene, the couple have sent contractors to remove as much of the debris (or, as a lawyer would call it, evidence) as possible - they have been prevented from doing so.
"The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand."
I think "destruction by fire of a classic English real ale pub" is the sort of scenario where even Inspector Morse might find himself indulging in a bit of police brutality.
Well look, you straight up name the place "crooked" you shouldn't act all surprised when people take you at your word.
Ah but 4b contradicts 6. Did they own a digger because they have a quarry, or did they have to rent one? If the digger was rented, the crime was invented!
The quarry rented diggers regularly. There's a Wikipedia page. But it was in Staffordshire.
I just read that the U.K. is poorer than Mississippi if you adjust for purchasing power. They probably can't afford every business to have their own digger, even if the business of the business is digging.
Yeah but where would you rather live?
Of the two, the U.K. But the real question is which one would I rather commit arson in.
In the UK you can't even afford a house to commit arson in.
And why Gwyneth Paltrow had to move back to Los Angeles and put her house on Airbnb.
I just read that the U.K. is poorer than Mississippi if you adjust for purchasing power.
Ah, another Spectator reader!
Apparently this is not the case - the editor of the Spectator is of course an innumerate fascist - but the UK without London would be very slightly poorer per head, in PPP terms, than Mississippi.
https://www.ft.com/content/e5c741a7-befa-4d49-a819-f1b0510a9802
(Related, from the same author: https://www.ft.com/content/653bbb26-8a22-4db3-b43d-c34a0b774303)
I saw it in The Atlantic, but I didn't read the article.
Instead of "writing this sort of rubbish will get you thrown in the sea", why not try "this is a strikingly novel thesis and you deserve to be in The Atlantic"?
We have a crooked pub in Oakland! Specifically a tiny saloon near the estuary from 1884, survived probably because of its close association with patron Jack London.
Jack London had his house burn down instead of a pub, because he was rich by then.
something something diggers and levellers something
Why doesn't this blog cover the real issue of our day, which is how "cancel culture" woke academics are the real fascists?
Re 76: They arrested two people for arson. One was from Milton Keynes, suggesting economic factors played a role.