Showing posts with label wealth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wealth. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Members of the ultra-elite Delta Airlines membership class get ferried around in Porsches to their connecting flights?

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Ben Ryder Howe for New York magazine: Is it true, I ask, that Delta sends a Porsche Cayenne to pick up 360° members and whisk them across t...
Monday, July 21, 2025

People were coaxed into spending millions for the chance to buy a super-limited Patek Philippe Nautilus 5711 with a Tiffany blue dial

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💎 When Exclusivity Goes Too Far? Tiffany’s $52K Patek Philippe Nautilus 5711 released in signature Tiffany Blue was meant to be a crown jew...
Friday, June 7, 2024

Coastal home owners in Florida are fighting the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over beach access as the ocean increasingly erodes the land

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Route Fifty : A series of storms, culminating in last fall’s Hurricane Idalia, have eroded most of the sand that protects Redington Shores a...
Thursday, January 18, 2024

The LA Times goes "Inside the world of the ultra-wealthy Mexicans who own exotic animals"

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An article by Kate Linthicum (much of the article focuses on a veterinarian who never asks the owners what they do for a living): They wal...
Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Three suicides in seven months at probably L.A.'s most prestigious private high school

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A terse write-up , noting the third death. The school had enacted various policy changes after the second, including that grades couldn...
Saturday, May 13, 2023

Reenacting the Narkina 5 prison escape on Disney's Galactic Starcruiser

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Some impressive planning (the comments say that it was done after planned events ended for the night, and that they stayed fairly quiet for ...
Sunday, December 18, 2022

Washington Post suggests someone bought a Virginia newspaper to try to remove any mention of a 2004 rape accusation from the internet

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WaPo : It wrote about grisly homicides, corrupt land deals and environmental issues in the Shenandoah Valley. Three times in just a decade, ...
Wednesday, November 30, 2022

"The main difference between the luxury and non-luxury seats at this year’s World Cup is alcohol"

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NYT : [The ban on the sale of alcohol] didn’t affect the flow of free beer — or free champagne, Scotch, gin, whiskey, wine and other drinks ...
Tuesday, October 11, 2022

"A wealthy landowner is pressing ahead with legal moves that could threaten the right of backpackers and youth groups to wild camp on Dartmoor"

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Guardian : Dartmoor is the only place in England and Wales where it is legal to wild camp in designated areas, without a landowner’s permiss...
Monday, September 19, 2022

Proposal to build luxury hotel in wealthy part of Los Angeles "pits celebrities against celebrities"

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LAT : Among the project supporters, according to letters written on behalf of the project, are actors Mark Wahlberg, Ashton Kutcher, Mila Ku...
Friday, September 9, 2022

The LA Times looks at new private clubs in Los Angeles and San Francisco

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LAT has lots of photos : The [Britely] Sunset Strip establishment charges $2,900 a year for access to its two members-only Wolfgang Puck res...
Tuesday, November 3, 2020

"Two multimillion-pound properties [in Chelsea] destroyed during building work"

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Evening Standard : Dramatic pictures from the scene in Durham Place, Chelsea, show the mid-terrace buildings reduced to rubble after the “ex...
Monday, March 23, 2020

Young Anthony Fauci with Mother Teresa; Environmental graffiti; Playing as the shooter and the keeper

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Dr. Anthony Fauci and Mother Teresa: pic.twitter.com/pmUY88jTPm — Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) March 22, 2020
Saturday, March 7, 2020

Ten funny tweets

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I just discovered in 2016 scientists gave a parrot protective goggles and it’s the best thing I’ve seen all day pic.twitter.com/zx8oVgqBOy...
Sunday, October 20, 2019

"The multibillion-dollar wellness real estate industry believes air purifiers, pollution sensors, and natural materials can breathe new life into high-end homes"

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Curbed : The sales pitch highlights “hospital-grade air, energizing light and pollutant-free water to protect from contaminants, free radi...
Wednesday, August 21, 2019

"Apple warns you may permanently discolor your Apple Card if it’s stored in leather"

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The Verge : Apple is advising customers store it in some container made of soft material — but not leather — and to make sure it doesn’t c...
Wednesday, August 14, 2019

"Why a Banking Heiress Spent Her Fortune on Keeping Immigrants Out"

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NYT : she was heralded as potentially “the richest baby in the world.” ... Mrs. May’s story helps explain the ascendance of once-fring...
Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Ten funny tweets

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jason witten can't even present the pro bowl trophy correctly pic.twitter.com/8SKDdlU6bt — Jordan Heck (@JordanHeckFF) January 27, 20...
Thursday, September 28, 2017

"The High-End Horse Market Has Finally Recovered From the Financial Crisis"

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" It’s been a slow climb back for the thoroughbred market since it collapsed amid the panic of the global financial crisis."

"Some of fast-food’s biggest names, including Burger King, Carl’s Jr., Pizza Hut and, until recently, McDonald’s, prohibited franchisees from hiring workers away from one another"

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NYT : The restrictions do not appear in a contract that employees sign, or even see. They are typically included in a paragraph buried in ...