i think the wonder bread factory actually closed but that’s beside the point. some say… it still smells like bread
Is that a Joe Smith sphinx
That is indeed a Joseph Smith sphinx, and let me tell you, Gilgal Gardens only gets weirder from there. It’s covered in surreal statues, random quotes, and carvings of Mormon scriptures. Absolutely worth going to if you’re ever in Salt Lake and want to see something bizarre.
When advising on how much to pay for an
acquisition, whether and how to begin a hostile takeover or when to
bluff during a sale process, what often matter most are things that are
impossible to convey via a tiny video-chat rectangle: emotional nuances,
body language and subtle social cues. That’s why Wall Street bankers
and traders need to get vaccinated if they aren’t already and return to
their offices as soon as possible, even as the Delta variant of the
coronavirus surges.
In the early
1990s, I watched Harvey Miller, a bankruptcy guru at Weil, Gotshal &
Manges, go toe-to-toe in a conference room overlooking Central Park
with my boss at Lazard, David Supino, as they divvied up the carcass of
the disastrous leveraged buyouts of Federated Department Stores and
Allied Stores. The yelling! The robust intellectual debate! The alpha
male mind games! The subtle power dynamics of who pounded the table when
and who ate off whose plate. Yet their jousting enabled the business —
and many others — to get back on its feet.
I
learned by studying Mr. Rohatyn, the mergers and acquisitions legend,
as he roamed the narrow, threadbare halls of the 32nd floor of 1
Rockefeller Plaza. He wielded his absolute power through a wink or a nod
to lesser Lazard partners or ignoring some of them with a stony stare. I
learned to watch for those signals closely, as he advised Martin Davis,
the head of Paramount Communications, in the sale of Paramount to Viacom’s Sumner Redstone in the early 1990s, a deal that transformed the Hollywood landscape.
By
watching my mentors press an advantage or bluff an opponent, I absorbed
their deal-making wisdom. There is simply no way that an endless series
of video chats could have replaced the lessons I learned darting in and
out of the offices of these men and women in Rockefeller Center or at
270 Park Avenue as I was making my way up the investment-banking ladder.
(Let’s face it: You can’t suck up on a Zoom call.)
remember, our society is structured around this fucked up game of charades being compensated at a greater rate than the work everybody else does and ensuring the ego stroking, the bullshit artistry, the con man tricks, and the bluster are the most essential part of our economy’s continued functioning
I love his cute hat and his tearing mouth parts. I wanted to look this guy up and it doesn’t even have its own wikipedia page (since Oipliones are like 6,500-10,000 species). Instead of live prey, these rabbit-crabs eat trash, like rotting plants & animals. They’re native to Ecuador, S. America is known for biodiversity but Ecuador is apparently home to so many unique species that we haven’t even seen half of them.
You ever think about how unified humanity is by just everyday experiences? Tudor peasants had hangnails, nobles in the Qin dynasty had favorite foods, workers in the 1700s liked seeing flowers growing in pavement cracks, a cook in medieval Iran teared up cutting onions, a mom in 1300 told her son not to get grass stains on his clothes, some girl in the past loved staying up late to see the sun rise.
there are scriptures all over the world painstakingly crafted hundreds of years ago with paw prints and spelling mistakes or drawings covering up mistakes. a bunch of teenage girls 2000 years ago gathered to walk around their hometown, getting fast food and laughing with their friends. two friends shared blankets before people lived in houses. a mother ran a fine comb through her child’s hair and told it to stop squirming sometime in the 1000s. there are covered up sewing mistakes in couture dresses from the 1800s, some poor roman burnt their food so well past recognition that they just buried the entire pot. there are broken dishes hidden in gardens of people no one even remembers anymore
A 2020 study found that Americans living in lavish houses in rich neighborhoods are responsible for 25% more greenhouse gas pollution on average than those living in more modest homes in poorer areas, mostly because heating, cooling, and powering more space requires using more energy.
Another 2019 reportfound that building super homes—defined as those larger than 25,000 square feet (2,323 square meters)—requires chopping down 380 trees, while the average U.S. home takes just 20. Left untouched, those extra trees could all be sequestering greenhouse gases. All the extra concrete and glass—both carbon-intensive materials to produce—further increase mansions’ wasteful footprint.
Then there’s the land or buildings razed. Wagner noted that “sometimes entire little woods are torn down to build these subdivisions full of mansions, like neighborhoods of McMansions, and so you’re losing trees which are part of the carbon cycle and you’re losing space for wildlife.” If it’s not woodlands, it’s often other buildings being torn down. That essentially wastes the energy that it took to construct the original building—a concept called embodied carbon.
Mansions all look different. Drake’s 50,000-square-foot (4,645-square-meter) Toronto manor includes an NBA-sized indoor basketball court, while Jeff Bezos decked outhis $165 million, 13,000-square-foot (1,208-square-meter) estate with seven fern gardens. One of the newly divorced Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s mansions, worth $60 million, employs (ironically) minimalist design elements, like a massive stone bathtub that they could fit their entire family into. But the common thread is that all these monstrosities take a ton of resources.
That means rich people’s mansions are gobbling up our dwindling carbon budget.
