@MostlyMonkey I would just show up at a Ferrari dealership and buy thousands of cars, smash them with a golf club, and then buy thousands more cars
Iβd do it every day
I half agree with you, but I think St Louis is underrated as a local economy
Edward Jones is a juggernaut, Boeing is a juggernaut, Budweiser, etc β plus all the lucrative-but-unglamorous banks & insurance companies that have been there for a million years
You can make really good money and then pay virtually nothing for housing on top of that
@Noahpinion Unironically⦠kind of? They tend to be center-left by default, neoliberal on economic issues, etc
Definitely closer to Noah Smith than the median American voter
@McFranchisee@DaveBondyTV@ChickfilA@McDonalds Do you have any insight into what percentage of orders involve deals/promos/discounts?
ChatGPT and Claude both guessed around 50%, but said they couldnβt find concrete data
@RichardHanania I realize Iβm being somewhat nitpicky, but I wouldnβt call an 80/20 decision a βno-brainer,β βwhat every normal person does,β etc
The 20% chunk that chooses not to abort is too large to be dismissed as some small idiosyncrasy
@razibkhan@Steve_Sailer In Belltown, the touristy area near the Seattle Space Needle, you can find apartments that were selling for $500,000 in 2006 and are still selling for $500,000 in 2026
No one wants to be around the drug addicts, even with all the amenities and waterfront views and so on
@PaulSkallas NYC transplants waiting in a line for three hours just to take a selfie at a trendy restaurant β drives every native New Yorker absolutely bonkers