CityOfTakes

Some restaurants have planned an automatic 20% tip for U.S. visitors. 💰🇺🇸

The fact that there are only 12 cities with a population of more than a million people in a country the size of the US is endlessly fascinating

Unusually explicit connection from the rejection of children to the death drive at the end of this reader roundup in the NYT. Begins with the usual “Who would want to bring children into a world…” and ends, well…

There is only one city in the United States that doesn't grow north - Minneapolis-St. Paul, restricted by geography. Every other city in the country grows north. That's the framework Rex Glendenning has been using for 40 years to position himself in front of growth. People in Celina laughed at him 30 years ago for buying dirt in the boondocks. He plowed every dollar after taxes and overhead back into 40 and 50-acre tracts anyway. In this clip from this week's episode - the rule of thumb Rex says should be on the first page of every real estate book.

The Atlanta Beltline being this packed with people at 7pm on a TUESDAY is just a delight. Every restaurant along the trail is packed, people everywhere socializing and being humans together. The dichotomy of this experience against Atlanta Freeway Hell just boggles the mind.

North Korea and propaganda:

🇳🇱 2 years ago today, Joost Klein was disqualified from Eurovision.

Not gonna lie I'm confused as to why we're still going on cruises.

I am thus very sympathetic to drivers complaining about speed traps. They're placed to extract tax revenue! Except worse, rather than have tax revenue be expected, we have this system of stochastic negative income shocks. In what world is that the optimal tax system??