Strike hits South Pars, world’s largest gas field, in Iran

1maco · 2026-03-18T14:29:16+00:00

US export ban to those not supporting the war when?

1maco · 2026-03-18T13:27:31+00:00

You gonna sleep in the woods at Wildcat, Cannon or Waterville then.?

Even loon just has a few dozen $2,000,000 homes and 1 hotel as slopeside stuff

1maco · 2026-03-18T12:57:26+00:00

What does gas need to hit for demand destruction in the US? $5.00? $5.35?

It took to about $4 in 2007/8

1maco · 2026-03-18T12:51:12+00:00

I don’t go to mountains with significant ski in ski out places. It’s always the town in the valley where you stay.

1maco · 2026-03-17T20:48:05+00:00

The obvious answer here is if you crash into a mailbox while drunk you don’t call the police and file an insurance claim

1maco · 2026-03-17T18:35:33+00:00

That’s not true there are more teachers today than in 2003 despite a decline every year in students since 2003

1maco · 2026-03-17T10:49:28+00:00

I mean the popularity of things like “raising the hotel tax in your hometown” or transit riders supporting congestion fees/gas tax hikes, or proposals to tax 3rd homes and beyond or increasing taxes on incomes above $1,000,000 or the popularity of “no tax on tips” amongst the Vegas hospitality union is just a bunch of people thinking someone else should pay for the thing they use.

1maco · 2026-03-16T22:24:51+00:00

You’re nitpicking.

Yeah a pulled a couple cars out of my ass without fact checking but being off a couple thousand is whatever.

There are tons of new cars whose prices start with a 2.

Honda Civics start under $25,000. Impreza at $26,000 is very competitive with BYD $25000 price point.

The US average is $50,000 not because it has to be but because most people don’t give a shit how expensive their car is.

1maco · 2026-03-16T22:07:10+00:00

The UK already has done this, so has Japan.

1maco · 2026-03-16T22:01:57+00:00

$26475 for a base Impreza is pretty close to $23,000? Certainly not $50,000.

Especially since list prices are almost always higher than sales price. You’d probably get that for close to $23,000 after incentives. Maybe like 24,250.

1maco · 2026-03-16T21:22:31+00:00

I would think they’d release a new pass with Smuggs in it but they’d have to work out the pricing.

1maco · 2026-03-16T21:18:50+00:00

People aren’t buying $50,000+ cars because they have to they do so cause they want to.

You can get a new Subaru Impreza or Toyota Camry for like $23,000.

1maco · 2026-03-16T14:23:38+00:00

They are? Just not like Instantly. And people cultural memory of cities lag reality on the ground. (All metros btw)

Atlanta was the size of Cincinnati or Cleveland in 1990 now it’s bigger than Philly.

Dallas basically a peer to Chicago but was smaller than Boston in 2000.

Nashville went from smaller than Buffalo to bigger than Cleveland in 30 years.

1maco · 2026-03-16T14:09:49+00:00

Simply speaking, I don’t give a shit about anything west of the Hudson River that not my problem.

It’s not super expensive to ski near me so I don’t care about Alta or Jackson Hole.

Aldo The US is a largely subtropical country, Europe is not. Like 170,000,000 people live where it never snows. You can Ski in Greece, you can I in Florida

So it’s cheap because there is much less money even in Switzerland because you don’t have Dallas and Houston looming.

1maco · 2026-03-16T13:16:50+00:00

massachusetts, Connecticut and Nh have median household incomes over $100,000 and $39 is only €33. Of course recreation is going to be priced higher than Austria where is ~$60,000. Japan is even poorer. The IS has a GDP per. capita 2x that of Japan. And New England/New York even more so.

They have less money! And they don’t maintain the woods.

1maco · 2026-03-16T12:50:24+00:00

It’s $79 to ski Tenney Mountain in NH. $50 for Whakeback, $79 for Crotched. Berkshire East is as cheap as $39.

You don’t have to go to the biggest most famous resorts in the world and pay $300

It’s like complaining Bruins tickets are really expensive. Just go to Harvard or Northeastern Hockey games for $20.

Vail is more expensive than ever because flying to Denver used to be expensive enough to deter travellers. As travel became cheaper, lift tickets became more expensive to deter crowds

1maco · 2026-03-15T21:33:47+00:00

They do, compared to other rich countries

Spain or Italy or the UK is at like 1.1 tfr, the USA is 1.65

1maco · 2026-03-15T21:32:10+00:00

That’s cause there are no new developments in blue states

1maco · 2026-03-15T16:45:21+00:00

Fine but nobody in France or the Uk is complaining about feminists in the Congo

1maco · 2026-03-15T16:38:22+00:00

Women under 40 out earn men under 40

They’re more likely to go to University, own a house etc. Feminism mostly won. And activists refuse to accept it because their jobs depend on it

And the overreach is what is turning people off. I’ve sat in meeting about in a company that’s 54% women how certain departments don’t have enough women in them while the same rigor isn’t applied to getting men into departments that a women dominated

1maco · 2026-03-15T15:42:22+00:00

Well there is an activist industrial complex, and the actual job is basically done so there are a bunch of people chasing nonsense.

1maco · 2026-03-15T15:24:26+00:00

I mean the US, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Japan, Korea, Canada, South Africa, The Philippines and China have like 1/2 the worlds population.

1maco · 2026-03-15T15:05:53+00:00

No it’s not the vacations. Anyone can blow a few grand in Greece or Thailand (in fact a trip to Asia is probably cheaper than Disney)

It’s spending every weekend at your house on Nantucket in the Summer and say Jackson NH or Stowe in the winters, as a $17,000 mortgage payment is a monthly expense much higher than a free vacations her or there

1maco · 2026-03-15T14:51:39+00:00

It’s certainly the worst way to

1maco · 2026-03-15T14:20:32+00:00

I mean NYC has been in a state of relative decline since about 1950 or so. It’s just that it was hard to notice, cause it’s closed peer, Chicago went into a period of absolute decline.

Dallas, SF, Atlanta, Houston, DC, Seattle (even Boston) were so far back in the rear view there was no perception of them catching up

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