San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg announced this week that the city is no longer interested in hosting Amazon's second headquarters, which cities across America have been bending over and spreading their cheeks to attract.

"It’s not that we wouldn’t love to have Amazon select San Antonio," Mayor Nirenberg wrote in an open letter to Amazon's Jeff Bezos. "Any city would." But, Nirenberg continued, “...it’s hard to imagine that a forward-thinking company like Amazon hasn’t already selected its preferred location. And if that’s the case, then this public process is, intentionally or not, creating a bidding war amongst states and cities. We have a competitive toolkit of incentives, but blindly giving away the farm isn't our style."

Oh, SNAP. Unlike, say, the Puget Sound region, which continues to beg for Bezos's affections like a rejected lover, it looks like San Antonio has some goddamn self-respect. Or maybe Mayor Nirenberg is taking a page from the pickup artist's playbook (available on Amazon dot com for $9.99) and trying to neg the company into getting into bed with it. Will it work? Doubtful, especially as cities around the country are offering not just cacti and name changes but billions of dollars in tax breaks to attract the company—despite the warnings of basically every Seattilite who doesn't work in tech (including me.)

As Seattle Neighborhood Coalition Chairman Bill Bradburd told Forbes, “One thing I would caution a municipality looking to get Amazon is consider the consequences. Do people have a bed to sleep in, a transportation system to get them there? And if they don’t, what are the impacts and how do you mitigate? In Seattle, we’ve done an awful job at mitigating.”

Yes. Yes, we have.