Michael, please don't ever type the word "Salm-baes" (shudder) again.

I thank you; the world thanks you.

My munnie was on Chicago or Atlanta for HQ2: The Thunder Down Under, with Dallas as a longshot choice. Any one of those cities could easily absorb an additional 50K workers, and all three have well-established global logistics networks. The fact that their real estate is very affordable by West Coast standards would be a BIG +.

Instead Amazon is going with Queens and Crystal Meth, VA, which sounds more like a punishment for employees they’re trying to force to quit. It’d be mildly interesting to hear their reasons for those bait ‘n switch choices.

@1 LOL. I did debate it, briefly, but in the end, I just couldn't help myself. I'm sorry, spunkbae.

Bezos has a house in NYC and another in the DeeCee area, among other properties. So, HQ2 x 2 are close to home.

"In Washington D.C., Bezos owns a 27,000-square-foot home that, with a purchase price of $23 million, according to the Washington Post, is the most expensive house in his fancy Kalorama neighborhood. President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama just bought the second-most expensive house in the enclave, and Ivanka Trump is also a neighbor.

"Bezos's mansion was formerly a museum.

"The Amazon founder also owns a 2.03-acre property in Beverly Hills, Calif., worth about $25 million. And in Manhattan, Bezos' three linked apartments in The Century building on Central Park West are worth $17 million, according to Wealth-X."

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/27/how-richest-man-alive-jeff-bezos-spends-his-billions.html

A Democrat last won an Arizona Senate seat in 1988, not 1976.

@1 "Salm-baes" as a single word moved me in a way that no word or neologism has in a long time. It was like the first time I tasted an IPA; bitter, interesting, satisfying. Humblign. And along with it, the thought: "how will this experience have changed my life in 5, nay 10 years. What will never be the same as it ever was." I nominate salm-bae word of the year.

Oh New York is gonna love it when that short, bald asshole gets his period there.

@5 Fair point - sloppy reporting by NYTimes. 1976 was the last time a Democratic challenger was elected to an Arizona senate seat, but said challenger was re-elected twice with the final bid in 1988.
@1 @6 I'm on the side of salmon-bae. I wouldn't trade the sincere, heart-smiling feeling I got from reading it for anything - except maybe the full restoration of salmon habitat and removal of threatening invasive species.

@6: seconded. Great word.

"Amazon HQ2 Is as Far Away from Us as Possible"?

If you're referring to just the continental U.S., you realize that places like Miami are hundreds of miles farther away from us than NYC?

@8: The New York Times is correct. The Stranger is not. The Times states that Sinema's victory "marks the first Democratic triumph since 1976 in a battle for an open Senate seat in Arizona." Michael missed the "open Senate seat" part.

"When she addressed the protesters, Ocasio-Cortez said that the objective of the protest was to support Pelosi’s quest to tackle climate change"

Against.

Some people are working very hard to wish an effective resistance to Pelosi into existence. They are lacking, however, a plausible alternate.

I like salm-baes! In one beautiful, made-up word, it reminds us of the most beloved, most precious, most symbolic, geographically-specific animal of this region. Long live the salm-bae.

@6 I had the same experience. It blew my mind way more than I was expecting my mind to be blown here.

Salmon on the grille is yummy.

That is all.

It's a little like the Nuučaan̓uł word "tyee".

So, what are we supposed to call them? HQ2 & HQ3? HQ2A & HQ2B? And which is which? Will the cities now also have to compete - by way of bending over even further to offer Bezos additional benefits, tax breaks, kickbacks, etc. - to establish ranking order?

Bezos is a shit bag and NYC is stupid as fuck for giving him what they're giving him.

New Yorkers will reimburse the company to the tune of $1.7 billion for its choice. The state of New York will spend up to a half-billion dollars to build Amazon’s offices, just as other states build football stadiums for NFL teams. The state will also offer $1.2 billion in tax credits if the company creates 25,000 jobs by 2028, or $48,000 a job. Instead of property taxes, the company will use a city program called PILOT to pay mostly for improvements to its own new neighborhood.

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Shorter: xina is smarter than New York.

Oh, please: MOST "humans" in this cuntry LOOOVE them some Corporate Welfare: they keep doing NOTHING on faux election days just to prove it! --- theyrule.net & littlesis.org & #Oligarchy .

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When you moving to the nearest socialist paradise? I hear Cuba or Venezuela are pretty nice places to raise a family.