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The waterway and drainage fields have changed enormously over the past 20 years and continue to change rapidly. We were probably better off to wait.

I've never looked at Disney stores as something long term. Too specific even with Star Wars and Marvel.

Cut your way to prosperity

Apparel was just death during the pandemic. Give apparel a chance to bounce back before fortelling The End.

Yeah he's trying to justify his existence.

I bet there are more hospital CEOs in Brooklyn NY than the entire Eurozone too.

^No more plaid... exposed I-beams everywhere.

Probably not enough MDs to go around since Americans are so terrible at math and science that they can't get through pre-med.

Yeah I'm definitely taking this year's list with a grain of salt. Not that's it's inaccurate; rather an outlier.

As we've been talking about in the Fortune 500 thread, the auto part of P&C banked a lot of cash in 2020 due to fewer claims during the pandemic and its accompanied reduction in VMT (vehicle miles traveled). Savvy investors know that companies often go public right when they're peaking. So you probably got some tech bros arond IPO time then everyone else was hesitant. And then they go talking Texas. If it was an off year for hailstorms in Texas (which are a massive source of claims) that's going to make for a good year for Root. The FIRST question I'm going to ask about YOY differences is Texas is about hailstorms and hurricanes.

Well that's a different architecture style than other Tee Jay's

Can't say I'm super surprised. A lot of people don't like the old-school insurance companies so they see Root with a "tech" face and initially like that better. Young people are used to tech and that makes them more comfortable. But now that we know "tech" is just as big of a scam as everything else (at the very least and the biggest scam of all at worst) that kind of skepticism is warranted.

Any time I'm at the doctor I see a ton of serial and parallel ports. The stuff still works for them I guess.

It was manufactured back in the early '90s and they just keep saying it since most of their audience doesn't have that kind of perspective.

Non-Appalachian Ohio has no copperheads.

Tech!

Bugs and birds can fly. It's actually not that hard. It required engines to reach a specific power-to-weight ratio then it happened easily.

The Appalachian lawmakers cannot realistically be against municipal broadband considering that the private sector has already declined to do business in many of their communities for 20 years.

And that's the problems with all this "Smart City" business. With the flip of a switch it's all gone. No permanence. Much easier than moving a bus line even.

Contractors don't build '60s ranches anymore so nothing else is allowed to go in. As if the East Side doesn't have 10 million '60s ranches already.

Tell them to stop overselling and overpromising everything then we will stop.

^They pretty much had to do the .com since Lower is such a common word. But it did make me say "Lycos -- Go Get It" to myself.

Well the people got what they always "want" according to surveys. A diner, a bakery, a candy shop (in one) and a seemingly wholesome restaurant concept. This is a test to see if people will put their money where their mouth is.

Ummm... Wi-Fi poles?

BBW is in almost every Class A and B mall already so they have to go for the Stoneridges and Bridge Parks of the world to expand.