Quick someone make a Europoor joke.

https://x.com/msmelchen/status/1757428317425209630?s=46&t=XPJEmaJEWF5ba_k83lIYxA

Measuring things at @spindl.

My FID is lower than all but 52 of you.

The state of Alabama has a higher GDP than that of half the countries in Europe

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Yeah, so why does Mobile, AL feel much, much poorer than Spain or Italy? Not just feels, by every quality of life metric from longevity to crime. 

Also, spare me the bullshit comp: you’d never live in Mobile, you’d have the time of your life in Seville.

Yeah but people for their life of it do not want to understand that GDP charts do not directly translate into living standards. I‘ve had extended family in Sicily, and on all charts it‘s a „shit hole,“ but quality of life there is extremely high. They are rich of many things no American could ever afford.

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West coast Americans like @bryanjohnson blindly follow the Mediteranian diet studies to conclude that it must be the Olive oil that makes people live longer. Brother you are a billionaire, great achievement, but trust me these people on these islands that get old, the one thing they have that you don‘t is CHILL

People live a healthy and non rushed life style full of occasions of social interactions in third places and with functional public spaces and large families that create support structures. They eat well, and work is a means to an end, not the end. And that‘s why fewer die of heart attacks

You can go to the most random ass shop in any village in Sicily and you will get the best quality vegetables you‘ve ever had in your entire life. LA people think they can buy $20 tomatoes in their rich people grocery stores but it‘s just not the same - they have the live it for once to understand