Steve Johnson

Enjoying the fruits of freedom

[Steve Johnson @ADIacoustics]

Do Whatever it is you do with enthusiasm!

[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

July is just around the corner! ⛱️☀️

Did you know that 40 U.S. states set their “all-time” July monthly high temperature records before 1955?

Of that subset, 11 were set in 1936 with two additional states (Maryland and Nebraska) tying theirs. Five states set theirs in 1930, with two other states (Florida and Louisiana) tying their records set initially in 1901.

Four New England states set their July record highs in 1911, while Alaska hit 99° in July 1915 (shorty after they set their June record of 100° a few weeks prior in Fort Yukon). California's 134° reading in Death Valley remains the statewide, United States', and worldwide “all-time” record high temperature, though its authenticity has been questioned.

[Steve Johnson @ADIacoustics]

Perspective is important

[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

Hi Colonel Sanders. 👋

Meteorologist here! ⛈️

It’s summertime; it’s supposed to be hot. You’re 84 years old going on 85; you ought to know that better than most.

Since the start of the 20th century, there has been no increase in heatwaves in the United States. According to a new paper published in the Journal of Theoretical and Applied Climatology, Christy (2026),

🗨️ “𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘵-𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘥𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘛𝘔𝘢𝘹 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘵 𝘰𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦 1899, 𝘥𝘶𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘭���� 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘥𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 1925–1954.”

🔗 https://t.co/DSJXxVVKZa

Also, 38 (76% of) U.S. states set their “all-time” high temperature records prior to 1955.

In Europe, the situation is different, but trends in extreme heat over the last century are not globally homogenous. In many regions, there isn’t enough data pre-1950 to conclude anything robust over centennial scales.

Stay inside, chug some water, and quit complaining. Summers have always been hot. They always will be. Some have more heatwaves than others. Get a grip.

[Steve Johnson @ADIacoustics]

Hey @MZHemingway tell the @Heminator he did good: his voice is best described as a nasally yawp, and saying his range is a little better than Bob Dylan’s would be both accurate and damning him with faint praise.

great read!

https://t.co/GUz9OvUOqq

[Steve Johnson @ADIacoustics]

Starving to death. Where in the US are children starving to death?

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

No, the left are not Jealous of Elon Musk,

We don’t want to be trillionaires.

We want a world where children aren’t starving to death whilst trillionaires hoard money.

[Steve Johnson @ADIacoustics]

The Inflation Reduction Act spurred the highest inflation in recent history wiping out wealth and savings.

You are not a serious person.

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

Wall street folks are celebrating @elonmusk for creating 4,400 millionaires. Fine.

Did any of them celebrate @JoeBiden IRA, ARP, CHIPS for creating millions of good paying jobs?

Our barometer should be opportunity & stability for the majority, not simply wealth for the few.

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

Wall street folks are celebrating @elonmusk for creating 4,400 millionaires. Fine.

Did any of them celebrate @JoeBiden IRA, ARP, CHIPS for creating millions of good paying jobs?

Our barometer should be opportunity & stability for the majority, not simply wealth for the few.

[Steve Johnson @ADIacoustics]

This is such an important post. It demonstrates the mindset and arrogance of big government.

Conservatives believe people spend their own money wisely (that includes entrepreneurs) to the benefit of society.

Progressives believe in confiscation of property for power.

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

This the basic difference.

Republicans believe that that if you let the wealthy spend capital it will make Americans prosperous.

Democrats believe that the federal government investing in the healthcare & education of our people will make America prosperous & productive.

[Steve Johnson @ADIacoustics]

must read:
https://t.co/HDh6Emtz1X

[Steve Johnson @ADIacoustics]

@jimmyfailla

[Steve Johnson @ADIacoustics]

If you are not following this German tourist's discovery tour, you are missing out. Welcome to America!

[Steve Johnson @ADIacoustics]

@canalCCore2 two bricks as wheel chocks.

[caio temer @canalCCore2]

Ligando um motor turbojato Rolls-Royce Viper na MANIVELA no quintal! O motor é tão brutal que equipou o Thrust2, carro recordista que atingiu incríveis 1.019 km/h em terra. O som final de 123 dB é ensurdecedor!

[Steve Johnson @ADIacoustics]

@CraigyFerg Where can i get a Hagus Taco? I live in Colorado.

[ZitoSalena @ZitoSalena]

82 years ago nearly all of the men on the first few boats that landed on the beach in Normandy were dead before days end.
Sit here with that for a while.
Look at them.
Really look at them.
Look into their eyes.
Many of them are boys, they are someone’s son, someone’s brother, someone’s sweetheart someone’s father.
They never came home.
And every privilege, every convenience, every freedom and every little thing that you want to bitch about you have because of them and they paid the ultimate price for you to have those freedoms. #dday #FreedomIsNeverFree

[Rodney Smith Jr @iamrodneysmith]

Dear @WhiteHouse, my name is Rodney Smith Jr., founder of Raising Men & Women Lawn Care Service in Huntsville, Alabama. Through our 50 Yard Challenge, over 6,000 kids across the country have signed up to mow free lawns for the elderly, disabled, veterans, active-duty military, first responders, and single parents. With America celebrating its 250th birthday this year and me also being born on July 4th, I wanted to humbly ask if a few kids from our program and myself could travel to Washington, D.C. to help mow the White House lawn for this historic celebration.

More than anything, I want these kids to see how a simple act of service something as ordinary as mowing a lawn for someone in need can lead to extraordinary places. What better lesson in community service than showing them that helping others can take them all the way to our nation’s capital? I’d also love to bring my American flag-themed mower in hopes that the President might sign it, so I can later auction it off and donate 100% of the proceeds to a nonprofit supporting veterans. It would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to highlight the importance of service, patriotism, and the impact young people can have when they choose to make a difference. 🇺🇸

[Steve Johnson @ADIacoustics]

We will miss commitment to truth:
https://t.co/DhDwlfODIc

[Mollie @MZHemingway]

@BenMullin Woke up this morning and remembered this propaganda clown falsely claimed to have served in combat in multiple theaters because he read TV lines near real soldiers. Low-rent Brian Williams behavior.

[Gene Parmesan @dsonoiki]

LA has a choice. Vote Spencer Pratt.

[Steve Johnson @ADIacoustics]

Very Cool

[Peter Sellis @petersellis]

Good math, but not all quite there:

First, SpaceX pays fairly average, but for more than a decade they have offered regular (~bi-annual) liquidity to employees. To live comfortably (especially to have a family) in LA County, most employees would have sold a little bit here and there, if not a lot (e.g., if they were the sole earner in a household).

Second, critically, because there is no double trigger (in order to facilitate the liquidity), most people default to "sell-to-cover" — i.e., ~40-50% of their holdings are immediately sold to cover the taxes on vest. Remember these vests are W-2 events. In order to not do this, the employee would need to come up with significant cash (because the taxes are paid against the price at vest, not the price at grant) — especially later on.

However, two things make SpaceX particularly awesome IMO:

1. They gave employees the option to choose stock or options along the way. Someone who took options and paid the taxes with cash would have done very well.

2. They gave stock to everyone. There are a bunch of highly skilled workers that we on X never think of, like Tube Benders, Orbital Tube Welders, Cleanroom Technicians, etc. that are going to make significant fortunes.

Maybe it's overly quixotic, but this last point is underrated part of @elonmusk attacking physical problems, not just software ones, with 100x thinking: a bunch of people in the types of jobs America needs and romanticizes (for good reason) will be rewarded with the kind of wealth that really would not be possible at any other company they would have chosen.

An incredibly positive story that, if you can't see it in that light, you should look inward.

[Steve Johnson @ADIacoustics]

But Is @katyperry ok?