Doug Cappel

[Doug Cappel @DougCappel]

@EEpenesa Did they just stop by to tell AJ how good he'll look with a tigerhawk on his helmet in a couple years?

[Tony Aubé @aubetony]

After a hellish week in a Paris Airbnb with no AC (100°F outside, 108°F+ inside), I started looking into why the French are so opposed to AC.
There's many reasons: bureaucracy, poverty, etc. But the main one is decades of environmental campaigns that convinced people AC is the devil.
The result? You can't escape the heat. Most buses, metro lines, and shopping malls have no AC.
This Monday, 850 schools are closing because classroom temperatures exceed 104°F.
In Nantes, they built a brand-new train station and a hospital without AC for environmental reasons. The station is now partially closed because it's become a "furnace" that endangers travelers. Hospitals are covering windows with emergency foil blankets to protect patients.
The French demonize air conditioning because it creates carbon emissions that contribute to climate change. Never mind that France already has one of most carbon-free electricity in the world thanks to nuclear, or that it accounts for less than 1% of global emissions.
They also oppose AC because it "just displace the problem" by dumping heat into the street. Never mind that studies suggest even if an entire city were air-conditioned, the increase in outdoor temperature would be at most about 1°F.
Instead, people are willing to endure 104°F+ indoors to avoid a marginal increase outdoors.
This ideology kills more people than firearms in the United States.
Across Europe, between 50,000 and 70,000 people die from heat every year, mostly the elderly and the poor. Compare that to roughly 44,000 Americans killed by firearms.
For comparison, despite having a similar population, deserts, and more extreme temperatures, the United States has only about 2,500 heat-related deaths per year thanks to widespread AC.
That's what bothers me most. The moralizing posture completely detached from reality.
People feel morally superior for "not polluting." They criticize America and its guns while tolerating policies that kills even more people.
I share this anecdote because I know it's shocking to Americans. Here, schools or hospitals reaching 104°F would be unnaceptable.
The absurdity is immediately obvious to us because we're looking from the outside. We see the gap between moral intentions and real-world consequences.
But we're no different. In America, we have dozens of similar issues where we're just as irrational, and we've become blind to them because the solution isn't politically acceptable.
How do can we bring back logic and pragmatism in our societies ahead of irrational political ideological ?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Wow

[Shruti @heyshrutimishra]

Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day.

400 of them are now worth over $100 million.

These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries.

Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000.

Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous."

The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before.

Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.

[New York Post @nypost]

Ex-Iowa coach Fran McCaffery, wife accused of trying to get longtime radio voice fired in brutal allegations https://t.co/IXMLx0zLln

[Adam Scheidler @Scheidsa]

This may be the song of the summer.

[Secretary Sean Duffy @SecDuffy]

Nice job, Pete.

[Austin Justice @AustinJustice]

Washington DC is on pace for roughly 42 murders this year -- the lowest since at least 1930. Two years ago it had 274. Carjackings are also down (by 44%).

What changed:

1) New U.S. Attorney replaced a soft-on-crime predecessor and immediately started actually prosecuting, including seeking the death penalty for the worst offenders.

2) There's more visible law enforcement presence now. Federal law enforcement and the National Guard deployed to cover a 50-year low in local police staffing -- a hole created by city council budget cuts that some estimate will take a decade to fully close.

3) Ended policy of refusing to charge juveniles as an adult, signaling to the youth that there will be consequences for their crimes. The prior admin prosecuted exactly one juvenile for armed carjacking over a decade, so gangs recruited juveniles to steal cars. Arrest-to-offense ratio for carjacking went from 25% to 58% last year.

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

This is worth repeating:

I never cared that you were gay until you started shoving it down my throat, and I never cared what color you were until you started blaming me for your problems.

I never cared about your political affiliation until you started condemning me for mine.

I really never even cared where you were born until you wanted to erase my history and blame my ancestors for your problems.

I never even cared if your beliefs were different from mine until you said my beliefs were wrong.

But now I care. My patience and tolerance are gone, and I am not alone in feeling like this. There are millions of us who feel like this.

[LHGrey™️ @Grey_0G]

This is the regime that the democrats and the woke Reich just fucking love!

These people are not sane. They are fucked in the head beyond all repair because they are literally cheering for this to happen.

They call this a peaceful regime.

Also... Where is the pope on these two beautiful girls?

Silence all around.

💀⚔️

[The Iran Watcher 🇮🇷 @TheIranWatcher]

In January, officials went on state TV warning parents their children would be shot dead if they protested.

Now, the same regime is calling on those parents to send their children to power plants to be used as human shields.

In both cases, the Islamic Republic is a demonic, child-sacrificing cult where children are meant to be killed.

[Scott Dochterman @ScottDochterman]

Connor McCaffery preparing to watch Iowa against Florida.
Connor McCaffery after Iowa reaches the Elite Eight.
IYKYK

[Nate Rohr @RohrOfTheCrowd]

The Iowa problem:
Baseball-lost season series four of last six years
Football-lost 10 of 11
WBB-lost 12 of 14
MBB-lost 9 of 12
I don't want to hear another Husker fan sneer at Iowa thinking NU is any better than them. In four of the big six sports, they've eaten Nebraska's lunch

[Heavens! @HeavensFX]

Someone please notify security that Fred Hoiberg is in imminent danger

[ᗩᑎT ᗯᖇIGᕼT @itsAntWright]

Chinyelu should’ve been called for his 3rd foul here with Iowa shooting FTs.. how do you miss this

[aka @akafaceUS]

Cop just walks in, pepper sprays and walks away.

That's how you handle this.

[Brian @BrianMcGannon]

Dude doesn’t even look at Livvy Dunne the way he looks at Bobby Witt Jr.

[Doug Cappel @DougCappel]

@TheMcCollumEra @CyNationCyko21 Stole? More like ran willingly

[Sholdon Daniels @SholdonDaniels]

If requiring an ID to vote is so racist, then requiring an ID for any reason is racist.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 HOLY SMOKES. Greg Gutfeled GOES HAYWIRE after Jessica Tarlov sets him off!

"We had dozens of American deaths where YOU DIDN'T SAY SH*T." 🔥

"I’m absolutely BORED by this. I’m bored by the Nazi stuff, bored by the 'concerned' people in the media that weren't concerned when innocent women were R*PED AND M*RDERED, who didn’t CARE about the 57 who died under Obama!"

"You deserve NO attention on this. You deserve NO credibility on this!"

"It seems like you're ready for another one. You had Renee Good, that went for a couple of weeks. You had this guy, went for a week or so. You're gonna need a third one!"

"I don't care about any of this performance anymore, Jessica. It's done. And you know what? Neither does Trump. People are voting for the law. They want the law."

"If you wanna cry about m*rders and r*pists, DO IT ON YOUR OWN TIME!" @greggutfeld

🫳🎤🔥🔥

[Travis Neliton 🇺🇸 @Tneliton]

A new classic. 😆