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[Ryan Hiepler @ryjlocal]

Good example of strategy in life. 90% positioning, 10% explosive execution when the timing is right. Activity without achievement is a false god of the modern world.

[Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey]

We need a bit more shame.

People used to avoid certain self-interested behaviors to avoid shame, private and public. Law and customs assumed this.

Now, 38% of Stanford students claim to be disabled. 40% of young women (under 35) claim mental illness, and SSI disability payments have gone up 400% in a single generation.

It isn't good for anyone, least of all people who are actually disabled, when everyone looks the other way as friends and family and peers con the system with a level of shamelessness no architect of our safety net ever imagined could be possible in America. When everyone is disabled, nobody is.

[1776 Live @250YearsAgoLive]

Continental Congress HAS SIGNED A DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE! 

The UNITED STATES are OFFICIALLY INDEPENDENT from BRITAIN.

LIBERTY BELLS ring out throughout Philadelphia; the streets ERUPT IN ECSTASY.

[Emerald Robinson ✝️ @EmeraldRobinson]

My bank is sending me daily emails.
My grocery store is sending daily emails.
My electric company is sending daily emails.
My water company is sending emails and texts.

Every corporation in America is now a nuisance pest.

[Patty @pob]

@HolderOftheFire I was asleep by 10 p.m. last night. Usually I’m up until ~2 a.m. Slept eight hours straight like a baby.

[Patty @pob]

@foundring1 You’re a breath of fresh air on this site. I hope some day someone with a big enough megaphone will take up your cause so there can be an end to your continued cancellation. Every time I see people writing about how cancel culture is over, I think of you.

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

Great idea.

[Today In History @historigins]

Famous architects dressed as their buildings at an architect ball, 1931

[Tom Elliott @tomselliott]

In a sane society we'd say, "Hey, remember when they told us they needed to nationalize health care to make it more affordable & accessible, & instead it became less affordable & less accessible ... So, seeing that it failed, let's undo it."

Instead it's, "hopefully Congress let's us pay a few hundred less in taxes to make up for how they destroyed health care in every state."

[NotKennyRogers @NotKennyRogers]

If you're pregnant while breaking into Taylor Swift's house and give birth in her living room, are you and the child now legally allowed to live there for the rest of your lives while Taylor Swift helps pay for your expenses?

Find out tomorrow when the Supreme Court rules.

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

This is an incredible idea, @StephenM.

[Marc J. Randazza 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇧🇷 @marcorandazza]

Okay, so change federal election law. There is a Republican majority in both houses. What's the hold up?

[Mises Caucus @LPMisesCaucus]

Excellent. End warrantless mass surveillance!

[Anthony Koch @Anthony__Koch]

Europeans would sooner die in a heat wave than admit the Americans have it right on air conditioning.

[Mr Melancholy @chakravartiiin]

Is everything in Europe made out of wax or something?

[Oilfield Rando @Oilfield_Rando]

Ditto health care.

Ditto housing.

Ditto cell phones.

Ditto child care.

Ditto….

[Hedinist @hedin__]

I do genuinely think “What are immigrants talking about on the phone all the time?” would be a hit Atlantic article

[𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗 @shagbark_hick]

This is actually very funny.

The Europeans all already have "air conditioning" - in their refrigerators.

They're not opposed to air conditioning their vegetables. They're just opposed to air conditioning themselves.

I have no horse in this fight but that's funny right there.

[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

A major heatwave will begin next week across the central and eastern U.S.

High temperatures in the 90s and 100s are likely as far north as Southeastern Pennsylvania. So, summer basically lol.

Undoubtedly, there’ll be plenty climate hysteria to go around.

But neither the number of hot days nor heatwaves have increased in the U.S. since 1895.

The chart on the left shows the average annual number of days reaching 95°F (35°C), 100°F (37.8°C) and 105°F (40.6°C) per station at 657 United States NOAA GHCNd stations (area weighted) with at least 100 years of daily data and 90% daily completeness from 1895 to 2025.

The long-term trend is down. ⬇️

𝐓𝐨𝐩 𝟏𝟎 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐰/ 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐓𝐦𝐚𝐱 ≥𝟗𝟓°𝐅:

1️⃣ 1936
2️⃣ 1934
3️⃣ 1954
4️⃣ 1931
5️⃣ 1933
6️⃣ 1913
7️⃣ 1925
8️⃣ 1980 (most recent)
9️⃣ 1930
🔟 1911

Interestingly, only one of top 15 has been in the last 70 years, and only two in the 21st century made the top 20 (2011 and 2012, which rank 17th and 19th place, respectively).

𝐓𝐨𝐩 𝟏𝟎 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐰/ 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐓𝐦𝐚𝐱 ≥𝟏𝟎𝟎°𝐅:

1️⃣ 1936
2️⃣ 1934
3️⃣ 1954
4️⃣ 1930
5️⃣ 1901
6️⃣ 1913
7️⃣ 1980 (most recent)
8️⃣ 1931
9️⃣ 1925
🔟 1918

𝐓𝐨𝐩 𝟏𝟎 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐰/ 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐓𝐦𝐚𝐱 ≥𝟏𝟎𝟓°𝐅:

1️⃣ 1936
2️⃣ 1934
3️⃣ 1954
4️⃣ 1930
5️⃣ 1901
6️⃣ 1980
7️⃣ 1913
8️⃣ 2023 (most recent)
9️⃣ 1918
🔟 1933

The heatwave in Texas and Oklahoma in 2023 bumped it up to 8th place.

But a more robust metric to assess time-dependent changes in extreme heat events would be to look at the area-weighted average number of heatwaves per station per year.

The chart on the right shows that.

Heatwaves are defined here as a ≥3 consecutive day period where the daily maximum temperature is ≥90th percentile (against 1991-2020 averages) for that date for that station and for the months May-September.

Once again, the trend is down. ⬇️

𝐓𝐨𝐩 𝟏𝟎 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐰/ 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐰𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐬:

1️⃣ 1936: 5.77
2️⃣ 1934: 5.39
3️⃣ 1933: 5.15
4️⃣ 1931: 4.90
5️⃣ 1911: 4.85
6️⃣ 1954: 4.71
7️⃣ 1925: 4.59
8️⃣ 1930: 4.41
9️⃣ 1913: 4.35
🔟 1952 / 1939: 4.34

None of the top 20 have been in the 21st century. The most recent summer with the greatest number of heatwaves per U.S. station occurred in 1988. All other 19 occurred 70+ years ago. It is also worth mentioning that whether or not you consider the 1930s to be an outlier, 2012 is the most recent entry at #30.

Most of the warming that we measure is in overnight low temperatures, not daytime highs, and a significant amount of that could be due to urbanization.

So, if it reaches 100°F at your house next week, it’s just summer.

Carry on! 🏖️ 🌴