Driving through Ohio. Towns like this are why we’re trying to avoid the interstates and take the slower roads instead. These are the kinds of places we want to see. This feels like peak America.🇺🇸
Europeans saying the US air conditioning our stadiums contributes to climate change…
Thank you for your sacrifice. 🫡
(You are irrelevant, it’s all China)
Every Nixon clip I see almost brings me to tears. The guy had an insane storytelling ability, and you can tell it came right from the soul. This is not something you can fake either. We could really use more of this in our current paradigm. Very powerful.
@dylan__CLE The best thing about being a casual enjoyer is that when we shit stomp everyone else we forget about it a month later because the next thing to beat everyone else in gets our attention.
If we win the world cup not only is it getting renamed soccer, we're gonna forget about it.
Socialism was never a working-class movement.
It has always been a project of intellectuals: academics, writers, journalists, and professional theorists.
It appeals to those who prefer grand systems, simple moral narratives, and top-down control.
It flatters the belief that society should be redesigned by people who “know better,” giving intellectuals a starring role they don’t receive in a market economy.
In many ways, socialism is a luxury belief.
Most of my friends in Paris/London have a distorted view of the US, and sometimes a weird superiority complex.
They think only the top 1% lives well and everyone else is trapped in social collapse (guns, healthcare horror stories, obesity, politics, LA homelessness, NYC dysfunction).
Then they visit random suburbs in Texas, Florida or the Midwest and see middle-class families clearing $300k+/year with huge houses, multiple cars, space, AC, full restaurants, youth sports complexes and mass retail abundance.
The uncomfortable reality is that a lot of “ordinary” Americans live materially better than European elites.
Idk if it's media manipulation, denial of reality or straight ignorance, but we’re getting underclassed and most people only realize it when they land there.
A new study of US temperatures from 1899 to 2025 uses 40 million daily records across 1,211 stations and it finds extremes have declined.
The most intense heat remains in the 1930s.
In 1936, about 22% of stations recorded all-time highs, no modern year comes close. Heat waves peak between 1930 and 1944, then drop and only partly recover.
The long-term trend is flat to declining.
Cold extremes also decline, but mostly at night. This is largely a product of urbanization over the decades which traps heat and so lifts overnight lows.
Still, overall the extreme temperature burden is down about 30%. US temperatures are less extreme today, not more.