PS: Hello, Possumman. That was a good one! Yes, staying hydrated over here, perhaps a mite too hydrated, up on the roof, awaiting that Jet Ranger to rescue us. At least we got our water turtle-backs for all the kids.

PS: Thanks for the .jpg, but I believe you, Adam. We saw something similar. A good long time ago, my A/C unit had gone out at an inopportune time, mid-August, with someone moving in any day. It was up in the attic. I spent 15 hours on the whole, I estimated later, up there - first the transformer (A/C to 24 V DC), then the blower motor - 75 dollars! (this wasn't recently...) over a 2 day period. I had to learn the unit, though it was pretty simple, pre-fancy-electronics.

I checked, and the inside of the house below the attic showed right at 100F with my trusty mercury thermometer. Who knows what it was up top, 130, maybe? Anyway, I sweated a lot, but I don't remember being too stressed out or anything, besides my wanting to get this thing running for the other people on a deadline.

I guess I CAN take the heat for sure, so maybe I'm biased here. Oh, that reminds me to add something to the most recent post.

PS. At least those living in the flood areas are staying hydrated, as we are reminded endlessly on the news.

PS: Good afternoon, Mr. Moderator,

A little sympathy might be in order.
This is a Climate Crisis™!

https://i.ibb.co/RhHqx12/Shop-Temp.jpg
(A real picture of the thermometer in the shop yesterday.)

We usually don't see temperatures this high until July. And thanks to the lack of rain (totally caused by The Climate Crisis™!) I have to go water my garden again. This is going to take me several minutes. And it's hot out there.

So, uh, yeah. ☮️

PS: Cont re: debate: I'm glad for Scott Adams. I am not sure I'd recognize this Jake Tapper were I to see him, but I consider that a good thing.

As I'm sure you're aware (from my comments on your site), I did read (from you) about the Tucker Carlson interview of Steve Sailer and that I watched the whole 2 hours yesterday. I will surely have about 4 posts... at least! (First a general review and the clip - unless it dies like I see the Lydia Brimelow one has - then, something on his short bit on the Kung Flu, then, plenty of praiseworthy stuff and finally my take on his mindset that just doesn't seem to see the good v evil level. Everything with him is all civil and work-out-able.)

I am looking forward to a nice long article about this interview on YOUR SITE, Mr. Hail. You've just got to!

And, yes, you were right, and I was wrong, in these comments, that Tucker would interview iSteve. I had seen Tucker interview people about problems and happenings in the here and now. This was different.

PS: Old Soldier, I agree with all. That's why they had to change it from Global Warming to Climate Change (now Crisis, or Calamity for me). "Change" could mean anything. Climate Change does it all!

Mr. Hail, I haven't been hooked up to TV for a quarter of a century now... and counting ... So, for those debates, I can't watch directly. As for comments on clips on youtube, I've been reading that youtube has been warning people that it will be clamping down hard on anyone who dare bust CNN's copyright, allowing only "authorized" clips, i.e. ones that don't show Bai Dien as a drooling nursing home prospect. Can I get an honest video of the debate at all?

Either way, Mr. Hail, it's not my thing. I'm afraid Mr. Trump will screw up in a different way, say coming up with more or another "paste green cards" stupidity. My blood pressure readings would suffer.

PS: "Poor, poor, pitiful Adam,
poor, poor, pitiful Adam.
Oh, those heat waves won't let him be.
poor, poor, pitiful Adam."

Sorry, I cannot get up the sympathy for a guy up in the hills of Georgia among White people who may experience the low '90s. ;-} Now, I still got Waddy Wachel's guitar banging out those chords in my head. (For Mr. Anderson or whomever, I like that version better than that of its songwriter, the late Mr. Zevon.)

I hope you get some rain though. It's been a while here, but than thunderstorms are hit and miss - may get an inch here, may get nothing 5 miles away.

PS

-- emergency extra comment! ---

Forget the Blumpf-Biden
duel mentioned above,
see this...

https://www.unz.com/isteve/the-wnba-continues-to-struggle-with-its-new-diverse-fans/#comment-6632236

TUCKER CARLSON INTERVIEWS STEVE SAILER (1h56m)

Just released. I have done my best to compile a little, Peak Stupidity-mentioning timeline of the Sailer--Tucker trajectory.

PS

No time to reply further, for now, except to say:

(1.) 'CHICKEN'-BACKERS TAKE NOTICE. Mr. Moderator has indirectly revealed he favors the "Egg" side in the age-old dilemma of the Chicken or the Egg.

(2.) PEAK-STUPIDITY AT THE DEBATE. Will there be any Peak Stupidity reporters dispatched to watch and comment on the Blumpf-versus-Biden debate, upcoming this Thursday, June 27, 9pm to 11pm Eastern Daylight Time, hosted entirely by two Jewish CNN anchors (Jake Tapper, Dana Bash)?

(Note: Scott Adams is on a multi-year crusade to tarnish the reputation of Jake Tapper, I think for the latter's role in 'egging' on support for the permanent ban of 'Dilbert' from newspapers for Racism.)

PS
2023 was surely the hottest year on record....until 2024....and 2025...and 2026... And climate change grifters won’t be put off by the failure of their weather prediction models because the purpose of these climate change models was to get funding, not to predict temperatures. We know the biggest driver of climate change is called "grant money".

And with wildfires down last year (2023), why wasn’t this described as a beneficial impact of "climate change?" If climate change was responsible for a brief, local uptick in fires, as liberals assured us, then why isn’t climate change likewise responsible for the trend toward fewer wildfires and fewer acres burned? Simply because, by definition, "climate change" can never be responsible for anything GOOD. Climate change is a political construct (rather like COVID), not a scientific concept, and always has been. And political constructs exist to generate MONEY!!!

PS: Greetings, everyone!

https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/dahlonega/30533/daily-weather-forecast/332436

Forecast says it's going to be in the upper 80's and lower/mid 90's.
And it hasn't rained in like 2 weeks! (Which is pretty unusual for us.)

Must be the Climate Crisis™!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOCZa6D9jTE

☮️

PS: M, thanks for that comment. The internet, starting with mass emailing, changed the economics of advertising. Even before targeted ads, and tracking, as you have written, to see the results of the ad clicks and purchases (actual real "views", as in, I took a look at it, are not accurate*) Now, the marginal cost of getting a blind ad out to people is almost zero.

I say "almost", as there must be some small cost for each name in one of those big lists of email addresses they have. OTOH, perhaps one could just make his software to go through all possibly @yahoo addresses trying various initials with numbers, etc. The marginal cost would then be truly zero, as the software could delete all the returns from the DAEMON with addresses not assigned.

So you throw all this stuff out there, and only 1 in a 1,000 or 1 in 10,000 serious replies may be all you need. (Then there's that stock picking trick.)

Well, anyway, that is advertising, but I am talking here about the supposed articles. I guess the more people click on "Heat wave to roil Missouri - what you can do?", etc, the more ads get allegedly "viewed" at least.


* ... going along with Mr. Sailer's point, back 5 years ago or so in some post, I postulated in the comments that TV ad people are deluding themselves or at least their customers. I'd seen that cute lizard, and I've seen that cute ostrich (the latter on youtube clips), and it makes me no more likely to call them about insurance than I was before.

PS: Oops, Mr. Hail. I guess my egg point still doesn't make sense. There's got to be a chicken then. Let me say that I think the technology is a cause.

M, thanks for the comment. I'll write back later - gotta go...

PS: Alarmist, I meant that it's on purpose by "conflating". I think it CAN - but does not HAVE TO - have that connotation. I could be wrong on that.

I'd like to see these people freezing their asses off, with the natural gas supply having been cut off... by themselves. Unfortunately for my hope for that scenario, ice ages don't happen THAT quickly. Mankind can adapt, just as we could for average earth temps (if there is really such a number one can come up with) go up by 5 C. Only thing is, we have no idea.

When I was in a civil on-line argument for months, literally, with a climate alarmist type in the comment section of a Las Vegas Review Journal's Vin Suprynowitz's post long ago, I think that was the columnist's point. Even if all this modeling and predictions are correct, is this really something that will hurt mankind so badly? It's not.

PS: Regarding the news (internet in particular) being alarmist and dumbed down now, as explained by Mr. Hail:

I get the click-bait (swipe-bait?) point. I see this same on The Gateway Pundit for example and am now wise to the time-wasting involved with the posts about "watch The View ladies' reaction to ..." "Social media DESTROYS Kamela's tweet on ...", or "So and so tears so and so a new one with this great come-back" (maybe I'm not the best at writing these headlines, judging from that last attempt). The news has become infotainment, with no longer 1/2 hour for local news on TV and 1/2 hour for national.

What you say about in-print news makes sense too. There was time end effort involved. Now, someone embeds a tweet and then a reply tweet, and Wallah! (I know), there's your "article"! In fact I've seen articles on The Unz Review even, with Ron Unz being something different but at least very good in doing his editing and not coming across as an amateur, that are noting but a series of tweets with a couple of sentences in between. I believe I'm thinking of Andrew Anglin's stuff, but maybe some others.

I'd call the technology the "egg" in your speculation. Without that, the stupid and the stupidity may not have been able to go so far.

PS
Paper news was supported by ads, which went alongside the articles.
The money was paid to put the ad in the paper. There wasn't any extra money if someone used the ad to go to the store and buy products (or whatever).
Ads now pay a little bit (a very small amount) to show alongside the article, and rather more if someone follows up on them - more for following the link, and (I think) even more if someone buys something via the link.
It's still possible to avoid being shown most ads via ad blockers, depending on how you're viewing the page.

I think the hysterical tone is a combination of the typical viewer being shown a lot of things from a lot of places, revenue being much more targeted, and fewer people understanding the language of the site.

- news came from one or a couple of newspapers, a couple of radio stations, and one of three TV networks. Now it's from a huge number of websites, and the former places are drowned in the background.
- revenue came from a business placing an ad, so was arranged between the business and the paper - and then it was done. Now, the customer is trackable right through to the transactions made. Great for the business (Steve Sailer has quoted someone saying "Half of marketing is useless, but I don't know which half"), not so good for the website.
- People in the US generally make lots more money than people in most other countries, even as recent immigrants. They don't necessarily know much English. Businesses like to attract customers with lots of money. So you make the ads targeting US customers more... explosiony(?). Rather like movies targeting a world market tend towards special effects, which don't require translation, as opposed to comedies, which do (and the jokes may not land after translation anyway).

PS

They aren’t conflating, they are flat-out lying.

BTW, mid-90s is pretty much normal in my neck of Florida from mid-April to the end of September, and yeah, if you go a few miles inland to the swamps, it feels like 120°. I felt come comfortable at Cairo West than I do some days at my local fish camp.

Sometimes I wish I could live long enough to watch the elites drown when the Earth once again (yes there is evidence it has happened before) tips on its axis and floods the world they think they can save by killing a few billion “useless eaters.”

PS

The news is more alarmist than it was in the past. More sensationalistic, more alarmist, more dumbed-down, more suited to lower attention-spans.

This is a real problem, long identified with the Internet, because there is so much incentive to 'monetize' the act of "clicking." More often by now it's not a 'click,' in fact, but a tap with a finger on a touch-screen. But still the phrase for it has stuck: "Clickbait."

These incentives, anyway, didn't exist in the paper-newspaper era as much, certainly not for minor stories related to heat-waves and such. You'd see this in NATIONAL ENQUIRER and that tier of media, which most people ignored, basically. But now, any news-consumer cannot ignore that kind of story, as it's everywhere (along with saturation-coverage of every little thing about Trump, a hate-cult).

To make use of the phrase Steve Sailer used in appraising what Trump did to the Republican Party's brand, the news has also become "dumbed down."

Every now and then, I come across news broadcasts from decades past, and if you watch them the tenor and the 'register' of everything is higher, more dignified. Compare it to any TV news now, or any other form of news-like media, it doesn't really compare. Today, you even hear a lot of people say they "get a lot of their news from TikTok" or such comments; that gives me a bit of a queasy feeling to hear.

Sensationalistic, dumbed down, alarmist (although not the honorable The Alarmist, who would be an antidote to media-alarmism as we now experience it). Short attention-spans. TikTok news-consumption. Clickbait... It seems it's a technology problem more than anything else. Or what? Or is that a "chicken and egg" question?