I like the “13 colonies” one. And the gender affirmation one. And the “guns and backhoes”.
On the Murthy quote, that sure makes him look evil (“stupid” is not a plausible explanation). Combining bad guys suffering the consequences of their evil with good guys stopping bad guys into a single statistic? Good grief.
Any time you see that sort of thing, where someone conflates apples and oranges to inflate their numbers, check out which one is listed last. It’s almost always the one orange in the bunch of apples. That’s the giveaway that it’s the largest, and that the rest of the apples on the list would have looked a lot less important without the one orange thrown in.
When people decide to lie about numbers like this, they almost never are smart enough to stick the orange in the middle of the list. No, they always think that people are going to pay attention to the start of the list, and stop reading before they get to the end. So they put the orange at the end of the list, nearly Every. Single. Time. They don’t know that people have figured out the pattern, so they keep giving themselves away.
Thomas Sowell referred to what he called “Ah-hah statistics” where someone looks through a bunch of statistics in a complex situation until they find something, anything, that looks like it agrees with their preconceptions and they go “Ah hah!”.
Damn, I just read “backhoes” as something entirely different from the way it was intended in the meme, and now I’ll never be able to read it differently.
If there really are only a billion guns in the world, Americans own a lot more than 46% of them. Just the sales recorded since 1968 add up to more than 600 million.
Of course, you can’t trust anything else the U.N. says either.
Don’t forget all of the canoe accidents that have happened since 1968. There may have been over 600 million sold, but how many are on the bottom of lakes across the US?
I could go on. SKS. Colt 1921A Thompson. The AK. Boatloads of those venerable old firearms still exist in working condition. Heck, there are guys out there with freaking revolutionary era cannon in decent condition.
I’m not even considering the rafts of weapons in the country illegally, i.e. brought in by criminals.
Six hundred mil strikes me as a low estimate, for multiple reasons. I remember when you could by Krags by the crate for $200. Sure, they may be boat paddles with bayonets that could puncture ceilings if you stood up with them and the blast could rattle windows a good quarter mile away, but that action was damn smooth and anything downrange without solid cover could be in a world of hurt.
Still though. Need to get those numbers up. A trained rifleman in every household would be a good start.
In the news: a drunk driver in a mini-van crashed into a Long Island nail salon, killed 4 and seriously injured 9 more.
According to the left-wing media, that is a ‘mass murder event’. Why are they not shrieking for a ban on mini-vans, alcohol and nail salons? Why are they not blaming ‘car culture’ and seeking to bankrupt vehicle manufacturers and distributors?
From Snopes, (if you can believe it) (emphasis added):
The claim that guns were the leading cause of death for U.S. children in 2020 and 2021 is true only if the selected age range is 1-19 years old. This range excludes infants under one year old, who have a unique risk of age-specific causes of death.
Similarly, capping the age range at 17, instead of 18 or 19, also alters the result, as children aged 17 and under have a greater risk of dying of vehicle-related injuries.
..so the Surgeon General’s recent “declaration” is based on the skew introduced in the stats by 18 and 19 year olds getting shot while standing on the corner reading the Bible minding their own business.
For those under 18, vehicle deaths are consistently greater than those from firearms. For those under 20, firearm deaths exceed vehicle deaths for 2020, 2021, and 2022 when you use the CDC firearm homicide data. When you use the FBI murder data, the vehicle deaths exceed the firearm deaths for 2019, 2020, and 2022, and likely 2021, though the FBI data isn’t available for that year. The bottom line is that about 44% of murders for those under 20 occur where the victims are 18 and 19.
Mothers of River City! Heed the warning before it’s too late! Watch for the tell-tale sign of corruption! The moment your son leaves the house, Does he rebuckle his knickerbockers below the knee? Is there a nicotine stain on his index finger? A dime novel hidden in the corn crib? Is he starting to memorize jokes from Capt. Billy’s Whiz Bang? Are certain words creeping into his conversation? Words like ‘swell?” And ‘so’s your old man?” Well, if so my friends, Ya got trouble, Right here in River city! With a capital “T” And that rhymes with “P” And that stands for Pool. We’ve surely got trouble! Right here in River City! Remember the Maine, Plymouth Rock and the Golden Rule! Oh, we’ve got trouble. We’re in terrible, terrible trouble. That game with the fifteen numbered balls is a devil’s tool! Oh yes we got trouble, trouble, trouble! With a “T”! Gotta rhyme it with “P”! And that stands for Pool!!!
The traditional ending of that musical is to have a local marching band come in. My favorite rendition skipped the band and instead had a half-dozen children on poor instruments (including a trumpet without a mouthpiece!) trying and failing to produce a decent sound, until one excited parent screamed, “That’s my boy!!!”
I liked the realism of the moment, and the enthusiasm of the parents.
They aren’t shrieking because they’re trying to be “Subtle!” But they do profoundly wish, from the bottom of their piss-pumping hearts, to reimpose alcohol prohibition, shut down nail salons, ban private vehicles, and commit cultural genocide against ‘car culture.’
There are places on the web where Chris Pratt is in fact called Crisp Rat or Crispy Rat, mostly people who take offense at him being a relatively open Christian in Hollywood.
I wanted to comment on individual memes, but there’s not provision. I know it would be impossible to do in Word Press, but wouldn’t it be nice?
So I came up with a new game. Comment as you go, then post them all and let your fellow readers try to match up your snark with the original memes.
I’ll start:
My hometown paper and Hemmingway and gahan Wilson retarded. Yes. That’s it. Love the Commie Punk swipe. Checkmate indeed. People can’t see that their guy is a liar.
Rodney Crowell song: The truth is salvation But all you believe in are lies
But how can you tell? I want that sign. So much truth. Not a mental picture I want. I endorse that program. Yes! Yes! Yes! No Democrats either. Same reason. I shall. I promise. I’d buy there. Beats the f*ck out of an HOA. Can’t find any, either. Makes me wonder if ANY leftists or journos (BIRM) are mentally competent. No, they can’t. Low estimate on the grand total. I really want to try that, but I won’t, cause I’m chicken. I’d spot for the coyote, too. That road runner is evil. Ever had a cat jump on you from the top of the dresser while you’re trying to get to sleep?Yes. Except it should be Mountain Dew in that bottle. Need the caffeine Crime is right. People who drive over the speed limit are sociopaths. Or psychopaths? Wrong! Gotta be Sanders’ bumpy cake. I’m with the owl.
Darn, Sarah, must have seen me oogling Mad Mike’s booth at LibertyCon. (He didn’t have a karabela, alas. Nor did I have packing space for one of the practice sabres.)
Is it bad that I laughed at the home schooling meme, then winced at the thought of loose hair and chain mail?
Given how it feels to get beard stubble caught in a close-knit shirt collar, I would think that would be a natural reaction to visualizing loose hair and chain mail.
Those are adjustable stocks, dammit. They allow people of different sizes to shoot the same rifle comfortably. Don’t let anti-gun left-wing activists change the language.
True this. Working outside in the August heat, day in and day out took more out of me than roofing in Virginia in July. Air conditioned hotel rooms and ice cold showers just cut the edge off a little.
Dad’s job took him to Texas for 8 months. Company rented an apartment for him and mom (since all 3 of us girls were out of the house by then). Mom said she’d take a shower morning and night. Stepping outside was like standing in the shower and not a drop of rain in the sky. She said they saw rain that never reached the ground. They live in Oregon. (Yes, Oregon can be humid. It is called rain. We don’t breath it. Okay, I have seen it humid. Temp. 60 F, Heat index 75 F. Any temp over say 70, is called a dry heat for a reason. Temp 112 F, heat index 112 F.)
Heh. Forecast for Independence Day in Flyover Falls is 90 degrees, but mornings are in the low 40s or high 30s for the duration. Dry heat can be an understatement.
I’ve had muggy weather here, but couldn’t tell you which year… (Generally if there’s been a typhoon somewhere near Hawaii and it butted the ridge out of the way.) Much different from the Midwest, where 85 degree weather was accompanied with high humidity. Driving a top-down MGB was an exercise in futility, especially in a traffic jam.
I know “dry heat” can be an understatement. Every single time we go east of the Cascades or south of Willamette valley, I have to use hand cream like it is going out of style. Don’t have to in the valley. Ironically today, cloud cover, is one of our summer humid days. 65 F heat index at 75 F, supposedly right now. Suppose to get up to 80 F. Humidity starting at 84% dropping to 40% by heat height so that 80 F feels like 81 F (Oh dear! …. Kidding.) Valley isn’t suppose to get to quite 90 F on July 4th. We’ll see. This year weather forecasts longer periods, even a few days out, seem to change as the day gets closer. As in “where did the rain come from?” The heat will hit eventually, but for now only been a handful of days where we’ve bothered with air conditioner floor units, even in family room upstairs.
And people wonder why it is difficult to retroactively add forced air conditioning to older homes that do not have it? Even on particularly hot days, as long as the house can be cooled off at night by opening windows, air conditioning is not needed. Open windows at night to cool down house, close up windows in the morning. House stays cool all day. But hit a patch of 3 or 4 days, house never cools down to below 70 at night (and it won’t if night outside temps don’t drop below 60) then you want some air conditioning. But difficult to pay $10k+ for something that happens 3 days running two or 3x’s June – September, max.
Yeah, summer heat can be interesting. The trees south of us don’t do anything for us in the summer, while they shade the house in winter. (Not our trees, and aren’t going to ask for them to be cut down.) Normal days (for values of normal) run 80F high and lows in the 40-50 degree range. The air temps are too high in the evening to get any cooling, and it’s not a great idea ($SPOUSE says “No way!”) to leave windows open at night. Way too easy access. (Same objection to window air conditioning, plus I’ve had reliability issues for the one I had in California.)
Very early morning (getting up at 4AM is sleeping in–sigh), I’ll run a window fan in the back office and open windows on the other side of the house (modulo the master bedroom; $SPOUSE and Kat-the-dog keep longer sleep hours and don’t mind the heat so much.) and force the air temps lower. If it’s going to be an 80 degree day, I’ll force to 72, and we’ll end up near 78 in most of the house, but 76 in the master bedroom. Works well enough.
Heatwaves make it tougher. I’ll force as low as practical (69 or so), and maybe get creative with box fans. The dining room fan helps a bit, too. Some folks use “swamp coolers” (box with a fan forcing air through a wet screen/sponge into the house) or other active cooling. (Don’t like: mold and Winter the biggest problem.)
Our neighbors put in mini-splits. They work well for cooling, not well for heating here. We get too cold for air-air heat pumps and the ground-water type looks like they’d have a horrible installation cost.
We have a wall unit (installed in box attached to outside wall, high up), and 3 floor/window vent units. The three window vent units windows have sticks in the tracts to keep windows from being opened. Even with all that, we can only keep the house about 20 F degrees, or less, cooler than outside. Part of the problem is there is no good way to put one in the back of the house (bedrooms). When we were working/school, we’d open the windows all night (turn on the motion detector alarm, these days *not an option) to let house cool down, lock down before leaving, and house would stay cool with only the upstairs wall unit running. These days we are coming in/out too much for that to work. When the current furnace dies, the new one will include air conditioning, even though this year we’ve had the air conditioners going maybe 3 (?) days since start of May. Last part of this week isn’t looking like fun cool days here in the Willamette Valley, by forecast. Accurate? Who knows.
(* Still have the alarm. Still not advisable. I’d be happy just the back windows, which our open window is right there, and they are small, but hubby won’t. They not only would make a lot of noise coming in our window, they’d be stepping on us once in. When house is hot, I am a very light sleeper, if I’m sleeping. Then there is the dog. Since both gates have locks on them, no one can claim “the gate was open”.)
I open the front door, leaving the security door locked, turn on a fan in the kitchen window and pull cool air through the whole house at night.
For when that’s not enough, I cut a hole in the bedroom wall at about the 6 foot level, framed it with 2×4’s, welded some angle iron together, bolted that in place, and installed a window air conditioner. Then, made a little sheet-metal roof for it. Works great, and would be just about impossible to break in through.
When I finish the laundry room, there’s a place to mount 3 16″ fans above the window to pull air through the house.
I’ve also got central air conditioning, but that’s expensive to run.
We thought about a mini-split with units in the master and back bedroom, but the heating issue makes it not-so good, and barring a serious heat wave (personal worst, 110F last year, but briefly), can be comfortable enough with moving air.
Just retrieved the second box fan from the shop/barn so it will be ready for the next wave. NOAA’s weatherguessers threw up a heat watch from Thurs to Saturday night. Maybe 95F. Texans may chuckle as much as they want… I see your 100F Summer and raise you a -28F Winter chill. (Only happened once, but hard to forget.)
Wildfires screw up the morning fan strategy, but so far…
Given that hiking Palo Duro Canyon in October was the only time we really felt hot on our October vacation, I shudder to think how hot it would have been in August. Arizona was cooler.
What’s weird about the grilling shoots, is they all seem to have the ridiculously long spatulas to get maximum distance from whatever they’re reportedly grilling. It’s as though not only do they have no idea what they’re doing, but the very idea of burgers horrified them.
/me makes note to self Get lots of random photos off the internet to put in envelopes before next LibertyCon…
Proceed to sit next to people in various panels and just as it’s letting out, hand them an envelope and whisper to them “it has to look like an accident” Run like heck to get out of sight before they can get out of the room.
Giggle
Bonus points if the photo is someone who was ON the panel…
I was pretty danged stupid as a child. Immature, prideful, mischievous, and arrogant. I thought adulthood would be better. Then, you had to be competent, courteous, hard working, and truthful. You had to earn respect, pay your own way, and be a good example.
One of my first jobs saw me working in people’s homes. Trailer parks, mansions, office buildings, churches, the works. Reality disabused me of those rose colored glasses right quicklike.
I still think proper adults should be all those things, though. But nowadays, thick skinned, skeptical, and blunt when necessary are added to that list. There’s lots what didn’t get a proper upbringing out there, those what think they’re owed something from the world. From me and mine, the folks that sweat and bleed for our daily bread.
It is not charity to give to those who can do for themselves, but choose not to. It is not cowardice to refuse to protect grown-arsed men and women from the consequences of their own actions. And it is not honest to give hollow platitudes to the same when they fail in eminently predictable ways.
Good men and women of the world want to give their children a better life. They do this by training those little ones to weather the insults and damage the world will throw at them. The world will always be in dire need of those good, hard working, honest, and strong men and women.
Acting in ways to promote the growth of such persons is what we should all do. I sincerely hope that the last three plus years have opened the eyes of many poor folks burdened with unrealistic views of the world to see the road that envy, greed, corruption, and spite travels. The contrast between today, and 2016-2020 is stark.
That fantasy cartography one was painful. (Yes, I have given an impromptu quick and dirty lecture about prevailing winds at various latitudes and how rainshadows work. He did ask for feedback, and requested me to explain my comment “It’ll pretty much work if you want the sun to rise in the West and set in the East.)
Yes, I’m a nerd. But it’s easy to get the broad brush strokes into the realm of verisimilitude. You don’t need to know a trust fault from extensional rifting to get there.
According To Hoyt 
I like the “13 colonies” one. And the gender affirmation one. And the “guns and backhoes”.
On the Murthy quote, that sure makes him look evil (“stupid” is not a plausible explanation). Combining bad guys suffering the consequences of their evil with good guys stopping bad guys into a single statistic? Good grief.
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Any time you see that sort of thing, where someone conflates apples and oranges to inflate their numbers, check out which one is listed last. It’s almost always the one orange in the bunch of apples. That’s the giveaway that it’s the largest, and that the rest of the apples on the list would have looked a lot less important without the one orange thrown in.
When people decide to lie about numbers like this, they almost never are smart enough to stick the orange in the middle of the list. No, they always think that people are going to pay attention to the start of the list, and stop reading before they get to the end. So they put the orange at the end of the list, nearly Every. Single. Time. They don’t know that people have figured out the pattern, so they keep giving themselves away.
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This is why Samuel Clemons referred to there being “lies, damned lies, and statistics”.
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Thomas Sowell referred to what he called “Ah-hah statistics” where someone looks through a bunch of statistics in a complex situation until they find something, anything, that looks like it agrees with their preconceptions and they go “Ah hah!”.
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Damn, I just read “backhoes” as something entirely different from the way it was intended in the meme, and now I’ll never be able to read it differently.
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Might have stolen one or two.
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If there really are only a billion guns in the world, Americans own a lot more than 46% of them. Just the sales recorded since 1968 add up to more than 600 million.
Of course, you can’t trust anything else the U.N. says either.
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Don’t forget all of the canoe accidents that have happened since 1968. There may have been over 600 million sold, but how many are on the bottom of lakes across the US?
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Rising sea levels, not caused by global warming. Can’t remember if that was a meme here or elsewhere a few weeks or months ago.
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Krags. 1889-1945ish.
Lee-Enfield. 1895-1957.
Mauser. 1892 and up.
Winchester lever rifles. 1893 and up.
Colt Single Action Army. 1973 and up.
Winchester Model 1897.
I could go on. SKS. Colt 1921A Thompson. The AK. Boatloads of those venerable old firearms still exist in working condition. Heck, there are guys out there with freaking revolutionary era cannon in decent condition.
I’m not even considering the rafts of weapons in the country illegally, i.e. brought in by criminals.
Six hundred mil strikes me as a low estimate, for multiple reasons. I remember when you could by Krags by the crate for $200. Sure, they may be boat paddles with bayonets that could puncture ceilings if you stood up with them and the blast could rattle windows a good quarter mile away, but that action was damn smooth and anything downrange without solid cover could be in a world of hurt.
Still though. Need to get those numbers up. A trained rifleman in every household would be a good start.
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The Biden “My work is almost done” meme gives Biden too much credit.
Biden is just a puppet. [Twisted Grin]
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In the news: a drunk driver in a mini-van crashed into a Long Island nail salon, killed 4 and seriously injured 9 more.
According to the left-wing media, that is a ‘mass murder event’. Why are they not shrieking for a ban on mini-vans, alcohol and nail salons? Why are they not blaming ‘car culture’ and seeking to bankrupt vehicle manufacturers and distributors?
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John Stoffel, when was on ABC, said seven times more people were killed by swimming pools than their own gun (or guns in general?).
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Not Stoffel but pools versus guns killing children: https://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2001/07/27/levittpoolsvsguns
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From Snopes, (if you can believe it) (emphasis added):
..so the Surgeon General’s recent “declaration” is based on the skew introduced in the stats by 18 and 19 year olds getting shot while standing on the corner reading the Bible minding their own business.
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IOW gang members, mostly.
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Vastly mostly.
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Also, more reliably and more recent from https://crimeresearch.org/2024/06/the-continued-false-claim-that-firearms-are-the-leading-cause-of-death-for-children-or-teens-now-from-the-u-s-surgeon-general-dr-vivek-murthy/
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Homicide data excludes suicide, which is another favorite padding measure.
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Comment stuck in mod due to hidden link in quoted text that I missed – ref is a more cent and more reliable source at: https://crimeresearch.org/2024/06/the-continued-false-claim-that-firearms-are-the-leading-cause-of-death-for-children-or-teens-now-from-the-u-s-surgeon-general-dr-vivek-murthy/
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..more recent …
Frelling autocorrect.
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Interesting how murder rates jumped in 2021 and 2022. Bet they’re still up.
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Could it have anything to do with opening the borders to unvetted people? Nah…. that’s crazy talk.
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Gee, defund the police, guess what happens…
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This too.
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“killed by swimming pools”
Grammar, my friends. Grammar. 😒
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Not swimming pools, pool halls.
Well known to be the source of trouble.
(Trouble, trouble, trouble…)
Mothers of River City!
Heed the warning before it’s too late!
Watch for the tell-tale sign of corruption!
The moment your son leaves the house,
Does he rebuckle his knickerbockers below the knee?
Is there a nicotine stain on his index finger?
A dime novel hidden in the corn crib?
Is he starting to memorize jokes from Capt.
Billy’s Whiz Bang?
Are certain words creeping into his conversation?
Words like ‘swell?”
And ‘so’s your old man?”
Well, if so my friends,
Ya got trouble,
Right here in River city!
With a capital “T”
And that rhymes with “P”
And that stands for Pool.
We’ve surely got trouble!
Right here in River City!
Remember the Maine, Plymouth Rock and the Golden Rule!
Oh, we’ve got trouble.
We’re in terrible, terrible trouble.
That game with the fifteen numbered balls is a devil’s tool!
Oh yes we got trouble, trouble, trouble!
With a “T”! Gotta rhyme it with “P”!
And that stands for Pool!!!
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The traditional ending of that musical is to have a local marching band come in. My favorite rendition skipped the band and instead had a half-dozen children on poor instruments (including a trumpet without a mouthpiece!) trying and failing to produce a decent sound, until one excited parent screamed, “That’s my boy!!!”
I liked the realism of the moment, and the enthusiasm of the parents.
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They aren’t shrieking because they’re trying to be “Subtle!” But they do profoundly wish, from the bottom of their piss-pumping hearts, to reimpose alcohol prohibition, shut down nail salons, ban private vehicles, and commit cultural genocide against ‘car culture.’
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I needed some good laughter.
The cat, awakened from nap, is giving me stinkeye.
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http://ace.mu.nu/archives/444168766_122162960180040699_1582738700071347071_n.jpg
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Not to ruin the sentimentality, but that’s a very odd way to sit on a bench. Not to mention that it would be a very odd bench.
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That’s AI for you.
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The important question to ask is where to buy that “In this house…” sign.
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Well, I found this:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1370729690/custom-in-this-house-we-believe-yard
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Thanks.
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There are places on the web where Chris Pratt is in fact called Crisp Rat or Crispy Rat, mostly people who take offense at him being a relatively open Christian in Hollywood.
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I love the meme about jogging.
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Safety features are important.
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<img src=”https://www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-27-at-2.02.08%E2%80%AFPM.png” alt=”Girl in a jacket” width=”500″ height=”600″>
Classic spotted at Powerline’s Meme-o-thon this morning.
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Okay, someobody please delete that. I have no idea how to link the image.
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I wanted to comment on individual memes, but there’s not provision. I know it would be impossible to do in Word Press, but wouldn’t it be nice?
So I came up with a new game. Comment as you go, then post them all and let your fellow readers try to match up your snark with the original memes.
I’ll start:
My hometown paper and Hemmingway and gahan Wilson
retarded. Yes. That’s it.
Love the Commie Punk swipe.
Checkmate indeed.
People can’t see that their guy is a liar.
Rodney Crowell song:
The truth is salvation
But all you believe in are lies
But how can you tell?
I want that sign. So much truth.
Not a mental picture I want.
I endorse that program.
Yes! Yes! Yes!
No Democrats either. Same reason.
I shall. I promise.
I’d buy there. Beats the f*ck out of an HOA.
Can’t find any, either.
Makes me wonder if ANY leftists or journos (BIRM) are mentally competent.
No, they can’t.
Low estimate on the grand total.
I really want to try that, but I won’t, cause I’m chicken.
I’d spot for the coyote, too. That road runner is evil.
Ever had a cat jump on you from the top of the dresser while you’re trying to get to sleep?Yes. Except it should be Mountain Dew in that bottle. Need the caffeine
Crime is right. People who drive over the speed limit are sociopaths. Or psychopaths?
Wrong! Gotta be Sanders’ bumpy cake.
I’m with the owl.
have fun with it.
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SFBS
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Forget the wood chipper, indeed…. After all, it saves on fuel use! Good for the planet!
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Darn, Sarah, must have seen me oogling Mad Mike’s booth at LibertyCon. (He didn’t have a karabela, alas. Nor did I have packing space for one of the practice sabres.)
Is it bad that I laughed at the home schooling meme, then winced at the thought of loose hair and chain mail?
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Given how it feels to get beard stubble caught in a close-knit shirt collar, I would think that would be a natural reaction to visualizing loose hair and chain mail.
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Ditto for beards and collapsing rifle stocks.
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Those are adjustable stocks, dammit. They allow people of different sizes to shoot the same rifle comfortably. Don’t let anti-gun left-wing activists change the language.
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Texas in August: He’s not wrong.
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True this. Working outside in the August heat, day in and day out took more out of me than roofing in Virginia in July. Air conditioned hotel rooms and ice cold showers just cut the edge off a little.
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Dad’s job took him to Texas for 8 months. Company rented an apartment for him and mom (since all 3 of us girls were out of the house by then). Mom said she’d take a shower morning and night. Stepping outside was like standing in the shower and not a drop of rain in the sky. She said they saw rain that never reached the ground. They live in Oregon. (Yes, Oregon can be humid. It is called rain. We don’t breath it. Okay, I have seen it humid. Temp. 60 F, Heat index 75 F. Any temp over say 70, is called a dry heat for a reason. Temp 112 F, heat index 112 F.)
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Heh. Forecast for Independence Day in Flyover Falls is 90 degrees, but mornings are in the low 40s or high 30s for the duration. Dry heat can be an understatement.
I’ve had muggy weather here, but couldn’t tell you which year… (Generally if there’s been a typhoon somewhere near Hawaii and it butted the ridge out of the way.) Much different from the Midwest, where 85 degree weather was accompanied with high humidity. Driving a top-down MGB was an exercise in futility, especially in a traffic jam.
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I know “dry heat” can be an understatement. Every single time we go east of the Cascades or south of Willamette valley, I have to use hand cream like it is going out of style. Don’t have to in the valley. Ironically today, cloud cover, is one of our summer humid days. 65 F heat index at 75 F, supposedly right now. Suppose to get up to 80 F. Humidity starting at 84% dropping to 40% by heat height so that 80 F feels like 81 F (Oh dear! …. Kidding.) Valley isn’t suppose to get to quite 90 F on July 4th. We’ll see. This year weather forecasts longer periods, even a few days out, seem to change as the day gets closer. As in “where did the rain come from?” The heat will hit eventually, but for now only been a handful of days where we’ve bothered with air conditioner floor units, even in family room upstairs.
And people wonder why it is difficult to retroactively add forced air conditioning to older homes that do not have it? Even on particularly hot days, as long as the house can be cooled off at night by opening windows, air conditioning is not needed. Open windows at night to cool down house, close up windows in the morning. House stays cool all day. But hit a patch of 3 or 4 days, house never cools down to below 70 at night (and it won’t if night outside temps don’t drop below 60) then you want some air conditioning. But difficult to pay $10k+ for something that happens 3 days running two or 3x’s June – September, max.
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Yeah, summer heat can be interesting. The trees south of us don’t do anything for us in the summer, while they shade the house in winter. (Not our trees, and aren’t going to ask for them to be cut down.) Normal days (for values of normal) run 80F high and lows in the 40-50 degree range. The air temps are too high in the evening to get any cooling, and it’s not a great idea ($SPOUSE says “No way!”) to leave windows open at night. Way too easy access. (Same objection to window air conditioning, plus I’ve had reliability issues for the one I had in California.)
Very early morning (getting up at 4AM is sleeping in–sigh), I’ll run a window fan in the back office and open windows on the other side of the house (modulo the master bedroom; $SPOUSE and Kat-the-dog keep longer sleep hours and don’t mind the heat so much.) and force the air temps lower. If it’s going to be an 80 degree day, I’ll force to 72, and we’ll end up near 78 in most of the house, but 76 in the master bedroom. Works well enough.
Heatwaves make it tougher. I’ll force as low as practical (69 or so), and maybe get creative with box fans. The dining room fan helps a bit, too. Some folks use “swamp coolers” (box with a fan forcing air through a wet screen/sponge into the house) or other active cooling. (Don’t like: mold and Winter the biggest problem.)
Our neighbors put in mini-splits. They work well for cooling, not well for heating here. We get too cold for air-air heat pumps and the ground-water type looks like they’d have a horrible installation cost.
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We have a wall unit (installed in box attached to outside wall, high up), and 3 floor/window vent units. The three window vent units windows have sticks in the tracts to keep windows from being opened. Even with all that, we can only keep the house about 20 F degrees, or less, cooler than outside. Part of the problem is there is no good way to put one in the back of the house (bedrooms). When we were working/school, we’d open the windows all night (turn on the motion detector alarm, these days *not an option) to let house cool down, lock down before leaving, and house would stay cool with only the upstairs wall unit running. These days we are coming in/out too much for that to work. When the current furnace dies, the new one will include air conditioning, even though this year we’ve had the air conditioners going maybe 3 (?) days since start of May. Last part of this week isn’t looking like fun cool days here in the Willamette Valley, by forecast. Accurate? Who knows.
(* Still have the alarm. Still not advisable. I’d be happy just the back windows, which our open window is right there, and they are small, but hubby won’t. They not only would make a lot of noise coming in our window, they’d be stepping on us once in. When house is hot, I am a very light sleeper, if I’m sleeping. Then there is the dog. Since both gates have locks on them, no one can claim “the gate was open”.)
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I open the front door, leaving the security door locked, turn on a fan in the kitchen window and pull cool air through the whole house at night.
For when that’s not enough, I cut a hole in the bedroom wall at about the 6 foot level, framed it with 2×4’s, welded some angle iron together, bolted that in place, and installed a window air conditioner. Then, made a little sheet-metal roof for it. Works great, and would be just about impossible to break in through.
When I finish the laundry room, there’s a place to mount 3 16″ fans above the window to pull air through the house.
I’ve also got central air conditioning, but that’s expensive to run.
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We thought about a mini-split with units in the master and back bedroom, but the heating issue makes it not-so good, and barring a serious heat wave (personal worst, 110F last year, but briefly), can be comfortable enough with moving air.
Just retrieved the second box fan from the shop/barn so it will be ready for the next wave. NOAA’s weatherguessers threw up a heat watch from Thurs to Saturday night. Maybe 95F. Texans may chuckle as much as they want… I see your 100F Summer and raise you a -28F Winter chill. (Only happened once, but hard to forget.)
Wildfires screw up the morning fan strategy, but so far…
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I like the private road sign, though nobody on the road owns a backhoe. There are other ways… :)
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Given that hiking Palo Duro Canyon in October was the only time we really felt hot on our October vacation, I shudder to think how hot it would have been in August. Arizona was cooler.
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Those gas cans are reserved for the backhoe. I am NOT going to spend the first weeks of the apocalypse digging by hand.
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RE: the Vlad meme= Vlad said, Good fences make good neighbors. but bad neighbors make good fences.
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Excellent. Would go well with Vlad’s portrait.
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What’s weird about the grilling shoots, is they all seem to have the ridiculously long spatulas to get maximum distance from whatever they’re reportedly grilling. It’s as though not only do they have no idea what they’re doing, but the very idea of burgers horrified them.
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/me makes note to self
Get lots of random photos off the internet to put in envelopes before next LibertyCon…
Proceed to sit next to people in various panels and just as it’s letting out, hand them an envelope and whisper to them “it has to look like an accident”
Run like heck to get out of sight before they can get out of the room.
Giggle
Bonus points if the photo is someone who was ON the panel…
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When my sister gets a call from a number she does not recognize, she answers: The job’s done. Where’s the money?
Not only does this get them to hang up, she never gets a repeat call from the same number….
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Regarding the unprepared for stupidity meme:
I was pretty danged stupid as a child. Immature, prideful, mischievous, and arrogant. I thought adulthood would be better. Then, you had to be competent, courteous, hard working, and truthful. You had to earn respect, pay your own way, and be a good example.
One of my first jobs saw me working in people’s homes. Trailer parks, mansions, office buildings, churches, the works. Reality disabused me of those rose colored glasses right quicklike.
I still think proper adults should be all those things, though. But nowadays, thick skinned, skeptical, and blunt when necessary are added to that list. There’s lots what didn’t get a proper upbringing out there, those what think they’re owed something from the world. From me and mine, the folks that sweat and bleed for our daily bread.
It is not charity to give to those who can do for themselves, but choose not to. It is not cowardice to refuse to protect grown-arsed men and women from the consequences of their own actions. And it is not honest to give hollow platitudes to the same when they fail in eminently predictable ways.
Good men and women of the world want to give their children a better life. They do this by training those little ones to weather the insults and damage the world will throw at them. The world will always be in dire need of those good, hard working, honest, and strong men and women.
Acting in ways to promote the growth of such persons is what we should all do. I sincerely hope that the last three plus years have opened the eyes of many poor folks burdened with unrealistic views of the world to see the road that envy, greed, corruption, and spite travels. The contrast between today, and 2016-2020 is stark.
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Regarding the prospective sign thief:
Same, meme poster. Same.
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The “What have we learned?” meme, I have that exact scar on my right arm. Muffin has moved on, but the mark he left will last a lifetime. ~:D
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I have that scar as well. From trying to pick up a newborn kitten. My Joey has been gone for 40 years, but the scar remains.
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I know chicks dig scars, but do they double dig them if they’re from a cat?
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The Reader is surprised that reality has already passed all the post debate Biden memes.
https://x.com/TIME/status/1806788544410615905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1806788544410615905%7Ctwgr%5Ed4026066498c5f0040b3d505eea4a8fafafb0f77%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fnotthebee.com%2Farticle%2Fthis-is-the-actual-cover-of-time-magazine-if-you-were-wondering-how-bad-bidens-debate-performance
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Apparently Firefox doesn’t like that one.
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Huh. It works from Firefox the Reader’s Linux machine
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Worked from my Win11 Firefox laptop. (I have a lot of extras installed with Firefox that a whole lot of other sites do not like.)
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Ah. Tracking permissions in the browser. Fixed it
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That fantasy cartography one was painful.
(Yes, I have given an impromptu quick and dirty lecture about prevailing winds at various latitudes and how rainshadows work. He did ask for feedback, and requested me to explain my comment “It’ll pretty much work if you want the sun to rise in the West and set in the East.)
Yes, I’m a nerd. But it’s easy to get the broad brush strokes into the realm of verisimilitude. You don’t need to know a trust fault from extensional rifting to get there.
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clears throat.
The sun rises in the east and sets in the west. The East is DEFINED as where the sun rises, and the West as where it sets.
You can choose to put a compass rose with South being Up on the map.
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I had my one book set in the southern hemisphere of the world I created it on. One of my beta readers—the Navy guy—actually noticed. :)
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“Little rabbit Foo Foo, hoppin’ through the forest….”
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