Heat-related deaths hit record highs in France.

But no one NEEDS air conditioning! So I’ve been told by smarmy Northern (US) liberals.

Meanwhile, it’s supposed to hit 107 degrees F where we are Saturday….

The first ten on today’s playlist:

Miss me with your nonsense.

Go talk to MNCs that cause more pollution in one week than I could in 10 lifetimes, and leave me to drink my cocktails in peace. https://t.co/UgGYkkMKHP

— Milena Rodban (@MilenaRodban) June 27, 2023

The weird liberal austerity nonsense is going to torpedo any chances of actual improvement. Degrowth is a clown world belief. Take away any good food, travel, drinks, air conditioning and the ability to do anything fun — well, why even bother living then?

This must be resisted. It’s not the path.

Today, I was working on a somewhat-difficult but also fairly-repetitive task. It was repetitive but with slight variations — so, not worth it to automate and requiring focused concentration.

Since I work from home, I got the task done in about 4 hours of steady work. If I’d been forced to do this same task in the typical office, I estimate it would’ve taken me 3-5 full days because of all the interruptions, noise and gladhanders chattering. This is true for just about anyone who would do this task.

This sort of thing definitively demonstrates that companies with their RTO assclownery do not give a fuuuuuuccccckk about productivity at all.

A lot of women (and some men) moan and complain about not being considered attractive, but 60% of being hot is just being slender. Obviously there is a limit — too slender and you just look like some famine victim.

But for the most part — despite what people want to believe — the above is true.

A caveat: for men, being slender and muscular are required. Women can just be thin. In that way, they have it a good bit easier though the beauty standards for women overall are more stringent in other ways.

Further caveat: not everyone finds slenderness attractive, but probably 80-90% of men do when it comes to women. Take from that what you will.

People on Twitter be like, “I wore 37 masks and sprayed Lysol in my face every ten minutes, but an airplane flew above my head and someone on that plane had walked near a chinchilla that had Covid before boarding, and all my family got Covid and died because a single viral particle fell from the plane and then despite me heroically spewing a flamethrower at it as it chased me down the street like a cheetah on turbo-meth, I still got Covid and killed my whole family! Twice! Lockdown 4EVA!!!!”

Where do these people come from?

All IP Addresses Are Equal? “dot-zero” Addresses Are Less Equal.

This is why I generally avoid assigning .0 IP addresses to anything as it can cause odd issues, even when it’s a perfectly legal host address. The same goes for .255. Avoid and save yourself some headaches. There are plenty of IP addresses.

I have seen far more mullets on young people recently than I would like

Does anyone look good with a mullet haircut? Please submit photo evidence if you believe there is a case of someone looking good in one

— Tits McGee (@Scientits) June 23, 2023

I thought at the time (and still think) that Meryl Streep looked quite cute in 1983’s Silkwood with a mullet. Very good film too — now forgotten. I recommend it.

This show looks like it was probably terrible, but I love the promo poster. It’s great:

It reminds me of a painting that I can’t quite recall. Any of my friends know? Google is not surprisingly producing nothing useful. But I’m pretty sure it’s somewhat well known?

1937 Delahaye 135 MS https://t.co/1z2UcjYocL pic.twitter.com/wivejFPtP4

— Barry Ritholtz (@ritholtz) June 25, 2023

Its safety features are “you die immediately upon impact so don’t have to worry about medical bills” but that is a gorgeous piece of design and engineering. Costs about a mil. Not for me but I am glad it exists.

The first ten on today’s playlist:

Wagner could’ve easily taken Moscow. So why didn’t they?

Easy: fucking massive piles of money promised to them and to Yevgeny Prigozhin personally. There’s no mystery here. This wasn’t just about money, of course. But it can go a long way to making other things you care about seem less important.

Prigozhin is now a billionaire many times over.