Degrowthers want to ban air conditioning.
People like me want to air condition the entire planet. We are not the same.
Cool
Totally Tubular
We walked through a third-of-a-mile long lava tube yesterday, and that was pretty cool.
(It did not have any lava in it.)
Cetacea
Yes, Sydney Sweeney and Araki Saori are both beautiful.
But you know who else is beautiful? MOST HUMAN BEINGS, if they stay in shape and pay attention to personal grooming!
There is so much beauty ALL AROUND YOUhttps://t.co/2ZWMvnbraV
— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) July 28, 2025
That’s one of the things I like about Sydney Sweeney. She’s only “regular” beautiful. Sure, she cleans up nice but she looks like about the average girl did during the 1980s — before all the obesity, people walking around looking half-dead due to poor diets, and the horrible tattoos1.
It’s not that Sydney is unattractive. She actually is beautiful! But so were the vast majority of women before they became purely cetacean and disfigured themselves with tattoos. And don’t fuckin’ argue with me. I was there; I remember.
CAS
If we ever have a large estate, we need an A-10 for close air support.
It’s a requirement, really.
Maghrebi
I strongly support cultural appropriation! https://t.co/0ZBkr0HpBW
— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) July 25, 2025
New species of goth girl just dropped and I’m all about it.
Sema Four
Last year was the largest one-year percentage point decline in murder ever recorded. This year is on track to do so again. In fact, nearly every category of crime is down sharply, with many at multi-decade lows or even the lowest per-capita rates ever recorded. pic.twitter.com/5ZLsNVwyhO
— John Arnold (@JohnArnoldFndtn) July 21, 2025
I bet it’s the semaglutides.
At least partially.
Party of None
I think a problem with advice about how to meet people is it mostly comes from people who are good at meeting people, and could do it anywhere
— Misha (@drethelin) July 18, 2025
True. I have a friend who is very extroverted, extremely quick-witted, beautiful and fearless. When I step away from her for five minutes she makes three new friends. I have no idea how. I simply couldn’t do what she does no matter how hard I tried. Even ignoring all the other things working against me, I’d be utterly exhausted within 10 minutes of living like she does. I mean it — I’d be dead tired and my brain would shut off.
When people good at meeting people give others advice, it’s kind of like when women give men dating advice. Both are completely useless.
The last time we hung out, my friend got us invited to a sex party by chatting to a woman at the next table at an Italian restaurant. We did not go, but that was funny.
Drugless Miracle
I did my own analysis several years ago and came up with similar number to the first point. I calculated that one minute of exercise extends your life by 5-9 minutes with 95% CI.
Good to see someone do it more formally.
Stone Yellow
He saw her in Yellowstone and thought ‘I’m going to marry that girl.’ And he did.
All these great meet-cute stories that Gen Z would brand as assault and harassment.
We have done fucked up. No wonder they are having zero sex and no kids.
Those Fantasies
A HISTORIC MILESTONE: For the first time, solar power generated more electricity globally than nuclear, making it the world’s 4th largest power source.
In just 5 years solar output nearly tripled—from 79 TWh (Apr 2020) to 233 TWh (Apr 2025). The energy transition is speeding up. pic.twitter.com/UB7irbNEMw
— Jan Rosenow (@janrosenow) June 23, 2025
I remember not very long ago at all when this was 100% “impossible.”
A nerd fantasy, if you will.
Slapped
I remember when all the anti-space zealots said this would forever and always be impossible.
Now it (alas) happens routinely.
That Ground is Shifty
First fault shift ever caught on camera.
Ain’t that some shift.
Patu
🎥 More Footage from SBU’s “Spiderweb” Operation
The video shows the full flight of one of the SBU's FPV drones — from launch on the rooftop of a modular building all the way to its successful strike on a Russian Tu-22M3 strategic bomber at the "Belaya" airbase. https://t.co/diGHjhZafm pic.twitter.com/WpI46rPrqv
— Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) June 7, 2025
Amazing that the Ukrainians pulled that off. And it truly is great to see all the vile Putinoids crying so much about it.
Shouldering a Lot
This woman is freaking awesome.
She is. But how do her shoulder joints like still work and stuff? Mine would be deceased.