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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • The heat index here was 111 the other day. It approached wet bulb temps. I’m a former marine and bike 50 miles a week.

    The outside in the summer will literally kill you because you can’t evaporatively cool enough from sweating. It’s a biological impossibility at that point.

    When it has just rained and it is still in the high 90s, you risk death playing sports outside.

    I have been to jungle warfare training, fought in deserts at 125 degrees, and sweat through 60 lbs of gear and body armor.

    The summers now are lethal.



  • Older than trees.

    Older than bones.

    Drones from land masses that don’t exist anymore.

    There are Appalachian mountains with coal seams and those are the younger ones, because they formed in some places before the land biomass that made coal and oil existed.

    They contain layers of fossils from ancient whales back to small crustaceans.

    480 million years ago trilobites were being heft out of the sea by the Appalachians.

    The Appalachians existed for 20 million years before bearing witness to a million year long meteor shower from the L-chondrite debris, and witnessed the earth with rings of comet orbiting for eons.


  • 11-15% of foreign born individuals own homes in the US.

    Half of that group has naturalized as citizens.

    So you are telling me some even smaller portion of the 7% of home ownership that is illegal immigrants is the cause of a housing crisis nationwide where universally we see increases in home pricing?

    Ok.











  • It’s from A Man for All Seasons, a play that illustrates the importance of the rule of law.

    William Roper: “So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!”

    Sir Thomas More: “Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?”

    William Roper: “Yes, I’d cut down every law in England to do that!”

    Sir Thomas More: “Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man’s laws, not God’s! And if you cut them down, and you’re just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake!