I'll bookmark this for winter

https://boingboing.net/2026/06/15/fox-buys-the-henhouse.html

AAAaaccckkk!

Mostly Gulf, Texas & Eastern US.

EPS Model – Ensemble Member MSLP for North Atlantic | Tropical Tidbits
https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/models/?model=eps&region=atl&pkg=lowlocs&fh=12

Lows are where the bad action is so I run this a couple of times a week for a macro-view.

Given that all of our major media is apparently pro-oligarchy and the WH decidedly so, I mostly use The Guardian, The Atlantic, and The Register for articles. My heavily culled Bsky usually turns up more real stats & graphs on the trending lies-du-jour, though.

That is a really good, and unsettling read.

Quotehe had seen deepfakes created and shared by foreign governments and by staffers at the White House

I've noticed something new in this war. In the past, I always assumed the US was lying about some stuff, but was more reliable than Saddam Hussein or Manuel Noriega. So my default was to guess it was a little more likely the US was telling the truth, despite the record of lying at least from Vietnam to the present. Over multiple administrations, ones I supported and ones I opposed, that basic pattern held.

This time, I find myself by default assuming that the US is the less reliable witness and is more likely to be lying. When two accounts disagree, I'm generally more likely to believe the Iranians. That is a colossal own goal for the US.

>adder

Analysis Finds Wealthier Older Adults Die Nine Years Later than Low-Income Peers

How Does Income Affect Lifespan?
https://www.ncoa.org/article/analysis-finds-low-income-older-adults-die-nine-years-earlier-than-wealthier-peers/

>beyond the world of good for you and bad for you

Exactly, though I still shy away from microwaving foods in plastic containers.

>> Money is a adder

What does that mean?

>>stuff that was bad

Until yesterday, I was holding down the fort solo in Austin while my BIL and his family take the RV on the road for three weeks. I'm taking care of my MIL who is 91 and has serious memory issues. Maybe she'll live 5 more years, but clearly not 20 more.

So we put butter on everything and eat ice cream ad libidum as the doctors say. She complains she is getting fat, but it's only a problem because her bathing suit is too tight.

But I often think she is beyond the world of good for you and bad for you. I make sure she eats enough and drinks enough and gets at least a bit of walking or swimming, but beyond that, as long as she's having fun, it's all good. And we have quite a bit of fun. Despite the memory issues, she still good company and still likes a bad joke.

QuoteV1: For drywalled construction that might get flooded, lay the bottom course of drywall with the top edge at chair rail height. If you're using bat insulation make a joint in it at the top of the lower drywall sheet. Finish installing the insulation with 2nd piece on top of the bottom one.

Install the chair rail mostly on the bottom drywall with the top edge of it slightly covering the drywall joint. If/when it floods but is at or below the chair rail all you have to demolish and haul out is from the chair rail down.

V2:  This version is if you have had to deal with this multiple times.

Cut off the beveled edges on the first 2 courses of drywall so that you don't have to use joint compound & tape and can leave the joint unfinished.  Install the chair rail only on the TOP drywall with about 3/8" overhanging the bottom sheet. Put a paper-thin shim under the chair rail so that it is not snug on the face of the bottom drywall. Install the bottom drywall but raise it 1/2" off the finished floor level -this will be covered by baseboard.

When demo-ing, don't remove the chair railing, just slip the bottom sheet out from under it.

US 2026 report: "For females, life expectancy increased 0.3 year from 81.1 in 2023 to 81.4 in 2024. For males, life expectancy increased 0.7 year from 75.8 in 2023 to 76.5 in 2024."

I'm 76.3
You don't worry too much about stuff that was bad for you when you were <65. I could start smoking cigars again.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db548.htm#section_2

>80

Money is a adder.

Dylan is 85, but the NYT asked a few celebrities about turning 80

QuoteThe best thing about being 80 is that you outlive the clocks that have been chasing you. It's freedom from that lie that anything was ever under control. You don't chase the parade anymore. You're an old king from some vanished country. You're harder to program. You're not rushing to become anything and you're not haunted by things that you did. You're haunted by how little of it really mattered in the way you thought it would.

The worst thing

The worst thing about being 80 is that you still want to say yes to everything, but the world moves without asking. The old fire in your heart still tells you to do this and that, but your body says we already did it. Also, nothing surprises you. It sounds like a luxury but it's not, and also you've run out of illusions. People treat you like either you've solved something or you've lost something, and you haven't. You see life repeating itself everywhere.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/opinion/trump-turns-80.html