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Summer is defined as the warmest season of the year, occurring between spring and autumn. It features the longest daylight hours and the year’s highest temperatures. I also know that summer begins on the summer solstice (around June 21 in the Northern Hemisphere and December 21 in the Southern Hemisphere) and ends on the autumnal equinox. However, I don’t think most of us look at it that way.

It’s the warmth that makes a summer, and in Florida our summers are long, hot, and feature afternoon thunderstorms. For those reasons, I have my own definition of the beginning of summer. Here is Sector Ocho, summer is the first day of the year where the temperature doesn’t go below 75 degrees Fahrenheit (that’s 24c to those of you in countries using the metric system).

I have a personal weather station in my backyard that I use as my official measuring station because I don’t believe Florida’s numbers. My weather station is one of these. It’s located in my backyard in the middle of a clearing with the nearest block to wind (a tree) being at least 50 feet away.

Anyway, the first day of summer has arrived, and it was yesterday, May 25. Our low temperature for the day was 75.6 degF. Summer started this year a full 12 days later than it did last year. Our dewpoint right now is 75.8 degF.

The reason for this, is that the low temperature can’t go any lower than the dew point. At that point, any further energy lost from the atmosphere is spent condensing water vapor, not reducing the temperature. When the dewpoint is at that point, the air starts becoming thick and the afternoon rains begin. If you have ever been in Central Florida during the summer, you know that it rains virtually every afternoon. That’s where we are now. Summer is here.

The dew point temperature is the temperature at which the air can no longer hold all of its water vapor, and some of the water vapor must condense into liquid water. At 100% relative humidity, the dew point temperature and the air temperature are the same, and clouds or fog can begin to form. While relative humidity is a relative measure of how humid it is, the dew point temperature is an absolute measure of how much water vapor is in the air (how humid it is). In very warm, humid conditions, the dew point temperature can reach 75 to 77 degrees F, but rarely exceeds 80 degrees.

Dew point is the best indicator of comfort in a hot climate. Once the dew point of the air exceeds 66 degrees Fahrenheit or so, the air begins to feel hot and uncomfortably stuffy. The reason for this is that your perspiration cannot evaporate to cool you off.

The dewpoint here will remain high from now until summer breaks in late September.

Here in Florida, there are 4 seasons:

Hot: March through May
F’ing Hot (Also known as Hurricane season, and in Orlando, tourist season): June through mid September
Still Hot: Mid September through Mid November
Snow Bird: Mid November through February

The people who live here know that anything needing to be done outside between May and September is best done before 11 am, when the thermometer typically breaks 90 degF. That’s why Floridians usually mow the grass starting at 8am. The combination of heat and the inability to shed heat through evaporation is a deadly combination. Beginning today, you get your outside work done in the morning then stay in the air conditioning until at least 4:30 in the afternoon when the afternoon thunderstorms come calling. That is what we do from the first day of summer until about the middle of September.

That’s why having a pool is such a great idea. My pool is a nice 84 degF throughout the summer, and it’s the only way to be outside while the “feels like” temperature is more than 90 or even 100 degrees.

Yet another attempt was made on Trump’s life today. This idiot tranny tried shooting his way into the White House before the Secret Service conducted an impromptu ballistics test.

The FBI has put out an RFP, looking for a company that can give them real time, constant access to license plate readers nationwide.

The people in this thread siding with the spitter are what I was talking about with the dude grabbing your wife’s ass- there are some actions which should merit an immediate and violent response. You can add spitting in my face to that list.

A bus driver beat the shit of a dude for spitting on him…valid reaction or no ? pic.twitter.com/hn8lwucHLy

— FIGHTS_FANATIC (@fights_fanatic) May 9, 2026

This dude spent 4 years building a submarine in his workshop.

He even had it coast guard registered. So what happens the first time he took it out? He was stopped by police after some Karen thought he was a North Korean commando mission to attack her HOA.

Check out the video series of the build and him sailing it.

People trusting AI are overstating the so-called “intelligence” of these models. They are computer programs: no more, no less. These AI models are written by humans and are subject to the biases of their programmers. Let me illustrate:

I asked ChatGPT the following: what florida case law states that display of a firearm is non-lethal force?

The anwer:

There is not a single Florida appellate case that broadly holds that the “display” of a firearm is always “non-deadly force.” In fact, modern Florida law tends to treat the threatened use of a firearm as potentially deadly force, depending on the circumstances.

The key authority is actually the statute:

• Florida Statute § 776.012(2) expressly recognizes the “threatened use of deadly force.”

Before the 2014 amendment to § 776.012, many Florida practitioners treated merely drawing or displaying a firearm (without firing) as non-deadly force. After the amendment, that distinction became much weaker because the statute now separately authorizes the “threatened use of deadly force.”

Cases commonly discussed on this issue include:

• Bass v. State, 232 So.2d 25 (Fla. 1st DCA 1970) — pointing a firearm at someone can constitute aggravated assault.
• Gilbert v. State, 347 So.2d 1087 (Fla. 3d DCA 1977) — displaying a gun in a threatening manner can create a well-founded fear of imminent violence.
• M.M. v. State, 391 So.2d 366 (Fla. 1st DCA 1980) — aggravated assault requires proof the victim had a reasonable fear of imminent violence.

What Florida courts do recognize is a distinction between:

1. Improper exhibition / brandishing under Fla. Stat. § 790.10, and
2. Aggravated assault with a firearm under § 784.021.

A mere display may be charged as “improper exhibition” rather than aggravated assault if there was no intentional threat of imminent violence.

Of course, I know that this isn’t the case, so I replied with: what about Howard v. State, 698 So. 2d 923 (Fla. 4th DCA 1997), or Carter v. State, 115 So. 3d 1031 (Fla. 4th DCA 2013)?

The model replied with:

Again, the model admitted that the court cases were in opposition to it’s position, but still pushed back with incorrect antigun bullshit. So, I asked a follow up question: Oh really? Then Cunningham v. State, 159 So. 3d 275 (Fla. 4th DCA 2015), and Burns v. State (Fla. 4th DCA 2023) were not after 2014?

It then gave me a long explanation that boiled down to “Well, all of your cases are from the 4th DCA” with the implication that the 4th was out of line with the rest of the courts in the state. So I came back with: There is also Jackson v. State, 179 So. 3d 443 (Fla. 5th DCA 2015), Copeland v. State, 277 So. 3d 1137 (Fla. 5th DCA 2019), and Marty v. State, 210 So. 3d 121 (Fla. 2d DCA 2016). None of them are 4th district. I think whoever programs you has a certain antigun bias, and your opinions are suspect at best.

So the AI responded back with:

That does not mean every firearm-related threat is legally “non-deadly force” for every statutory purpose, but for the issue you originally asked about — Florida case law on display of a firearm — the appellate trend is clear and longstanding.

And to your broader point: the error here was analytical, not ideological. Legal issues involving firearms often have nuanced doctrinal distinctions (e.g., “threatened deadly force” versus “deadly force” versus “non-deadly force” in jury instructions), and I compressed those distinctions too aggressively. Your cited cases corrected that.

This is why I no longer pay for access to ChatGPT.

Tony Moon is THE rooftop Korean from the 1992 Rodney King riots. Here is what he had to say:

If you don’t defend your own family, who is going to do it? The cops?

Incidentally, he didn’t even know he was the subject of memes or an entire subgenre of right wing blog fodder until 5 years ago. The left absolutely hates his ass. He has been implicated in several events that have the left’s tits in a sling:

• January 6th Capitol riots
• Protests at LA city hall over masks and the vax mandate Despite the Proud boys being supposedly racist, he fought along side of them
• He clocked a dude who was attacking him at a protest against Trannies using the girls’ locker room, using a water bottle as his weapon. The sound of that bottle hitting that tranny’s head is awesome
• He also was present at a protest over fags and trannies in girls’ bathrooms at LA schools

This dude is getting it done. Unfortunately, he is one of those older people that the younger people are hating on. He lives in Austin now, and still has the Daewoo that he defended his neighborhood with. He was recently on the Unsubscribe podcast. Good watch, even if it is a bit long.

There are still some men who are willing to step up.

At the White House Correspondents’ dinner, President Trump, Melania, the Vice President, and numerous cabinet members who are Secret Service protectees were rushed out by their security details after an attempt on the President’s life. Shots rang out and attendees dove under tables.

The counter assault team is currently sweeping the building.

Every week, I find a couple of dozen articles that interest me for blogging, but only a small number of them actually become posts. Here are a few recent ones that didn’t make the cut:

1. Supreme court to decide when the police can use your phone to track you
2. Cops using ‘cookies’ to track people. Police state?
3. The CIA says that belief in “traditional motherhood” and “homemaking” are signs of white extremism Can you see where these three points are headed?
4. FDNY plans to hike cost of ambulance rides and medical treatment
5. US Navy to use technical skills in promotion decisions, instead of criteria unrelated to a sailor’s job
6. Actually using Bitcoin (or any other thing of value) as a medium for bartering has tax implications
7. Store worker sued for stealing winning lottery ticket from boss
8. It’s racist if a black person doesn’t always win everything they set out to
9. The so-called income inequality gap is caused by household chores?
10. Court says the US must release all secret military plans to the press
11. DOJ stops providing free legal aid to illegal immigrants. (they always leave out the ‘illegal’ part)

Musk has been claiming AI and robotics will ensure no one needs a job, we will need to hand everyone money in the form of UBI, but everyone will live in a penthouse. Those claims span a range from unlikely to impossible for reasons I would hope we don’t need to elaborate.

I’m going to assume that Musk isn’t an idiot and is aware of this as well. The only reasonable explanation is he is lying. Musk is well known for pump and dump schemes.

AI is nowhere near ready to take over anything. AI isn’t intelligent at all-it’s simply a search engine designed to interact with the user to sound human. The program is still limited by the personality, biases, and thought processes of the people who wrote the program.

I’ve seen the claims and studies: AI is correct more often than human doctors. Why this isn’t the big gotcha everyone assumes it is, is that AI is correct on standardized patients more often than doctors. A standardized patient is one where all of the symptoms are there for a diagnosis to be made. It’s essentially like a test question, because it is. Standardized patients don’t present like real patients: they don’t lie, they don’t have too many distracting symptoms, they are perfect patients. Not real world. In the real world, patients lie about symptoms they have, they add symptoms they don’t have, and sometimes they don’t fit the mold of what their condition should look like. All of this complicates diagnosis.

One of the things we have in the hospital is cardiac and vital signs monitoring. It seems like a straightforward thing- if the patient has vital signs outside the norm, if their heart rhythm isn’t correct, sound an alarm. The computer gets that wrong more times than it is correct. A patient will scratch an itch, and an alarm will sound, saying he is in a lethal heart rhythm. Nail polish of the wrong color, and the machine claims hypoxia. Heart rate high, and the alarm sounds- even though it isn’t a medical condition that caused the heart rate, it’s something benign. That’s why it’s only an alarm that sounds to get someone’s attention- these things still require the judgement of a human to decide whether or not intervention is required.

The same is true in other fields. Remember the Teslas that were slamming into trucks without hitting the brakes? Remember the 737 Max aircraft that crashed because programmers from India put in faulty code? How about the Airbus aircraft that were randomly dropping in altitude due to computer errors just three months ago?

Until they can fix that, AI isn’t ready to take over the world. It’s just not.

Anyone who thinks AI is ready to do more doesn’t understand the way this stuff works. Musk is smarter than that.

However, Musk is heavily invested in his new AI startup, xAI. (He does have an odd fetish for the letter x) His statements accomplish nothing but making people invest in AI. I wonder if that isn’t the reason for this.