Cali native, USC grad living the best life. Blocks willful ignorance, propagandists and spam/newbie accounts. Relaying the view from Boomer Heights.
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BearFlagFan retweeted
Nobody on this board wants a segregated neighbourhood. Each person only asks that at least 3 in 10 of their neighbours look like them. If not, they jump to an empty spot where that is true.
Then the colours pull apart into big blocks, and the average person ends up with about 3 in 4 neighbours like them, far more than anyone asked for.
Thomas Schelling showed this in 1971 with pennies and dimes on graph paper, and he shared the 2005 economics Nobel for work on how individual choices add up to patterns nobody chose. The lesson is that a pattern in the whole does not prove a wish in the parts.
In the second run each person asks for 5 in 10, and the blocks are even sharper.
BearFlagFan retweeted
The “climate crisis” is the biggest scam in scientific history.
Not one doomsday prediction has come true in the last 40 years.
There has been little increase in the vast majority of extreme weather phenomena.
Tropical cyclone frequency and intensity have not increased since 1980 or 1900 globally.
Tornadoes have not increased in the U.S. since 1954. The increase in tornado outbreaks is largely an artifact of better detection from the advent of the WSR-88D radar in the late 1980s / early 1990s. Since 1990, there has been little change in tornado outbreak occurrence.
Despite predictions of larger hailstones, there has been no statistically significant increase in severe or very large hail reports since 2000 in the U.S.
River flooding has not increased globally since at least 1961. There are just regional and local increases and decreases within the bounds of internal variability.
Cold waves have decreased since 1900 virtually everywhere in the Northern Hemisphere, and especially since 1990.
Meteorological droughts have not increased in frequency or intensity since 1950 globally, or in the U.S. and Canada since the late 19th century.
Only heatwaves and heavy rainfall events have increased since 1950, and those increases are largely regional. Heatwaves have not increased since 1900 in either the U.S. or Canada, and there is evidence that heatwaves in Australia were worse than recent years prior to 1910.
Increases in hydrological and agricultural droughts are primarily due to poor water resource management and land use change. Obviously, that can be an issue, but it’s perfectly manageable.
Global wildfire burn area has decreased by over 90% since 1900, mostly due to fire suppression. But even since the early 2000s, it has continued to decrease. Forest fire burn area has not increased since at least 2002. Increases in, say, the western U.S., are primarily because of poor forest management.
Great Barrier Reef coral cover has made a significant recovery in recent years, even being at a record high in 2024.
Arctic sea ice extent / volume have not changed much since 2007, despite predictions that the Arctic Ocean would be “ice-free” by 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 (that was even in a peer-reviewed study), 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020.
Climate models in the CMIP5 and CMIP6 suites have warmed the bulk atmosphere twice as much as real observations from NASA satellite data (from UAH and NOAA STAR) show.
In 1985, the EPA predicted that global mean sea level would rise 26.2–39.3 cm (10.3–15.5”) by 2025. Satellites, however, estimate that sea level only by ~11.8 cm (4.6”) over that time. They were off by more than a factor of two.
In 2006, Al Gore said that there would be no more snowfalls on top of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania by 2016. But as it turns out, it still snows there.
The 2001 IPCC report predicted that we would see a decrease in heavy snowstorms in the mid-latitudes. That did not happen, and some scientists now claim we’ll see more.
And in general, apart from the cumulative inflation crisis, the quality of life on Earth has never been better.
Global average life expectancy has more than doubled on every inhabited continent since 1850.
The number of people living in poverty is at an all-time record low.
The number of people malnourished is at an all-time record low.
Global crop production and yields are at all-time record highs.
Total deaths from extreme weather or weather-related phenomena have decreased by 96.2% since 1920 despite worldwide population increasing by over six billion persons since then.
Our ability to adapt outweighs any kind of adversities Mother Nature may throw at us.
The only person full of it is you. 🫵
A @DanClarkSports worthy post.
2026 Angel Hernandez Award for Excellence in Strike Zone Recognition. 🏆
Winner: Jazz Chisholm (ABS Challenges) 🤣
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BearFlagFan retweeted
Freddie Freeman says his 69 year old dad still throws him batting practice everyday because he believes not everything has to be about getting better, and says the hour they spend together is worth more than any amount of reps with a real pitcher or coach
“When people ask me, ‘What advice do you have for my 10-year-old?’ I say, ‘It’s not for the 10-year-old. It’s for you, the parent.’ My dad loved practicing and throwing batting practice and doing those kinds of things with me every single day. When you have a parent that loves it just as much as I loved it, it’s kind of a match made in heaven.”
“My dad was the one that led me to baseball, and then obviously I just loved it. He was fueling that fire. He still throws me batting practice to this day. In the offseason, I’ll take about two months off baseball activities. Then in January I’ll go to my high school in Orange County, and we’ll spend an hour together. I work out with him and he throws me batting practice.”
“He’s 69 years old and he still throws. The last two years he goes, ‘Freddie, I’m not very good anymore.’ And I said, ‘Dad, that’s not the thing. It’s not about that. It’s about the hour we spend together.’”
“I’ll figure it out in spring training. I hit every day there. I just want to hit with you. This is our thing. He thinks he’s not very good, but I think he’s great.”
NEVER USE STUBHUB FOR SPORTS! @StubHub is an unreliable, horrible vendor for sports. Months ago I paid a tremendous premium for parking in a prime location today at a sold out football game. Stubhub policy is supposed to be “3 hours before opening.” The parking lot opens early in the morning, even though the game doesn’t start until 4:30pm. But they’re saying the parking pass won’t arrive until after 1:30pm, when I was planning to arrive about 12:30pm. This is ridiculous. It’s clueless how sports works. NEVER AGAIN.
cc @exjon
You think you’ve met some tough sailors?
Let me introduce you to one of the most badass sailors ever Commander Bill King, Royal Navy.
This absolute BADASS survived SIX YEARS of submarine warfare during WWII. No significant breaks. As other submarine captains were getting slaughtered by Germans, he kept returning to even the odds.
The he decided the best way to recover from the experience was to sail ALONE around the world in a 42-foot sailboat.
And somehow, that’s not even the craziest part of his story.
King was born in 1910. His father was killed fighting in WWI. At just 12 years old, he entered the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth.
By the outbreak of WWII, he was commanding British submarines.
Think about what that meant.
No nuclear propulsion. No modern sonar. No satellite intelligence. No helicopter rescue waiting overhead.
Just diesel engines, batteries, torpedoes, and a steel pressure hull separating you from a horrible death.
He fought through the Battle of the Atlantic and the Mediterranean campaigns before taking command of HMS Telemachus in the Pacific.
In July 1944, King hunted down and sank the Japanese submarine I-166 in the Strait of Malacca.
He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order TWICE, along with the Distinguished Service Cross.
He was reportedly the ONLY British submarine commander to remain in submarine command from the beginning of WWII to its end.
SIX YEARS.
Imagine the accumulated stress of six years hunting enemy warships while knowing that one depth charge could send you and your entire crew to the bottom.
The war ended, but it never really left him.
King later admitted that the experience had reduced him to a nervous wreck.
So what did he do?
He bought a ruined castle in Ireland, took up farming, and eventually decided he needed to get away from EVERYTHING.
In 1968, at the age of 58, he entered the inaugural Sunday Times Golden Globe Race.
The mission?
Race 9 other competitors to be the first to sail alone, nonstop, around the entire planet.
He built the 42-foot junk-rigged schooner named Galway Blazer II.
No GPS. No Starlink. No weather routing. No EPIRB.
Just celestial navigation, seamanship, and a lifetime of experience surviving in places where mistakes get people killed.
He sailed south into the Atlantic.
Then the Southern Ocean came looking for him.
A monstrous storm capsized his boat, destroying his masts.
King survived, rigged emergency sails, and eventually made it to South Africa.
Race over.
Worse? He lost the race to a young Merchant Navy officer.
You laugh but the other Royal Navy commander whose boat sunk in that race, was so embarrassed by being shamed by other naval officers that he hung himself.
Most men would have called it quits.
Not Bill King.
He tried again.
And again.
On a subsequent attempt, something enormous, possibly a shark or whale, slammed into his boat off Australia, punching a hole in the hull.
He spent DAYS making emergency repairs at sea.
Again, he survived.
Finally, in 1973, at the age of 62, SIXTY TWO, he completed his solo circumnavigation.
He had survived two world wars’ worth of family tragedy, six years of submarine combat, a dismasting, a capsizing, and a terrifying collision at sea.
And he was STILL sailing.
In 1975, the Cruising Club of America awarded him its prestigious Blue Water Medal.
But there’s one more part of his story I find extraordinary.
Decades after King sank the Japanese submarine I-166, the son of one of the Japanese sailors killed aboard that submarine visited him in Ireland.
Instead of hatred, the two families developed a friendship.
They planted trees together as symbols of peace.
Think about that.
A submarine commander who had spent years trying to kill the enemy ultimately found friendship with the family of a man he’d killed in battle.
Bill King lived to be 102 YEARS OLD. He simply refused to die.
Fair winds Commander 🫡
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BearFlagFan retweeted
For ten years, Ilhan 'Omar' and her allies have called those who questioned her marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi racists and bigots. Does that include the NYT? The Obama admin?
Oh, Brother: NYT Drops Bombshell on Ilhan Omar-ish Marriage and Obama Admin hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026…
BearFlagFan retweeted
Obligatory rolling out of the barrel.
A reminder: This is a *watch party*.
@620wtmj
Tell me you’re clueless about the law without saying you’re clueless about the law.
Public access and targeting someone for persecution (not to mention excessive use of force), is entirely different from forcing a business to create an original custom product.
Careful with this. Flip side of the “bake my cake” scenario. The stadium is private property, not public.
I thought our goal was to enable businesses to do as they please and let the free market sort it out.
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This is all wrong. I’ve known several gay couples with kids. Here’s what they got wrong:
- Gay men don’t use strollers. They carry their kids in slings, front baby packs or kid backpacks. They may be gay but they’re still guys.
- Gay couples hire nannies during the day. Nannies use strollers.
- Babies are an equipment sport. Where’s the bag with diapers, wipes, toys, bottle, applesauce squeeze bag, water, hand sanitizer, disinfectant wipes, trash bags, all stuffed below the stroller?
- Urban gay men dress far more stylishly than this couple, especially if they’re pushing this $1,200 stroller.
C’mon Toronto, if you’re going with the bit, fully engage. Do some research!
New 30 km/h area speed limit signs will be posted at neighbourhood entry and exit points. Once you enter a signed area, the 30 km/h speed limit applies throughout the local road network until you leave that area.
Slower speeds help reduce the risk of serious collisions and make neighbourhood streets safer.
Learn more about the change: toronto.ca/LocalSpeed
ALT Two men walking and chatting on a sidewalk, one pushing a baby stroller near a white picket fence and brick house.
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Is this real?
Rotisserie chickens, free samples and everything sold in bulk are the focus of a new club on campus.
The UCLA Costco Club allows students to bond over their shared love for the store and aims to help them buy ingredients in bulk.
dailybruin.com/2026/10/18/uc…
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BearFlagFan retweeted
This guy might be the biggest hypocrite in the sport outside of Saban being the mouthpiece on NIL and how it’s ruined the sport. You gave us an entire think piece on one of USC’s players and Lincoln Riley’s program after a win, and then immediately turned a blind eye to your own against UCLA in a home loss, and now this … Boy that Dan Lanning Oregon culture is something else I tell ya !
BearFlagFan retweeted
I was mid-hip thrust when I found out @Shanemgillis had called me a whore. Technically I found out four hours later, when I reviewed the footage of Saturday Night Live. My tripod was on the bench, my ring light was clamped to the squat rack and my boyfriend Tanner was holding the back-up phone for the side angle. Tanner films all my content. He is not allowed to look at me.
The “joke” was about how women dress at the gym. I know it was about me, because everything is. So I did what any survivor would do. I went to my car and filmed myself crying. It took 11 takes, because the lighting in a Range Rover is unforgiving, and grief is no excuse for a bad shot. In the final cut, you can see a single tear land on my sports bra right over the logo, which clicks through to an affiliate link. My caption: “I’m literally shaking.”
Then I put on the shortest shorts I own, went back inside, and filmed my ass from three angles with the caption, “Does this outfit work for you, Shane Gillis?” I wanted to send him a message that my body is not for men. To make sure Shane got the message, I tagged him. Then I tagged every man I follow. Some people say my response proved his point. These people are rapists.
✍️ @BridgetPhetasy
Article: spectator.com/article/shane-…
Hey Dave @iowahawkblog ! Here’s an old photo from Thomas Hawk (ironic, no?) in San Francisco which based on the 21 cars looks to be from the mid-1970s. Here’s the #davescaridservice mystery: There are 19 American cars, nearly all 1970 or newer, an early 1970s Saab 96 and the top half of this mystery car (circled) which looks kinda like a Jensen Interceptor or AMC Matador but isn’t either of them. But I swear I’ve seen it before.
Any idea what it is?
Found undated photo. San Francisco, looking out from Pioneer Park below Coit Tower.
The cars are the good part. A yellow Mustang, a blue something, a white convertible, all of them still colorful and still parked where you could actually drive up and look at the bay. This was before the city decided the view needed a permit and a fee.
Look at those station wagons!
Columbus is still standing on the right. The bronze one. Count Vittorio di Colbertaldo of Verona sculpted it. The Italian-American community paid for it, with help from the Italian government and the city of Genoa. They installed it in 1957. It stood there facing the Golden Gate for sixty-three years.
They took it down on June 18, 2020. City crews, early in the morning. It is in storage now. Undisclosed location. Secure facility. Same place they put the other statues the woke art police decided no longer matched the values of San Francisco.
It should go back. Put it back on the pedestal and let people argue about it in the open instead of pretending the empty base is an improvement.
At least they didn't change the name of Columbus Avenue to something stupid like Cesar Chavez Street.
Happy Columbus Day to all my great Italian-American friends and to all who celebrate.
BearFlagFan retweeted
Notably, there was no call for sacking figures like Storm co-owner Celeste Keaton, who reportedly yelled profanities at girls who were simply supporting women in sports. There was also nothing “too combustible” for the Times in Minnesota Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeve wearing a T-shirt supporting trans players in a game against the Indiana Fever and Cunningham. jonathanturley.org/2026/10/1…
BearFlagFan retweeted
T-Mobile spent five years trying to get rid of the exact spectrum Elon just called "the last critical piece" of complete phone coverage in America.
This 800 MHz block is Sprint's old Nextel spectrum, the stuff that powered push-to-talk walkie-talkie phones in 2004. The DOJ forced T-Mobile to divest it as a condition of the $26 billion Sprint merger. Dish had first rights at $3.59 billion and walked away because it couldn't raise the money. T-Mobile finally offloaded it to an investment firm called Grain Management last year for $2.9 billion plus a spectrum swap.
Grain's original plan was selling it to utilities for private networks.
Fourteen months later, SpaceX buys the whole portfolio, and shares of the carriers who passed on it fall as much as 8% in a single afternoon.
Here's why it matters so much. Starlink's satellite signal at 2 GHz can reach your phone outdoors, but it dies at the first wall. 800 MHz penetrates buildings. Most phones already have the band built in. So satellites handle the open sky, this low-band layer handles indoors, and suddenly Starlink Mobile covers everywhere a normal carrier does without the tower network.
Stack the moves. $17 billion for EchoStar's 50 MHz of 2 GHz spectrum. FCC approval for 15,000 Gen2 satellites this week. Now the low-band coverage layer.
Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile paid $81 billion in a single auction for C-band spectrum in 2021, then spent years and tens of billions more deploying it on towers. SpaceX assembled a nationwide carrier out of a distressed-asset sale, a forced divestiture castoff, and rockets it already owns.
The walkie-talkie spectrum from 2004 ended up being the piece that lets satellites replace cell towers. Nobody who touched it for twenty years saw that coming.
We announced an agreement to acquire a nationwide low-band spectrum license portfolio that will pave the way for @Starlink to become a major mobile carrier in the US.
With this new spectrum and our Gen2 constellation, Starlink Mobile can ensure Americans have access to high-speed mobile broadband no matter where they are → spacex.com/updates#starlink-…
