Friday Links - 29 April

The Daley Gator - Now too much food, and too many animals are killing Mother Earth

The cult of global warming may be the first explicitly antihuman ideology ever to take root among a ruling class. In the name of the climate, its adherents want us shivering in the dark — without food:

Moonbattery - Google Docs to Automatically Alert Users to Thoughtcrime

To address this problem, Google will automatically present warnings when people stray from political correctness by using disfavored terms like “policeman” and “landlord”:

Don Surber - Only 3% of its subscribers actually watched CNN+. That's about 4,000 people on the day the end was announced.

Zucker took CNN from third place to third place, while squandering all its credibility on the Russian Collusion hoax which was an effort to cover Obama's ass for spying on Trump while at the same time starting a Fake Investigation by Mueller and his goons.

Again from Moonbattery - Liberal Twitter Meltdown Tells You All You Need to Know

No one seriously expects Musk to transform Twitter from a left-wing to a right-wing platform. The hope on the right and the fear on the left is that he will make good on his promise to make it a neutral platform that honors the fundamental American principle of free speech. That this sets liberals’ hair on fire tells you all you need to know about them.

Ace at Ace of Spades HQ - 10% For "The Big Guy:" Joe Biden Has $5.2 Million in Unexplained Income, Financial Records Reveal: (And Twitter Will Not Be Suppressing This Story, Womp-Womp)

After noting that Pop-Pop is being handled by the Easter Bunny, she notes that the media routinely diagnosed Trump's supposed mental defects -- but now scolds conservatives for noting the obvious galloping dementia Joe Biden is exhibiting.

Whats Up With That - New Study: Wind, Solar Energy Now Killing 48% Of Priority Bird Species With ‘Population-Level Effects’

Of California’s 23 vulnerable bird species studied (barn owls, golden eagles, road runners, yellow-billed cuckoos…), scientists have found 11 are now experiencing at least a 20% decline in their population growth rates because wind turbines and solar panels are killing them and/or destroying their limited-range habitat.

Althouse - "What exactly does [Elon Musk] believe can’t be said on [Twitter] right now?"

"It is easy to assume" a lot of things! It's also easy to splatter opinion columns with the idea that Musk is a racist, sexist pig and that to declare that you've made "a moral and ethical case" for censorship... and — paradoxically — that you're fighting misinformation.

It's interesting how much free speech the opponents of free of speech already have.

Explain America - Actor Rob Reiner Leads Leftist Meltdown Online Following Elon Musk Twitter Purchase

Actor and producer Rob Reiner of “All In The Family” fame led a meltdown of liberal voices online following reports on Monday that billionaire Tesla/SpaceX/Starlink founder and CEO Elon Musk convinced Twitter’s board of directors to accept his buyout offer.

Chicago Boyz - Nuclear Power: Has the Time Finally Come?

New-generation nuclear plants which can be largely built in factories, substantially reducing the on-site construction time and effort required and potentially reducing the capital costs per kilowatt, are being developed. The greater standardization, as compared with one-off construction, will hopefully also reduce licensing problems and delays. Very importantly, most of the reactors are designed to avoid meltdown situations even if left unattended and without backup power.

Chant du Départ - Guest Post - Ukraine: Is Russia Desperate?

Ewok report, part ? I stopped counting ...¹

I'll try to keep it short, but the events seem to be accelerating again... Besides some hard , but inconclusive fighting in the East of Ukraine, and Russia targeting rail infrastructure with barrage of ballistic and cruise missiles ...