30 June 2023

Friday Links - 30 June

Ace at Ace of Spades HQ gets the first spot with Wall Street Analyst: Bud Light's Loss of 15-20% of Its Sales is Permanent

The forecasts call for the current losses to be permanent. And not only have they lost 15-20% of their sales volume permanently, but they'll go back to losing market share bit-by-bit before they came up with the brilliant idea of bringing in Dylan Mulvaney as a transfluencer.

The Other McCain - The Moose Is Loose

“There’s one!” Bob said, as we drove through the base on our way from the airport. I squinted, but didn’t see the moose until we were within about 30 yards. It was a young cow, not even full-grown yet, but certainly it stood more than six feet tall.

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 27 June 2023: Daniel's Disappointing Donuts Edition

Google's Pixel Fold is a great $500 device with the slight drawback that it actually costs $1800
And the secondary drawback that if you get a tiny bit of grit on the screen and then fold it closed it could die after just four days. (Ars Technica)

Don Surber - Just end the war

And no one in Washington or Kyiv wants to end this war. They party all night while soldiers and civilians die far, far away. Forever wars are profitable for the generals and other politicians. It’s pretty bad when a song sung by Ozzy Osbourne 50 years ["War Pigs" by Black Sabbath] ago makes more sense than most of the commentary I read today.

Gun Free Zone - One punch kill that took two weeks to be fatal

There are few critical lessons here.

Just because someone is unarmed, doesn’t mean they are not dangerous or their attack isn’t potentially fatal.

Distance is your friend, especially with an unarmed aggressor. Keeping out of sucker punch reach during an argument is a good idea.

Power Line - “Everything about this case is wrong”

The story of the Biden family business continues to be the lead story in American politics. Let us strive to keep our eye on it one way or another.

EBL - Blade Runner 1929

Ok, was a fan of the original Blade Runner (a movie far better than its source material). Did not care for the sequel as much. This ginned up trailer is intriguing. A mash up of Blade Runner and Metropolis would be interesting.

Hot Air - More censorship of RFK Jr.

No matter when it started, the censorship regime is in full swing, justified by the reinvention of the term “misinformation” as “Any speech that is inconvenient to the Elite.”

The censorship regime is neither government nor private sector; it is rather driven by an unholy alliance of government, government- and privately-funded non-profits, government-funded universities, and government-aligned tech and media companies who conspire to shut down the speech of anyone they decide is saying inconvenient things.

Again from The Other McCain - Ironic Journalism

It is strangely amusing (but not really surprising) to learn that Barack Obama is descended from slave owners, as is Joe Biden, and while my own genealogical research has not revealed whether my distant ancestors owned slaves, it’s quite likely at least some of them did, and so what? I did not inherit a Greek revival mansion surrounded by live oaks draped in Spanish moss. My grandparents were born on small farms in the red clay hills of Randolph County, Alabama. When discussing what life was like growing up in rural Alabama in the 1930s, my aunt said, “We didn’t even know we were poor — everybody was poor.”

1 comment:

  1. Don't care if rfk is censored. Let the leftist filth eat their own. He's already stated he would sign an "assault weapons" ban. That's a dealbreaker for free men. You don't get to swear an oath to uphold and defend our Constitution while simultaneously promising to attack the very rights it enumerates. My rights aren't his, nor any mans, nor womans to bestow, deny nor dictate conditions upon. Period. I'm keeping them, ALL of them, aswill my children and their children. Period.

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