17 December 2024

Tuesday Links - 17 December

Tam at View From The Porch is first with more on the CEO shooting. Brace for the Arglebargle...

At the time, I remember hoping that it was at least a factory clone and not an 80% kit build or a 3D-printed frame because that would unleash a tidal wave of stupid from the sort of people who not only know nothing about guns or gun laws, but also don't like them very much.

And here we are...

Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog - How Do You Miss Six Shots From Five Feet Away?

The Secret Service agent that engaged the would-be Trump golf course assassin missed six shots despite being five feet away.

How does that even happen? How can even you even miss from that close?

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 13 December 2024: Forgotten Edition

Microsoft's Recall is back, and yes, it still takes screenshots of your sensitive information. (Tom's Hardware)

You can tell it not to. It does it anyway.

The Other McCain - The Heroism of Amy Wax

See, that’s the way it is in 21st-century academia — you can tell any lie, as long as it’s a politically correct lie, but there are some truths that no one is permitted to mention, and that’s why Professor Wax got punished. She has refused to budge an inch and now, thanks to Penn’s tolerance for Jew-hating pro-Hamas protesters, she’s got a solid legal case against the administration.

Moonbattery - Moonbattery Closes San Francisco Safeway

Shoplifting is effectively legal and even encouraged in California. Liberal mecca San Francisco is ground zero for the deliberately engineered shoplifting epidemic.

Guess whose fault it is when there are no more Safeways in “diverse” neighborhoods? That’s right: Safeway’s, for being racist.

Wombat-socho - FMJRA 2.0: The Draft Plays On

Top linkers for the week ending December 13:

  1.  EBL (11)
  2.  357 Magnum (10)
  3.  A View From The Beach (7)

Again from Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 14 December 2024: Lying Suits Edition

A Waymo robotaxi got stuck in a roundabout. (Tech Crunch)
Yes, it was doing exactly what you think it was doing.

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