Tuesday Links - New Year's Eve Edition

Steve MacDonald at Granite Grok if first with a story about the toxic fallout from Wind Turbines: Another Problem for Dems, Enviros, and Big Wind

The mad rush to expand these energy platforms is an environmental and human hazard, as is their operation, use, and disposal. And now we’ve got a so-called green industry balking at having to address concerns [of] toxic shedding, which it claims is prevented by coating them with PFAS compounds.

Meep at STUMP - Updated Public Pension Projection Tool -- Includes Fiscal Year 2023 Data

I looked, and it seems that, with all the [waves arms] this year, I didn’t get around to officially releasing a Public Pension Projection Tool update for FY2023.

American Free News Network - Oregon Robs Kids Of Their Futures

In early October, the Portland Tribune reported that Oregon elementary students’ academic proficiency remains “significantly lower than pre-pandemic levels, with only 31% of all Oregon students testing at proficiency in math, 43% in English and 29% in science.”

Wombat-socho at Dreamwidth - That was the Christmas that was

Doug surprised me with a small wooden box marked "Made In Russia/Recycled In Ukraine", which proved to contain a ingot from a T-72 destroyed in the Battle for Kiev.

Aaron Brown at Reason - No, California's $20 Minimum Wage for Fast-Food Workers Did Not Create Jobs

If you actually read it, you'll find that the results celebrated in the press release and echoed by the media aren't in the paper. In fact, it barely addresses the effect of the minimum wage increase on fast-food employment in California. It offers no numbers and no models. There's no evidence that fast-food jobs increased after the law was implemented.

Wombat-socho at The Other McCain - FMJRA 2.0: An Unpromising Start In Kansas City

Top linkers for the week ending December 27:

1. (tied) A View From The beach and EBL (9)
2.  357 Magnum (8)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 29 December 2024: COBOLated Soda Edition

VW leaked data for 800,000 of its cars. (Car Scoops)

This doesn't include your payment information. Just where you live, where you work, where you go shopping, where your kids go to school, and indeed the GPS coordinates of everywhere your car ever went, because of course VW was recording that and storing it on an unsecured cloud server.

Rick Moran at PJ Media - Are You an Illegal Alien About to be Arrested by ICE and Deported? There's an App For That

Mexico is currently testing a cell phone app that will allow illegal aliens to warn relatives and a local Mexican consulate that they are about to be detained.

Again from Wombat-socho at The Other McCain - Rule 5 Sunday: At The Pump & Munch

Amazing how many gas station chains have double entendre names.
The lads at Flappr have some bad news, but I’ll let them tell you about it. Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

The Other McCain is still obsessing about Sports Ball. America Loves an Underdog

Four months ago, nobody expected that Sam Darnold would be hoisted upon his teammates’ shoulders as the Minnesota Vikings celebrated their 14th victory of the season, making them the winningest team in the NFC, with one week remaining in the NFL schedule.