04 April 2025

Friday Links - 4 April

Meep at STUMP starts things off with Public Pension Classic: 80 Percent Funding Hall of AWESOME!

Replaying that decago-ago favorite tune ... Experts say: 80% fundedness is AWESOME!

Joel at The Ultimate Answer to Kings - …and so that’s why nobody hires me to build bridges.

I’ll start procrastinating again tomorrow.

The Silicon Graybeard - How Bad Was Starliner's Flight? I Had No Idea

The story starts after launch and their first night in orbit in an unexpectedly cold Starliner capsule. As they're approaching the Space Station, you'll probably recall they lost some thrusters and the ability to control Starliner. They knew they should dock with the ISS and felt that they'd be safer there, but they didn't know that their Starliner would hold together or if more failures would come. As Starliner's thrusters failed, Wilmore lost the ability to move the spacecraft in the direction he wanted to go.

Impro Guns - The Toys From Brazil

A sawed-off under-lever air rifle and .22lr pistol made from a stapler. Seized in the Brazilian state of Rodonia in March.

The Other McCain - UPDATE: Liberal Wins in Wisconsin After GOP Wins Two Florida Special Elections

So basically we burned tens of millions of dollars for nothing.

Tim Young at The Daily Signal - Entertainment Industry Didn’t Get November’s Memo: Americans Are Tired of Your Political Rants

We get it. You don’t like Trump—basically no one in Hollywood does. I, like more than half of this country, would just like to be entertained without a political lecture for once.

Again from The Other McCain - ‘A Dumpster Fire of Lies’: Netflix Series Race-Swaps British Crime Trend, Journalists Treat It Like a Documentary

What I did know about Adolescence was that it is set in England, and that the screenwriters had essentially reversed the races of contemporary crime trends in the United Kingdom, by making a white boy the knife-wielding killer. Despite the news media’s reluctance to deal with this honestly, anyone who pays attention to crime news out of Britain knows who is implicated in the surge of stabbing sprees there. It’s not a secret.

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