25 November 2025

Tuesday Links - 25 November

William Teach at Pirate's Cove starts things rolling with Coast Guard: Washington Post Ran Fake News With Their Hate Symbol Story

The symbols are still banned. Will be banned. Will get Coast Guard members in trouble just like always. Nothing will change, just terminology.

Professor Yamane at Light Over Heat - What Academia Gets Wrong About Guns (Spicier Take): Part 3 of 3 of series on "What Academia Gets Right and Wrong about Guns". See all 3 parts.

This dominant scholarly approach to studying guns, gun owners, and gun culture – and here I would include both the public health paradigm and the gun studies paradigm – reminds me of the parable of the blind men and the elephant.

Ed Driscoll at Instapundit - GREAT MOMENTS IN CLIMATE CHANGE:

Not surprisingly, California refuses to release the climate change from custody: Man accused of sparking Palisades Fire will not be released from custody.

Here’s the climate change’s booking photo from last month:

Wombat-socho - FMJRA 2.0: Curse of the Gopherball

Another miserable week of Senators baseball…

Meep at STUMP - The Week in Meep: MST3Kgiving!, Movember, Chester A. Arthur, and SUMO!

Anyway, here is the Turkey Day 2025 schedule, where they have a theme, and they double up an old series and a new series episode for each theme:

The Bugscuffle Gazette - Nothing from government is free: That goes double if government tells you it's free

There’s been a lot of grumbling here recently about how bad the kids have it, financially. Lot of breathless examples of what the latest generation would have to make to equal what [Insert Random Generation Here] made1.

This grumbling is being used to justify a head-long dive into the khazi that is communism socialism Democratic Socialism.

Doug Ross - Top 20 Outrages of the EU's Censorship Regime

John Stuart Mill said the peculiar evil of silencing expression is that it robs the human race. The EU’s decided that’s not a bug—it’s a feature. They’ve taken the marketplace of ideas and turned it into a monopoly where the only supplier is… the EU.

Greg Collard at Racket News - The Censorship Industrial Complex's Power Grip in Germany

If you look to Germany, the strongest economic power in the European Union, it’s easy to see where America was going. It has about 330 organizations working with federal and state levels of government to suppress speech and about 425 grants — mostly from the government — that fund this work

Wombat Rampant - "Well, I swore I was never coming back again..."

I suppose there’s a lot to be said for economies of scale when it comes to gas & convenience store chains, but as the several energy companies slowly consolidate into a 21st century version of the Standard Oil trust*, and regional restaurant chains dwindle and die, it occurs to me that we ought to rein in the MBAs and keep some of the local flavor around so we don’t wind up living in a land of mediocre grey brutalist boxes that all serve the same reheated Sysco slop.

Miguel Gonzalez - The temptation was too great: And I was holding a full tank of mockery.

If you are not insulted yet, please be patient. Your turn will come in time

Again from Wombat-socho - Rule 5 Sunday: Roll Tide

In the objectively superior Marble Rankings, the Tide is rated #12.

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 22 November 2025: None Dare Call It A Bubble Edition

In our Daily Dose of Tech Executives are Idiots Google tells employees it must double capacity every six months to meet AI demand. (Ars Technica)

It's not just college students who can't do math. [SNIP]

That would put Google Cloud Services at around $60 trillion in revenue per year, more than double the entire US GDP.

Where do you expect the money to come from to fund this insanity?

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