How To Help Someone Select a Firearm

When I was an NRA safety instructor there were 2 things that drove me crazy. One was husbands/fathers/boyfriends who bought the gun they used for the women in their life. ("It's the best; that's why I use it!") The other was men who bought .22 LR pistols.

In the real world, a gun needs to fit your hand, the way a shoe fits your foot. What works for you, might not work for someone else.

This article avoids those issues, and concentrates on helping someone find what works for them. Refreshing to say the least. Arming My Daughter Part II: Sampling Mid-Size Nines | An Official Journal Of The NRA

Last year, as my daughter Laney prepared to move out of state and enter the job market, she asked for some range sessions oriented toward home defense. I wrote about the experience in the September 2023 American Rifleman magazine issue and shared some of the range results. I had suspected that my daughter’s results as a petite young woman would be interesting to readers who also might know a first-time gun owner working through similar choices, as well as shooters who find that they have less grip strength than they once had.

As I went through all of the data for the article and saw how she struggled with the micro-sized 9 mm Luger, a natural question jumped out: How would she do with a larger 9 mm handgun? A few months later, she came out to the range with me to find out.

Click thru for the details.

Saturday Roundup of Link Roundups - 24 February

Wombat-socho is first with a link I should have had on Wednesday. In The Mailbox: 02.20.24 (Evening Edition)

CDR Salamander: Sealift – A Tragedy Of Numbers
Chicago Boyz: Too Many, Not Enough, also, Koestler on Closed Systems

The Right Way - Top of the News

Ex-Obama CIA Chief Donates to Nikki Haley - Bongino Report
“Scientist” Was Paralyzed By Climate Doom Or Something - The Pirates Cove

Animal Magnetism - Animal’s Hump Day News

Bari Weiss is always worth reading: Alexei Navalny Lived and Died in Truth
The Tragedy of Veteran Suicide

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 21 February 2024: Pyrrhic Moral Victory Edition

The US House of Representatives has announced a Task Force on AI that blah blah blah zzzzzz. (Tech Crunch)
Sorry, my brain crawled out of my head to escape that nonsense.

Tam at View from the Porch - A Jog Around the Blogs

Bobbi goes on a Prohibition-era wikiwander...
"No longer a skull full of mush."
Dodging the cynicism bullet, so far.

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 02.22.24 (Afternoon Edition)

Power Line: The Daily Chart: Meat-Eaters
Shark Tank: Alabama’s IVF Restrictions Strike Fear Into Florida Democrats

EBL - Thomas Sowell and Black History Month: White Lefties and Black Mascots

Thomas Sowell on Slavery and Reparations
AoSHQ: Morning Report 02.21.24

Flopping Aces - The Week in Radical Leftism, 02/23/2024

2/19 – More Winning in the Culture Wars at the State & Local Level
2/20 – OLIVER GHORBANIFAR: When will America liberate Canada from the evil reign of Justin Trudeau?

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Engoron Denies Trump Stay

Atlanta News First reports No closing statements this week in DA Fani Willis disqualification case. "Fulton Judge Scott McAfee deciding if Willis, special prosecutor should be disqualified from historic Donald Trump indictment." I'm sure he's hoping it will just go away on it's own.

Vlad Tepes - Massive cell phone downage in US, Conservative Party calls for more ammo for Ukraine, Houthis attacking shipping and more: Links 1 for February 22, 2024

2. Conservatives Call For Increased Artillery Shell Production & For Canada To Deliver More Military Aid To Ukraine
(It’s like an advert for Maxime Bernier)

Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 02.23.24

Dana Loesch: “Student Loan Forgiveness” Is Vote-Buying Welfare
Don Surber: Disposable Democrats, also, End the War in Ukraine
First Street Journal: World War III watch – Warmongers gotta warmonger

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 2/22/2024

Widespread Cyberattack Takes Down Pharmacies Across America
Pharmacies across America are suffering widespread outages after being hit with a major cyberattack, according to reports.

Small Dead Animals - Wednesday On Turtle Island

Blackie’s Canada: Freeland borrows half a trillion more. Toronto’s socialist city council emboldening Jew hatred. Today Climate Justin burns jet fuel to socialist Edmonton. He will explain to his loyal media how wonderful he is, and trash the premier about gays.

Cafe Hayek - Some Links

Paul Schwennesen is in awe of emergent order.
Roger Pielke decries “the unstoppable momentum of outdated science.”

Maggie's Farm - Thursday morning links

What’s fueling the commercial fusion hype?
A Revolution on Race? With ‘The End of Race Politics,’ Coleman Hughes enters the ranks of the most mature and sophisticated analysts of the all-American skin game.

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: The Leftist Lynch Mob Attacking Trump

• Biden Traps Veterans on VA Plantation - Deroy Murdock
• The Truth About Migrants in the US Military - M Dowling

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 2/22/24

Maybe it's time for an organized citizens committee to quash the plague "by any means necessary" - jjs
Organized Migrant ‘Theft Groups’ Plague Pennsylvania Town

Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 02/23/2024

Non-citizen Chinese immigrant is sworn in on San Francisco’s Election Commission.
Judge Arthur Engoron DENIES Trump’s move to stall enforcement of $355 million fraud trial fine after AG Letitia James threatened to seize his buildings if he doesn’t pay.

I leave you with Wednesday's gifs from Wirecutter, Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #1626 from 90 Miles from Tyranny, and It's Another Libturd Thursday My Friends ~ PM from Woodsterman.

Homeowners in Louisiana Are Armed

Home invaders are getting shot. Homeowner shoots home invasion suspect in Houma, police say

Houma, Louisiana is about an hour's drive southwest of New Orleans.

Chief Theriot says the homeowner told responding officers that he shot an alleged intruder in his home. He reportedly heard a noise coming from the first floor of his home and as he went down the stairs to investigate, he was confronted by the suspect and shot. The suspect fled.

He was shot in the forehead, but medical personnel determined that the wound was superficial, and after treatment he was turned back over to the cops.

He is lucky he wasn't killed.

[The guy who got shot] was booked into jail on one count of simple burglary and on an outstanding warrant for violating parole.

A woman suspected of helping him in the break in was also arrested.

Self-defense is a human-right, and in Louisiana it appears to be your legal right as well. Good Guys 2, Bad Guys 0.

The Bank Testified That They Didn't Lose Money - Didn't Matter to the Judge

Who lost money? Besides Trump, that is? ‘What Fraud?' Kevin O'Leary Destroys CNN Host Over Latest Trump Verdict

The judge in the NY case against Trump, just shot New York in the head.

O'Leary continued, "And then, in this case, even the bank that was supposedly defrauded, testified and said we didn't lose anything. We want to do business with this guy again, we'd like to, but the judge said, 'No, no, no, no, no, no, let's penalize this developer for $355 million. And if we're going to do that, let's penalize all the developers all across America. They've all done the same thing. All of them should go to jail and we should stop building buildings.' That's what the message is from New York. Even the governor herself is concerned about what this looks like to investors all around the world. It's not just U.S. domestic. All around the world, people are talking about what happened here. You really think people want to invest money in New York after this?"

But the judge is removed from the reality of investment. He's a Democrat and he hates Trump, and that is all that matters.

It Leads to This

The Pineapple Thief is a progressive rock band out of England. They've been around since 1999, but they are new to me. I was introduced to them by the algorithm at the Tidal music streaming service.

I've only heard a couple of songs that have been released from that new album, but I am going to take the time to search out their earlier work.

Here is a link to the lyrics, for completeness. Here is a bit I like...

So it leads to this
How could we get it so wrong?
For all this time, our so-called progress
So it leads to this

This song is "It Leads to This" by The Pineapple Thief. It is the title song to their 9 February 2024 album.

Friday Links - 23 February

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony is first with Daily News Stuff 19 February 2024: But Wait There's Less Edition

The EU is reportedly planning to fine Apple $500 million for illegal competition with third-party music stores and streaming services. (The Verge)

Which Apple unquestionably does, but yeah, this is a shakedown operation by Europe.

The Other McCain - ‘News’ in the Post-Literate Age

Sitting here with my office TV tuned to CNN — I watch CNN, so you don’t have to — I’m struck by the arrogance of their assumption that they get to decide what is and is not newsworthy, as if their audience had no other source of information about what’s going on in the world, and no desire to know anything else except what CNN is “reporting.” They have spent most of today going on and on about the death of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, as well as the war in Ukraine, and they seem to imagine that no one sees through this wall-to-wall coverage in terms of its motive, i.e., to revive the “Russian collusion” hoax against Trump, and to attempt to blame Republicans in Congress for the failure of Ukraine to repel the Russian invasion.

Tam at View from the Porch - Generation Gap

Guy was a student at IU in Bloomington... twenty-one years old would be, what? Junior year of undergrad? ...and was mentioning to his parents how he'd recently found not having a driver's license to be inconvenient a few times.

My mind was blown.

Again from The Other McCain - Bad Arguments in Support of Bad Policy

The attempt to turn this into some sort of patriotic referendum — if you don’t support this bill, you don’t love America, we are told — suggests that there are no strictly factual or logical arguments in favor of the current policy. Why would you need to resort to impugning the motives of opponents, if you had facts and logic on your side? And it’s worth pointing out that many Republican opponents of the Biden policy aren’t anti-Ukraine (or pro-Russian), but are simply trying to leverage this as part of a deal to get some kind of action toward securing our own borders.

Clifton Duncan at The State of the Arts - Becoming Thomas Sowell 1

Just over a week after announcing the crowdfunding campaign for my one-man Sowell play, we've amassed an amazing 628 backers.

Mike Rowe - Chuck Gets a Haircut with Denis Chetzan and Mary Sullivan (Ep. 371)

About a year ago, I encouraged my old buddy Chuck to let his hair grow out a bit.

“Why?” he asked.

“Well, mostly because you still have it,” I said. “And a lot of it. If I had a head of hair like that, I’d go full Sam Elliott.”

Impro Guns - Using the Arcdroid to Build a Semi Auto Pistol

“I’m 90% done with my pistol build. I will post all the cut files for this project soon.”

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 20 February 2024: Grand Central Rat Edition

Global Foundries is set to receive $1.5 billion in government funds under the CHIPS Act, and another $600 million from New York state in one form or another. (Tom's Hardware)

Global Foundries was originally the manufacturing arm of AMD, and was then spun off as a separate company, acquired the semiconductor operations of AMD, and was bought by the UAE, not necessarily in that order.

Legal Insurrection - Report: National MS Society Dumps Elderly, Lifelong Volunteer Because She Asked What Pronouns Were

The National MS Society has come under fire over the last two weeks after Libs of TikTok founder Chaya Raichik reported on an incident involving an elderly lifelong volunteer who says she was dismissed because she asked questions about pronoun usage in the context of their DEI policies.

Washington Examiner - Major investors pull business from New York City following Trump verdict

Real estate mogul Grant Cardone announced on Tuesday that his firm Cardone Capital would no longer underwrite New York real estate, one day after Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary vowed to no longer invest in the state as a result of the verdict.

Don't Bring a Hammer to a Gunfight

Did he expect a homeowner in Texas would be unarmed? Grayson County homeowner shoots hammer-wielding intruder - KTEN

Grayson County, Texas is about 40 or 45 miles north of Dallas. It's northern boundry is the Texas/Oklahoma state line.

"The homeowner attempted to get the man to leave, and was struck by the hammer," officials said in a written statement. "The homeowner shot the man and called authorities. No arrests have been made."

The guy armed with the hammer was not charged because he had to be airlifted to a trauma center for treatment.

When will bad guys get the message that (most) Texans are armed? Probably never.

The Modern Audience

When it was announced that Gina Carano was going to appear at FanExpo in Vancouver, the Twitter Mob tried to get her canceled. Again. It backfired. She had originally been scheduled to attend the Con for 1 day. After Twitter tried to get her canceled, again, she added a 2nd day at the con because the demand was so high.

Drunk3P0 attends these cons with Gina, as a sort of assistant. So while he had a break he went search of the announced protest sparked by Gina's presence at the con.

There were 5 people, who would not talk to anyone.

There was a mob of several hundred on Twitter, of the perpetually offended, but there were 5 people in Vancouver who were "upset" that their will couldn't dictate to the entire planet, or even to the con in Vancouver, about what celebrities people were allowed to like, and who needed to be canceled.

Remember that. When Hollywood changes characters, or gaming companies redesign games for the "modern audience," this is who they are placating. Five people in Vancouver. Not 5,000. Not 500. Not even 50. Five.

Is it any wonder that Woke Hollywood (and Woke everything) is going out of business?

This is the Drunk3P0 video I Found the Gina Carano Protest in Vancouver. It is just over 2 minutes, though you can skit the 1st half if you care to.

I have tagged this post as "Free Speech" because that is why Gina Carano was canceled. She dared to express an opinion that wasn't approved by the Liberal fascists in Hollywood.

The Arrogance of Planners - They Never Create the Perfect City

Planners always promise that they are creating "the city of the future." They never do. From Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog: Dutch “Perfect” Planned City = Instant Slum

Bijlmer, built as a planned neighborhood near Amsterdam, was supposed to be the “prefect city” of the future, with high rise apartment complexes surrounded with green space to make the buildings more warm and inviting for residents.

You know, just like they did with American public housing projects at the same time.

Bijlmer worked out just as well.

Prices were too high. The parking garages were problematic places where crime took place. The vacancy rate was high, because the middle class in The Netherlands didn't want to live in 11 story buildings.

The 15 minute video is worth it.

Government urban planners always think they can always do a better job than the free market, and they’re always wrong.

It is the arrogance of the technocrat. We know what it best, you just need to shut up and do what we tell you to do. Never mind that we have never been right in the history of the world; we will get it right this time.

Aside from the shape of the buildings, it reminds me a lot of Pruit-Igoe, though Bijlmer lasted longer.

People You Know Can Be a Threat

The gun-hating part of the Left loves to go on at length about how if you do own a gun, you are more likely to shoot someone you know than a complete stranger. There is a good reason for that. Roseville police say woman shot niece in self defense

Roseville, Michigan is a northern suburb of Detroit.

A dispute between a Roseville woman and her cognitively impaired niece resulted the niece being shot in a case of self defense from over the weekend, police said.

The niece may be charged with attempted murder and arson. In the meantime she is being held under guard at the hospital. The shooter was released and is not facing charges.

Because even in deep blue states, and counties, self-defense is a human right.

US Infrastructure Under Cyber Attack

If you manage infrastructure, it should not be on the public internet. If you manage infrastructure that can poison thousands of people, you should probably put it on a separate, air-gapped system, and not even on your corporate intranet. (Do people use that term anymore, or am I dating my knowledge?) US govt shares cyberattack defense tips for water utilities

Critical water infrastructure worldwide under attack

Water facilities have been repeatedly targeted by cyberattacks in recent years, compromising the security of critical infrastructure and raising concerns about public safety.

Since the start of the year, several water treatment companies have been breached in ransomware attacks that forced them to shut down systems to contain the breaches, including Veolia North America and the U.K.'s Southern Water.

Links are provided in the article, though there is not much info at the links.

On the proactive side, they do provide some guidance.

CISA, the FBI, and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shared a list of defense measures U.S. water utilities should implement to better defend their systems against cyberattacks

It isn't just water, of course. FBI Director Says China Cyberattacks on U.S. Infrastructure Now at Unprecedented Scale.

As intelligence chiefs and policymakers gathered for this city’s annual security conference focused on the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation urged them not to lose sight of another threat: China.

Christopher Wray on Sunday said Beijing’s efforts to covertly plant offensive malware inside U.S. critical infrastructure networks is now at “a scale greater than we’d seen before,” an issue he has deemed a defining national security threat.

China is also sending 10s of thousands people over here. But the border crisis is another story.

In some ways, the future is stupid.

A Interview with Gary Buechler (Nerdrotic) and Will Jordan (The Critical Drinker)

Benny Johnson is doing the interviewing.

The Right made a terrible mistake when they abandoned Pop Culture (which is culture) to the Left. "It's only comics." "It's only movies and TV." They were serious people with real concerns. But Politics is Downstream of Culture. And now the culture is in disarray, and our politics reflects that.

I can never decide if I like Benny Johnson, but I do follow him on both YouTube and Rumble. I am starting to appreciate the humor that he brings to politics.

This is Benny Johnson's video Critical Drinker & Nerdrotic: How The Internet DESTROYED Woke Hollywood | ‘We Are The Culture Now’🔥.

The Revolving Door of the American Criminal Justice System

The Other McCain has a post touching on a subject that drives me crazy some days. Recidivism. Two Words: ‘General Population’

Say hello to Don Steven McDougal, 42, another repeat offender who never should have been let out of prison. Over the years, I’ve called attention to lots of criminals who fit this description. They keep getting turned loose until finally they commit an atrocity that makes nationwide headlines.

I don't know if this story made national headlines or not, though it should have. But the media's bias is not the point of this post.

That’s eight convictions over the span of about 20 years, so it seems that McDougal spent basically his entire adult life either (a) committing crimes or (b) serving prison time. At no time was he ever a law-abiding citizen, but they kept turning him loose until he finally killed somebody

And this didn't happen in a Blue City. It happened in Livingston, Texas, a town of about 6000 people which is about an hour's drive north of Houston.

Click thru for the details, and more observations on the topic.

Wednesday Link Roundup - 21 February

First up we have Pirate's Cove with Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

12. Cold Fury shows how to build a border wall
13. Watts Up With That? highlights Californina’s megadrought

The DaleyGator - Snarky, Smart-Assed, and Sarcastic

IOTW has Marxifornias newest FAIL
Chief Nose Wetter notes AOC is well
Mike McDaniel has another installment of Too Stupid to Survive

EBL - Black History Month: Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell: The Legacy of Slavery
Instapundit: U of Wisconsin students vote to remove Lincoln statute
Steyn on Line: A Presidential Medley Part One

Political Hat - News of the Week (February 18th, 2024)

China’s Titanic Shipbuilding Capacity
The Wall Street Journal has a report detailing China’s advantages in shipbuilding and the scale of the country’s maritime-infrastructure operations.

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 02.20.24 (Post-Presidents’ Day Punditocracy Edition)

CDR Salamander: US Navy In The Red Sea On 60 Minutes
Don Surber: It’s George Washington’s Birthday

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 17 February 2024: Grand Unified Rrat Edition

Experts are - again - proposing the regulation of AI hardware. (The Register)
Where would we be without experts? Probably sipping margaritas by a beach in the Andromeda galaxy.

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Nate Says No

At Da Wire, Prominent Pollster Nate Silver: Biden On Track To Lose To Trump, Dems Have ‘No Plans To Fix The Problems.’ Mike Miller at RedState, Nate Silver Drops Truth Bomb on White House for Trying to Hide Biden's Cognitive Decline.

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 2/19/2024

Westpac CEO Shares Proof Aussies Are Really Struggling With the Cost of Living Crisis
Westpac chief executive Peter King has revealed mortgage defaults were getting worse. An increasing number of borrowers are 90 days behind on their mortgage obligations.

Don Surber - Highlights of the news

ITEM 33: Breitbart reported, “The Walt Disney Company has been hit with a federal civil rights complaint alleging the company’s DEI policies are unlawful and discriminate against white American men, Christians, and Jews.”

Small Dead Animals - Sunday On Turtle Island

Dementia Joe’s America: An interview with Victor Davis Hanson. Good riddance to John Kerry.
The Planet Is Boiling News: The case of EVs.

Bacon Time!!!! - Sunday Linkage

The Air Vent - The Hockey Stick Data Hoax – reposted
Watts Up With That? - When You Crunch The Numbers, Green Hydrogen Is A Non-Starter

Maggie's Farm - Saturday morning links

Seattle English Students Told It's "White Supremacy" To Love Reading, Writing
Elite Colleges Reconsidering SAT Score Requirements

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 2/20/24

Jeffrey Lord: "A boycott of New York City."
Truckers Target Trump-Hating New York Judge

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: Chinese Border Invasion In Progress

• Trump learns - Don Surber
• The Leftist Lynch Mob Attacking Trump - David Strom
• The Military Junta Called "Our Democracy" - TL Davis

I leave you with Cartoons and Memes : Saturday Night Special from IMAO, Sunday Funnies For 02-18-24 from Stately McDaniel Manor, and Yup, it's Monday (gifdump) from Wirecutter.

Do You Expect the System to Protect You? Don't

Like all systems, the Criminal Justice System only protects itself. Judge Denied Nurse's Protective Order Before Ex Fatally Shot Her | HuffPost Latest News

She asked a judge for an order of protection. It was denied. Two days later she was dead.

A Florida judge is being asked to resign after denying a woman’s protective order against her ex-boyfriend, two days before he killed her last week.

Audrey Peterson, 61, was fatally shot by her ex-boyfriend, 71-year-old Francis Scoza, on Feb. 9 while she was running towards a neighbor’s home looking help, FOX affiliate WTVT reported, citing Clearwater police.

Now I don't believe for a minute that if the judge HAD issued the order of protection, this woman would be alive. Someone bent on committing murder is not going to be stopped by a piece of paper.

The only thing that might have saved this woman is her being armed in her own defense. Might. There are no guarantees in this life.

In a statement to WTVT, a spokesperson for Loar said in a statement that Peterson’s petition “did not contain enough detail for the judge to determine there had been multiple episodes of willful and malicious acts which had no purpose other than to harass the petitioner, and which would cause the petitioner substantial emotional distress.”

If you think you need a court order of protection, then you also need a plan for your personal safety. I like plans that include 9mm firearms, ammunition, and training. You may have different ideas.

Canada Is Having Problems with Electric Buses

I am, of course, not in the least bit shocked that people are finding problems with electric vehicles in extreme cold.

There are a couple of stories. The first is from Edmonton, Alberta that owns 60 electric buses for public transportation. Chaotic electric bus deals put kids at risk with braking, heating issues - Rebel News

The city is seeking $82 million in damages from Proterra, the California-based company that sold the city electric buses, complaining of mechanical issues and promises of long driving ranges that never manifested. Edmonton says that the buses have never once achieved the operating range laid out in the contract, according to CTV News.

The buses have achieved a range of only 165 kilometers (103 miles) in Edmonton's extreme cold, and only 250 kilometers (155 miles) in warmer weather. This is not close to what was promised. The buses were supposed to have a range of 328 km (204 miles) in warm weather, and 268 km (167 miles) in extreme cold. There have also been problems with gearboxes, steering, and the composite bodies.

Of course the company is currently in bankruptcy, namely chapter 11.

There is more info, but only if you watch the video. For example...

Prince Edward Island, a maritime province of Canada, purchased slightly more than 100 electric buses for their school bus program. 16 to 18 of them have been in the shop on a couple of occasions. Heaters fail, leading to windows fogging and freezing, and air compressors freeze, leading to loss of breaking. These are for school kids to get to school, with no heat, where the drivers can't see, and the breaks fail.

You can find the video at this link. At 5 and a half minutes, you can find the time to watch.

Shake It Out

Florence and the Machine, or Florence + The Machine, is not a band I hear very often. I like the few songs I've heard, but I never go looking for them. Today's song came to me by way of 93 WXRT, Chicago's Finest Rock, but not as part of Saturday Morning Flashback, or only indirectly.

This is "Shake It Out" by Florence + The Machine from the 2011 album Ceremonials.

Willful Ignorance of the Media

From The Other McCain - Our Obtuse Media and ‘Gun Violence’. This is way beyond media bias.

After defining Obtuse, The Other McCain gives us the following:

How can it be that so many things which are obvious to any reasonably intelligent and well-informed person are seemingly beyond the comprehension of most journalists? That question occurred to me when I saw this headline from NPR:

Kansas City shooting raises questions about how kids are getting a hold of guns

"Kids" in this case, of course, refers to the gang members involved in the shooting in Kansas City.

Click thru. It is worth it.

Tuesday Links - 20 February

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony starts us off with Daily News Stuff 16 February 2024: Rrat Edition

Apple has publicly confirmed that it has broken support for persistent web apps (PWAs) on purpose. (Tech Crunch)

The company went on to explain that it broke support because its operating system is buggy and insecure, and because it hates its own developers and users.

They didn't mean to explain that, but they did.

Legal Insurrection - Iowa Universities To Review “Diversity Scholarships” After “Civil Complaints … Filed Against Other Universities” by Equal Protection Project. You can't end discrimination based on race, by discriminating based on race.

We are pleased to see that our actions are helping change the narrative on campuses nationwide, even those where we have not filed a complaint.

Victory Girls - Brooklyn Schools Are The Coolest Schools In The Land

Brooklyn schools are cool because of their immense diversity. In fact, “they’re much cooler than a private school”. And, pfft, your homeschool curriculum? BORING. Brooklyn schools have SWINGERS!

Yes, this is not a typo. I said swingers.

The Other McCain - WTF, ‘Eritrean Migrant Factions’?

Having searched my conscience for a reason to give a flying fuck about Eritrea, however, I must confess I found nothing. Instead, I’m leaning toward the conclusion that Eritreans are nothing but trouble and we should send them all back to Eritrea.

Clayton Cramer - Why Are Students in Debt?

University of Pennsylvania president annual compensation above $22 million. That is $60,000 per day.

Robert Spencer at PJ Media - The Media Is Covering Up Key Facts About the Lakewood Church Shooter's Motivations

ABC News reported Tuesday that Walli Carranza, Moreno’s former mother-in-law, said that “when she first met Moreno, the young woman wore a hijab and said she practiced Islam.” It was also widely reported that Moreno’s AR-15 was emblazoned with a sticker reading “Palestine” and that “antisemitic writings” were found among her possessions, but nevertheless, as ABC put it, “a motive remains under investigation.”

Wombat-socho - FMJRA 2.0: SERVICE GUARANTEES CITIZENSHIP. Do sample the Song of the Day (SOTD)

People are arguing on X about Starship Troopers again. Ignore the movie (which is fun but dumb) and read the book instead.

Adaptive Curmudgeon - Project Daily Driver: Low Urgency Tractor Awesomeness

I live in East Bumfuk nowhere. The local supply of goods and services is scant. We all need snow removal but it’s not like there’s a “dial 1-800-plowsno or www.clearmydriveway.com” solution. I meet people who cannot believe there are places like this. I assure you it’s true.

Again from The Other McCain - Shannon Cortez Gooden: Burnsville Gunman the Media Won’t Name

The motive for such a cover-up is . . . mysterious.