Intel in the News

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony has some news about Intel. Daily News Stuff 25 April 2025: Rickle Pick Edition

Intel has officially announced its plans to fire all the useless freeloaders and force employees to actually show up at the office and do their jobs. (Tom's Hardware)|

Employees will be required to be in the office four days a week starting in September, a goal likely easier to achieve when the company is also expected to be firing 20% of its workforce.

I'm sure they will all be distressed.

And then it looks like AI might not quite be what Intel thought it was going to be.

Meanwhile Intel's current-generation and AI-focused chips just aren't selling. (Tom's Hardware)

But cheaper, previous generation chips are selling, particularly the 14th-generation parts.

Who would have thought that people don't want AI running on their PCs, watching everything they do.

There is more tech news, and a musical interlude. ("Lovecats" by The Cure. Released as a single in 1983 and then included in the compilation album Japanese Whispers in December of that year.)

A Lone Star Parson Musical Interlude

Lone Star Parson has a musical post: Dam Hippies Stole My Sailboat

Yeah, you think they're friends, then they steal your dam boat.

Click thru for a rare live recording of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young performing "Down By the River" in 1970.

Saturday Roundup of Link Roundups - 26 April

Animal Magnetism starts things off with Animal’s Hump Day News

I’ve been saying this for years.
RFK file released.
After endless court challenges, maybe.

The Right Way - Top of the News

Kristi Noem Robbed at DC Restaurant - Bongino Report
Doom Today: Scientists May Possibly Have Underestimated Climate Doom - The Pirates Cove

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 04.23.25

Upstream Reviews: Looking Marvel-ous? also, Prospero Lost
Cedar Sanderson: Tracking The Rain

EBL - Larry David and Bill Maher : My Dinner With Adolf

Instapundit: Celebrity Angst and PJ Media: Larry David
Wrestle Mania 2025?

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Trade War De-Escalation Ahead?

Atop Da Hill, Pritzker orders Illinois to boycott El Salvador over Abrego Garcia’s detention. TownHall's Guy Benson hears Dems: You Know, This 'Maryland Father' Story Is Political Gold for Us.

Wombat-socho again - In The Mailbox: 04.24.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Don Surber: Trump vs. the imperial judiciary
Matt Taibbi: A Recap Of Trump’s First Three Months,

Small Dead Animals - Wednesday On Turtle Island

Lord Carney’s Realm: The sleazy Liberals. Carney is not fit to be prime minister. A federal report.
Woke America: Trying to run Teslas off the road. Hamas in NYC.

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 4/23/2025

Gov. Newsom’s $750M Gift to Hollywood Donors
Ben Affleck recently complained that California “came to take this industry for granted a little bit.”

Vlad Tepes - On Tamara Lich and the state of Western nations measured by their responses to Islamic terror: Links 1 for April 24, 2025

2. JD Vance exposes one of the purposes of the ‘Global Warming’ dialectical scam
3. Paul Joseph Watson demonstrates that Germany is exactly where Great Britain is in terms of a dialectic state, rather than one ruled by law.

Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 04.24.25 (Evening Edition)

Transterrestrial Musings: Reforming NASA, also, Faking Pr0n
Victory Girls: 60 Minutes Producer Quits, Cites Loss Of Journalistic Independence, also, Yale Derecognizes Students For Justice In Palestine Chapter After Latest Protests

The Glibertarians - Winston’s Mom Does the Links.

Eliminating student debt was the wrong thing to do. Although making it clear art majors with unpaid balances that somehow disappeared, and suddenly reappear just warms my cold, dead heart. It might get bad when enough of them default.

Once again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 04.25.25

Shot In The Dark: Lucky’s Gonna Lucky
The Political Hat: Free to Choose Friday – I, Pencil
This Ain’t Hell: VA Home Benefit Cancelled

Maggie's Farm - Friday morning links

New Evidence Against Kilmar Abrego Garcia Drops... And It’s Bad
Germany Downgrades Growth Outlook, Now Expects Recession For Record 3rd Year, Blames Trump

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 4/ 23 /25

The fire was just 5% contained by 8 p.m. Tuesday evening.
Massive Fire Rages In New Jersey; Thousands Evacuated

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: What Is Democratic Legality?

• The Trump Feint Doctrine - W.C. Dispatch
• Trump’s Fight To Fire Leftist Bureaucrats Is A Supreme Battle Worth Fighting - M.D. Kittle

I leave you with Your mid-week memes from Wirecutter, Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #2525 from 90 Miles from Tyranny, and

Self-Defense Is Legal in Tennessee

And a bad guy is dead. Police reveal details in Crockett County shooting that left 1 dead - WBBJ TV

“The Crockett County Sheriff’s Department received a 911 call, indicating that a male subject had been shot in her residence,” said Stephen Sutton, public information officer for CCSD.

The preliminary investigation revealed the male subject was armed with a knife and a gun. Allegedly, he assaulted the female subject and she shot him.

And this is how I wish more domestic violence situations would end, with the bad guy shot.

Crockett County, Tennessee is about an 80 mile drive northeast of Memphis.

The investigation is still going on, and Crockett County has called on the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation for assistance. An autopsy has been ordered, so it will likely be some time before the dust settles on this case.

But we can say that self-defense is a human right.

The Highest Grossing Films - Not What You Think

When Hollywood talks about the highest grossing films today, they (almost) never calculate inflation. That would make them look bad, because films that were shown when the admittance to a theater was a few cents, or a couple of bucks, beat out all, or nearly all of the stuff that they produce today.

This video is interesting, to me anyway, because it shows those highest grossing movies from 1930 to 2022. And it includes a bunch of movies I used to watch on WGN's Family Classics when I was kid, like Treasure Island, Tom Sawyer, and The Sea Wolf. And even the stuff that fell off the list in the 1980s or '90s was interesting, like Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon.

A number of early Disney classics are on the list for a while, like Fantasia, or Bambi. Even Song of the South was on the list for a LONG time. Makes you wonder why Disney forgot everything they ever knew about making films. Oh yeah. They fired all of the old guys before they could train the younger generation, not that the current generation thinks they have anything to learn.

The number of classics that live on the list for a while, aside from Gone with the Wind (the overall winner) was amazing. We get things like Casablanca (briefly) and The Ten Commandments and Doctor Zhivago. All good to great movies.

This is the video Highest Grossing FILMS (Adjusted for Inflation) from SMail.

Puttin' Out The Fire

Dorothy is a band headed by Dorothy Martin. Sometimes she sounds metal, but often the music reminds me of old school Rock & Roll. I don't think it matters much, but I think this song sounds more like Rock.

This song is "Puttin' Out The Fire" by Dorothy from her March 2025 album The Way.

Friday Links - 25 April

SiGraybeard is first with some news from NASA like we don't usually get these days, news about a deep space probe, that includes a photo. Lucy visits another asteroid

The flyby of asteroid Donaldjohanson along the way to Jupiter's L4 Trojan asteroids was passed this past weekend, on Easter Sunday, April 20.

Stephen Green at Instapundit on the Climate Crazies Latest Brainstorm - WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?

UPDATE (From Ed): Why are the Brits trying something so crazy that Barry O. himself refused to implement it, even at the height of Hopenchange fever, when his administration could have done pretty much anything they wanted to do?

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 23 April 2025: Let A Thousand Lawsuits Bloom Edition

Intel is reportedly also planning to lay off 20% of its staff. (Bloomberg) (archive site)

That's... Less good.

Chicago Contrarian - Chicago Is Safer Under State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke

Expect the Cook County Jail population to continue to grow as Burke removes and keeps dangerous and habitual criminals off the street. Thus far, Burke has demonstrated a firmer stance on violent crime than her predecessor. Monthly admissions for people ordered detained increased 47 percent as of the end of March, compared with admissions the month prior to her taking office. Admissions for domestic battery saw the largest increases, 81 percent.

The Gateway Pundit - Explosive Report Alleges Election Sabotage in Germany: Dead Voters, Missing Ballots, and No ID Checks

The complaint asserts that the 2024 Bundestag election, which resulted in a narrow victory for the globalist Christian Democrats over the insurgent, anti-establishment Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), was marred by a series of “avoidable electoral errors” that, according to Luthe, may have altered the outcome of the vote.

Professor David Yamane at Light Over Heat - "The most powerful lobbying group in Washington is. . ."

NOT the National Rifle Association, contrary to popular belief

The Other McCain - The True Definition of ‘Objectivity’

Why have so many journalists become ill-disguised political activists? Because they have made the mistake of caring, that’s why.

To be truly objective, you have to be able to get enough distance from your personal feelings in order to concentrate on the Three Rules of Journalism: Accuracy, accuracy and accuracy.

Impro Guns - .410 pocket pipe

A man in West Harris County, Texas accidentally shot himself yesterday while carrying this thing.

He "appeared to be under the influence of drugs."

Proving again that drugs really are hazardous to your health. They make people do stuff that is likely to result in getting shot. Chino break-in suspect strips naked after being shot by homeowner, police say | FOX 11 Los Angeles

He broke into a home at two o'clock in the afternoon, and found an armed homeowner. He got shot by the husband, and then the wife called 911.

When officers got there, they found the break-in suspect, who they identified as Svens Sokolovskis of Whittier. Sokolovskis was naked, and according to officers, "appeared to be under the influence of drugs."

Chino, California is at the western end of San Bernadino County, about a 35 mile drive east of downtown Los Angeles.

He was arrested and taken to the hospital. He will be charged when he is released.

While the investigation is still going on, there was no mention, even by the Professional Journalist™ of charging the homeowner, because even in Deep Blue California, self-defense is a human right. I won't comment on whether or not it is your legal right in that state.

Never Again - What It Means

Dictators always start with confiscating guns. Whether in Germany or in China or any other dictatorship, dictators don't want the population armed.

We have a couple of stories about "Never Again" from Jews Can Shoot. First up: Never Again Means Armed: A Holocaust Survivor’s Daughter Warns America

The Day the Nazis Took the Guns

Picture Berlin, 1933. A Jewish shopkeeper keeps a hunting rifle above his mantel. It’s legal. Registered. Symbolic of a father’s duty to protect his family.

Then one night, Hitler’s brownshirts—the SA—kick in his door. “Jews can’t be trusted,” they snarl, and rip the rifle from his hands. His permit? Worthless. His rights? Revoked. His home? No longer his sanctuary.

By 1935, the Nuremberg Laws stripped Jews of citizenship—and their right to bear arms. In 1938, the German Weapons Act banned Jews from owning guns, ammunition, even ceremonial daggers. Just days after Kristallnacht, a Nazi decree demanded all remaining Jewish weapons be surrendered—or else.

The other part of Never Again is understanding what is happening. Yom HaShoah: Never Again Is Now

April 23rd was Holocaust Remembrance Day. Did America remember?

This year, remembrance comes with burning clarity. On October 7, 2023, we witnessed the unthinkable again. 1,200 Jews were massacred — in their homes, on the roads, at a music festival. Babies murdered. Families were burned alive. Women raped, mutilated, and paraded. Jews hunted again.

And once again, the world watched. And then blamed us.

They told us Never Again. But the moment it happened again, the world rushed to explain it away. To rationalize it. To soften the horror, because it was Jews.

After the SCOTUS ruling said that the Trump Administration can't deport terrorists and their supports, Jews were prevented from entering the campus at Yale University. So much for due process.

Gators in the News

Not the University of Florida sports team, but the reptiles. It is springtime, and the gators are on the move.

First we have a story about a quick-thinking wife. Man, 84, Was Gardening When He Was Attacked by an Alligator. This Is How His Wife Saved His Life

Joe Roeser was spreading mulch near a pond that was close to their house in Sun City when an alligator reached for him from the water, NBC Palm Springs, ABC News and WJCL 22 News reported. His wife, Marian Roeser, then struck the reptile with a tomato stake until her husband was free, according to the outlets.

"I just grabbed the closest thing I could find — a tomato stake — and started attacking the alligator's eyes and head," Marian said, according to a police report cited by ABC News. "I knew I had to do whatever it took to save my husband."

He is in the hospital with leg and arm wounds, but is expected to recover.

This is not quite a Florida Man story. Jacksonville man captures alligator from patio using trash can

The woman was letting her dog outside her Jacksonville home when she noticed a seven- to eight-foot-long alligator hiding behind a garbage bin.

Local animal trapper Mike Dragich came to the rescue, cancelling his Easter dinner plans and improvising by using a trash can to catch the reptile.

Not just some rando with a trash can, but someone who knew what he was doing. They relocated the alligator.

And lastly, some video. ‘Only in Florida’: Alligator Rings Doorbell Before Trying to Enter Home

I first saw this video on social media earlier in the week.

An American home’s doorbell camera footage shows two alligators trying to enter the property. One of the reptilian visitors is seen attempting to, and seemingly succeeding in, ringing the bell, before chaotically failing to open the door, while the other hangs back in relative inactivity.

Remember, The alligator has the right of way.

Another Failure of the Victim-Selection Process

I wonder if the donut shop is popular with the police. Armed robbery suspect shot, killed by Clinton Twp donut store worker | FOX 2 Detroit

This story has been stuck in my drafts folder for two months. Not sure how that happened, but it is still worth a look.

At 12:45 p.m. male suspect armed with a firearm allegedly demanded cash inside Golden Donuts, 34155 Harper Avenue. The employee then pulled out a handgun and shot the robbery suspect.

Police say the suspect, in his mid-30s, fled in a vehicle and was found inside his crashed SUV at the Sunoco gas station at 15 Mile and Harper. He was transported by ambulance where he died at the hospital.

Clinton Township is about a 25 mile drive northeast of downtown Detroit.

Michigan has adopted a fairly favorable view of self-defense since they legalized concealed carry. At least one sheriff even admitted that concealed carry made things better, and not worse, as he had been on record predicting before that law passed.

The Breakdown of the Family

At least in Chicago. The parents are to blame for raising such men. Man gets 4 years for shooting younger brother he was 'tired of' - CWB Chicago

Brown woke his brother up around 2 a.m., stated, “I’m tired of you,” and shot him in the chest and arm, prosecutors claimed at the time. He then instructed his younger brother not to tell anyone about the shooting, prosecutors said.

Instead, the boy got up and asked his mom to call 911. When police arrived, Brown was covering his brother’s wounds with a blanket.

Family has disagreements, but when family turns to firearms to settle those disputes, the family has been destroyed. So the Left has achieved that much, at least in the inner cities. Life means nothing.

If he was willing to kill his own brother, what do you think he would be willing to do to a perfect stranger?

As these stories often do, this story has reminded me of the poem "The Second Coming," by William Butler Yeats. The entire text of the poem, it isn't long, and can be found at the link. The part I always think of is...

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

It was written in 1919, after the First World War. Go read the whole thing.

Nothing Is Ever the Fault of the Woke

They are completely without responsibility for whatever they do. Exclusive | NYC woman charged in Cybertruck hate crime is woke therapist

Natasha Cohen has been charged with a hate crime.

The Brooklyn woman accused of leaving a brick scrawled with a swastika and the word “Nazi” on a parked Tesla is a super-woke family therapist who was involved in criminal justice diversion programs — and blamed Elon Musk for her heinous actions as she was taken into custody.

Insert a clip of Flip Wilson here, saying, "The Devil made me do it."

She also dumped a bag of garbage on the Cybertruck. There is video evidence.

Neighbors are mystified.

Said another neighbor: “Who does something like that?”

A crazy person does something like that. Are you shocked that a crazy person would become a therapist?

Aside from her terminal case of Trump Derangement Syndrome, and a side order of Elon Derangement Syndrome, she didn't explain how "Elon made me do it," was a rational response to seeing a truck owned by someone who is not Elon.

I miss living in a civilized society, populated by rational people.

Wednesday Link Roundup - 23 April

William Teach at Pirate's Cove had a holiday post. Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup – Happy Easter

10. neo-neocon: The left’s dubious heroes
11. Moonbattery: Kansas Pulls Electric School Buses for Safety Reasons

EBL - American Revolutionary Song: The Liberty Song

American Corner: Lexington and Concord
Hot Air : One if by land, two if by sea...

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 04.21.25

Don Surber: Wasting Away In Margarita Gate,
First Street Journal: Easter Monday, also, Requiescat in Pace, Pope Francis

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 21 April 2025: Skilled And Unaware Of It Edition

Resist eggheads! (Ars Technica)
Ars Technica has noticed that people have finally woken up to the communist takeover of the education system and is desperate to put them to sleep again, by force if necessary.

Vlad Tepes - VIdeo correction, Trevor Loudon on Oz, Taxing your equity, United Church goes to endgame, Sam Cooper exposes Carney’s execution of Chinese election strategy and more: Links 1 for April 21, 2025

1. Trevor Loudon on the current Australian PM
A public meeting was held in Victoria where even if you had a valid ticket, they wouldn’t let you in if you were a White Australian but would if you were Chinese or East Asian appearance.

The Glibertarians - Saturday evening Links

Um, how can I put the delicately? Oh, go fuck yourself.
“I’ll go back to slaughtering you on Monday.”

Don Surber - Highlights of the week

ITEM 6: PJ Media reported, “In a Monday night letter, William J. Pulter, director of the U.S. Federal Housing Agency, referred New York Attorney General Letitia James to the Department of Justice for prosecution of mortgage fraud.”

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Maryland Man Meets "Maryland Man"

Trump Team Performed a Masterclass in Obliterating This Narrative About the Deported Illegal Alien. Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson "Tom Homan makes an absolute FOOL out of Kaitlan Collins on live television. She is just a walking L at this point

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 4/19/2025

The Czech Republic will no longer be importing oil from Russia, Prime Minister Petr Fiala said on Thursday at the opening ceremony for a new connection to the Transalpine Pipeline (TAL) in Nelahozeves in the north of the country.

Political Hat - News of the Week (April 20th, 2025)

AI proves that fingerprints are not unique, upending the legal system
Fingerprint analysis has been a dependable tool in crime-solving for more than a century.

Small Dead Animals - Saturday On Turtle Island

Gay North Dakota: Media chaos. No pipelines, but keep sending us money. Conman Carney and the media.
Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC: Diversity is our strength. The clean energy con.

Maggie's Farm - Saturday morning links

Katy Perry’s space jaunt was galaxy-level cringe
Trump vs. the Ivy League Week in Education
'We Are Not the Same'

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 4/ 21 /25

Comparative advantage may work in theory, but in a world of mobile capital and asset trade, it's a recipe for national decline.
Debunking Comparative Advantage

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: SCOTUS Violates Marbury v. Madison By Granting Ex Parte Injunction Against Executive Branch

• SCOTUS: Breaking All Norms By Vetoing the Alien Enemies Act - @amuse
• Process Formalism In Texas But Not At SCOTUS - Josh Blackman

Annonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 04/22/2025

Hegseth gets hit with new allegations of OPSEC failures, Pentagon mismanagement. He has reportedly been reticent to hit Iran, and drives Trump in that direction, so the neocons are trying to gin up all sorts of dirt to drive him out.

I leave you with Sunday Funnies For 04-20-25 from Stately McDaniel Manor, Memes and Things from The Feral Irishman, and Mondays..... again, but this time in gifs from Wirecutter.

Kentucky Teen Defends His Family's Home

The reported seems confused on a couple of points. Kentucky teen shoots and kills 2 home invaders. This incident too place on Sunday, Feb 16th, but I seem to have missed it at the time.

Investigators found that the teen, who is a resident of the home, discovered the two men inside and saw them holding firearms, [Kentucky State Police] said.

"The juvenile, acting in self-defense, retrieved a handgun and shot both men before escaping through a bedroom window," according to KSP.

Manchester, Kentucky is about a 100 mile drive south of Lexington, or about a 100 mile drive north of Knoxville, Tennessee.

The reporter seems confused about how the teen could have located a handgun for defense. It doesn't seem all that strange to me.

Of the two guys who got shot. One died at the scene, the other died later at a local hospital.

The teen was not arrested, because Kentucky is not New Jersey.

Self-defense is a human-right.

EV Buses - A Safety Hazard

This isn't because they tend to catch fire. They do. This is because the people designing and building these buses have no idea what the F- they are doing . Kansas school halts electric bus use over student safety concerns

A Kansas school has stopped using its electric school buses out of an abundance of caution after reports of the buses losing steering and braking, posing a threat to student safety.

Working for you, 27 News reached out to the six school districts that initially received federal funding to purchase electric school buses. While some districts report the buses are functioning well, Wabaunsee USD 329 said it removed buses from service “in line with our highest priority of student safety.”

The primary school district covered by the article took buses out of commission because one just suddenly stopped working while being driven. No power, no brakes, no steering.

The rest of the article details problems other districts have been having.

The Biden Administration handed out piles of cash to this Canadian company. It got them to start opening facilities in this county. Not that it helped. EV bus maker Lion Electric suspends operations at plant near Joliet, Illinois

The Lion Electric Joliet plant is located at 3835 Youngs Rd. in Channahon. Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and other state leaders cut the ribbon on the facility back in July 2023.

At the time, Lion Electric said it planned to manufacture 20,000 electric buses every year.

But since that time, the company has failed to meet its sales goals.

Channahon, Illinois is about 10 miles southwest of Joliet, or about 50 miles southwest of downtown Chicago.

About 400 people will be laid off.

Investors have decided that the people running the company have been lying through their teeth about the state of the company. Lion Electric shareholders file class-action lawsuit against struggling bus manufacturer

Quebec-based electric-vehicle manufacturer Lion Electric Co. LEV-T is facing a class-action lawsuit from shareholders who allege the company misled investors and misrepresented its financial health, leading to artificially inflated stock prices.

Hat tip for the first link at the top goes to Moonbattery - Kansas Pulls Electric School Buses for Safety Reasons

Between Tears

How about some acoustic guitar with just a bit of energy? Sounds good while we wait for the coffee to kick in.

This is a song I found by way of the Tidal music streaming service. Overall, I have been very happy with Tidal since dumping Spotify. It isn't perfect, but then what is?

This is "Between Tears" by Johannes Linstead from his 1999 album Sol Luna Tierra.

USAID - The CIA's Little Sister

USAID was MUCH worse than the woke insanity that has been in the news. It was CIA Lite. It was CIA without any brakes. It was pure insanity.

This is the Shoe0nHead video What Trump REALLY Destroyed | The Dark Truth Behind USAID

What I originally thought was just an older sibling giving a younger sibling an unplugged video game controller, actually turned into a real thing, and their first order of business was dismantling USAID, an innocent government program that helped poor people all around the world. Or was it?

The video is 27 minutes, but worth your time. You should plan accordingly. And you definitely can just listen while doing other stuff, there are not any real visual aids that require your attention.

Tuesday Links - 22 April

Mike LaChance at The Gateway Pundit starts us off with a story about the tone-deaf Democrats. PARTY OF THE PEOPLE: Kamala Harris to Host DNC Fundraiser With Tickets Starting at $25,000

The Democrats constantly talk about how they want ‘big money’ to get out of politics. Yet the DNC is holding a fundraiser next month with tickets starting at a mere $25,000.

Doug Ross - The COVID Timeline We Were Never Supposed to See: Also known as "The Moderna Prophecy"

What leaps out is the complex web of foreknowledge, preparation, and coordinated response that preceded the official COVID-19 narrative. The timeline reveals not just a series of coincidences, but a pattern of institutional awareness and strategic positioning months before the public acknowledgment of the virus.

The Other McCain - The Intersection of Rage and Ignorance

Tempted as I am to blame “misinformation” for this, the facts of the Kyle Rittenhouse case were accurately reported in dozens of major media outlets, so there is no excuse for these people who somehow got the idea that Rittenhouse “murdered . . . black kids in Michigan during a protest.”

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 19 April 2025: Plato's Rave Edition

Blue Origin's all-girl space stunt is Elon Musk's fault. (The Verge) (archive site)
Elon Musk has nothing to do with it, has saved the day when things went south, and generally speaking has done nothing wrong at all, but Elizabeth Lopatto has to rant.

Tillman Plank at The Federalist - How No-Consequence Schooling Turns Kids Like Karmelo Anthony Into Killers

We lower expectations, excuse bad behavior, and pretend that endless second chances build character. But they don’t.

Again from The Other McCain - Radical Vegan Transgender Death Cult Update: Brainwashed Zombie Praises ‘Ziz’ and Denies Killing Her Own Parents

People keep getting murdered by these deranged wackos, but it’s totally NOT a cult like the Manson family, OK? Ziz just happens to be infinitely loved by his friends, but that doesn’t make him a cult leader, and all these dead bodies that keep turning up around Ziz and his friends — well, that’s just a random coincidence.

The Vodka Pundit - The Battle Is on for the Soul of the Democratic Party... but SHEESH, Those Contestants...

"It's a pity both sides can't lose," former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger quipped about the Iran-Iraq War, and, while I mean no insult to the odious Saddam Hussein or Ayatollah Khomeini regimes, I had the same thought watching two wings of the Democratic Party go to war.

Again from Stephen Green the Vodka Pundit - How Big Did 'Snow White' Really Bomb? THIS Big.

In its fifth weekend on screens, "Snow White" earned about $7 million in ticket sales domestically and internationally, bringing the total box office take to an estimated $194 million. The film cost an estimated $270 million (after tax credits!) plus another $70-$100 million to market and probably needs $625 million, after theaters take their cut, just to break even.

And last but not least Wombat-socho brings us FMJRA 2.0: No Grandeur, Lots of Misery, Just One Victory

Top linkers for the week ending on Good Friday:

1.  EBL (10)
2.  357 Magnum (9)
3.  A View From The Beach (8)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!