Posted On: Thursday - June 8th 2023 7:37AM MST
In Topics: Race/Genetics ctrl-left World Political Stupidity
(Continued from Part 1 , Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5.)
Peak Stupidity had only linked to the original article that brought up this series of posts in Parts 2 and 3, so let me link to it again. It's SOUTH AFRICA AT WAR WITH ITSELF, written by Michael Witkin. Mr. Witken, an architect "from" Michigan, is a White ex-South African.
There are quite a few of them. About 125,000 S. Africans (less than one month's worth of Hispanic and mystery-land crossings across our southern border!), have come to the US. Over 200,000 have come to the UK and slightly lower than that to Australia. There is S. African emigration is to other locations on that continent. This writer says the Afrikaner farmers - fewer of the emigres - go to Nigeria and the Congo, and also Georgia (that'd be the Georgia of Back in the USSR fame). The wiki numbers that I gave don't screen out Black! S. Africans, but they match rough numbers of White S. African emigrees. Oh, a wiki author is worried about "brain drain", with mention, but not so much concern, about why they'd want to leave a ruinous shithole in fear for their quality of life or lives, period.
Mr. Witkin is one of the smart or lucky ones to have left, but, here's the thing: He still doesn't get it. I don't believe he knows, or maybe he just won't state out loud, the reason his old country has been ruined. From his article:
At the end of the Apartheid, and the end of racial discrimination in 1994, there was joy and optimism and the promise of a unified society known as “The Rainbow Nation”.One wonders how joyful and optimistic Michael Witkin was 29 years ago, though he'd already left his country for San Diego, California 11 years earlier.* Was he like this girl or the typical lefty Californian? He did write further down that this "Rainbow Nation" was a myth. He also wrote, though:
This expression was coined by the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu describing post-apartheid South Africa with the assurance of a total multi-racial society and a country where everyone has the chance to prosper.
Well, not exactly and Nelson Mandela must be turning in his grave witnessing what has become of the ANC. A caricature of itself, this ‘movement for change’ has itself ‘changed’ having morphed into an organized criminal conspiracy, eviscerating the country of everything it had, and gutting its citizens of all they have left."Turning in his grave"? How so? Does Mr.Witkin still think that this Rainbow Nation could have worked were it not for those baddies that took over and ruined the dream?
Ha! Not quite. The Mandelas were murderous thugs. All of these people were out for revenge and wanted the political power and money for Black!s, most especially themselves. The Big Men, such as the crooks that have completely corrupted and stolen huge amounts from the power company Eskom - and the writer has lots of stories, some personal, of the ruination the lack of electricity has caused - are part of how the real Africa works. It's just what they do... without White colonists or original settlers (in this case) in control of things.
This Rainbow Nation actually meant a return to REAL Africa in the formerly 1st-World nation of South Africa. I don't think emigre Michael Witkin understands that. It was NEVER gonna work. Apartheid had been the best way to stave off Africa in South Africa. It's gone, and Africa has won.
* The timeline in his bio at the bottom of his article says 28 years in San Diego and then 12 years in Michigan. That means he emigrated in '83, 40 years ago, unless he left some detail out.
Comments:
Moderator
Tuesday - June 20th 2023 6:25AM MST
PS: "No, he's afraid. He knows the truth, but can't risk being deported." Witkin lives in Michigan. He can't be deported for speech... errr, well, I won't bet any money on that.
Sam J.
Saturday - June 17th 2023 5:17PM MST
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"...Mr. Witkin is one of the smart or lucky ones to have left, but, here's the thing: He still doesn't get it..."
No, he's afraid. He knows the truth, but can't risk being deported.
"...Mr. Witkin is one of the smart or lucky ones to have left, but, here's the thing: He still doesn't get it..."
No, he's afraid. He knows the truth, but can't risk being deported.
Moderator
Sunday - June 11th 2023 7:57PM MST
PS: Adam footnotes: "Mrs. Smith used to own a 1989 Acura Legend. It had a drain plug on the fuel tank. I thought this was a great idea and that all cars should come standard with such a drain plug. Then I realized that in Japan you don't have to worry about people stealing your gas. If cars in America came standard with fuel tank drain plugs there would be a whole lot of enwords stealing gas."
Yeah, hell, I think that would indeed be a great idea. As for the gas-stealing teens, I would think that getting down there with a wrench would be as much or more trouble than siphoning it off with a hose. But then I have non-locking fuel caps. How about a locking plug down at the low point - too complicated, perhaps?
Definitely, having a way to drain the gas would be a great deal. My mechanic friend has cars that sit around for months, and he runs them to burn the gas through them. Sure, it's good to run the engines anyway, but for hours at idle? He does not like leaving gas, with all its additives that gum up the works, in the tanks for durations like a year.
100 Low-lead Avgas - the blue stuff, can stay in there for years. OTOH, it will take out the catalytic converter in no time with the lead.
For both you and Alarmist, since we're all on this off subject, I know that King Airs with their turbo-prop engines burning Jet fuel (most of the time) can burn some avgas, that 100ll, if they must. There's some number like no more than 25 hours over the 1000's of hour life between hot section overhauls or what-have-you. The idea is that you may land somewhere, need the fuel to get out, but they don't sell Jet-A there, only avgas. So that number shouldn't be be a problem, as, with good planning, that situation should be rare.
Yeah, hell, I think that would indeed be a great idea. As for the gas-stealing teens, I would think that getting down there with a wrench would be as much or more trouble than siphoning it off with a hose. But then I have non-locking fuel caps. How about a locking plug down at the low point - too complicated, perhaps?
Definitely, having a way to drain the gas would be a great deal. My mechanic friend has cars that sit around for months, and he runs them to burn the gas through them. Sure, it's good to run the engines anyway, but for hours at idle? He does not like leaving gas, with all its additives that gum up the works, in the tanks for durations like a year.
100 Low-lead Avgas - the blue stuff, can stay in there for years. OTOH, it will take out the catalytic converter in no time with the lead.
For both you and Alarmist, since we're all on this off subject, I know that King Airs with their turbo-prop engines burning Jet fuel (most of the time) can burn some avgas, that 100ll, if they must. There's some number like no more than 25 hours over the 1000's of hour life between hot section overhauls or what-have-you. The idea is that you may land somewhere, need the fuel to get out, but they don't sell Jet-A there, only avgas. So that number shouldn't be be a problem, as, with good planning, that situation should be rare.
The Alarmist
Saturday - June 10th 2023 9:03AM MST
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Hi, Mr. Smith.
I put gasoline in my diesel. I started it to move to a place where the tow-truck could pick it up without hassle... I figured what was in the fuel line would still be unadulterated. yep, flushed and cleaned it. Expensive, but better than a new engine.
Hi, Mr. Smith.
I put gasoline in my diesel. I started it to move to a place where the tow-truck could pick it up without hassle... I figured what was in the fuel line would still be unadulterated. yep, flushed and cleaned it. Expensive, but better than a new engine.
Adam Smith
Saturday - June 10th 2023 7:29AM MST
PS: Good morning, Mr. Alarmist,
Generally, around here, the diesel nozzles are larger than the gasoline nozzles, which would make it difficult to accidentally misfuel a petrol car with diesel. There is, however, one gas station here on Oak Grove that sells diesel from a normal size gasoline nozzle. It's on it's own pump, so I'd imagine not many people have mistakenly pumped diesel in their gas tank. (It's a small gas station. They only sell 87 octane and low sulfur diesel.)
I'm curious, did you misfuel a diesel or petrol car? Glad you realized what happened before you made it off down the road. Since you didn't start the vehicle all you had to do was drain* (and rinse?) the tank. (Though I'd imagine that disposing of contaminated fuel in Europe is pretty costly. Here in Lumpkinville I could use the contaminated fuel to start fires or to kill weeds.)
I've experimented with running stale vegetable oil and used (and filtered) fryer oil in my OM617. It worked well. Smelled a bit like french fries out the tailpipe. They say the only problem with running cooking oil is in the winter as the oil will congeal in the tank. Some people put heated tanks in their cars to facilitate their use of spent fryer oil in their diesel engines.
I'm also under the impression that #2 heating oil is pretty much the same as diesel. The only real difference being that one is taxed while the other is not. This is why fuel oil has red dye in it, you know, in case any trucker gets the bright idea to run his rig with fuel oil instead of highway taxed diesel.
* Mrs. Smith used to own a 1989 Acura Legend. It had a drain plug on the fuel tank. I thought this was a great idea and that all cars should come standard with such a drain plug. Then I realized that in Japan you don't have to worry about people stealing your gas. If cars in America came standard with fuel tank drain plugs there would be a whole lot of enwords stealing gas.
Cheers to a great day, Mr. Alarmist!
Happy Saturday!
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Generally, around here, the diesel nozzles are larger than the gasoline nozzles, which would make it difficult to accidentally misfuel a petrol car with diesel. There is, however, one gas station here on Oak Grove that sells diesel from a normal size gasoline nozzle. It's on it's own pump, so I'd imagine not many people have mistakenly pumped diesel in their gas tank. (It's a small gas station. They only sell 87 octane and low sulfur diesel.)
I'm curious, did you misfuel a diesel or petrol car? Glad you realized what happened before you made it off down the road. Since you didn't start the vehicle all you had to do was drain* (and rinse?) the tank. (Though I'd imagine that disposing of contaminated fuel in Europe is pretty costly. Here in Lumpkinville I could use the contaminated fuel to start fires or to kill weeds.)
I've experimented with running stale vegetable oil and used (and filtered) fryer oil in my OM617. It worked well. Smelled a bit like french fries out the tailpipe. They say the only problem with running cooking oil is in the winter as the oil will congeal in the tank. Some people put heated tanks in their cars to facilitate their use of spent fryer oil in their diesel engines.
I'm also under the impression that #2 heating oil is pretty much the same as diesel. The only real difference being that one is taxed while the other is not. This is why fuel oil has red dye in it, you know, in case any trucker gets the bright idea to run his rig with fuel oil instead of highway taxed diesel.
* Mrs. Smith used to own a 1989 Acura Legend. It had a drain plug on the fuel tank. I thought this was a great idea and that all cars should come standard with such a drain plug. Then I realized that in Japan you don't have to worry about people stealing your gas. If cars in America came standard with fuel tank drain plugs there would be a whole lot of enwords stealing gas.
Cheers to a great day, Mr. Alarmist!
Happy Saturday!
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The Alarmist
Saturday - June 10th 2023 3:58AM MST
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Yes, gasoline will trash your modern diesel engine in short order. The older ones take a bit longer.
The gas-station nozzles in my corner of Europe do not differentiate... some genius at Shell decided to color-code the cheap diesel with the same yellow as the expensive gasoline, and it took me a few seconds to realize by the price on the pump that I had made an expensive mistake, but not as bad as if I had bee-bopped it on down the road.
BTW, you can burn cooking oil in a diesel. The Brits used to send tax collectors out to essentially sniff peoples’ tail pipes to see who was cheating the Man.
Yes, gasoline will trash your modern diesel engine in short order. The older ones take a bit longer.
The gas-station nozzles in my corner of Europe do not differentiate... some genius at Shell decided to color-code the cheap diesel with the same yellow as the expensive gasoline, and it took me a few seconds to realize by the price on the pump that I had made an expensive mistake, but not as bad as if I had bee-bopped it on down the road.
BTW, you can burn cooking oil in a diesel. The Brits used to send tax collectors out to essentially sniff peoples’ tail pipes to see who was cheating the Man.
Adam Smith
Friday - June 9th 2023 10:03PM MST
PS: A second opinion...
https://www.bellperformance.com/blog/accidentally-mixing-gasoline-and-diesel-fuel
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https://www.bellperformance.com/blog/accidentally-mixing-gasoline-and-diesel-fuel
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Adam Smith
Friday - June 9th 2023 9:33PM MST
PS: Greetings, Achmed,
Would it ruin the engine? Probably not.
The way I understand it is that it is safer to put diesel in a gasoline engine than it is to put gasoline in a diesel engine.
Gasoline is a solvent. Diesel is an oil. A diesel engine and it's injector pump rely on the lubricating properties of the diesel oil.
Mercedes diesel engines, for example, are labeled OM616, OM617, etc. The OM stands for ¨Oel-Motor¨ (Oil Motor). They can run on a wide range of oils. When I first bought my 1984 300sd it ran like a dog. I took Mrs. Smith for a ride and it would barely make it up the hill to the house. I figured that the injector pump was a bit clogged. My solution? I mixed some Diesel Kleen in a gallon of generic transmission oil and fed it into the injector pump directly. I let it idle (and hit the throttle a bit) until the mix was gone. Then I hooked the fuel line back up. (I also threw some Diesel Kleen in the tank.) The next time I took Mrs. Smith out in the car she was amazed at how it scooted right up the mountain. She asked how I fixed it and was very surprised that I didn't have to do any more intense repairs.
One time I took the car to Alpharetta for some reason. I was low on fuel but I couldn't find a gas station that sold diesel. I tried several to no avail and I really didn't want to run out of fuel. Then I rode by a walmart. So I went in and got a couple gallons of generic transmission oil and a funnel. I put one gallon in the tank, and the other in the trunk. I hopped on the highway and headed home knowing there was a gas station that sold diesel about halfway home. I didn't run out of fuel that day. (In fact the only time I ever ran out of fuel it truly wasn't my fault. But that's a different story for another time. I have had my gas line freeze more than once though as WNY is a frozen shithole.)
Anyway, running petrol through a diesel engine can damage the piston rings but would be more likely to damage the injector pump, especially in newer diesel engines as they use higher pressure pumps. Probably won't damage the engine as long as it is driven just a short distance.
Diesel in a gasoline engine is safer. You'll get blue smoke out the exhaust, you'll foul the plugs, you'll have incomplete combustion, but I think you're unlikely to do real damage to the engine. If you tried to run it on straight diesel I think it would just not run. I don't know how much gas was in the tank when he added the couple gallons of diesel, but I hope it was pretty full. I think some of the diesel contaminated fuel would not burn properly in the combustion chamber creating a knocking type sound. As the unburnt diesel contaminated fuel collects in the combustion chamber I would imagine that it would get sent out the exhaust valves to collect in the exhaust pipe. I'm sure it's not good for the catalytic converter either.
TLDR...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL9-i9tcESU
Cheers to a great evening, Achmed!
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Would it ruin the engine? Probably not.
The way I understand it is that it is safer to put diesel in a gasoline engine than it is to put gasoline in a diesel engine.
Gasoline is a solvent. Diesel is an oil. A diesel engine and it's injector pump rely on the lubricating properties of the diesel oil.
Mercedes diesel engines, for example, are labeled OM616, OM617, etc. The OM stands for ¨Oel-Motor¨ (Oil Motor). They can run on a wide range of oils. When I first bought my 1984 300sd it ran like a dog. I took Mrs. Smith for a ride and it would barely make it up the hill to the house. I figured that the injector pump was a bit clogged. My solution? I mixed some Diesel Kleen in a gallon of generic transmission oil and fed it into the injector pump directly. I let it idle (and hit the throttle a bit) until the mix was gone. Then I hooked the fuel line back up. (I also threw some Diesel Kleen in the tank.) The next time I took Mrs. Smith out in the car she was amazed at how it scooted right up the mountain. She asked how I fixed it and was very surprised that I didn't have to do any more intense repairs.
One time I took the car to Alpharetta for some reason. I was low on fuel but I couldn't find a gas station that sold diesel. I tried several to no avail and I really didn't want to run out of fuel. Then I rode by a walmart. So I went in and got a couple gallons of generic transmission oil and a funnel. I put one gallon in the tank, and the other in the trunk. I hopped on the highway and headed home knowing there was a gas station that sold diesel about halfway home. I didn't run out of fuel that day. (In fact the only time I ever ran out of fuel it truly wasn't my fault. But that's a different story for another time. I have had my gas line freeze more than once though as WNY is a frozen shithole.)
Anyway, running petrol through a diesel engine can damage the piston rings but would be more likely to damage the injector pump, especially in newer diesel engines as they use higher pressure pumps. Probably won't damage the engine as long as it is driven just a short distance.
Diesel in a gasoline engine is safer. You'll get blue smoke out the exhaust, you'll foul the plugs, you'll have incomplete combustion, but I think you're unlikely to do real damage to the engine. If you tried to run it on straight diesel I think it would just not run. I don't know how much gas was in the tank when he added the couple gallons of diesel, but I hope it was pretty full. I think some of the diesel contaminated fuel would not burn properly in the combustion chamber creating a knocking type sound. As the unburnt diesel contaminated fuel collects in the combustion chamber I would imagine that it would get sent out the exhaust valves to collect in the exhaust pipe. I'm sure it's not good for the catalytic converter either.
TLDR...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL9-i9tcESU
Cheers to a great evening, Achmed!
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Moderator
Friday - June 9th 2023 8:46PM MST
PS: He makes the point that the diesel pump nozzle doesn't fit, while pumping it in anyway. Hmmm, seems like he's trying to exaggerate how dumb he is (supposed to be).
BTW, I was wondering what his mixture of gas and diesel was. My youtube is acting up (haha, seriously, too many tabs open), but I recall he got 2 1/2 gallons or so of diesel. Even if that was mixed with 15 gallons of gasoline, it would ruin the engine, wouldn't it. (I'm asking, not being rhetorical.)
BTW, I was wondering what his mixture of gas and diesel was. My youtube is acting up (haha, seriously, too many tabs open), but I recall he got 2 1/2 gallons or so of diesel. Even if that was mixed with 15 gallons of gasoline, it would ruin the engine, wouldn't it. (I'm asking, not being rhetorical.)
Adam Smith
Friday - June 9th 2023 8:26PM MST
PS: Maybe he's the best troll ever!
"What made me pretty sure he's trolling the audience is that he doesn't seem upset enough..."
Pretty sure he thinks the car is under warranty.
(Pretty sure putting diesel in the tank will void the warranty.)
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"What made me pretty sure he's trolling the audience is that he doesn't seem upset enough..."
Pretty sure he thinks the car is under warranty.
(Pretty sure putting diesel in the tank will void the warranty.)
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Adam Smith
Friday - June 9th 2023 8:24PM MST
PS: Greetings, Achmed,
"I would have turned off the camera and concentrated on my car at the end."
Lol... You never would have done this.
Mrs. Smith agrees with you. She thinks it's fake.
(She refuses to believe anyone is this stupid.)
I'm not sure.
A couple weeks back this kid dumped a gallon of Lucas Injector Cleaner in this mustang. This is what the engine sounded like at the time...
https://youtu.be/CmvzfZx8pwU?t=220
You can hear the sound of the exhaust in this video...
https://youtu.be/j7ZHPuSHLr4?t=537
Listen to the sound of the engine...
https://youtu.be/ro5VIzTaMJc?t=347
Where did the blue exhaust come from? And the lionel train style smoke from the tailpipe (@ 6:40) when he turned the engine off in his driveway? Looks like that's partly burnt diesel oil leaking out of the exhaust.
I think this might be real.
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"I would have turned off the camera and concentrated on my car at the end."
Lol... You never would have done this.
Mrs. Smith agrees with you. She thinks it's fake.
(She refuses to believe anyone is this stupid.)
I'm not sure.
A couple weeks back this kid dumped a gallon of Lucas Injector Cleaner in this mustang. This is what the engine sounded like at the time...
https://youtu.be/CmvzfZx8pwU?t=220
You can hear the sound of the exhaust in this video...
https://youtu.be/j7ZHPuSHLr4?t=537
Listen to the sound of the engine...
https://youtu.be/ro5VIzTaMJc?t=347
Where did the blue exhaust come from? And the lionel train style smoke from the tailpipe (@ 6:40) when he turned the engine off in his driveway? Looks like that's partly burnt diesel oil leaking out of the exhaust.
I think this might be real.
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Moderator
Friday - June 9th 2023 6:45PM MST
PS: Adam, the guy HAD to be trolling. I watched the whole thing.
Now, he IS a "Florida Man', for what that's worth, but can a ruined engine be worth the money he makes from his 3,860 subscribers? What made me pretty sure he's trolling the audience is that he doesn't seem upset enough - it seems fake. I would have turned off the camera and concentrated on my car at the end.
Also, would anyone who knows a thing about cars do something this stupid? (That's assuming he does know anything at all about them.)
Now, he IS a "Florida Man', for what that's worth, but can a ruined engine be worth the money he makes from his 3,860 subscribers? What made me pretty sure he's trolling the audience is that he doesn't seem upset enough - it seems fake. I would have turned off the camera and concentrated on my car at the end.
Also, would anyone who knows a thing about cars do something this stupid? (That's assuming he does know anything at all about them.)
Moderator
Friday - June 9th 2023 6:41PM MST
PS: Yep, SafeNow, I am posting these as a warning to us all in America. I'll have a post just reminiscing about the old South Africa and then after that hopefully a good one showing the parallels between what's happened there and the path we are on. It is different in that we have a much greater proportion of White (and other people), but we're getting slightly 3rd-Worldy over here already.
Adam Smith
Friday - June 9th 2023 4:23PM MST
PS: Good evening, everyone,
Too much torque! Is this real, or a spoof???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro5VIzTaMJc
Looks like we have not yet reached PeakStupidity.
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Too much torque! Is this real, or a spoof???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro5VIzTaMJc
Looks like we have not yet reached PeakStupidity.
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SafeNow
Thursday - June 8th 2023 10:21PM MST
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Professor DuhObvious here. The pattern described in the essay is a historical template for the current U.S. Whites are fleeing the blue states, and the non-whites, and their descendants, can’t make things work. (Except leafblowers).
Professor DuhObvious here. The pattern described in the essay is a historical template for the current U.S. Whites are fleeing the blue states, and the non-whites, and their descendants, can’t make things work. (Except leafblowers).
Moderator
Thursday - June 8th 2023 7:58AM MST
PS: Yeah, if the Africans hadn't been so corrupt, they could have confiscated the Magic Dirt™ from White S. Africans on the way out. Capital controls, bitchez!
The Alarmist
Thursday - June 8th 2023 7:54AM MST
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The emigrants must have taken all the Magic Dirt™️ to their new lands.
The emigrants must have taken all the Magic Dirt™️ to their new lands.