Posted On: Saturday - April 6th 2024 7:25PM MST
In Topics: Music Race/Genetics
The impetus for this music post tonight, instead of (of course!) something from Chrissie Hynde and the Pretenders, is a headline I recently read about one Beyonce saying she is the first Black! country singer. Truly I have never knowingly heard a song by this woman, was not sure if her name is pronounced with 2 syllables or 3, and had no idea what she looked like till I saw the thumbnail picture. I will say, black or not, most women look cute in cowboy hats. That doesn't make them country.
Beyonce may or may not be a country singer, but she surely wasn't the first black one. Alarmist, in the comments, mentioned Darius Rucker, former singer of Hootie and the Blowfish ("Hey, you Hootie?") making country music. OK, that's already one point in rebuttal. Maybe the Beyonce fans and internet writers don't know that the 1st famous black country singer was a guy named Charlie Pride. Unlike this Beyonce, who I imagine is all blackety-black in outlook, Charlie Pride came up a regular hard-working guy in White America. He worked in a lead smelter and played pro baseball in the Negro League in highly White 1960s Montana, You had to fit in in Helena and Great Falls, Montana, and Charlie Pride did.
His musical talents led him to a very successful career singing country music. I don't know about Beyonce's music, but Charlie Pride sounds like any other White country singer. Without looking at an album cover, you wouldn't know he was black.
Though Kiss an Angel Good Morning is his most known hit song, I like, and am more familiar with, his cover of Please Help Me I'm Falling, recorded in 1967. It was written by by Don Robertson and Hal Blair in 1960.
Here's a little bit more about Charlie Pride: Per wiki, from his time in the baseball leagues (as a pitcher),
Later that season [1953], while in the Negro leagues with the Louisville Clippers, two players – Pride and Jesse Mitchell – were traded to the Birmingham Black Barons for a team bus. "Jesse and I may have the distinction of being the only players in history to be traded for a used motor vehicle," Pride mused in his 1994 autobiography.That sounds like something one might write about in a country song. Regarding his making music in this particular genre:
According to a news item by the Associated Press, Pride made this comment in a 1992 interview: "They used to ask me how it feels to be the 'first colored country singer' ... Then it was 'first Negro country singer;' then 'first black country singer.' Now I'm the 'first African-American country singer.' That's about the only thing that's changed"Till Beyonce, of course.
... he was booked for his first large show, in Detroit's Olympia Stadium. Since no biographical information had been included with those singles, few of the 10,000 country fans who came to the show knew Pride was Black and discovered the fact only when he walked onto the stage, at which point the applause trickled off to silence. "I knew I'd have to get it over with sooner or later," Pride later remembered. "I told the audience: 'Friends, I realize it's a little unique, me coming out here – with a permanent suntan – to sing country and western to you. But that's the way it is.' "Haha, and yes, they liked both kinds of music at Detroit's Country Bunker, Country AND Western!
The songs sung by Charlie Pride, such as the above example, were pure country, what with the cheating song, the steel guitar, and his voice. Let's face it, Charlie Pride was an honorary White Man.
Thanks for reading and writing in this week, Peakers! Have a restful Sunday.
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Disposable Cameras: Explanations by Erin and James
Posted On: Saturday - April 6th 2024 3:35PM MST
In Topics: TV, aka Gov't Media Humor
We've got plenty of serious posts cooking on the front burner, more on the Invasion, the Climate Calamity™, the evil more than stupid out of the Regime, etc. However, we'll insert some humor here that will be familiar to The Office fans (a group I belong to). It will also be familiar to all who have seen the changes in technology (hence, society) of all sorts over the decades, as we've recently written about wrt the old phone books here - - here and here.
Let's talk disposable cameras. The use of these camera occurred during a fairly narrow window at the end of the film camera era. Those of us over 45, I'd say, will remember the day when pictures weren't free. The age of free digital photograph, high-resolution as now or not, has been a good thing and a bad thing. Waiting a week for pictures to come back (or just negatives first, for those without the money for all the prints - some may not have been good ones, so another week) took patience. One bad thing with "infinite photography", and video now, is that those, cough, cough, Oriental cough, camera-crazy tourists no longer are limited by the number of 36 exposure rolls of Kodachrome they can pack. It's much worse now.
Next-day developing (!!) came along sometime in the 1980s or 1990s, a hell of a thing in its time. However, if one wasn't a serious photograph, the Wal-Mart (and drug-store chain) plants that did the mass developing could use this capability to sell you disposable cameras. They were set up with one roll of film in them. This way, one didn't have to worry about screwing up and letting light in during loading/unloading film. One just bought this plastic thing (with a cheesy lens, of course, so not for pros) for not too much more than a roll of film and sent the thing in for quick developing. No, you didn't get the camera back - you got your photo prints. IIRC these were in use from the mid to late '90s
Well, there's a video of the later-era Office secretary named Erin. She was a ditz, but looked really nice in shorts playing volleyball, so... but the humor is great stuff, as good as seen from the rest of the characters. Here's Erin's take on the use of disposable cameras.
That's funny! However, one of the commenters on the youtube page cracked me up even more. He (James) thought he understood the concept and use of these disposable cameras, so he explained it to a Gen-Z'er thusly:
@kuhnhan
7 months ago:
"The disposable camera thing is hilarious."
Reply @squishy-tomato
7 months ago (edited):
"hilarious, but wasteful. A shame we don't get to see the result."
Reply @gymnasticsgirlie0647
1 month ago:
"Genuinely, can you please explain it to this confused Gen Zer? I looked it up and it said that you can only use the camera once, so why is everyone freaking out about her throwing the camera away?"
Reply @jamess2664
1 month ago:
"She was throwing the camera away before taking the film out."
Reply @gymnasticsgirlie0647
1 month ago:
"Oh, thank you."
Once again, I yield the floor to Captain Jean Luc Picard:
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Trump v Bai Dien and 2020s v 1980s
Posted On: Friday - April 5th 2024 7:17AM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 History Trump Americans ctrl-left Zhou Bai Dien
Peak Stupidity has a running theme of X v Y, be they mad wild beasts, politicians, but I repeat myself, or whatever. In this case, the 1st match-up in the title here is a "no duh!", well, for the most part. The Presidential election is 7 months from today, and these two are the purported selected candidates. OTOH, one of them could be in jail by November, and the other could be so mentally incognizant, he'd have to be replaced - whether the public would be let in on the latter fact is another story.
It's the 2nd match-up in the title that this post is really about, the difference in America and "the most important" elections ever between the 1980s* and the 2020s. As somewhat of a digression here, this post is about what I believe IS the most important election, which will get to my point later.
However, if I were personally to pick an American Presidential election that was the most important in HINDSIGHT, it'd be the Goldwater v Johnson election of 1964. Truly, the evil that came out of the Johnson administration put the ruination of America on the fast track. That is, the racial spoils systems, the Welfare State, and most importantly, the Immigration Invasion disaster, ALL were implemented during those 4 years. Goldwater would not have signed off on ANY of that. I'm not saying he'd have single-handedly saved the country, but he may have gotten us another 2 decades free of the madness.
OK, the subject here is the difference in the civility, the rule of law, and the general faith in the system in the elections between this decade and 4 decades ago.
Let's go back to the 1980s. If you will or can recall, with the Cold War being a part of it, the US Gov't felt it important to ensure fair*** elections in the various and sundry Banana Republics of Latin America from way back. Peak Stupidity noted here how the countries in that part of the world would go from Commie to Totalitarian Right (Can you say "military junta"**? I
We were, after all, the experts, living in a country in which political changes happened smoothly and as per the US Constitution, no matter how big the rancor of the politics was. True, there was talk of election cheating back in '60, probably correct, and the ctrl-left got even better at it over the years. However, even had a Dukakis or a Mondale gotten in office, I didn't see that as being a country-changing thing, at least in the short run. Of course, as with Johnson, policies from the ctrl-left had long-term ruinous consequences, but there was hope that it could be stopped and reversed via the normal political process.****
American elections had been going on fairly smoothly, with no major changes in their immediate aftermaths - there was that trouble in 1860*****, a few guys were shot to death and that - for right about 200 years! This was indeed something to be proud of. Well-intentioned people like Jimmah figured we needed to spread this expertise on fair and violence-free elections (and their aftermaths) around the world.
Perhaps if you were one of the 95% poor peons down there in the Banana Republics, the results of said elections wouldn't change too much, unless the place went full-on Commie for too long, as in Cuba and later Venezuela. However, the politics and the government itself were subject to big changes come election day. It wasn't just another guy administering the government.
What was the norm 4 decades ago in the Banana Republics is now the norm here in America in the present decade. One might go back to '16 and remember how the ctrl-left behaved after the UNPOSSIBLE! happened. (Unpossible, as in a non-UniParty candidate was elected, somehow!) By '20, much of the right had rightly lost faith in the election process. We realize now that rather than send anybody to Central America, WE need a guy like a Jaime Cartero out of Argentina to arrange for monitoring of US elections UP HERE.
There's more to the current state of affairs than the cheating. After some questioning, protesting, and peaceful rioting about the '20 election, the ctrl-left "winners" have taken over a thousand Political Prisoners. (This sounds very Banana Republican.) The ctrl-left has been trying to normalize and expand the cheating process. They've been personalizing the law to persecute the candidate of The Right. (This ALSO sounds very Banana Republican.) Is it time to bring back the term "Junta" to be used to describe the Potomac Regime here? Face it, we're really gonna need to learn how to pronounce that one!
I don't understand the Black Swan hullabaloo about the coming total solar eclipse. (We really enjoyed the '17 one.) The coming Presidential election, on November 5th of this year, is another story. I will be surprised if there is NOT some big trouble in the aftermath. Peak Stupidity is not a prepper site, per se, but let's say I've been reading those type sites regularly lately. Here we are in the 2020s, and America has finally become 1980s Latin America, in which elections have upheaval-of-society style consequences. That's what Peak Stupidity expects anyway. Read us in early '25. We'll be happy to have been wrong.
* I could have picked a decade later, possibly, and definitely any decade earlier since the 1860s, but I was aware and remember the 1980s.
** It's not pronounced like the name of Dark Brandon's crack-head son without the "r", but that's the best I can do.
*** Yeah, I know, some of the time, "fair" meant an election that got OUR guy elected.
**** I pin down my realization that the normal political process would not save us to 1995 - see When did the Feral Government get OUT OF CONTROL?
***** Really, the election result itself did NOT directly affect the near future unpleasantness - it was the refusal of the new President Lincoln to get Federal troops out of S. Carolina territory that was the spark.
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Caitlin Clark: You go, grrrll!
Posted On: Thursday - April 4th 2024 5:59PM MST
In Topics: Genderbenders Race/Genetics Female Stupidity Bread and Circuses
Look, I don't care how many times the internet wants to throw some name from the latest in Infotainment at me, I'm not going to make any effort to care. I'd seen this name Caitlin Somebody a number of times over the last few weeks. It couldn't be Bruce Jenner, the guy from the Wheaties box, could it? Nah, but because of that dude alone, I think of Caitlin now as the name of a transsexual from, well, it sounds like some leafy neighborhood in Trans-sexual Transylvania.
Caitlin used to be a name that brought up a very cute girl in my mind, likely because the first Caitlin I ever saw was cute. (That's not to say I remember who it might have been. Anyway, the name wasn't around when I was young.) But, it's not Bruce Jenner the media has been talking about, and I finally did find out who this was, just today - see the image above. Ahhh, women's basketball. No wonder I'd never heard of her and didn't particularly want to.
Here's the Gateway Pundit article* that goes with the picture above: Lib Journalist Throws Race Tantrum Over Caitlin Clark’s Success, Furious About Coverage Compared to Black Players. Oh, now this may be interesting after all.
I didn't need to find out who that Lib journalist is and what kind of tantrum he or she** threw. That is some of the Gateway Pundit National Enquirer-style nonsense that I try to avoid - "Mr. ABC says this - social media ERUPTS!" Sorry, but that's not a story. The story is that White basketball player Caitlin Clarke has apparently garnered lots of attention and brought many new fans to enjoy(?) women's basketball. It's possible that women's basketball fandom could even reach outside of the lesbian market.
They aren't reaching your Peak Stupidity blogger though. If I cared the least about basketball enough to watch it on TV to begin with, I surely would want to see the very best players, who would be men. Back to the genderbender business for a bit, I notice that transgenders who think they are men aren't well represented in men's sports. That's odd.
That, in turn, brings up the point that this sport WOULD reach more men were it played by hot women wearing bikinis. That's probably the only way. (At least someone in the volleyball sector read the freaking memo!) If not bikinis, well, see, I can't tell if it's that this Caitlin Clarke doesn't look like a goon that has her attracting the attention. One can't tell everything from the picture above - the uniform purchasing department might want to go on a college campus to consider shorts that are more butt-cheek adjacent.
Here is Johnathan Jone's take:
If you guessed Hill’s indignation was in any way related to Clark’s skin pigmentation, then you’ve been paying attention to sports media.She IS overshadowing Black! athletes. It IS likely that she's "leading women's basketball to new heights" because she is White and prettier than what I think of as a women basketball player. Mr. Jones seems to be a "Democrats are the Real Racists" adherent. Now, this Hill character is given equal time, per the Stupidity Fairness Act:
Hill, a social justice warrior posing as a journalist and who currently writes for The Atlantic, ranted in an interview with Uproxx this past week that Clark is overshadowing black athletes.
Per Hill, Clark is leading women’s basketball to new heights because she is white and she is not solely responsible for elevating basketball for women.
Everything about this sport has been trending up for years now. It did not just start with Caitlin Clark, but they’re treating it like it did,” she said of sports media.Uhhh, no, there's no proof these new spectators enjoy the sport. Remember, hot women in bikinis! We know why they're coming out, to support a White woman in a world of blackety-black. Caitlin is the Great White Hope, as if anybody has hopes about women's basketball other than... in meeting a fellow carpet-m ... [Censored
She added, “And so it’s already creating a false narrative that is doing the public a disservice.”
The raving racist continued: [DRR!]
“If you look at WNBA ratings or women’s college basketball ratings, they have been exploding for at least the last seven to (10) years — or I would even say five to seven if you want a shorter window. And so, it’s been proven that people really enjoy the sport.
Race is THE STORY here. Anarcho-tyranny has put the average White person in a position of no power and not many options. One option he's still got is to spend his money per his politics. That's obviously what's been going on with this Caitlin Clarke story. As for these 2 clowns discussing the story, I suppose it shouldn't be unexpected in this age of near-Peak Stupidity for both of them to be wrong.
* This article is originally from one Johnathan Jones of The Western Journal.
** The name happens to start the first sentence of the article, but then it's "Far-left former ESPN host Jemele Hill". What is a Jemele, or is it NOT OK to ask that?
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Oh say, does that blue and yellow banner yet wave...?
Posted On: Wednesday - April 3rd 2024 6:28PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity The Neocons
"... o'er the yard with all the leaves, and the home of some stupid broad?"
See the post-postscript for the explanation of why this post is "about nothing" first, but anyway, this post describes a bit of a coincidence.
It's been over 2 years since this Russia/Ukraine war because a the next Infotainment and the next big cause for the American Neocons. I can remember seeing the blue and yellow flags all over the place on St. Patrick's Day in '22, including on many of the parade vehicles. Plenty of neighbors had the flags flying o'er their yards for a year or so, but one nearby has been a real stalwart - perhaps she'll be the subject of a Francis Scott Keylenski song.
If they're trying to start WWIII with this, that IS a big story, I guess THE big story. Otherwise, Peak Stupidity has stayed out of this and noted occasionally that America should be staying out of this. I'm with MTG on this, along with about everything else!
The coincidence is that I had just written in the postscript of this post yesterday the following: "...and the Ukraine flags flying in American neighborhoods, with most of the latter down now besides one nearby. " That's the one in question. I looked this afternoon, and her flag was NOT still there! This was the first time I looked and didn't see it, but it could have been down a week or two, max. Did the Ukraine surrender? Did this lefty neighbor surrender to the comments from other neighbors that "Yeah, OK, you've done your part. Stop. This is getting stupid."?
It might have just blown down because it's been pretty windy. The answer to your question, Francis Scott Keylenski is that NO, flying or not, it doesn't fly o'er the yards of the free or the homes of the brave. It flies o'er the yards of the Totalitarians and the homes of the stupid.
PS: Sorry about the commercials you've got to skip through (5 sec each) on rumble. I don't know how to get rid of that. At least they've got this whole interview up.
PPS: I had a much better post in mind for the evening, to be named "Geography for Preppers". Yet, my browser lost the tab with the interesting article*, and I've spent over an hour searching for that article. It had a series of US county base maps and progressive weeding out of counties that are not prepper country. I'm pissed about this, because it would be a good post, and I wanted to look it over some more. Finding exact stuff on the internet without some exact wording is HARD!
* Yes, I checked the history, tried to get it to tab-complete-me, etc. No joy.
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Trump: Throwing their trash back into the faces of the ctrl-left
Posted On: Tuesday - April 2nd 2024 6:29PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Lefty MegaStupidity Trump
A couple of things I will continue saying about Donald Trump are: The guy knows how to campaign. He knows how to fight the Lyin' Press.
Over the last couple of days I've seen 2 instances of Trump going after Dark Brandon, the Lyin' Press, and their stupidity by throwing the words of the left back at them.
1) The word "bloodbath" was being bandied about for a few weeks. This was due to Mr. Trump having used that word in its figurative sense to describe what would happen to the US auto industry if tariffs weren't enacted. Here was his wording:
No, we’re going to put a 100% tariff on every single car that comes across the line, and you’re not going to be able to sell those cars if I get elected. Now, if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole — that’s going to be the least of it, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the country, that’ll be the least of it.For the whole ... what now? Yes, Trump talks in circles often and doesn't finish sentences before others start out of his mouth. However, he finished his thought, and we know what he meant.
The Lyin' Press tried to enact the narrative that Trump said something about an actual bloodbath in this country. "Inciting violence!" Well, people have the internet now, and they were able to read or hear Trump's words to see the Lyin' Press was full of it.
That's not the end of the heavy use of this word though. Here's Trump, per this Forbes article:
Trump reprised his controversial use of the word “bloodbath” in discussing Biden’s immigration policies and high-profile crimes in which the accused defendants were living in the country illegally, telling a crowd in Michigan “I stand before you today to declare that Joe Biden’s border bloodbath …” before pausing himself, seemingly to emphasize his use of the term, then adding, “and that’s what it is—it’s a bloodbath.”Indeed it IS a bloodbath, in the nearly literal sense.* Great job, Mr. Trump!
2) As most Peak Stupidity readers would have read here and elsewhere. Zhou Bai Dien proclaimed Easter Sunday the "Transgender Day of Visibility." this past Good Friday. Trashing of Christian holidays and all culture is de rigueur for those in the modern ctrl-left.
This proclamation and usurpation by Dark Brandon didn't go over to well with millions of Christians, not-so-needless-to-say**.
Trump threw this back into the face of the left, per The Gateway Pundit here, with his own proclamation and hopefully accurate prediction:
“November 5 is going to be called Christian Visibility Day, when Christians turn out in numbers that nobody’s ever seen before.”
That's how you do it! The more Trump throws their words back into their faces, the less the ctrl-left will be prone to spout off via their Lyin' Press arm. Or, they'll continue to commit this stupidity but regret it later.
* Nobody is bathing in blood, but much blood has been spilled by the violence of the army of invaders from around the world that Bai Dien and Mayorkas have purposely, treasonously, invited and allowed into the country.
** Until recently, it seems like people have been taking this stuff and presenting their other cheeks. So, this needed to be said.
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The Big Sort and the decline of Egging
Posted On: Tuesday - April 2nd 2024 6:16AM MST
In Topics: Media Stupidity Liberty/Libertarianism The Future Geography President DeSantis
... in Florida and hopefully in the rest of the country? Peak Stupidity would in no way have watched an NBC News story, but The Gateway Pundit was disgusted by a certain story about Florida, as Ben Kew discussed, in NBC Runs Pathetic Hit Piece on Free State of Florida, Claims People Fleeing The ‘Culture War’.
In the article, the numbers for this alleged exodus of these Culture War losers are given extremely vaguely.* However, the concept of some exodus of people who are not happy with the politics and culture, as we assume others moved down there FOR it, is interesting. Gateway Pundit takes the stand:
Florida has become hot property over recent years, providing newcomers** with all round sunshine and an escape from Democratic insanity of states such as New York and California.NBC's testimony to the Judge:
This is largely due to its Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, who led the way against the COVID tyranny and ensured that Florida remained free while other parts of the country were under indefinite house arrest.
In its article, NBC notes that although hundreds of thousands of people moved to Florida, many also left the state and moved elsewhere:
While hundreds of thousands of new residents have flocked to the state on the promise of beautiful weather, no income tax and lower costs, nearly 500,000 left in 2022, according to the most recent census data. Contributing to their move was a perfect storm of soaring insurance costs, a hostile political environment, worsening traffic and extreme weather, according to interviews with more than a dozen recent transplants and longtime residents who left the state in the past two years.Insurance has gone way up there, and yes, you'll get worse traffic when multitudes of northern refugees swarm a place***.
Extreme weather? Yes, Florida has extreme weather. It's hot a LOT. It doesn't ever really cool down, and Floridians will tell you it's freezing out when the outside temperature is in the high 40s F. They are science deniers, as we up north know that water freezes at 32F. However, that well-known meme with the two guys in space suits would be handy here: "You mean Florida is experiencing extreme weather?" "Always has been."
As for the hostile political environment, I am not sure if NBC is exaggerating, OK, lying a bit here, with this eyewitness testimony:
Costs and politics were also enough to cause Noelle Schmitz to leave the state after more than 30 years, despite her son having a year left in high school, and relocate to Winchester, Virginia. She said the politics became ever-present in her daily life — one former neighbor had a massive Trump banner in front of their house for years, and another had Trump written in big letters across their yard. When she put out a Hillary Clinton sign in 2016, it was stolen and her house was egged.
Please continue with your testimony:
“I saw my neighbors and co-workers become more radicalized, more aggressive and more angry about politics. I’m thinking, where is this coming from? These are not the people I remember,” Schmitz said. “I was finally like, we need to get the hell out of here, things are not going well.”Was "Trump" written in flowers, was it made with monkey grass inserted into the regular St. Augustine, or did she mean the homeowner mowed it that way? Either way, that takes some skill and effort - much appreciated!
Egging, well, if you grew up in a certain era, I don't see how you would have gotten to adulthood without having egged a house or two. We egged a couple of houses, and it wasn't even out of valid anger over the political ideology of Communism and the Hildabeast. We were just bored shitless.
Wait, what judge and testimony are we talking about here? Think family court.
Whenever Peak Stupidity discusses the America's deep divide, our very favorite member of Congress, Marjorie Taylor Greene comes up. (Her support or lack thereof by commenters demonstrated the divide in that post, and here's a follow-up.) I'd forgotten that MTG has been praised here long before - over a year ago we posted Irreconcilable Differences as grounds for a National Divorce. The division of America along appropriate political lines to separate the greatly polarized population as a "national divorce" is a good concept. Unfortunately, the deep division doesn't align nicely with State borders, and often not along county lines either.
What if we could sort ourselves out around State borders before this national divorce? It'd be akin to dividing up the many kids, the cars, and the real estate before the lawyers (governments) get involved. "She likes to be with me more, and, well, I don't drive a stick, so you can have that one." "You can live in the city place, because you can't take care of all the equipment on our land out in the country. I get the other kids and the tools."
I do find it hard to believe that there are people who are offended by an attitude in the population and its State government that's pro freedom and against anti-White wokeness and lawlessness. Governor DeSantis just beat Big Mouse, he has gotten the Florida University system to eliminate all D.I.E. departments, and the State has passed a law making it easier to boot out illegal squatters on one's property.
Are they against all that? Do they want to start up Sanctimony Cities in their own new back yards? That's hard for me to believe, but if they want to get out of America for these reasons, more power to them. Let's all sort ourselves out. This is very cost effective for U-Haul, if nothing else.
Make America (and a few dozen other States) Florida, and make the Potomac Regime New York and California!**** Let's run a Big Sort.
PS: As for the political feuding among neighbors, even if I believe NBC News, I find it only fair. I've lived among BLM banners on churches for many years, the stupid yard signs (only taken down after burglaries), and the Ukraine flags flying in American neighborhoods, with most of the latter down now besides one nearby.
Yet, we haven't removed any or egged any of said houses. Is inflation making egging cost prohibitive now? Hmmmm.... more likely the decline of egging is due to the doorbell cameras. ;-} OTOH, what are we to do with all those extra eggs from Easter Sunday? It's very tempting indeed, and if it can get U-Haul just one extra sale ...
* I looked at population growth in Florida, here - there are a table and a graph showing growth there for 2.2 decades, from '00 through '22. There's a lot to this, though, what with natural births - deaths growth to be accounted for before getting a net influx. More difficult would be determining (for me from the internet anyway) where new residents came from and where those leaving went to. Their reasons, well, NBC talked to a dozen people - that's 12. So, they know nothing more than I do about the numbers.
** That's the old use of the word "newcomers", I assume. We're not talking illegal aliens, but then, they are involved in all this too. We'll give you your Sanctimony Cities, if we can keep our IC cars.
*** Charleston, S. Carolina is a great example of this.
**** It's just a real shame about California, though. It's simply the most beautiful piece of land with such a great (physical!) climate.
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Peak Stupidity is FOR the alleged Depopulocalypse - Part 4: The Big Caveat
Posted On: Monday - April 1st 2024 7:02AM MST
In Topics: The Future Race/Genetics
This is continued from Part 1 - - Part 2, and Anecdotal Interlude of a series. Those posts were put up Sept. 8th, Oct. 3rd, and Nov 16th of '23, respectively, so I don't expect any reader to have been anxiously awaiting this one (either). ;-}.
Due to our becoming more timely lately, mostly due to our material often coming from stories on The Gateway Pundit, Peak Stupidity has dropped the ball on some of the older polemic/speculation series. The only reason a continuation of the important "Depopulocalypse"* came to mind at all was my reading of a Science ALERT. OK, no, it's not some loud, flashing alert on my phone - I've deactivate all that crap. This was a link on Instapundit and a reminder of this series, Birth Rates Are Plummeting in Most Nations, And The World Isn't Prepared. I thought this would be a good article to get my thoughts going on this subject again.
Wrongo, Kebler! For a "Science" site, the article had a significant lack of maps, tables, and graphs, like, there were none. OK, well, why post here? Peak Stupidity's impetus here is similar to that for the recent posts Four Dead in Illinois and The Banning of Existence for motor vehicles. They contain some stupid statements, and that's part of what we are about here, pointing out stupidity where we see it.
This article does, in it's own stupid manner, that of writer Jess Cockerell, point to the big caveat that we had to get to before getting to the interesting stuff. Here is that big caveat: All the discussion about whether lower, even MUCH lower, populations of humans inhabiting the nations of the world in the near future are a good thing or a bad thing, WHY things are going in this direction, and what could or should be done were it going to be a bad thing are a moot point, if the World's
Why discuss more affordable family formation in the future with lower populations, is lower female fertility a fundamental problem, should we try to fix this, will it sort itself out, how will old people be taken care of, is the problem only with the transition**, ... etc.? Why care about any of this if our future is Africa?
So, that said, let's make it implicit in future posts on the that the discussion is based on the assumption that we are NOT turned into Africa west, Africa north, and even Africa east. (Yeah, Japan has been holding its own, but a recent VDare article was not so solidly encouraging about its prospects against the nation-wreckers.)
Now to get to the real stupidity, there are Mr. Cockerell's quotes from the Lancet paper he used to write his Science Alert!, who were "an extensive team of international scientists":
By 2100, one in every two children born will come from Africa, which already contributed one third of the world's babies in 2021."Heh, heh, he said 'contributed', he-he-he-he ..." More from Biostatisticians Natalia Bhattacharjee, and Stein Emil Vollset:
The authors say "ethical and effective immigration policies with global co-operation" will be crucial in managing the population crashes many countries are due to face.Import youthful Africans to keep our nation's populations up... but then, whose nations would they be? They say you can't fix stupid. I'm not even going to try. For Biostatisticians Natalia Bhattacharjee and Stein Emil Vollset, it's inlaid in their jeans.
"Once nearly every country's population is shrinking, reliance on open immigration will become necessary to sustain economic growth," Bhattacharjee says. "Sub-Saharan African countries have a vital resource that ageing societies are losing – a youthful population."
PS: Oh, or was this some sort of sick April Fool's joke gone wrong? I wish...
* As before, I'll point out the 3 long posts by substack blogger "John Carter" and his Postcards from Barsoom site that got me started: Depopulocalypse
Depopulocalypse II – Solutions That Don’t or Won’t Work
Depopulocalypse III – From SINK to FLOAT
** I can't write that word, say it, hear, it read it, or even think it now without hearing Beavis or Butthead in my head... or both of them. "Heh, heh, he said 'transition", he-he-he-he!"
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The Resurrection
Posted On: Saturday - March 30th 2024 8:51PM MST
In Topics: Genderbenders Lefty MegaStupidity Websites Bible/Religion Zhou Bai Dien Holiday from Stupidity
This evening's Peak Stupidity post was to have been about that humorous Babylon Bee-worthy, but true, story I mentioned a couple of weeks back. I even have pictures ready. However, it's late, it's been a long day, and there's some bad news about the internet. Also, holiday greetings are in order, They relate to the bad news, and also to some stupidity out of Bai Dien, aka Dark Brandon, but really the Potomac Regime in general, on this holiday.
That's tomorrow, of course. Easter celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ. This is the good news, aka, The Gospel(s).
Now, with the semi-related bad news. Not to compare himself to Jesus or something, but Peter Brimelow of VDare posted some bad news last night about the site in which he draws a parallel regarding this important website (and foundation). He wrote “IT IS FINISHED”—NYAG Letitia James Crucifies VDARE.com. I am in mental shock about this news that VDare could, I guess, WILL be, taken down.
Just before this news, by happenstance, I was doing some thinking on some way the Foundation could extricate itself from the tentacles of the tryannical Black! New York Attorney General and just that State in general. Now, I've read not just the short "TL/DR" version of Mr. Brimelow's explanation of the trouble but also the long versions and Mrs. Brimelow (Lydia) on this in both her Tucker Carlson interview and another hour long interview with some other guy. I get what's been going on.
I'm no lawyer. I'm no accountant. I'm no finance guy. However, what I read leads me to conclude that the problem is VDare is trying to continue playing by the rules, that is, the old rules, that the enemy does not play under. There's got to be a way to get the assets somewhere, OUT of New York, claimed back by the donors and re-donated later, maybe, and get started in a new, America-friendlier State. Leticia James and company know that they can use your honesty and straightforwardness against you. You've got to change your whole mindset. There's got to be a way. Damn the lawyers, full speed ahead! I hope that VDare can be resurrected. It'll take more than 3 days.
Lastly, on my go-to site, The Gateway Pundit, I ran across multiple posts about Bai Dien, and also Comrade Hochul, Governor of New York, claiming tomorrow for a quite different holiday. That'd be Transgender Day of Visibility. After we stop laughing and/or projectile vomiting, many of us who may not have had it really sink in yet may finally realize: Yes, they hate us. They hate everything about us! They are rubbing our noses in the dirt with this Satanic nonsense. ("They" would be the ctrl-left, Globalists, Communists, whatever the term, of the Potomac Regime.)
I hope and pray there is some infinite wisdom behind all these things. This usurping of a Christian holiday for the Genderbender stupidity by Dark Brandon seems to be a bit foolish on the Regime's part. They are moving too far too fast. Christians who've turned the other cheek 7 x 70 times, 490 for you innumerate folks in Del Boca Vista, might be finally ready to resist and maybe even start kicking ass.
Well, that wasn't very positive for the day of the Resurrection, was it? Let us be thankful then and lay off the internet and all the bad news it brings, for a special Sunday, anyway.
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The Banning of Existence for motor vehicles
Posted On: Friday - March 29th 2024 9:04AM MST
In Topics: California Global Climate Stupidity Cars Environmental Stupidity Zhou Bai Dien
I already include the Rush song in this past Saturday's post, but here's another Motor Law: Eight States Plan to Ban the Sale of Gas-Powered Vehicles as Joe Biden Issues New Rules to Begin Killing Them Off. I really don't think it's going to be that easy.
As with the last post, you and I both - well hopefully more than the two of us are involved - are probably sick of going over and over the stupidity of this Climate Calamity™ deal. I realized, as the Kung Flu PanicFest finally tailed off, that this thing was not close to over. However, I did not expect it to become the biggest overarching excuse for Globalists/Communists to take over large parts of the world's economies. Thanks, little Miss Thunberg. I gotta' feeling you're gonna reGreta your whole childhood.*
So again here, it's just a couple of lines from the GP story that had me wanting to write a post. This is about State, not Feral, law:
Delaware and Colorado, for example, last year finalized rules that require 82 percent of all new cars to be zero emission vehicles by 2032. New Mexico announced last July that it will set its own annual targets for the sale of zero-emission vehicles. But none of these states have endorsed the 2035 ban.How does that work? As highly stupid as it is to prohibit the sale of vehicles based on unsound, unfinished modeling of the Earth's climate (what, with the explanation of the ICE freaking AGES not even clear), I see that laws are put on businesses and people. You can't buy this. You can't sell this. Wait, that sounds like ... well, that's not this post.
What I don't even get the stupidity of is the rules against there BEING less than 82% - where in Sam Hill did they get that precise number? - EVs. I mean, these laws are not restricting or mandating sales, not manufacturing, not purchases, but BEING. These cars must not BE here! But, but, what if they are? What are the sentencing guidelines on cars existing where they shouldn't?
"You there, yeah, you two F-150s and you three Toyota Matrices! Yes, you need to be beyond that (State) line. Stay behind the line, Sirs! I WILL use lethal force. OK, that's it, get on the autorack. Quit resisting! Watch your hood there."
At least New Mexico specifies sales... because, you know, it's not like anyone can drive one of those evil IC-engine vehicles in from Texas, Arizona, Oklahoma, or Colorado, or diagonally across the Four Corners from Utah. The latter be Navajo country. You may end up in a showdown. Then there's the stretch of the N. Mexican border with Ole Mexico. Nobody gets across there alive! It's no country for old cars.
* "I've gotta climata modela you no canna' refuse - but youra agonna reGreta it." [Caution: Joke in Progress.]
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Four dead in Illinois
Posted On: Friday - March 29th 2024 7:04AM MST
In Topics: Race/Genetics Guns
♪♫♬ "... gotta get down to it, teens keep cutting us down.
What should have been done long ago?
What if you knew one and found him dead on the ground?
I would have run, had I known." ♪♫♬
IIA patriots have been saying this for years. If you somehow succeed in banning guns from those who don't respect the laws anyway, next you're gonna need knife control. This has been illustrated so well in the formerly-United Kingdom, where just that is going on. It's really about the PEOPLE, people. The Gateway Pundit reports Four Dead, Several Injured in Stabbing Spree in Northern Illinois — Suspect in Custody.
This story from Rockford, Illinois is about a mass stabbing, not shooting. Four people are dead. 7 others were injured. The USA Today article linked-to in the Gateway Pundit Post makes it sound like this didn't happen in the hood itself. It doesn't read as if the victims are all hood rats.
As for the mass murderer,
... a 22-year-old male suspect was promptly taken into custody for questioning. However, still no ID was released.Dang, it's too bad they couldn't get more info out of the guy. All they know is he's 22 y/o and a man, a man of some color or other ...
Due to the unfortunate location of Chicago, the State of Illinois has more than its share of laws involving and against purchasing guns and carrying them. That may or may not have stopped some of the victims from defending themselves against death or bodily trauma. Those laws DEFINITELY didn't stop this mass killing, though.
I only posted about this particular story due to a part of a statement I read from the Rockford Chief of Police:
“This is a pretty painstaking event,” Chief Redd expressed. “My heart goes out to the families right now who are suffering a loss.”I don't know. I guess you don't have to be a man (or woman) of letters to be a Police Chief, but... "painstaking"? Did the Chief mean that this mass murder in Rockford was painstakingly planned? I seriously doubt that. I don't think that word means what Chief Redd think it means. Better axe the internet next time.
Wait, how'd I guess?! Ha, after reading that, I quickly went to duckduckgo.
https://www.rrstar.com › story › news › 2021 › 08 › 31 › rockford-police-carla-redd-named-first-female-first-black-chief › 5616341001How'd I already know that, you axed? Don't axe me no questions, and I won't tell you no lies. (Oh, the Skynyrd song is in this other post.)
Rockford police Carla Redd named first female, first Black chief
Redd joined the Rockford Police Department in 1998. She was a patrol officer, field training officer, community services officer, detective and sergeant before becoming the first Black woman to ...
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Peak Stupidity's strange new respect for Donald Trump
Posted On: Thursday - March 28th 2024 5:13PM MST
In Topics: Lefty MegaStupidity Political Correctness Trump
I get and like that expression, but the "strange" ought to be left out here, really. My respect of the man from what I see in the clip below is not so strange. It's new only because I didn't know him back in the day.
Other than knowing he was on TV with some show about "you're fired!", I'd not heard much of this guy until about '08 when he was on suspected AntiChrist Øb☭ma's case about his place of birth. Then, for another 7 years, I didn't follow him in a literal or virtual sense until that amazing Summer of '15.
The rest is recent history, of course, hopefully to be a bigly enlarged saga in the coming years. Peak Stupidity has included plenty of words disparaging the shortcomings of the ex-Pres, but we have never faulted him on the Political Correctness stupidity, now enhanced as Wokeness. Fighting that crap is probably what Trump is best at. Well, he was the same 31 years ago.
At a Congressional hearing in 1993 Trump testified to defend his then near-monopoly on gambling, ooops, errr, gaming, in the northeast (his big venue being Atlantic City, NJ). There was new encroachment into the business by the Connecticut Indians (as opposed to the Connecticut Yankees). I'm not here to argue whether Trump was right about the mob infiltration or the business end of things. If you want the biased Washington Post view of the whole thing, look here. I got there inadvertently, but I do like this bit:
Trump had arrived late to the hearing. The chamber was packed with people, including a class of first-graders whose school was built with Indian casino revenues.Haha! Yeah, great role models for the kids there, both in the casino business and in the US Congress!
Additionally, the article says that Trump went way off the "script" he'd been told to stick to by his business-end handlers. Going off script is another thing Donald Trump is very good at. This is off-script, and I love it!:
"... that you've approved... you, Sir, in your great wisdom, have approved ..." ;-} Outstanding!!
Man, standing up to this piece-o-work George Miller must have been a blast for The Donald. Note Congressman Miller's holier-than-thou attitude at the end there. This was no ordinary lefty Congressman from California. Put it this way: Per wiki, Congressman Miller "has been considered Nancy Pelosi's most trusted confidant, with conservative columnist Robert Novak describing him as 'her consigliere, always at her side.'" George Miller, of the 7th District, which includes much of State Capital Sacramento,
Lastly on this guy, and keeping in mind that being voted against 424-1 doesn't have to necessarily be a bad thing (Ron Paul may have been on the low end of that one), we see this on wiki:
Miller's biggest defeat was when he lost 424-1 in congress for his amendment to House Resolution 6 of 1994. His refusal to make provision for homeschooling caused the national home school community to lobby the whole congress against Miller's amendment to the Improving America's Schools Act of 1994.Did I mention George Miller was a scumbag?
It was heartening to see young-vintage Donald Trump do anything but cower to that man with his shocked PC bullshit. I respect him for that in 1993, and I respect him for the same thing in 2024. Nice job!
PS: I did skim through iSteve comments under his recent Pretendians post (as referenced in our quick post designed to show lots of skin). That's where I found this one. I could not find the great Sopranos scene with something similar, but without asshole Congressmen.
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Hotel look-up scam - finally to the point
Posted On: Thursday - March 28th 2024 1:22PM MST
In Topics: Internets Websites Big-Biz Stupidity Scams Customer Care
See, this is what happens often at Peak Stupidity. We write posts to give background for a point, interesting or not, and may never get to the point itself. I did remember this time. Those background posts are on the old ways of looking up people and businesses: Let your fingers do the walking - - The days of the HuWhite pages, and The Yellow Pages - Factoids and Fun.
Though I've been using and switching out various search "engines" - see our post Peak Search Results - I have found bing the best for one particular thing. That thing is the looking up of business phone numbers, most particularly local ones.
As the discussion under those background post covered, particularly that by commenter E.H. Hail, the whole way of doing many things is less orthodox and structured now, the time of ubiquitous internet. For this task, here's no more "Well, duh, look in the Yellow Pages, of course!"* On the internet, you try this, and you try that. Maybe you find a site that's good for your needs for a while. Later that site goes to shit, which is, from my experience, ALMOST ALWAYS the case.
So, yeah, for some years now, bing.com has been great for me when it comes to getting those phone numbers and addresses. (Sometimes the maps even help, as I can see which location of a chain of businesses is closest.) Luckily for me, as opposed to the case with weather sites**, for example, I have not had to scramble and find a working replacement for this important function yet.
Bing has phone/address info for all over the country. When doing some family traveling, I've tried to get numbers to call hotel desk people to get what I can't learn on-line. I don't know if this could be called an actual SCAM, per se, but one has to be really careful to get the search result, on bing, this is, that has the map along side it in order to get the real honest-to-God hotel phone number for, like, the actual freaking hotel! If you readers are still interested here, see first the "Hampton Inn Kingman AZ"*** search results for bing, and then, seeing as how I'll try them sometimes, those for duckduckgo.
Note that on either site's search results page, the first blurbs are NOT for the hotel itself, but from "Guest Reservations.com "Reservations.com", Reservations DESK.com", along with your usual "Trip Advisors" and "PriceLines", "Bookings.com" etc, and the big overall hotel chain itself (as opposed to the brand). My laziness has me reading off phone numbers from the results blurbs, if they are there. DuckDuckGo is the bad one about this, for me anyway. They'll have the numbers, and, without having searched for the area code for the city, I may figure 855 is one, not a toll-free number. (See PS's discussion in that 3rd background post on those "800" numbers and proliferation of actual area codes.) Even the result with the map on DDG has the misleading info.
I end up mashing (virtual) buttons to get to the front desk, and I end up on the phone with India. I don't even KNOW THAT for a little while because it might be the •Indian owners of this Patel Motel at the actual desk in America. The
You just have to watch it. I think bing is best. Look for the local map and what you are sure is the area code for the city before calling. The big booking sites want you to get to their reservations lines, outsourced to wherever. This is not a rip-off scam, but it's one that wastes time. Time is money too, after all, and calls to India are stressful. Stress can turn into money too, so there ya' go. I hope bing will keep one of their best features, their improved replacement for the Yellow Pages.
PS: In doing due diligence here, I did call the (928) number. The phone rang easily 20 times, making me wonder if this was the correct number after all. It was - it was just that the poor clerk (a White lady) must have been doing other work. I felt bad saying "sorry, wrong number" after she must have run over there finally. That's better than, "sorry, Ma'am, just some Peak Stupidity due diligence work." "What?" "You mean you've never heard of us?! Here's the url, got a
* Even when there were competing Yellow Pages, back near the end of that era, there had to have been lots of overlap, and one would just keep the books together there near the phone... those that hadn't been already used up at the shooting range ...
** That post was not about the weather forecasts on phones. It was titled Darksky goes Dark.
*** I give this example semi-randomly. Hmmm, maybe,per this TakiMag column about Steve Sailer's new book, this will be the secret meeting place for one of his events in or yeah, kinda near, Los Angeles yeah, that's the ticket....
... No, it's not, but for those hostiles who can't read more than a couple hundred characters at a time, well, we'll see you in Kingman! Here's the phone number for the Hampton Inn - (855) 605-0317 - I'll be at the swimming pool laughing my ass off.
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Noticing by Steve Sailer, coming to a porch near you
Posted On: Tuesday - March 26th 2024 7:16PM MST
In Topics: Pundits alt-right Books
What I noticed a few times recently was that my 3* copies of Steve Sailer's brand new anthology, Noticing: An Essential Reader had not come. It was a relief to find out that this was just due to it not having been released yet. Today is the day of the book's release, I noticed. (Thank you, Mr. Hail, for the reminder.)
There are no ratings or reviews here on Goodreads or here on amazon yet. That makes sense, so I don't see that as nefarious... yet. However, our Peak Stupidity readers may want to add these, once they've read this book.
Peak Stupidity will review the book, but I cannot say if it will be very detailed. If most of the essays are ones I've already read on his blog (linked-to above) then there won't be that much to say more than to relate which subject matter is covered.** For someone who has not read him, I think you'll like the writing. Mr. Sailer has noticed quite a few things that others either miss or do not choose to admit to noticing.
I hope Mr. Sailer will get lots of exposure, make some good $$, and get lots of support. Even if you don't like his work, for you, your purchase of this book could be akin to my biggest reason for voting for Trump.
This must be a blurb on the back:
“If the meritocracy were real, Steve Sailer would be one of the most famous writers in the world. Someday historians will revere him. In the meantime, read this book.” — Tucker CarlsonPretty good publicity!
* 1 for me, and 2 copies for friends or LittleFreeLibraries nearby.
** You could go to his site, search for the posts on the various topics, and read loads of comments in lieu of a review.
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Brace, brace, brace! ... for the Climate Calamity™
Posted On: Tuesday - March 26th 2024 8:26AM MST
In Topics: TV, aka Gov't Media Global Climate Stupidity Media Stupidity
Disclaimer: This map is a couple of days old, and it's all guesswork anyway. Peak Stupidity will not be held responsible for your roof.
Peak Stupidity has been meaning to have some interesting discussion on former Climate Calamitists* who've seen the
No, there's nothing new here. It's the same old look at the Lyin' Press and its continual attempts to make every weather story something more, something about which we need to do something... NOW! ... with your money and more rules! However, 1 to 2 feet of snow coming to a big chunk of the country is still a story. These ones would have gotten lots of views before all the Global Climate Stupidity, but then again, it's been so long already, that that time predates the www.
Per ABC News, via yahoo, via logging out of email, US braces for major storm, 16 states under winter weather alerts. This is about a week after Spring officially started, and a week before Easter. No, it's not unheard of. (Shhhsssh... if you say it is, then they'll call it that wild and crazy weather that's an integral part of the Climate Calamity™, per the new, new mathematical models.)
On Sunday, 16 states from California to Michigan were under winter alerts as the next big storm will be dropping heavy snow and causing travel delays through Tuesday.Yeah, it's colder than normal. I've noticed. The media has just got to do some "explaining":
While snowstorms in the central U.S. aren’t rare for this time of year, much of the area affected hasn’t had much winter weather in the past few months.Yes, that's called frontal activity, aka, weather. Note that the writer, one Leah Sarnoff, pointed out that warmest winter on record in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Nah, it doesn't work like that. Weather stations are in specific locations all over these States. Is this some average of all the stations or just a few records here and there in cities/towns in those 2 States? I suspect the latter. For what I think is a probably correct bit of rectal extraction, I'd have to guess that a warmest or coldest record reading is set in some location every week in the US in the winter and summer, or at least every month. It sounds like Leah has done some cherry picking - that should have been done in Michigan, in which sits, after all, the Cherry Capital of the World.
Minnesota and Wisconsin are fresh off their warmest winter on record, with snowfall less than half of normal in cities like Minneapolis.
On the southern tier of this storm, the clash of cold and warm air, among other factors, will contribute to a potential multi-day severe weather outbreak from the Southern Plains into the Deep South.
Finally:
View comments (1.1k)I didn't start because reading 1,100 comments is not something I have time for today (or any other day). However, I've looked at these occasionally before under these stories, and I would see most commenters being onto the scam.
I thought about this, and I really yearn for the days when people could just discuss the weather without politics being involved. "How are you all doing up in Buffalo?" "Well, I was worried about the roof, so I swept it off, and then I just stepped down onto the 'lawn' without a ladder." "We've still got firewood left after the mild winter. Did your kids get any sledding in? It's great here!" That kind of thing is what the internet COULD be for, but no....
* Spell-check doesn't like that - Calamitites, maybe? (It doesn't like that one either.)
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