What was once Hyper is now ADD
Posted On: Friday - May 30th 2025 8:07PM MST
In Topics: Music Political Correctness Educational Stupidity Healthcare Stupidity
Note: This has turned into Human Factors week here at Peak Stupidity. There was the humor about Mr. Floyd (one of them) and then the female stupidity factor. Today and tomorrow we will focus on psychological factors that are not usually really...
Our title yet again reflects an old Doobie Brother album title. We speculated a long time ago "I think that name is an early criticism of euphemisms, something I'd never thought about before." Google AI just now speculated:
The title "What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits" suggests that behaviors once considered morally wrong or undesirable have become commonplace and accepted, evolving into regular habits.I don't know. I think it's just a change in terminology, with the meaning staying the same. A "vice" is now a "bad habit".* AI might be right though, but I'll leave it up to The Doobies.
Alright, because of my deficiency there in attention span, that did not at all get to the point here, so let me talk ADD, which has actually been ADHD for quite a while now. Kids used to be Hyperactive, that's all. We just called them "hyper", not understanding that this prefix alone did not reflect our meaning. Said kids did not have a psychological condition. They were not on some "spectrum" - they just were extra-active, or maybe a little out of control.
In that era of the hyper kid, we also had many more male teachers in lower education. I don't say a majority of mine were, but as compared to now, there were a lot. The local elementary school here and now has ZERO male teachers in the classrooms. There's that Assistant Principal (the guy that was there with the laptops in a near deposition situation when we didn't bother to email about our boy being out for a few days.) There's the gym teacher. That's it.
Schools are filled with boys AND girls, we ought to remember. The girls do better in the "sit down for 7 hours" situation than the boys. Male teachers are, well, men, so they know slightly more about the mindset and boundless energy of the boys. The female teachers, at least the modern ones, don't. Therefore, instead of sending the slightly out of control, formerly "hyper", kid out of the room to run 20 laps or getting him to do 25 push-ups, they determine he must be made to sit there and behave, period.
To make this happen, they put 'em on drugs. You can't just start
Full disclosure here as mandated by the PS Legal Team:
I was NOT hyper, but I did have my own ADD license tag for a while. It just so happened that those three letters, with 3 or 4 numbers at the end, were on the plate on one of my cars for years. I was so glad to get a new sticker each year rather than a new plate, but, alas, due to my LACK of hyperactivity, I never got around to trying to get away with parking in handicapped spaces or arguing parking tickets in court**.
AI does a pretty good job of sorting through the BS, but after sorting... it's still BS:
"Diagnostic term?" Uh oh. After a diagnosis you usually get treatment. Boys, or I should say, the parents of boys, have been cajoled into "treating" their high activity with Ritalin, etc. It probably helped that being a victim of something, anything, is helpful for breaks in test-taking, college admission, and even career advancement these days.
I know adults who told me about their having taken Ritalin as a kid. Did it cure them, because, I didn't know it was supposed to be a permanent "cure" for being a high energy boy, and these men seem perfectly fine and relaxed now. I imagine they'd have been perfectly fine without having taken drugs for years. Who knows what years of "treatment" with these drugs do? Is something missing?
I have never agreed that ADD and ADHD are real mental problems of any sort. They are just descriptions of personalities that teachers don't know how to deal with. How is it that there was there no such thing as either when I was a kid, yet there are millions now of cases now.
They all say there is the very occasional Excitable Boy, in the Warren Zevon song sense. Is that what the schools have been doing, trying to avoid that very rare lawsuit about some excitable boy?
Warren Zevon relates the story:
Well, he went down to dinner in his Sunday best.That's all it was. ADD, my ass.
"Excitable boy," they all said.
And he rubbed the pot roast all over his chest.
"Excitable boy," they all said.
Well, he's just an excitable boy.
He took in the 4 A.M. show at the Clark.
"Excitable boy," they all said.
And he bit the usherette's leg in the dark.
"Excitable boy," they all said.
Well, he's just an excitable boy.
He took little Suzie to the Junior Prom.
"Excitable boy," they all said. (Ooh-ooh, excitable boy)
And he raped her and killed her, then he took her home.
"Excitable boy," they all said (Ooh-ooh, excitable boy)
Well, he's just an excitable boy.
After ten long years, they let him out of the home.
"Excitable boy," they all said (Ooh-ooh, excitable boy)
And he dug up her grave and built a cage with her bones.
"Excitable boy," they all said (Ooh-ooh, excitable boy)
Well, he's just an excitable boy.
Here's the pro-Ritalin song from the late great Warren Zevon:
Here's the anti-Ritalin song (Peak Stupidity's take) from The Eagles. However, Desperado is a Concept Album, one of the very best of them, so the song 21 must come first. 21 and out of control:
We'll get to autism tomorrow, definitely real for some but also overblown in its use as a diagnosis, maybe for differing reasons.
* When you think of smoking, that used to be a "vice", but it became a "habit", with the word "vice" coming into dis-use even by the cops. (Miami Vice was on 4 decades ago, and where is the Vice Squad now? WTH was the "Bunko Squad" anyway?!)
** "Your Honor, I'm ADD. Between this disease and the double vente expresso I had at the coffee shop, I was too wired to keep a watch for the meter maid, Rita. I throw myself at the mercy of the court."
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Nancy Mace enters photo of her privates into Congressional record to protect women's privacy
Posted On: Thursday - May 29th 2025 10:40AM MST
In Topics: Humor Feminism US Feral Government Female Stupidity
As if Blue-jeaned babe Kristi and Sister Golden Hair aren't enough as examples of women leaders being a bad idea, Peak Stupidity presents a real Piece of Work, exhibit A-1 Prime, S. Carolina Low-Country CongressDramaQueen Nancy Mace. What's unfortunate is that she is MAGA. That just bolsters the arguments of people like Steve Sailer, that MAGA is full of low-brow conspiracy theorists. This lady does is not helping my counter arguments.
Low brow? Yeah. Conspiracy theorist? Not in the way one would think.* The only conspiracy Rep. Nancy Mace is currently interested in is what her ex-fiance is up to with the home security cameras. That sounds personal and not so important for Congressional hearings on America's many problems, but... she's a woman, and OMG, there's me, naked! See? I'm gonna blow it up for clarity.** "The House Oversight (get it?) Committee Secretary shall enter these photos into .... what? He's in the Congressional unisex restroom right now? OK, when he gets back..."
Gateway Pundit can be good for these "human interest" stories, and I liked their headline: Rep. Nancy Mace Shares Nude Photo of Herself During House Hearing on ‘Surveillance in Private Spaces’ (VIDEO) No, don't get excited. The video is a whole bunch of extremely boring womansplaining, and she's wearing glasses, and she doesn't take any clothes off the whole 17 minutes. Skip it. Instead, let's go to the wiki page on the Honorable CongressDramaQueen Mace from the 1st Districk of South Carolina.
The wiki page is a hoot. Nancy Mace was an Army brat, her Dad, James Emory Mace, having been a Captain in Vietnam, awarded medals seriously for bravery there, and having become a Brigadier General. Miss Mace was not the 1st woman to be admitted to the Citadel, an "honor" that goes to one Shannon Faulkner, who, after a multi-year lawsuit to open up the male bastion to women, lasted 3 days. I remember this story. It was the heat - you know, summer in S. Carolina ... and also large quantities of noodle casserole that did her in. (NOT KIDDING!)
However, with help from her Brigadier General Daddy who ran the Corps of Cadets, Nancy Mace was the first woman to graduate, in 1999. One more male bastion had been destroyed. America being the world's Sole Superpower at the time, who cared, right?! Kick ass...
I first thought this deal went very much along the lines of Steve Sailer's points about Dads with only girls wanting them to be surrogate sons. However, Miss Mace has a brother who's a heart surgeon (along with having a sister too). I don't know, does she have a male-leaning personality? Maybe she DID, but nature has taken over, as we can read and see.
After that time at the Citadel, taking the slot of a man who would have loved to have attended, Miss Mace got degrees from the U. of Georgia in Journalism and Mass Communication. In other words, nothing constructive was to come out of her from then on.
Her politics have been spotty since she first got into it, volunteering for Ron Paul in '12, winning a special election for a SC State House seat in '17, and getting into the US Congress in '20. Details are on the wiki page. The parts I like are her stance against Øb☭macare, her voting out Kevin McCarthy, and the very minor deal of her refusal to pronounce Kamala's first name the way it's supposed to, which I honestly still don't know - I just like that attitude.
However, Nancy Mace did NOT support Trump in the claims of election fraud in '20. She was FOR BLTG++ until Trump came back, and now she is against all that. Something tells me she blows with the winds, in more than one way.
There was some weird incident at the end of last year with one James McIntyre, a foster care activist. He shook Citadel graduate Nancy's hand too hard.
Another witness stated that McIntyre "took her hand with both of his hands and shook her arm up and down in an exaggerated, aggressive handshaking motion". Mace refused paramedics' assistance, but stated in court documents that she felt "pain in her wrists, arm and armpit/shoulder due to the incident".It must have been brutal. I mean, she was in the Corps of Cadets.
Everything else out of this drama queen is all women, women, women first, rather than America first. At this point, it has become, my body first, which is pretty hot but not for just anyone to look at, as per my picture shown to the Congressional Oversight Committee, and on viral video. Hey, we just report on stupidity here - we are not capable of making this up.
This whole time wasted by alleged-MAGA Piece of Work talking about cameras and privacy was actually about her personal problems with her ex-fiance. (She's been married twice already and is a single Mom of 2.) Gateway Pundit now:
Mace also repeated her allegations against her ex-fiance before Tuesday’s hearing, writing in an X post: “Today I will show my naked body on one of the videos predator and rapist Patrick Bryant took of me and many other women. Without our knowledge. Without our permission. And without our consent.”Monsters, I tells ya'! But, but, I didn't know he was a monster when I got engaged... for the 3rd time!
“This naked silhouette is my naked body. I didn’t know that I had been filmed. I didn’t give my consent. I didn’t give my permission and this particular video that Patrick Bryant recorded of me on his secret camera, he saved for over three years without my knowledge.”
“Today I exposed a monster whose victims deserve justice. The victims also deserve stronger federal and state laws to protect them,” Nancy Mace said.
These victims who deserve stronger Federal and State laws are... Nancy Mace... who sits in the US Congress... immune there from charges of slander by just some monsters with the other side of the story of a 7/9 on the hot/crazy matrix.
MAGA can do a lot better than this. No more Nancy Maces! Let's get some hard-charging men up there in the House of Representin', rather than more drama queens.
PS: Here's a statement from the ex-fiance:
Mace’s ex-fiancé told South Carolina-based Fits News: “I categorically deny the false and outrageous claims made by Nancy Mace. I have never raped anyone. I have never hidden cameras. I have never harmed any woman. These accusations are not just false. They are malicious and deeply personal. My mistake was loving and trusting someone who later weaponized our relationship.”When you see anywhere close to this level of crazy, believe the man. You'll be right 95% of the time.
* There IS a section on the wiki page, which we'll get to, entitled "Extraterrestrial life".
** Honestly, I can't make heads or tails out of that image. I've tried! Then again, I've failed the Rorchach test every time I've taken it. My therapist moonlights as my ophthalmologist, so normally we do a combined Rorchach/eye exam, which gets... tricky.
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Women in charge: Blue-jean Baby and Sister Golden Hair
Posted On: Wednesday - May 28th 2025 6:50PM MST
In Topics: Music Feminism US Feral Government Female Stupidity
"How does my tight butt look in this tacticool gear?", asks Kristi Noem, Secretary of Motherland Security. "Look at my hair. I'm Sister Golden Hair!" says Pam Blondie, US Attorney General... picked, stupidity, by President Trump. (Yeah, both of them.)
What about Surgeon General, is that vacant now? Sure pick the fat Black! broad to show you're not sexist or racist, or better, some Sister Golden Hair Surprise to keep people watching the TV. It doesn't matter. Well, I mean, make sure she's not allowed to open her mouth next Plandemic or anything like that...
It’s OK to have your battle-axes, your Maggie Thatchers and such, and then the occasional high-spirited anti-Establishment MTGs. These pretty women though, like Kristy Noem, Pam Blondie, and so on are NO GOOD. They are real women.* As such, they do care about their appearances and being seen as often and by as many people as possible more important than getting things done. It’s who they are, which is fine, but don’t freaking appoint them to anything, for cryin’…
Yeah, it's kind of tough for a woman who doesn't want to be called an old "battle axe" but wants to be a part of running the world. Too bad. That's not what you're made for. HIllary Clinton tried to explain all this, but unfortunately, she's an anitChrist and lies more easily than she breaths. What she said, but the opposite.
I don't know why Tom Homan is not Secretary of Motherland Security rather than an underling. Yes, Kristi in the tight blue jeans was a decent GOP Governor for North Dakota. I don't even like that, because the whole thing reminds me too much of Nikki Haley of South Carolina. Women put their feelings first, and principles can change in a heart beat. After all, a woman is entitled to change her mind, right? ("Yeah, but not when she's the ... "Hey, you're the dumbasses who voted for her."). But, I do like her in blue jeans, as a woman, not someone who should be forming a strategy and developing tactics.
Appointing Pan Blondie as Attorney General to retributive ass was a mistake. I don't know what the deal was with Matt Goetz, but some other firebrand who would have come out of the gate with a thousand subpoenas and arrest warrants - for Merrick Garland, Alley Hondro Mayorkas, Leticia James, etc. - is who we needed. Blondie may get to some of this, but her hair and nails come first.**
We've wasting a lot of time with this. Commenter AnotherDad pointed out in a couple of comments that the Chinese Politburo is made of all men, 24 of them, and all Han Chinese. The Chinese tried their hand at Feminism only for the purpose of instilling in the population that they were equally minor cogs in the great Wheel of Communism back in the Mao era. That did save The People money on fashions and fashion accessories along with cosmetological supplies (the money saved to be used for cosmology instead) - Chairman Mao's famous Rice Bowl Cosmetology.
Say what you want about The People's Republic, and we often do, but the people in charge aren't silly. They may be inherently stupid often, but they are not silly.
This promotion of hot women, or any generally, to positions of power is silly. Trump and America don't have enough time for this stuff.
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Speaking of America, now with Sister Golden Hair in my head, I've got to embed it here. That band America was only big for a few years, but they made some great soft-rock music. To this day, I remember the names of this trio, who formed their band as Army brats in London: Gerry Beckley, Dan Peek, and Dewey Bunnell.
That song is half a century old! Now, there's an anniversary for you.
OK, now, since I re-titled the post, Elton John's Tiny Dancer oughta appear too. Forget he's gay when you listen to this. It's Bernie Taupin who wrote it, though. I can't remember if he was gay too, as that biographic movie Rocketman wasn't one of my favorites.
This one is 4 years older than that! The couple of seconds of piano intro. is almost the same as, but a little inverted from, the intro. in Journey's Feelin' That Way from 7 years later. (It's not worth a lawsuit.) We featured the latter song here before and noted that It ABSOLUTELY MUST be played together with Anytime That You Want Me. Don't not do that!
PS: After doing a little thinking about writing this post, I ran into the story of an exemplary Piece Of Work that would have taken too long to make fun of in this one post. We'll get to her... yeah, Nancy Mace. Holy ...
* That's not to say MTG is not a real woman and pretty in her way, but she's one hell of an exception. Can she be cloned?
** There was always a question, too, of her support of George Zimmerman's attempted murderer, some big black guy who ended up rightfully dead. Did Trump miss that? (Mr. Hail would have more, being - I think - from Florida. Hopefully we'll hear from him soon.)
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Important Anniversary missed
Posted On: Tuesday - May 27th 2025 7:15PM MST
In Topics: Music Humor Race/Genetics
This is the one we mentioned in the last post.
Firstly, Peak Stupidity has a mutually beneficial deal with Alcoholics Anonymous - we don't compete with them with any new 12-step programs, and they don't criticize our unorthodox support for the sobriety of George Floyd. He's been sober for 1,828 days straight.* "My name was George Floyd, and if alcoholism were the worst thing I've done... "
From UR commenter Mike Tre came the following, as Mr. Tre noted that George Floyd is probably looking better now:
George Floyd died of a drug overdose 5 years ago the day before yesterday. Yeah, so what...
Someone else noted that the BLM and antifa crowd really aren't going to remember George Floyd. He was, after all is said and done, just a worthless, violent Black! reprobate. No, they want us to remember the power they had over the cucks of this nation and around the world for a whole summer and more 5 years ago.
A quick Peak Stupidity survey follows. It'll only take a minute of your time, I swear... except for the part about listening to some great music.
Who will I most likely remember 10 years from now?
[ ] George Floyd, ex-resident of Minneapolis, Minnesota
[ ] Floyd Lawson, ex-resident barber of Mayberry, N. Carolina
[ ] Pink Floyd, ex-rock band from England.
To get you started pondering the question:
PS: Going completely off this subject, I am getting worried about Mr. Hail. His last post on his site was on April 4th, His last comment thereunder was on April 10th and his last one on The Unz Review was in mid-April too. I haven't checked, but it's likely been that long here. I'll write him a message on his blog. We hope he's OK and just busy.
* Don't forget that there was 1 leap year in there, '24.
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Memorial Day
Posted On: Monday - May 26th 2025 8:18AM MST
In Topics: Holiday from Stupidity
Americans are in general happy to a) be out of school, b) have an extra day off for fun long weekend, and c) enjoy the warmth of summer. Memorial Day is not one of those holiday that should suggest "Happy" something-or-other be said, but we do that for all holidays and anniversaries. (I'll get into one of those other anniversaries
It's a time to memorialized those American men killed in the various and sundry wars America has been involved in over our 1/4 Millennium history. Lots of these men did not make a choice to even be there and lots of others, being young, were not so wise, but brave and honorable. A decision to be "in the service" has not meant a very great risk of death or maiming in war over the last half a century, since the 2 large hot wars of the Cold War were over. I'll get into that later on (in the post and later today).
Commenter SafeNow brought up thoughts of the death of an American member of the Coast Guard killed in war, one Nathan Bruckenthal. Yes, the Coast Guard, guarding SOME coast. (Straight from wiki) Nate Bruckenthal was killed in the Iraq War, becoming the first to die in wartime action since the Vietnam War. Bruckenthal and two U.S. Navy sailors were killed while intercepting a waterborne suicide attack on an offshore oil terminal off the coast of Iraq in the northern Persian Gulf in 2004. Bruckenthal was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star Medal with Combat Distinguishing Device and the Purple Heart for his actions.
Yes, the Coast Guard.. off Iraq. I was thinking AMERICAN coast whenever I think of the Coast Guard, but what do I know? This military branch was formed 110 years ago for that purpose. As of now, (also wiki):
Due to ever-expanding risk imposed by transnational threats through the maritime and cyber domains, the U.S. Coast Guard is at any given time deployed to and operating on all seven continents and in cyberspace to enforce its mission.No, they should be guarding THE coasts... of America.
I never even agreed with their mission of intercepting the schools of those square grouper*, much less their inclusion in the US world-warmongering. That wasn't Nate Bruckenthal's call though. R.I.P.
(I can't import a picture so easily now, so that will come, along with some more discussion on joining the military.)
* On the land end too, it's all Fentanyl, Fentanyl, Fentanyl!, when it should be about keeping out the PEOPLE, stupid. My opinion is that if you kept out the masses of cheap labor, traditional Americans' lives would be better such that they woud not feel they needed to OD/suicide on these drugs.
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What was once Stupidity is now Foolishness...
Posted On: Saturday - May 24th 2025 6:41PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Music Artificial Stupidity
... that is, according to Bing AI, which has done some thinking about Peak Stupidity. It has obviously consulted
Well, I mean, it's not wrong...
A few months back, Adam Smith pasted in a link for us to a song that I hadn't listened to since about the time it was on the radio, nearly 30 years ago. Why those lyrics have not come into my head since this blog's been active is a mystery.
This is The Refreshments* with Banditos, from their 1996 album Fizzy Fuzzy Big & Buzzy.
Well it's just you and me, baby.That's very 1990s, obviously before the day of ubiquitous cameras. It would have worked too, most definitely the part about the fake ID!
No one else we can trust.
We'll say nothin' to no one,
no how or we'll bust.
Never crack a smile or flinch or cry
For nobody.
So give you ID card to the border guard.
Your alias says you got John Luke Picard
pf the United Federation of Planets,
'cause they won't speak English any ways.
Everybody knows
that the world is full of stupid people.
So meet me at the mission at midnight.
We'll divvy up there.
Yeah, everybody knows
That the world is full of stupid people.
Well I got the pistol so I get the pesos.
Yeah that seems fair.
So put the sugar in the tank of the sheriff's car
We'll slash the deputy's tires.
They won't get very far
when they finally get the word
that there's been a hold-up.
Sorry, AI routine. We're stickin' with "Stupidity". We're damn sure not gonna pay GoDaddy for another URL!
OK, Peakers, we got busy this week, and next week will probably be similar. We've got stories about crazy female CongreffsDramaQueens coming, more immigration stupidity (but, of course!), and finally, hopefully, that post about Deflation. Have a happy, relaxing Sunday. Stay offline a while... I
* ... not to be confused with The Replacements with Paul Westerberg, the guy with Dyslexic Heart.
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Good news regarding auto artificial stupidity
Posted On: Saturday - May 24th 2025 10:08AM MST
In Topics: Trump Cars Artificial Stupidity US Feral Government
It's a minor piece of news, as generally Peak Stupidity readers would be the type to avoid this annoyance to begin with. If you are a buyer of new or fairly-new cars, you might just be glad to hear that the start/stop bug, errrr, feature is something you'll be less likely to have to base a purchasing decision on. This is the system in which ... well, let me put it the way Trump's EPA Chief Lee Zeldin did, as excerpted in this Gateway Pundit article:
Start/stop technology: where your car dies at every red light so companies get a climate participation trophy. EPA approved it, and everyone hates it, so we’re fixing it.ZeroHedge has the story here, with, as usual, a generally funnier and savvier set of commenters. (The ZH story comes from The Epoch Times.)
With our most recently acquired 30 y/o Jeep being the 2nd newest vehicle in the fleet, this newest piece of complicated artificial stupidity is not something your PS blogger will EVER have to deal with personally. That is, unless the '28 Cortez Administration will mandate retrofit for all extant motor vehicles per Motor Law - Phase I* ... ugggh, after that visit to the porcelain goddess, I'm fit to type some more... I drive with the windows down a lot - A/C (not AOC!) is not so prevalent in the fleet - and I am still always a little surprised to hear an engine start next to me at the stoplight. You've got to be old-school to have that initial reaction "whewww, good thing he got it going again!"
Why? Why cut off the engine and restart it so damn often? Well, it's the planet... or virtue signaling, or to be more understanding, people wanting to save a few bucks yearly at the gas pump. No, really, if drivers wanted this feature so much, it would not have to have been incentivized by the EPA, as it is. Per GP:
The EPA does not require stop-start technology, but automakers that adopt it are given extra fuel economy credits.My appreciation for Lee Zeldin notwithstanding, there should by no incentives by the EPA, better yet, no EPA period. Per ZH:
The feature became increasingly common under fuel efficiency rules implemented during the Obama administration, expanding from fewer than 1 percent of new vehicles in 2012 to about 45 percent in model year 2021, according to EPA data. The agency notes on its website that start-stop systems can improve fuel economy by up to 5 percent, with the biggest benefits under stop-and-go city driving.45% have it! GP says it's 65% for '23 models, so that's just one more reason not to buy new, ever. I'm not sure if it'd be like one of the old options - could you save money by purchasing a car without it? Then, that 5% - hell, I save WAY more than that by driving efficiently, including not incurring inefficient acceleration gas wastage at damn 3-way stop signs.** Oh, wait, but also:
An Obama-era regulatory impact analysis from 2012 estimated that start-stop systems can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 1.8 percent to 2.4 percent, depending on vehicle type and size, compared with baseline models.Ahhaa, that Climate Calamity™ card can be used for anything. I'm glad to see that Mr. Zeldin actually cares a little bit about keeping the stupidity level slightly lower for us American who "see the stupidity inherent in the system. [/Monty Python***]
Here's some of that stupidity. I know, these starter motors (and mechanisms) are not your Daddy's starters. They are obviously made for 20 x the normal number of cycles. That's a guess, depending on your type of driving. Or, to be cynical here, are they made for only a little bit higher duty, but you'll have to replace yours quite often, like, say, each time you change the oil?
OK, mechanical quality aside, what about the effect on the engine of this many more starts and stops? Engines of all sorts, right on up to big power plant turbines, are made to run steady-state. Things work optimally then. Not having coolant and/or lubricant in all the right places for a spell upon start-up and shut-down means extra wear, out of proportion to normal running time. Hmmm, I also wonder how emissions, maybe even ACTUAL pollution, changes during these non-steady-state phases of engine life.
Then there's the additional complication, as If 21st century vehicles aren't already! I'm pretty sure I've driven at least one rent-a-car with this engine start/stop feature, and the reader may have too. The very slight push on the gas pedal, as detected by the (now) electric throttle, will kick on the starter. The, call it "anticipation", feature in which the starter kicks in when one's foot is taken off the brake - or I believe even enough to drop the pressure somewhat - takes sensors and wiring. There's a timer to begin with, to initially "shut her down" All of this is taken well care of using digital logic, so there's yet another (of dozens or hundreds!) computer - the start/stop computer. No refunds on electronic parts! ("We've told you that. See, now you have a spare $300 start/stop computer, in case ...")
More features mean more expensive repairs at 100,000 miles. I have half a mind that believes that this is just another "feature", like automatic windshield wipers, that was designed just because IT CAN BE. We have the sensors, and any decision-making you can think of can be easily programmed onto a chip. It's cool to be able to do his, so let's do it.
Finally, this is the curmudgeonry coming out here - I don't care how many dummies have lived through testing, I don't trust the system. I don't like that the car is not ready to go unless some unnecessary complicated digital system does what it's supposed to do, every time, maybe in the middle of an intersection. No, no thanks.
To be fair, from ZH (I didn't know this regarding the rent-a-car(s) I'd driven):
... In most vehicles, drivers must press a button to turn the feature off each time they start the car.It'd be 2nd nature after a month to mash that button upon getting on the road, but why should I pay for it?
Thanks, Lee Zeldin, and President Trump too, for the small favors. What I resent is that we have to hope for just the right people to stop the unConstitutional Feral Gov't edicts that introduce these minor annoyances in our lives.
Anyway, next time, let's get serious and go after the California Air Resource Board - motto: Making life more difficult and miserable, one edict at a time.
* Old Rush reference - please listen just for great the sound, if nothing else.
** If I get pulled where my wife did - not likely because I know what these guys drive - I may bring up that "I'm just tryin'a save the planet, man!!" (Would it help to weep about Mother Earth in front of him? Probably depends on the cop ... but, no... I'm also afraid that sort of thing might bring forth the drug dogs.)
*** Instapundit loves to use that line in various ways. We agree.
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Trump v S. Africa
Posted On: Wednesday - May 21st 2025 9:02PM MST
In Topics: Trump Race/Genetics World Political Stupidity
The guy's amazing! Nobody, but nobody, would throw the truth about these anti-White violent blacks back in their faces like this, right there with the press at a diplomatic gathering, no less. Maybe someone like MTG might, but only NOW, after Trump again showed his pro-White stance to the nation and the world. He's a hell of a leader at times.
The reader has probably seen clearer and longer clips of the taunts and threats of the Black! South African rulers and huge crowds. Regarding the latter, is it just me or has pretty much every other Peak Stupidity reader, hell, White man in America, who's seen that, had some daydreams and done some tentative planning involving bombers and tactical nukes? Actually, i went through thinking about how to make sure a interceptor/bomber combination (some version of the F-15?) could drop a nuke and then get well clear.
My thoughts moved on to more practical ideas, like basic incendiary bombs. There's no call for nukes here, really.
The violence level and the threats to the White man, especially the Boer (farmers), is nothing new over there. What's new is that the President of the US is talking about it and providing at least a small solution, asylum. That genteel S. African President you see in the video might really believe his bit about it's all within the rule of law - it probably is. However, one can see that the Afrikaners have every reason to want to GTFO, at least those who have no plan for defense or to take a stand one day. (They are greatly outnumbered, about 10 to 1.)
I got to this viral video - everything out of Trump goes viral, doesn't it? - via ZeroHedge. The article, written by one Brandon Smith* is Watch: Trump Stuns South Africa's Ramaphosa, Plays 'Kill The Boer' Clip In The Oval Office, Destroys NBC Reporter.** What I noticed about the long stretch of writing by Mr. Smith after the video is that he WON'T GO THERE.
As Peak Stupidity does for other bad political regimes, Mr. Smith mentioned the Communism and Authoritarianism in South Africa. Yeah, Communism was part of the impetus for black rule. (This stuff didn't start just recently.) Yes, the place is Authoritarian. However, what's very clear to anyone who WANTS to see is that this is a racial matter. In all those words, race was mentioned but never named as the obvious problem. Too many of the blacks want the White people dead.
Even Elon Musk didn't go there. I saw a video today elsewhere of his being remotely interviewed by some lady in a big auditorium. He did a nice job throwing the question of (to paraphrase) "Is this anti-White racism OK with you?" back at her. She wouldn't answer. However, Musk added that neither the White behavior prior to the handover 3 decades back nor the current black behavior was OK. Even Trump didn't go there, but he went far enough for me!
You want the truth?! Let me do the history one first. These Bantu tribe black people you see there came to the land already settled by the Boer, who had been in the area since the 1600s. The other tribes, Xhosas and Koi's were there in small numbers. The Boer settled and BUILT the country, so Bantus came in for work and a better life than they'd made for themselves in the rest of sub-Saharan Africa. One can blame the Boers for making the choice of that cheap labor, but I wonder too if they could have kept them out even if they'd wanted to. S. Africa should be the Boer's land.
Now, to what nobody wants to say, yet. The Apartheid system had to exist for the place to be a 1st World country, which it WAS. (Anyone else still remember?)
Face it, black people can not run things like countries. Keeping the White man in power was THE only way to keep the place from turning into a shithole. Who wants to bequeath a shithole of a country to one's children and grandchildren? Envious, vindictive, stupid, violent people do. That's where it stands today.
See? I knew it - to the Lyin' Press:
PS: While trying what should have been the easy way (NOT!) to search for the ZeroHedge article (had to find it on the site), duckduckgo provided a blurb from
* Peak Stupidity has mentioned this guy before, more than once.
** In note here that the URL for this post does not match the article title. This is a ZH thing that I've seen before. They will update the article and include a new title too. This gets confusing and also makes it impossible to find older articles by title sometimes.
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Satan in a pants suit
Posted On: Tuesday - May 20th 2025 5:52PM MST
In Topics: Commies Immigration Stupidity Feminism AntiChrist Hildabeast ctrl-left
Peak Stupidity did not coin that colorful phrase to describe the Hildabeast. It the pants suit fits, well, there he sits.
She's truly evil. The GP pundit take on the HIldabeast's Population Replacement extension Programme is not totally accurate. I'll get to that.
The above is from a recent Gateway Pundit post. They've even got video. I think youtube was worried that displaying the antiChrist - not sure exact chapter and verse here - would destroy their servers, but rumble has it. I couldn't find the GP tweet clip as a stand alone, so here's Alex Jones, errr, discussing it.
No, I mean, Alex Jones doesn't really discuss stuff. I give him kudos for his spirit, but I am not completely sure whether his rants are somewhat for show rather than all out of righteous anger. So beware, but you'll get out of this what I will discuss(?) here in the 1st few minutes:
Conservatives' recent encouragement of Americans to have children is what the Hildabeast is ranting about here. Now, I'll actually agree with her on one point - the monetary incentives (strictly unConstitutional at the Federal level but NOBODY even cares about that part) have not been working elsewhere. This is not the time for that long-promised continuation on the question of fertility worries, but how can it be a bad thing, even if it's just talk, to support mothers and children?
It can be, if you're a Communist spawn of Satan though. Watch the one part where she directly says she's against Christianity and against the nuclear family. That's... yeah, that's a Communist thing, no doubt about it. Communism can't abide with competing religions and children that aren't brought up by the State.
Her take on those unenlightened MAGA people who like and want children: "What we really need from you women are more children. What that really means is you should go back to doing what you were born to do, which is to produce more children." At her advanced age, how could she not understand that this IS what women were born to do? If she does understand, then why is she against women being happy doing what they were born to do? If it saves just ONE CHILD from being never born... Didn't they, the ctrl-left used to always worry about that ONE CHILD? Which one fits here, stupidity or evil?
Per the GP headline, the Hildabeast wants to extend the Population Replacement Program some more - to see that only immigrants ("Legally and UnDocumented?*) are the ones having lots of children. What she said was something slightly different, to paraphrase: MAGA doesn't make sense because they want more children, yet they want to deport the people having lots of children. That's an evil way to leave out the most important thing. Americans want more AMERICAN children here. We don't want the PRP-X, with the children of non-White** people from all over the world overwhelming the American White children. "It doesn't matter - muh GDP!" Is that what she believes or what she would like us to believe?
Wouldn't an antiChrist behave just like this? This topic key is going to get more use going forward, I got a bad feeling ... aaaaand that's it for tonight - Sweet dreams, Peakers.
PS: Great comment on GP from one Will B. Candid:
One day a house will land on her, just like in the movies...Outsanding!
PPS: To clarify, this is Satan in a Pants Suit, not Devil with a Blue Dress, in case there's any confusion within the readership. I sure hope there wasn't!
* Isn't the opposite of "legally" "illegally"? I guess I'm too much of a stickler.
** How about a bunch of big fertile Afrikaner families? What say you, Satan in a Pants Suit?
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Google searches for the John Birch Society
Posted On: Monday - May 19th 2025 7:52PM MST
In Topics: Internets Music Websites Media Stupidity Liberty/Libertarianism
They're a great org - I can't keep up with all the newsletters and magazines, along with the others, but I seem to agree with nearly everything the John Birch Society stands for. I need to send in my yearly dues (reminder to self).
Since, our last post was about internet searches, I'll start the week of with this short observation. I wanted to paste in a link to this organization for an Unz Review comment. I was pretty sure the main site is simply jbs.org (yes, it is), but I figured I'd search on google to make sure. I see that I cut it off of the screenshot, but my search was simply for "John Birch Society":
I see wikipedia up top for lots of searches on people and organizations, but look where the blurb and link to jbs.org ended up. It's after a page from The New Yorker and even the Niskanen Center (wait, who the hell are the Niskanen Center?), and NPR, sorry, npr. npr says the organization is secretive, so I guess I'm breaking internet silence here by even mentioning the jbs. Yes, it's very extreme indeed these days to be pro- Liberty and Christianity and anti- Globalism and Communism.
In our post Peak Search Results, really, "Peak Useful Internet Search Results", we stayed non-political with our speculation with 3 reasons for Peak Search being behind us - I guessed '10-'15, somewhere in there. This above - that's political. We know where google stands.
And now, after a 2nd time suggestion by Mr. G. Anderson, here is the 1950s-60s ctrl-left folk band The Chad Mitchell Trio singing The John Birch Society. Now, Peak Stupidity likes us some good music and making fun is OK, but I inserted "ctrl-left" here to be. nice. From my reading just now, these guys were as good as Communists. I mean, they had a song making fun of Barry Goldwater supporters, for cryin' out loud.
OK, they can't have been hard-core Communists, because they were having fun.
This was a short possibly non-interesting post, so let me add a Nielson Ratings update here. I mentioned they send $5 bills now with the survey diaries. Inflation, you know. A few years ago it was either 2 or 3 bucks inside each inbound envelope. Cash is good. We filled out the diaries honestly, basically indicating that we don't listen to the radio. Of course I had to add my one embellishment (as mentioned in the post linked-to here) about pulling up to some ghetto thugs car and hearing a little bit, till I rolled up the windows. That's pretty much my phrasing.
Well, they wanted a name for the check to send me. I can't do that, HAL. I've been using a fake name the whole time, something along the lines of Joe Blow. OK, we won't get the money. Just now I received the check they sent anyway, made out to (something along the lines of) Joe Blow. How can I cash that? Anyone got any ideas? 50 bucks is 50 bucks. It's money for nothin', but, yeah, cash is King, bitchez. Next time, all cash in advance, or no data for you.
PS: I had to fix my link to jbs (missing the https: etc.), and I see that duckduckgo does better. The first big blurb featured up top goes to the John Birch Society site.
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Artificial Intelligence understands Peak Stupidity
Posted On: Saturday - May 17th 2025 4:46PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Internets Websites Artificial Stupidity
Bing has been very helpful for those searching for answers about Peak Stupidity lately. They got that AI stuff goin on*, right up top of the search results page.
We're LUVIN' it! That first sentence shows that Bing's AI has read thoroughly our "About" page, titled here all by its lonesome (still!)** on the left side-bar What is Peak Stoopiditee?. I wrote that sometime in '16. I kinda wish that Bing had included the rest of our 1st paragraph:
There are many theories of the origin and modes of transmittal of this stupidity, though, as often is the case, it is speculated that epicenter was the southern and central coasts of California. Other theories point to New York City, Washington, FS, and/or Karl Marx's ass.However, archaic-looking website search beggars can't be choosers, so we are very happy to see this show up at the top upon a search for "peak stupidity".
This AI blurb just sucks you in, doesn't it? You pretty much HAVE TO click. The top normal - not AI, I guess - result that comes up at this point is the following:
I remember 2 of the posts clearly - clicking on the images just gets one to a bigger, clearer image - but I did write a post on the 1st 3 and surely something that included that pride images. We are proud that one of the pictures taken by the Peak Stupidity staff (hello!) appears. That's the 3rd one, of a big Falun Gong march in Toronto, Canada.
Unfortunately, the main link goes to our blogworks page, which lacks the 3 other frames on the page, those being a quarter-century ago website feature. Having the frames was cool then - sometimes sites would have horizontal scroll bars along with the vertical ones, and many of them on the page - it was all scroll bars back in the day! MOAR scroll bars! [/IT manager] We loved it!
The text below the images goes to our post Fake History Rhyming Over One Century, in which we linked to E.H. Hail's essay on a book about tariffs in American history, Alfred Eckes on the Smoot–Hawley Tariff of 1930 and its long-lasting civic mythology. However, clicking that text on bing gets one to a different post of ours, So-called Pope Francis finally lightens up.. (He died.). Interestingly, the post numbers are 10 apart, 3236 vs 3226. Did the software mess up due to the post numbers? I don't know. Stuff's hard to find here, even for me!
Here's the 2nd normal search result:
Again, this 2nd search result has some text from our Peak Stoopiditee About page. I hovered over the 2nd tab to show the title of one of our facetious sections within. Yes, I spelled "modeling" with 2 "L"'s then, but I think both ways are correct. I just spelt "spelled" correctly too, I think, but this one tends to confuse me, in this age of Peak Stupidity.
And now, to hearken back to those old '16 - '17 days of the blog, we present some olde music that has not a damn thing to do with the post. It's The Edgar Winter Group, from 1972, with Free Ride. This one's great!
Have a great Sunday, Peakers. We'll have more stupidity next week. You too, AI - keep on reading, and you may even learn something, if that's even possible.
PS: Notice in that blurb that the word "delve" appears. I think it was Steve Sailer who noticed, as he is wont to do, that AI uses that word a whole lot. Perhaps a random synonym (RS) function could be called by AI. It's not like that does the kinds of calculations that take nuclear plants to power.
* Peak Stupidity uses the term Artificial Stupidity for AI along with other "smart" new "features" of society. This term was coined by the writer John Derbyshire.
** The link to Adam Smith's compilation of on-line books, known as "Peak Stupidity Book Club", will go there.
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Outrage
Posted On: Friday - May 16th 2025 7:12PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Globalists
Gateway Pundit has an almost sickening amount of ads and hype, but I'll give Jim Hoft, proprietor, credit for continuing to cover our side of the most important issue, the immigration invasion. I am glad to see that he and his writers used the term "illegal alien" too, rather than euphemisms, while they're at it.
Part of the hype on GP is the use of BREAKING!:, DEVELOPING:, SHOCKING DISCOVERY!:, etc. in front of their titles, like this was coming off a teletype in 1975. In the story for this post, however, OUTRAGEOUS: is warranted. In fact, more outrage might be expected, especially out of one man involved, the father of this 24 y/o woman recklessly killed by a 15 y/o illegal alien.
GP reports OUTRAGEOUS: Soros-Backed DA Gives Probation and Community Service to Unlicensed Illegal Alien Who Killed Young Woman in Car Crash. I thought it worth watching the 4 minute TV news clip.
One thing that stood out here was that even the "negotiated settlement" (and what exactly does THAT mean within the criminal legal system?) involved "up to" 2 years in youth corrections. "Up to" means it could be 3 months! Youth corrections means this kid would have been able to skip a couple of years of drudgery in American taxpayer supported High School and have something to brag about to his amigos. Note that this was what the Dad was OK with! However, that's too harsh per the new Soros District Attorney.
This is sick. The victim's Dad just hopes that her killer will remember her, oh, and make something of himself. I don't know what I'd do. This father has 3 other kids, it looks like, so going off reservation, so to speak, and exacting actual justice might ruin the rest of his life. It's difficult to imagine what one would do in a similar situation other than I sure would not "hope he will remember her and make something of his life"!
Lastly, the illegal Mom was set to take this kid back to Colombia. Now, he is requesting asylum. Yeah, Canada won't even let in drunk drivers*, and America is supposed to offer asylum for kids that drive 90 mph in the city and smash young ladies to death? We probably will, barring President Trump getting involved.
* 1 offense within the last 10 years and 2 period.
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Parable of the Good Somalian
Posted On: Thursday - May 15th 2025 2:13PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Humor Political Correctness Race/Genetics Bible/Religion Anarcho-tyranny
Commenters on The Unz Review liked our turn-of-phrase, so it's the title here.
Wait, though. The Good Samaritan parable of Luke 10 was about being decent to wayfarers - it could be you some time - anyone remember hitch-hiking? The Somalian from that recent viral story and our post Shiloh and the Somalians, which is NOT the name of a
The alleged child-molester Somalian rightly reckoned that his capturing young Mom Shiloh Hendrix on video not even SAYING "nigger", but admitting to saying "nigger", would scare the living out of her. (She wouldn't even have to have had directed the word to anyone, but she did.*) Due to the topsy-turvy world of Minoritarianism** and Anarcho-Tyranny*** we live under, someone both Black! and a recently-arrived foreigner from some complete shithole of a country has been entitled to lord it up over measly regular Americans. We're supposed to stand down and apologize profusely to pre-empt virology, which doesn't necessarily help, so there goes the job, career, marriage, and so on...
Thing was, Shiloh Hendrix was fed up with threatening Somalians and wasn't putting up with that crap last week. That was the right thing to do, it turns out. But, it didn't have to have been. Her courage paid off, to the tune of $3/4 million (though to be fair some of that is extra needed right now to keep her life from being ruined).
Here's where this post gets a little rambling. "Somalian" works well for this joke about the parable, but that's not why Peak Stupidity has been using that term. Yes, it's erroneous, if you want to get all official about it. "Somali" is the adjective and the noun to describe and name someone from Somalia, there in the northeastern horn of Africa. We at Peak Stupidity PURPOSELY say this wrong and not just because we enjoy being low-brow.
I present to the reader a video we've embedded in a post a year back, the 3 1/2 minute speech in The House by our favorite CongressGal Marjorie Taylor Greene of north Georgia for the point of attempting to officially censure CongressRagHead Ilhan Omar. The censure was never gonna come close to happening, so this is old useless news, but just watch the beginning, if nothing else. Of course, "Congresswoman from Somal... errr, Minnesota" was the best part, but MTG uses "Somalian" as the adjective/noun too. We have more in the post about MTG v IOU.
It's great! Saying "Somalian" rather than "Somali" pisses off the virtue-signaling folk who want to show their worldliness. These are the people who speak perfect English but say "Nee-ka-raq-u-wah" and "Alley Hondro My-ork-ass". (The latter is one we write here, but that's to make fun.)
The use of "Somali" and all the other correct terms and pronunciations would be fine if the discussion were on a travel forum, but this is America. Why do we need to know "Somali"? Before the big invasion, there was no reason to have to know that term, unless you were traveling to (or bombing) the northeast horn of Africa. No, we're Americans, and we'll say it our way - You say "Somali", I say "Somalian" - let's call the whole damn thing off!"
I'm pretty sure MTG knows the correct term to describe people from Somalia too. We sound like 2 rubes, I guess, very much like this guy, in a more innocent era when French was very foreign. Excusez Moi, that's "Francais" to you!
Oh, and we don't do accent marks here either, because that's some foreign crap too. (Sometimes they slip in via ctrl-c/ctrl-v.) Two rubes! That's what you people take me and MTG for!
Oh, the parable, right. I wish Jesus had come up with a parable to teach people like this Somalian asshole how to act as an appreciative guest among his often-unwitting hosts. There probably is one. Failing that, the Book of Shiloh ought to teach these people to try to learn about their host society and who built it. Shiloh was, in fact a city in the Bible where the tabernacle was located before it was in Jerusalem. Additionally, from some site, Shiloh is a reflection of our sinful nature, being surrounded by enemies, gathering as a church, and needing a savior. We all do. However, this kind of fits here. For Minnesota Shiloh, at least $777.5 thousand given by ~30,000 people ($26 a person ave.) is a big help.
Now, finally, this version of the Parable of the Good Samaritan fits well here too. Since there aren't Samaritans around these days, at least in their Biblical days form, substitute in "Somalian", or "Somali" if you like:
The clip above is from a long-ago show "That Mitchell and Webb Look", as corrected by our commenters from "Monty Python" and mentioned here.
OK, that's enough. There's more pressing stupidity we've got to get to.
* "Picanniny" would have been more accurate. Thank you for that reminder, Adam Smith. It didn't used to much of an insulting term either.
** I can't say he coined it, but I first read this term in comments by UR's AnotherDad.
*** OK, Anarcho-Tranny, spell check, that works too!
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President Trump forces the ctrl-left Commies to show their true colors.
Posted On: Wednesday - May 14th 2025 9:11AM MST
In Topics: Commies Immigration Stupidity Trump Race/Genetics ctrl-left
I have only once considered that maybe Donald Trump REALLY does play that 5-D Chess. That thought involved his claim or boast, if he was not bullshitting, that he appointed Nikki Haley US Ambassador to the UN in order to get Henry McMaster into the South Carolina Governor's office - see When Henry replaced Nikki - Climactic Scene featuring character actor Trump*
If that really were the case, that would indicate that Trump is actually a very smart wily guy in the manner of, well, not Wily Coyote but actually his nemesis, The Roadrunner. I suggested Trump use this tactic regularly in Free Advice for a future President Trump.
I don't know. Trump does a lot of, if not stupid, ignorant things quite often. He sucks at numbers and perspective. However, my conjecture in this post is that his reality TV, showman, celebrity background has helped him help America. He seems to know exactly how to draw his and OUR opponents into making themselves look ridiculous. Now, I guess this new instance of that with the offering of refuge in America to deserving, but White, oppressed Afrikaners is something he's doing based on his caring for these White people. However, it seems to have also drawn the anti-White ctrl-left people into looking downright evil in front of the world.
The hypocrisy of the anti-White opponents of letting this small number** has been explained all over. It's perhaps too obvious to discuss here. Let's look at one example of it that both warms the heart and gives us a look into the soul of the anti-White ctrl-left. Gateway Pundit reported yesterday Episcopal Church Ends Refugee Partnership with U.S. Government — Cites Moral Opposition to Resettling Persecuted White Afrikaners from South Africa. Look into the soul of Bishop (Bishop?) Mariann Edgar Budde above. She hates us.
We figured it was all just stupidity when the Lutherans up in Minnesota, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society and a core of under a dozen of these groups thought they were doing The Lord's work in bringing masses of strange foreigners to America. Years ago, VDare led me to the site of the stalwart Ann Corcoran, documenter of this madness on her site Refugee Resettlement Watch. (The site's up, but it's been over 3 years since she's written. Hopefully, she has just got fed up and retired.) Now everyone should know better:
The same Episcopal Church that prided itself on aiding persecuted people from war-torn regions is now walking away from its commitments simply because the next wave of refugees are white Christian farmers — victims of violent racial targeting in post-apartheid South Africa.In a screed, one Sean Rowe, also a Bishop, stated:
The church claims resettling these families would violate their ‘moral line,’ according to Religion News.
n light of our church’s steadfast commitment to racial justice and reconciliation and our historic ties with the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, we are not able to take this step. Accordingly, we have determined that, by the end of the federal fiscal year, we will conclude our refugee resettlement grant agreements with the U.S. federal government.Good, let's not waste another $53 million (~$15,000 per refugee) of our money. And no, Racial Justice and Reconciliation don't sound Communist at all, no, of course not. It's not like they've formed a Racial Justice and Reconciliation Committee or something that brings White people in for Struggle Sessions or anything ... yet.
It has been painful to watch one group of White refugees, selected in a highly unusual manner, receive preferential treatment over many non-White others who have been waiting in refugee camps or dangerous conditions for years.Being 8% of the population in a Black!-run country is a dangerous condition by definition. (We have links in that last post on this issue to our 8-part series about the fall of S. Africa, starting from a long article about the place. It's getting bad, and White people WILL be hardest hit. Oh, and when they come here they won't be parasites off the taxpayers like the 100x more other refugees either. Maybe the Church could even make a buck off of the Afrikaners... tax free!
Sean Rowe, the Episcopal Bishop, continues:
As anti-White Christians, we must be guided not by political vagaries, but by the sure and certain knowledge that the kingdom of God is revealed to us in the struggles of those non-White people on the margins. Jesus tells us to care for the poor and vulnerable,unless they're White, as we would care for him, and we must follow that command.I don't know how the above will appear to the reader.. It's ACML (Anti-Communist Mark-up Language) and may vary in appearance depending on your browser.
That's a small story as far as this big story of Trump's having drawn the anti-White ctrl-left Commies out of the woodwork and into the limelight. Here's a story from Trump's end: Trump Shames Media for Ignoring ‘Genocide’ of White Farmers: ‘If It Were the Other Way Around They’d Talk About It’
While speaking at the White House, Trump took a moment to shame the media for the lack of attention given to some of the atrocities happening in South Africa against white Afrikaners — a topic the president cares deeply about.
“It’s a genocide that’s taking place that you people don’t want to write about,” the U.S. president told reporters. “But it’s a terrible thing that’s taking place. Farmers are being killed. They happen to be white.
“But whether they’re white or black, makes no difference to me.But white farmers are being brutally killed, and their land is being confiscated in South Africa.”[No, you don't have to do this!]
Trump then swiftly turned his ire toward the establishment double standard when it comes to race-based issues.Trump has absolutely nothing to lose and everything to gain by leaving out those stupid disclaimers. Say it: "I'm pro White people because I am one. Get over it."
“And the newspapers, and the media, and the television media doesn’t even talk about it,” Trump continued. “If it were the other way around, they’d talk about it. That would be the only story they talk about.”
Trump finished by stressing: “I don’t care who they are, I don’t care about their race, their color, I don’t care about their height, their weight, I don’t care about anything.[Stifle yourself, Donald! You don't have to do that!]
The people on the other side, such as these evil Bishops of the Episcopal "Church", have a lot to lose by being exposed. President Trump is still couching his words with those stupid disclaimers at times, but is it not obvious that he's the most pro-White President since the beginning of AA? Nice job, President Trump!
PS: Per this wiki page, White S. Africans (the English-descended and the Dutch-descended Afrikaners) number 4.5 million out of 62 million people in the county, 50 million of which are Black! black (not coloured, Indian, whatever). That's no good. The word beleaguered doesn't begin to describe their situation. Let's be good Christians and let 'em in. These Episcopal Bishops are evil.
* Weird title but it was part of a weirdly named series of posts (from a movie).
** Even if it will be the whole 60-70 odd thousand people, which it won't, due to damn judges, that's roughly 1/4 of the YEARLY H1B visa-holders that have been let in. It's below the general yearly number of all non-White refugees who come in - even before the last 4 years' invasion. As compared to Brandon/Mayorkas' "newcomers", this is not even 1% to balance the 10-12 million non-Whites that have come.
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ZeroHedge summary of 3 Trump options against pro-Invasion Lawfare
Posted On: Monday - May 12th 2025 7:25PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Trump US Feral Government ctrl-left Legal Stupidity
A couple of weeks ago on Peak Stupidity we had a Reader Friend Suggestion: Judge shopping for re- and pro-active Reverse Lawfare. This friend, who has started commenting as "Coulda Had Lee Rille" (disclaimer: not his real name... not ANYBODY's real name), asked for input from any legal types on whether any of this was feasible or legal. He obtained some answers from Unz Reveiw commenters.
The ZeroHedge post I saw today, Trump's 'Nuclear' Deportation Options, did not bring up Coulda' Had's ideas, but the author, one James Rickards of The Daily Reckoning, summed up the already well-known possibilities nicely. Mr. Rickards focussed his article, as per his title, on immigration measures by Trump, though this judicial obstruction tactic can and has been used by the ctrl-left of stop other policy by Trump and others.
Therefore, the 1st portion of the article is a good summary of the struggle the Trump administration is having with its deportation efforts. At this point, those efforts are still mostly aimed at the violent gang members, convicted criminals and other of the worst aliens that most obviously should be sent out of this country NOW. That's why it's a real sight to see, when the ctrl-left is working so hard to defend your Venezuelan Tren de Aragua members who've already raped and killed people. It takes a sicko to work to stop their exit from America, a leftist-principled sicko, but a sicko nonetheless.
What I don't like here in the article is a trend I have predicted. Rather than see the big picture that there were already a rectally-extracted-but-ballpark 30 million illegal aliens here before the Brandon/Mayorkas treason brought in 10-12 million more, people are forgetting the initial 30 million! This writer writes as if the 10-12 million is the ultimate goal. I'm afraid the Trump administration will start thinking that way too. With all the success in the world, they'd figure they're done, when we've gone down to accumulated numbers from 2020!
I have not yet looked to see if any of the astute ZeroHedge commenters - they are a mixed bag - have corrected Mr. Rickards on this matter. That aside, his summary of 3 possible ways to stop/avoid the judicial obstruction is good quick reading:
One is for the Supreme Court to issue a definitive ruling that district courts cannot issue nationwide injunctions, can only issue orders for the plaintiffs in the case and not the entire class of illegals, and that the courts have almost no jurisdiction over the conduct of foreign policy. Those rulings would empower Trump’s deportation programs.Let me be brief on my analysis of these 3 options:
The second way is for Trump to ignore the courts and proceed as planned. Critics will scream this is “unconstitutional”, but it’s just as unconstitutional for courts to ignore their limitations and intrude on the power of the executive branch. It’s an outcome the courts will have brought upon themselves.
The third way is to abolish the district courts, or at least some of them. That’s not as radical as it sounds. The Constitution clearly gives Congress the power to structure the court system any way it likes with the exception of the Supreme Court. Congress created the district courts and Congress can abolish them as well..
1) I'm pretty sure someone has pictures of John Roberts with naked little boys or something just as incriminating. He can positively be counted on to let America down when he is needed. Trump really screwed up his 3 SCROTUS picks, arguably at least 2 of them. I don't think we can count on (1) happening.
3) Congress can do a lot using their Constitutionally specified powers. They don't though. There's no way any of this will happen. If it miraculously did, activist judges would obstruct any legislation that did away with their jobs. Hell, wouldn't you?!
Ooops, I skipped over (2).
2) This is the only method that can work. This is not the America of 1985, in which perhaps we could work to form an across-the-aisle coalition to solve these problems. Now, one side WANTS these problems. The other side has half its people WANTING these problems. Of the rest, half of them care more about being thought well of in Washington, FS, so they can be welcomed at the cocktail parties.
Trump needs to do an Andy Jackson. He started off the Trump-47 term with a Blitzkrieg. The ctrl-left has formed its skirmish line made of activist judges. It's time to get the tanks back into formation and roll on through. Lighting war does not stop for Judge Boasergs. How many divisions do these judges have? They should be squished into the mud under MAGA's tank treads.
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The Brown LA Haze
Posted On: Saturday - May 10th 2025 8:36PM MST
In Topics: Music California Global Climate Stupidity Cars Environmental Stupidity
"Land Ho!" Nah, it was more like "Hey! There's a big freaking island out there!" Long ago, I spent some time in Los Angeles. I'd been there for a few months already, spending lots of time right there at the coast. I can't remember if we were at Hermosa or Manhattan beach, but as I hung out with my colleagues I saw that huge island, Santa Catalina,
What the hell was that thing doing out there all of a sudden? Well, obviously visibility had been less than 35 miles, really MUCH less, so I hadn't seen Catalina during all the time I'd been there, due to that brown LA haze, that particulate smog that used to fill the LA basin. What was that stuff? Particulate pollution can be a lot of stuff, water droplets and particles, including, yeah carbon. It's not gaseous pollution, or you wouldn't be able to see it. Californy resident Jed Clampett explains this to a visitor:
With those wide-open freeways - yeah, I'm going back a ways!* - and, the new car culture, and way before the CARB**, car culture was big in southern Cal. See American Graffiti and songs by The Beach Boys and Jan & Dean. This was long after the heyday of those guys and the movies, but the cars were all there, even more of them still and still spewing out quite a lot of particulates.
You get all that nasty stuff into the air from non-ideal internal combustion. (Stoichiometry - now there's something to chew on.) There's Nitrogen coming into your intake (78% of air) that's OK for the working fluid but the idea is not to make Nitrogen compounds. Then, there's the carbon in the form of soot particles. Auto pollution controls and engine electronics, etc. have done a lot since that day I finally viewed Catalina Island from the LA beaches. With all that the chemists and engineers of that age had to deal with, I don't believe Carbon Dioxide would have been considered a problem. After all, it and water are the 2 PRODUCTS, not BY-PRODUCTS, of ideal combustion of hydrocarbons. The Hydrogen combines with the O2 to make water, and the Carbon with it to make CO2. What't the problem?
In fact, my old not-so-clean-burning muscle car is kinda MORE carbon neutral than Greta might give it credit for. After all, if I'm sending the Carbon out the tailpipe as soot, then it's not being combined with the nasty planet-killing Carbon Dioxide. That's good, right? Any Chemists, Chemical Engineers, car guys, or just smart asses have anything to say about this? It doesn't sound like it, but comments are always welcome here.
Californians and their government, and I use "their" loosely here, have gone beyond worrying about real pollution. They did a good job with it, but you don't just quit saving the planet just because the air is cleaner. Saving the planet pays pretty well, so you find something new. The Climate Calamity™ pays very well!
In the meantime, I'll now feel good about saving the planet as I drive my muscle car that spits out soot to save from putting it into greenhouse-gas form. I'm not in LA, so I'm not responsible for that brown LA haze. Come Monday, it'll be alright...
For the ParrotHeads, this one's from Living and Dying in 3/4 Time. Perhaps it's been overplayed, but it's a nice tune. As for the lyric line that is the title of this post, let me tell you, I could NOT figure out what Jimmy was saying until about 20 years after I'd heard the song. How were you to find out? We didn't have the internet, dammit, much less fuel injection, catalytic converters, unleaded gas, and a view of Catalina Island. It just came to me one day.
Have a happy Sunday, Peakers. Thanks for reading and commenting. Come Monday, there will probably be another post.
PS: Because I saved the top image on that date, it was at that time of our 2 posts about the work done, and video made by, Climate Sanitist Tony Heller, aka, Toby Flenderson (Part 1 and Part 2) that I thought about this one. For the life of me, I can't see where that one led directly into this, but I can actually remember my thoughts of that moment.
* Perhaps the mid 1970s, Jim Rockford's time, were still before the time of the ubiquitous traffic jam, but that's just going by a TV show. (They didn't want to film really, really tedious car chase scenes I guess...) Commenter SafeNow could tell us the answer.
** They had carburetors, yes, but not the California Air Resources Board.
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Road Construction Update
Posted On: Saturday - May 10th 2025 8:59AM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Political Correctness Curmudgeonry Peak Stupidity Roadshow
Going on 8 years since the last time, hence the last post written, since I noticed a non-Feminist, non-PC construction alert sign, I saw another. Has this "opportunity" for a pro-Feminist struggle been missed? I just can't recall.
It's one thing to use completely different wording, like "Road work in progress" or "Road work ahead" that does not necessarily have an agenda but just a different way of saying the same thing. Have I missed "People at work", "Workers working" (yeah, I know), or anything else that is PC?
This is a good sign, pun intended. Are people getting fatigued of the everyday PC/wokeness, or is it that, basically nobody cares to make new signs? The latter thought had me motivated to write this post because of another sign also there, associated with this one. The other sign tells one to merge left, as the right lane is closed ahead.
Except, the right lane WAS NOT closed ahead. We're getting back to this topic of decreasing competence, and we may see it in all walks of life. I get that the orange barrels and cones are put just off the street for the times the road work is not in progress. It'd not be efficient to keep picking them up and putting them on trucks at night. This "Right Lane Closed" sign, though, ought to be put to the side and turned 90 degrees. Hell, it's cloth, I think, so just roll it up.
Back in the days when Curmudgeonry posts were half the blog, we asked People can't merge ... is there an App for that? (This one was almost right at 8 years back.) I don't take that post back - merging really is a lost art.
A few weeks ago, I saw a lady stopped completely in the middle lane of 5 lanes of highway, with her left blinker on because she wanted to get into one of the 2 lanes that forked left, over 1/4 mile away!. She was a sitting duck there, when all she had to do, even at that point, was gun it, get up to 50 mph or so, and slide over. Or, just suck it up, and don't fork left - the phone will help you get back where you want to go anyway. Madness!
Upon seeing the erroneous "Right Lane Closed" sign, for days now, I question whether some of the merging hesitancy is due to the incompetence of the road crews or their managers. In a sports car, one may not see what's ahead, lose some time merging, and then realize that was for nothing. In a taller vehicle, I could see that there was no reason to merge - both lanes were visibly open. There's no telling now, whether the signs mean it or not. Just keep going, and if we really have to merge, oh well, wait until 100 ft. away, stop, and we'll all have a traffic jam. That's the new normal.
Finally, there's a stop light nearby that used to work "smartly", I have to say, as the side road of this T-intersection didn't have much traffic. It'd stay green until a while after a car on that side road tripped the sensor. Then, the red for he main road would be short, but a little longer if it detected a number of cars flowing through still. Smart, with no internet required! (For now.)
Once the road was paved though - one of the proud few! - the signal reverted to olde timey timer-style. The main road will have a red light for no reason now. Ha, it's funny to think that this would have sounded stupid 40 years ago. "Whaddya' mean, for no reason? It's some wiring and some lights!". With some tweaking allowed, the timing of one direction vs. the perpendicular, all you had was timing back then. Now, though, you can do better, and we are used to that. However, after the paving job, the traffic engineers must send some technicians out to re-program the box. That hasn't happened. It's been half a year.
Get used to the new World - smarter devices, stupider people.
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Trump taking pro-White action
Posted On: Friday - May 9th 2025 10:59AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Trump Race/Genetics
The guy on our right looks a lot like a S. African guy I know, but the guy I know is an English-ancestry S. African. I can hear his accent in my head when I look at this picture.
I have no idea where most Peak Stupidity readers get their news from. Our commenters are known to be an erudite set, so I wouldn't think their "Conservative" outlet would be Fox News or the usual RedState, Townhall, etc sites. I bring this up because I've gotten the feeling from comments on The Unz Review that many real Conservatives have a bad opinion of President Trump-47 since these last >100 days.
I imagine if you were to watch the guy, whether on Fox news, various youtube/rumble/bitchute clips, wherever, you'd be bound to get a bad impression of The Donald. He runs his mouth too much, and changes his mind seemingly randomly. He is, after all a wrecking ball*. There's something to be said for not listening to a word out of his mouth - as has been the case for me for at least a couple of months - and just read about some very important and successful efforts he HAS made.
Regarding the picture above, I cannot be sure this effort won't be blocked by rogue destructive judges, maybe by the same freaking guy(!), but it's a work in progress. Per The Gateway Pundit, Trump to Welcome First Batch of White South African Refugees Fleeing Government-Sponsored Racial Persecution to U.S. Within Days.
On February 7, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order halting all U.S. aid to South Africa, citing “government-sponsored race-based discrimination,” including racially discriminatory property confiscation.Yeah, no shit, but then has ANY President or Majority leader or ANYBODY called the racist Black! rulers of the former 1st World country of South Africa out for this?
It can be recalled that South Africa’s EFF leader Julius Malena was again calling for genocide against white South Africans at a rally last year.It's been really bad, and the destruction of that country since the 31 year-ago handover of the country from the White man to the blacks is in an acceleration phase now**.
Instead of another 100 thousand here, 50 thousand there of 3rd-World people, supposed war refugees***, asylees, parolees, etc., Trump is welcoming up to 60-odd thousand White Afrikaners. Yes, they are NOW from the 3rd World, but they are not 3rd World people. Besides that these Boers (the other term) are hard-working people, as opposed to the 10's of millions of other "newcomers" over the last decades, they will actually, albeit minutely, slow the decline of the White population here. Thirdly, for their own sake, their home is going down quickly, and, if not already, they will be in great danger. These are deserving refugees. A tweet from some dude notes:
EXCLUSIVE: Trump officials plan to use funds for at-risk refugees to facilitate an influx of white South Africans within days, according to a government source & internal memo viewed by @LeverNews.I can't tell if he's pissed or happy, but I'm not about to wade into some confusing tweet-fest to find out!
The influx is happening as Trump bans other refugees.
It's not the numbers, as we're talking 1,000 this year, even if not judge-blocked. The southern border is nearly under control, so we've stopped digging, but the deportation program had better be ramped-up 10 or 20 fold if it is to be serious. That's not what this move is about.
This move by President is openly pro-White. Additionally, I just read a couple of articles about Trump firing 2 black government officials. I know, there are millions of people in the Feral Gov't, and "women and minorities will be hardest hit!", but these were specific firings. One was a deputy director of the NSTB, and the other was the Librarian of Congress. (I'm guessing she was too loud.) These 2 firings are not big deals in of themselves, but how many Presidents would have been too cowardly to fire a black lady, directly, and in plain sight? I'd say all of them, in the past.
President Trump will get called all sorts of names whether he does these sorts of things or not. He's got 3 3/4 years to change things. Why not go all out?
Therefore, I really think that Conservative Trump detractors ought to spend a little time thanking the man for pro-White moves like this. Nobody else would have had the guts.
PS: This is probably the only one of hundreds of posts here with the Immigration Stupidity topic key that is pro-immigration. Save the Boer!
PPS: While I was looking for the GP article on one of the black ladies fired, I found an alleged update on THIS story. It does have the following:
“Trump’s policy is a bold, necessary correction,” said a spokesperson for the Chamber of Commerce. “While the West bends over backward to help every other group under the sun, these people—Christian, European, hard-working—have been abandoned. Not anymore.”Say what you want about Trump, but you should mention this too.
* I am not sure if it was Peter Brimelow himself, another writer on VDare, or someone else, who coined that term. It fit for Trump-45, and it fits now. However, I think we've got the crane placed in a much better spot this time!
** Roughly 2 years back Peak Stupidity published an 8 part series of posts, Cry the DeConstructed Country based, to start out, on one article by a long-time expat to America who came back to visit. They are:
Part 1 - - Part 2 - - Part 3 - - Part 4: Anecdote on Anti-Apartheid - - Part 5: Cold and Hot Wars, and the Commies, of course - - Part 6: Africa Wins - - Part 7:
1st World Memories of Suid Afrikaanse Lugdiens and Part 8: As Falls S. Africa...
*** No doubt some are refugees due to American caused warmongering. As much as we'd like it to stop (and this is NOT one of Trump's successes) that's still only an excuse. They may have to leave home, but they don't have to come here. See our discussion of this point in our post Invade the World/Invite the World: Cause & Effect.
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"Houston, we habe Papam."
Posted On: Thursday - May 8th 2025 2:39PM MST
In Topics: Americans Bible/Religion So-called Pope Francis
The white smoke has wafted out of the Vatican chimney - apparently it's much easier to pick a Pope when stoned. Is the new Pope
We weren't so sure about that standard joke question "Is the Pope Catholic" with the guy they had the last dozen years. We were pretty sure he was a Communist though. Due to our disgust with the Papal Bull out of so-called Pope Francis, we didn't even go take hundreds of pictures of the Vatican while in Rome. (Well, "don't as the Romans don't", they say... it would stand to reason ...)
Amazingly, not only is the new Pope Leo XIV (14th for those readers out there on the other side of Hadrian's wall), a straight** White man, he's an American! It's about damn time. Without checking anything, that also increases the chances of his not being a Communist. We'd better check though - we got the internet, so ...
That this new guy, Robert Francis Prevost, didn't pick Pope Francis II as his alias, seeing as he could have used his middle name - easier to remember, if nothing else - is a good sign to start with. OTOH his last name comes pretty close to "Prevert", which is how many of us like to pronounce "pervert", so not so great a start there. OK, fine, let's go to the wiki page.
Robert Prevost was born in 1955 in Chicago and lived his childhood in Chicagoland (Chicagoans' term for Greater Chicago), specifically Dolton, Ill. That town might ring a bell, if the name of Black! grifter Mayor Tiffany Henyard rings a bell. That business happened much later than then-Mr. Prevost's time in "the far south side of Chicago", per wiki. You'd think he might have a clue on racial reality, but we'll see. I won't bring up every detail of the man's schooling, mostly divinity schools of various sorts and lots of it. He decided to be, or started becoming, I should say, a Priest at age 22. At age 30, he went down to Peru to the Augustinian mission for a year or so, and then came back in '88 and stayed through '99.
Peru, huh? That's worrisome, but then, I remember first hearing of the Shining Path Communists down there from a Peruvian friend from that very time. I wouldn't think this guy would be too enamored with Commies after the "antics" of the Shining Path, but, again, who knows. (He didn't join up, at least...)
However, Father Prevost does have a THING about Peru, and it can't all be about Machu Picchu, olde turtles, and llamas. He was down there again for 11 years starting in '14 as Bishop of Chiclayo. I seriously first thought that was a typo on the wiki page, but that's a place, and he became titular bishop. (No, that's not ... we'll get to the harassment business...) By THING, I mean that Prevost obtained citizenship of Peru, in 2015. What exactly is up with that?
I am not the type to believe all the #MeToo women's nonsense, and I give the Catholic Priests some leeway too. Lots of people lie. From wiki:
Alleged victims of abuse from two priests, dating back to 2007, said that Prevost failed to open an investigation in 2022. According to the Diocese of Chiclayo, Prevost met with the young women in ...Ohhhh! Women, whyn't ya' say so? Seriously, I've been dinged myself for not making mountains out of molehills, Prevost was not the alleged perpetrator, and I don't know what they mean by "young" here. So, I'll leave that without further comment. Plus, it was Peru. If no donkeys were involved ...
There's plenty more to learn, and I'm sure Ann Barndardt will and will tell us what she has. I'll read there later. In the meantime, ZeroHedge, in American Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost Announced As New Popehas some more info including some of his recent anti-Social media statements. I went through it. It's not pretty, especially his re-tweets and original tweets on the US Immigration Invasion. The same old short-term sob stories appear, with no regard to the long-term sob story of the sad demographic future. Well, they got THEIR walls, so, and there's no great rush of people into Peru...
... which seems to be Robert Prevost's, aka, Pope Leo XIV's, country. I take it he's a dual citizen. He was down there for 1/3 of his life and more than 1/2 of his adult life. I've got a feeling we've got another Liberation Theologist on our hands, maybe not a complete 1970's style Commie, but not an American Conservative theologian either. I should say, YOU'VE got another Liberation Theologist on YOUR hands. I wash my hands of this guy. You got it, Catholics. Good luck with Uncle Leo and all that!
This time around it sounds like the question is not "Is the Pope Catholic?" It might be "Is the Pope a Commie?", but the real question is, "Is the Pope an American?" Is he an American from Chicago or an "American" from Chiclayo?
* Jackson someone... anyone? Jackson Browne from... anyone, anyone coke-something, anyone?
** Actually, we don't know this for sure. I'll have to listen to him talk first thing.
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Isaac Asimov unavailable for comment
Posted On: Wednesday - May 7th 2025 7:54PM MST
In Topics: Music China The Future Science
I'm just phoning it in this evening - kinda tired.
Though unfortunately it's not the case socially and politically. we are starting to see a world of technology that had been envisioned by Science Fiction writers whose short stories, novels, and novellas I read as a kid. Does anyone remember Isaac Asimov's 3 Laws of Robotics? Perhaps his novels never got translated into Chinese. One wonders about the Quality Assurance on the software.
Don't worry - this guy was on a test stand of sorts. Once he's standalone finished and has a sticker from Q/A, and all the paperwork is in order, he can't hurt a human. It's built into the software... and will be in all the upgrades too... and we're pretty sure about that ...
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto... NO! Can't do it.
As appropriate (though somewhat dated, with "Made in Japan" and "My brain is IBM") that song would be for this post, Styx was at their best in the 1970's, which ended for them in, actually 1981 with the great album Paradise Theater. Peak Styx was IMHO 1977 and the Grand Illusion album.
Styx was:
Tommy Shaw – lead vocals, acoustic lead guitar
James Young – electric rhythm guitar, backing vocals
Dennis DeYoung – keyboards, backing vocals
Chuck Panozzo – bass
John Panozzo – drums
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