PS: There ain't a place a man can hide, Ganderson, will keep him from the sun.
Ain't a bed can give us rest now, you keep us on the run.... take it, Jerry!

PS I guess this guy’s “gotta settle one old score, one small point of pride…”

PS: "Did someone leave the keys in the door and, in dark of night, a hood(i)ed figure snuck in and turned off the Central Stupidity Monitoring System?

Did that figure have a big bright name-tag on him, reading "Hi, my name is CORVINUS"?"

Ha! I was down myself during this downtime. Thanks for the heads-ups in 2 other places too, Mr. Hail! I saw them both this morning.

PS: Adam, that surprises me. I figure doing simple unit conversions would be something you don't even need AI for, but it could call up the appropriate math routine. I guess AI creators are getting pretty incompetent too. Then, these same people USE AI to learn from... a vicious circle of stupidity.

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Peak Stupidity was down/offline for a number of hours.

Did someone leave the keys in the door and, in dark of night, a hood(i)ed figure snuck in and turned off the Central Stupidity Monitoring System?

Did that figure have a big bright name-tag on him, reading "Hi, my name is CORVINUS"?

(A theory. Maybe he was looking for one of Adam Smith's Hulk Hugan Freedom Fries murals to grab and re-sell.)

PS: Good evening, y'all...

https://i.ibb.co/JRykFhJx/Amundsen-Scott-South-Pole-Station-Antarctica-Current-Weather.jpg

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PS: A quick example...

Apparently, google gemini is useless for these sorts of questions...

𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑥𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑥 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑐𝑟𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑤𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑛 7.2 𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑐𝑢𝑏𝑖𝑐 𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑖𝑐𝑒...

https://i.ibb.co/XZ3ZdqWT/100-trillion.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/sdw2H2pj/500-trillion.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/mrLBb2vq/1000-trillion.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/dwcBZpfn/5000-trillion.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/MD4T23LP/50000-trillion.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/Dg9x8c5c/500000-trillion.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/G4CjLKjJ/5000000-trillion.jpg

When I prompted the google bot with 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑥𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑦 50000000 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑐𝑟𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑤𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑛 7.2 𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑐𝑢𝑏𝑖𝑐 𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑖𝑐𝑒 it finally disagreed. ☮️

PS: ai overview...

https://i.ibb.co/Qv3jS6Y8/24-3-trillion-acre-feet-of-water-in-7-2-million-cubic-miles-of-ice.jpg

google gemini's ai overview has given me incorrect data too many times for me to trust it. I don't know if I would call it an hallucination as some people do, but I have definitely noticed it having some straight up dyslexic moments. Other times it was just wrong.

Anyway... Happy Monday! ☮️

PS: Good morning, everyone,

I'd just like to know how many acre feet of water there is in 7.2 million cubic miles of ice. (One acre foot of water is 325,851 gallons.)

Google tells me...
𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑥𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑢𝑙𝑡, 𝑚𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑖𝑝𝑙𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑚𝑒 𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒 𝑏𝑦 3.379𝑒+6

https://i.ibb.co/Y7P7SnNn/How-many-acre-feet-of-water-in-7-2-million-cubic-miles-of-ice.jpg

while this converter...
https://conversion.org/volume/cubic-mile/acre-foot

tells me that there is twenty four trillion three hundred thirty billion two hundred forty million acre feet of water in 7.2 million cubic miles of ice.

But I don't know if that info can be trusted.

Moar seriously...
https://www.accuweather.com/en/aq/amundsen-scott-south-pole-station/2258520/weather-forecast/2258520

Currently -50°F
RealFeel® -69°F

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PS: Mr. Hail, no, I wouldn't be able to tell which one, and he didn't say. Hopefully that attempt did not piss him off enough to not want to write in anymore.

PS: Alarmist, I read the abstract and then scanned over the rest of the paper about the sea ice around Antarctica. Besides, that, yes, this is an "unexpected" factor in the models (see, there will be more unexpected things, so these models are all trash).

Not only that, but the whole tone of the article was about playing with the math - checking the slope of this variable vs. this other. It's all math, but NO science. Nowhere was there talk about getting albedo readings off of A type of ice vs. B, and what temperatures of water and air does it take to make these different forms of ice, whether it matters that snow is on top of the ice (I would guess a higher albedo) or not. Well, see, whether there's snow on top depends on the local climate!! Determining that local climate - at the locations around the continent where sea ice forms and its changes are what the model is supposed to do, so there's a lot of interdependence, and yet again, the models suck.

I was just disappointed to see no real science in this paper, just the playing around with variables and the relationships thereof to see how that affects some existing model of the whole climate.

I'm very sorry, but this requires a post.

PS

Which post did former VDare writer Nicholas Stix try to comment on? He says the system swallowed his comment.

PS: I got it now, Alarmist, so thanks. I'll read it soon.

PS: No, that's not O/T at all, Alarmist, as we are talking about snowflakes - or I was. ;-}

I had a feeling that link wouldn't work for me. I'm pretty sure I copied the whole thing - ends in "567"? but it may or may not be a bad link. This sounds pretty lame-o on the part of this site, but worst case, you could put a link in in reply to me on TUR.

Actually, I just noticed that it was 2 links together. I'll get back to that.

Yes, I don't think all physical processes are modeled. The models are therefore pretty much garbage. Even WITH every possible climatic process taken into account math models need a whole lot of work, as somehow it does NOT all come together for something this complex.

BTW, that one was sea ice "extent" as opposed to sea ice "area". The latter includes ice of any thickness, so I suppose even a couple of inches, while the definition of extent is something like ice a few meters thick or more. How do they know from satellite imagery? I'm not sure. For the albedo, one can probably go down to a low thickness, BUT, it surely depends on whether the ice is snow covered. Are changes in snow cover on the sea ice due to other processes going on taken into account? I think not. But, one can see, it can all get very complicated in a hurry.

PS

O/T Mr. Mod, but can we revisit that souther ice cap thingy?

Between 1985 and 2014 observations show an increase in Southern Ocean sea-ice extent. This phenomena is not simulated by Atmosphere-Ocean General Circulation Models

Different sea ice evolution strongly effects the surface albedo feedback over the Southern Ocean

Discrepancy in Southern Ocean feedbacks contribute to biases in global temperature trends

source: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025GL115657https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025GL115657

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PS: Greetings, Mr. Alarmist!

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑈𝑛𝑖 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑙𝑎𝑧𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑖𝑔𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑓𝑒𝑤 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑥𝑖𝑒 𝑜𝑟 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑙𝑒𝑑𝑔𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑡𝑦 𝑛𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑒.

And they are probably right. I would imagine that almost all of those $75 (maybe more today?) failure to have a parking pass tickets gets paid and giving out a few tickets encourages most students to buy a parking pass. I'd be surprised if anyone contests such a ticket. Most Americans are well trained that way. Very few would ever think of saying "𝑁𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑠. 𝐼 𝑟𝑒𝑓𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡." or something like it.

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PS: Tesla Drive Unit Service
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPGascEXUac

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PS: 𝐼 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑦𝑏𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑖𝑙 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑐 𝑚𝑜𝑡𝑜𝑟...

Teslas do use ATF 9 in the drive units. The amount of ATF 9 varies slightly between models and model years, but typically, the rear drive unit holds around 2100 ml, while the front drive unit holds about 1300 ml. Each unit also has a filter and Tesla says the oil and filters should be changed about every six months. There is also a "break in period" on a new Tesla. I recommend changing the oil and filters at 500 miles and then again at 1000 miles. And then like every 5000 miles after that.

https://mypartsuniverse.com/products/zf-lifeguard-fluid-9-aa01500001-transmission-fluid-1-quart

https://aftermarket.zf.com/lubricants-datasheets/lifeguardfluid-9/pdb_zf-lgf9_20191025_eng.pdf

https://www.ebay.com/itm/195395879258

https://service.tesla.com/docs/ModelS/ServiceManual/Palladium/en-us/GUID-36446C94-6772-413D-93C6-DCE905433139.html

Cheers! ☮️

PS: 12 𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑠?

He must have bought a whole case of the eco-friendly Tesla oil. His Tesla only takes 5 quarts.

How to Replace Blinker Fluid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6GsXhBb10k

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PS: Greetings, Achmed!

𝐼'𝑣𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑔𝑢𝑦 𝑠𝑜 𝑑𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑜𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒.

Chris only does these sorts of videos on April 1st.

Happy Sunday! ☮️

PS: Oh, I forgot this Adam. He started shifting gears. That's when my WTF meter alarmed loudly.

PS: Mr. Smith, my parking stories will follow, probably later, but let me say that those 2 videos had me questioning my sanity. This guy spends a lot of time to fool people. I'm sure it works, a lot.

Re the Tesla, I thought maybe that engine did use oil for cooling the electric motor, cause non-conductivity, but then 12 quarts? The circuit board inside the oil filter looked a bit hokey. (About the only hokey part here.) I skipped past the guy's trip to one shop and then saw him put antifreeze in what, a radiator for ...? OK, that was about the time I went to the comments.

Piston return rings? Never seen 'em, but maybe in Hondas, though the guy made them sound so generic. The video guy Chris made his own boxes with "Made in USA' even!

Oh man, I've never seen one guy so dedicated to fooling people. One thing though - I wonder if he holds the comments back for a while to get more people suckered.

PS: "Steve Sailer has proposed this is because people became much more worried about getting caught given surveillance technology of the 21st-century (and, maybe, militarization of police). Back around 1970, it was easier to get away with things..."

There's a lot to that, and I thought of that too, independently. However, one could go right up into the 1990s sometime for this. I can tell you that at my college, same thing, you could get away with a lot if other people didn't rat you out. Cameras were simply not around, unless a photographer happened upon a scene.

This gets back to the fireworks. We were having a bottle rocket war from across the grass "quad" as it were. A lady campus cop came over and told us to stop. We didn't really, so she said "stop, or I'll call the REAL cops!" or something to that effect. ;-}

Then there was the time the ROTC band cranked up at 8 in the morning behind my dorm. I heaved ("heaved" always sounds professional) 2 oranges* over the wall between us, a weall too high for them to see me over. The music stopped dead! I was gone and back in bed before anyone in the military hardly moved.

* Only things I had in the fridge.

PS: Mr. Hail, that 30-odd y/o black guy was probably just using the Ebonic versions of the pronouns, but no, that still doesn't make too much sense.

I listened to a black co-worker yesterday who could think pretty clearly, but she had to ignore plurality and tenses. I really don't know if it's that she's so used to that, such that she can't go normal, so to speak, around White people (all the rest of us there), or is it that she wouldn't be able to be herself (black) and couldn't live with herself if she switched to the White Man's language.

Or, your guy just got AA'd through college and into his job.

Also, for both you and SafeNow regarding letters to the editor, still in the actual-paper newspaper era. A friend of mine and I wrote a letter against AA, and it appeared in the campus newspaper. While we were writing ot - supposed to be doing projects - we laughed as I started one paragraph with: "Listen, ...". It just read pretty funny.

I'm pretty sure 90% of the students who read it would have agreed with our letter. The folks at the newspaper - they are always leftwing - maybe not. However, they published it, so I'll give 'em that.

PS: SafeNow, I hung mostly hung out with a Conservative crowd in college, primarily due to my major. However, unlike in your era (and maybe just due which college), politics wasn't really too big a deal among the students. Of course, there was the ctrl-left contingent in certain areas - I think many who'd already finished or dropped out and still lived there - and they had their pet causes of the times to get riled up about, and try to rile up students about.

It seemed to be live-and-let-live with the politics. All fireWORK bombing, not actual fire-bombing was in fun, though M-80s can blow up chunks of dorm wall, and one guy almost got kicked out of college.

What a crowd you had though! But that was New England. I was nowhere near there.

PS

Unilateral modifications of or additions to contracts are not legally enforceable when your new contract does not conform to best practices, including providing proper notice to the user, noticeability of the changes, and affirmative assent by the user.

Putting a gate on the entrance to University grounds and requiring the driver to take a ticket to enter would suffice, provided the driver had reasonable time to exit without paying. Posting signs on campus thoroughfares might be sufficient if they are prominently placed.

The Uni was lazy and figured very few would have the moxie or knowledge to challenge the penalty notice.

Welcome to 🤡🌎 Honk.

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PS: Greetings, M,

My friend did indeed graduate a couple years later. I think the "parking pass" would be the contract in this sort of matter, but you are likely correct that the university admission contract (or whatever they may call it) is indeed the original contract.

Please keep in mind that the city of Dahlonega is a semi-rural Whiteopia nestled in the mountains of southern Appalachia. We are still a relatively high trust community with very few non-Whites among us. Many people here leave their car unlocked with the keys in the ignition and a pistol in the glove box. We have very little crime. Things that can and do work here would never happen in certain other places.

I'm guessing that the nice lady just figured that he was studying to be a lawyer or something and that he really did have the right to refuse their offer to contract (because he does) in a reasonable time. I imagine that she just crumpled it up and threw it away. Or perhaps she went to the computer and erased any record of the parking ticket. In any case, he did graduate and he never heard of that parking ticket again.

Happy Sunday! ☮️

PS

Adam Smith:

If the university was the one issuing the tickets, then your friend was lucky to graduate.

The original contract was signed when you sign up to attend the university. Most places don't issue you your degree unless you're all paid up. This notoriously includes library late fees. I suspect parking fines would come under that if they're collecting them.

Without clearing those, you don't get the degree. Some places might not even admit that you attended the university at all.

OTOH, they may not be all that good at sending those records into the registrar.

PS: I have a couple videos for you guys...

How to Replace Piston Return Springs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFX_Xq9WHTI

How to Change the Oil in a Tesla
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5YhUNX-F-M

Enjoy! ☮️

PS: Good morning, gentlemen of wealth and taste...

~15+ years ago I had a friend who was a student at UNG here in Dahlonega who received a parking ticket because he didn't have a parking pass on his car. (Apparently UNG wants people to buy a parking pass or something.) When he asked my advice on how to handle it I told him that a parking ticket is a commercial contract and that he has 72 hours to refuse their offer to do business.

So, the next day we went down to the UNG to handle the matter. We started with the college cops at the public safety office. When he informed them that he refused their offer they really didn't know what to do. Eventually they said that they didn't really deal with collections of the tickets and that he would have to go to some other office on campus to handle the matter.

So off we went to some other building where we found the office in question. There was a lady working there that day. She was nice enough, but she seemed very much like some NPC HR style bureaucrat. My friend explained to her that under the uniform commercial code he has 72 hours to refuse their offer to contract and handed the "ticket" to her. (I may have had him scrawl some sort of "I refuse your offer" language on the ticket, but I don't really remember.)

She kind of gave him a blank look, but she took the ticket.

Saving himself $75 dollar bucks he never heard of it again. ☮️

PS

Since ‘they’ is plural, notwithstanding that that person might have multiple personality disorder, I automatically refer to such persons as ‘it’.

“I gave it a dollar.”

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PS

Glad to hear the student persevered, SafeNow.

The way I read your telling of the story, the college "administrator(s)" took the side of the firebombers, and looked down on the anti-Woke letter-writer as "the real problem," a person to red rid of. It must've been more like, the administrator sought to help the anti-Woke student find a place of safety, if he wanted it.

By the way. The "firebombings" and the like of the 1960s-1970s are hard to imagine today and I wonder why.

I understand they were common, multiple times per week over a many-year period, back then. Bombings with explicit political motivations. Whatever the rate is today seems so low as to roundable to zero.

Steve Sailer has proposed this is because people became much more worried about getting caught given surveillance technology of the 21st-century (and, maybe, militarization of police). Back around 1970, it was easier to get away with things...

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Hail, the student was given the choice. Read carefully. It was NOT “where DO you like to be.” In the event, the student declined the transfer offer, and persevered, despite the practical difficulties.

Hail, this is not the first time that you have gratuitously chosen to have foxes in your bosom for me.

PS

Adrian Miguelez looks like a classic Mestizo. I wonder what year his family-line(s) entered the USA and from where.

("Adrian" may sound like a "non-Hispanic" name, but there re plenty of Spanish native-speakers who use the name, appending an accent mark on the final "a.")

PS

RE: SafeNow, a student expelled in the late 1960s for a "non-Woke" letter-to-editor of the student newspaper? I can only wonder at the contents and which group or groups he singled out for his critiques, or whatever it was.

These days, under Trump-II, it's Israeli intelligence and unregistered foreign agents of Israel that are cracking down on those kinds of people.

PS

__________

"He lists his pronouns as 'He/Him',..."
__________

I saw, earlier this year, 2025, a well-meaning left-wing Black male from Richmond, Virginia, I think, who was maybe in his 30s, refer to his pronouns as:

"He/they."

Yes, you read that right. Not he/him; not "even" he/them (which itself would be strange), but he/they!

You tell me how that makes sense in any grammar.

"I gave him a dollar."
---- UNACCEPATBLE. Instead use:
"I gave they a dollar" ???

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O/T, but I gotta say this, because you know how I love my 60s songs.
I checked-out the NY Post’s sports coverage of the Duke/Houston March Madness semifinal. Their clever headline: “Duke of Hurl”

Btw, I do not watch pro or college sports until the very end of the playoffs. Unwatchable nastiness. Instead, I check-out the highlight reels, so I can enjoy the best of the athleticism…less the nastiness.

PS
Life has been hard for conservative students since the 60s, I fear, because this was the case when I was a student at a super-“elite” New England university during the late 60s. I recently posted this on Unz:

A student published a non-woke letter in the student newspaper. His dorm room was then firebombed. The university president summoned him into his office. He explained that the student had worn out his welcome here, and he pointed to the phone on his desk, and asked where would you like to be a student tomorrow.. just name the university, and I will call its president.

I’m not done. I was a resident adviser. I had the temerity to say something perfunctory to one of my advisees – – someone whom I was not supposed to speak to. The next morning, I was in the hallway bathroom (wearing a towel) when a dozen members of that student’s group had me up against the wall, face-to-face, reminding me of the limitations under which I was expected to operate. (I found a work-around for this situation, of course.)