What grinds my gears

When Charlie Kirk was murdered at a speaking event, the immediate reaction by many far-leftists, particularly on certain social media platforms, was completely unsurprising but nothing less disgusting: Posting videos of themselves cheering and celebrating. In one particular example the women says something about knowing that cheering on someone getting murdered is wrong, but then proceeded to do it anyway, very visibly and very provocatively, completely on purpose. These people are literal psychopaths, and they are completely disgusting. They are some of the worst scum of this Earth, and I have so much disgust towards them that it literally makes me want to puke. But of course those are not the only "vultures" encircling Kirk's corpse. Also unsurprisingly, many leftists have taken the opportunity to piss, spit and trample on his grave, at least metaphorically speaking because he's not yet buried. They are making videos smearing him, insulting him, and making all kinds...

Charlie Kirk was a very strong believer in discussion. He believed in, and often expressed the sheer importance of people talking to each other. He believed that differences in opinions should be resolved via peaceful discussion and debate. He often compared the entirety of society to a married couple: What happens when a married couple stops talking to each other? What happens when they stop telling each other what they think and what they feel? What happens when the stop listening to each other? He was a strong believer in not just the universal inalienable right to free speech, but in giving everybody a voice. He didn't try to silence his political opposition. He didn't try to shut them off, or have them go away, or them experiencing negative consequences for their expression of opinion. He didn't try to "cancel" anybody, not even his fiercest opponents. On the contrary, he was always happy to have a civil discussion even with people who hated him and opposed e...

Nathan Oakley is one of the biggest flat-earth activists. He is quite notorious for being, arguably, by far the most obnoxious, smug and condescending of them all. His tone of voice, his manner of speaking, the way he expresses himself, and even his facial expressions all exude smugness and condescension. It's a very smug and hostile tone, and whenever someone doesn't agree with him he very often he resorts to just petty insults and his smugness turns into a very aggressive tone and words. Unsurprisingly, if he is in control of the conversation, eg. if it's happening during an online live stream and he has the capability of muting and kicking out the other person, he's more than happy to do that and he abuses that power very easily and often. Also unsurprisingly, when he isn't in control of the conversation, he always tries the next best alternative, ie. to control it by constantly interrupting and shouting over the other person. He is the epitome of the Dunning-Kru...

In 2018 several European countries investigated whether so-called "loot boxes" in certain video games, especially ones that are purchased with real money, could be considered a form of gambling and thus would violate the gambling and lottery laws of those countries. The investigations arose primarily because of raising concerns that these "loot boxes" were potentially as addictive as other forms of gambling, especially for younger people, which is particularly bad when real money is involved in the purchase of these boxes. It was noted that they seemed to fulfill the definition of a "lottery" or "raffle" to an extent that falls under the definition and thus restrictions of the gambling/lottery laws: Each "box" is purchased with real money. The contents of the "box" are randomized rather than fixed. The customer does not see the contents of this randomized box prior to purchase. Some of the potential prizes that can be gotten f...

There are quite many YouTube channels that are dedicated to showing "sovereign citizens" being confronted (and often arrested) by cops (most often in traffic stops). One big problem I have seen with many of these channels is that they use the term "sovereign citizen" extremely loosely, slapping that term in the title of almost every single video completely regardless of whether the person depicted in the video presents any actual "sovereign citizen" talking points or not. At worst, that I have seen, is maybe half of the videos of one of these channels having "sovereign citizen" in the title, yet the person being confronted by cops and arrested very clearly does not believe in any of that nonsense. Indeed, it seems to me that these YouTube channels don't really care what the term actually means, and just slap it in the title of the video (and often use it while narrating or commenting in the video itself) almost automatically. They use the ter...

Of course there are multiple such videos, but I recently encountered this one , where a trans activist is interviewed and asked questions about the subject, and the video encapsulates perfectly what they believe and, particularly, how  dogmatically  they believe it even against all evidence of the contrary. For example, the trans activist presents the old tired claim that puberty blockers only "pause" puberty and their effects are fully reversible, that when the blockers are stopped, puberty then resumes and goes through its normal course. When presented with the fact that puberty does not somehow magically just get paused and then continue normally, and instead puberty always stops at about 18 or so regardless of any blockers, and that boys who have been on puberty blockers during all that time end up with a permanent micro-penis, she just denies it, all she has to say is: "They probably want that." (A bit irritatingly the interviewer doesn't press on that, ie....

There's a large segment of the human population that has, for the lack of a better term, an outright "phobia" towards math. Like all phobias, the severity varies a lot. Many of these people have no problems with most basic arithmetic, such as addition, subtraction and multiplication, and may even be quite adept at doing those things in their head (for example, summing up the result of throwing multiple dice). However, any mathematical subject that goes even  slightly  more advanced than the four (or even three!) basic arithmetic operators not only goes beyond their comprehension, but they have an outright aversion towards even trying to understand it. Even something as "advanced" as division, or understanding multiplication by negative numbers, might cause them problems (yes, that happens. I have witnessed it first-hand.) Not to talk about "rocket science" level of advanced mathematics, like elementary algebra! Then there are the more severe cases for ...