What grinds my gears

For quite a long time, pretty much as long as what can be called "primary school" has existed, pretty much everywhere in the world, students were not just taught to read, write and things like mathematics, history, geography and other theoretical stuff, but a quite big portion of the curriculum was dedicated to teaching them practical skills: How to cook, how to do woodwork, how to repair stuff at home, how to sew a button or a torn cloth, and so on and so forth. This was very common in the vast majority of schools up to some time in the 1970's or 1980's, give or take, depending on the country. In fact, it's  still  the case in some countries, although perhaps to lesser extents than it was in the past. Then something happened in many countries. There formed this strange mentality that teaching such practical everyday skills does not belong to school. That primary schools are nothing but preparation for high school and university, and you don't need to know how...

American far-leftists are complete psychopaths , every single one of them. They also cannot open their mouths without lies pouring out . Pretty much everything they say, when it's not pure hatred and racism, is a lie. The number of lies that they have promoted during the last ten years would be really, really long. However, their latest prominent lie is so incredibly obnoxious that it's just astonishing. They feel absolutely no shame about lying about it, no matter how clear it is that it's not true. What is it this time? The claim that "Donald Trump shut down the government", or the Trump administration, or the Republicans (but most importantly Trump himself.) If you guessed that he did no such thing, you would be 100% correct. Neither Trump, nor his administration, nor anybody in the Republican Party shut down the government. It's the  Democratic Party  that shut down the government, just like they did 8 years ago. They, and only they, did that, and there...

Some time ago, perhaps 10 to 15 years ago, the police forces in the United Kingdom, for reasons unknown (I have never seen anywhere how or why it started), started becoming a speech police: They started policing people's "wrong" opinions online. Since then it has only escalated more and more. What started by just a dozen or so incidents per year quickly escalated to several hundreds of arrests per year, to several thousand arrests per year, and there has been no end in sight to this escalation. It has become so bad that, I kid you not, the UK police is making over 30 arrests  every day  for things that people have said online. That's something like ten thousand arrests per year. And that's just the number of arrests; the number of times that the UK police goes to harass people at their homes, sometimes even in the middle of the night (literally!), is even higher. They investigate, harass and arrest literally tens of thousands of people every single year, while at ...

On the first days of Russia's full-scale invasion attempt of Ukraine, they occupied the city of Chernobyl. Yes, exactly  that  Chernobyl. The logic behind this beggars belief. It's a mind-bogglingly stupid move. It shouldn't be any surprise to anybody that the Pripyat area, including Chernobyl, has no military value. There are no military bases there, or is there anything of military strategic value in the area, for rather obvious reasons. It is, for all intents and purposes, a radioactive toxic wasteland with zero value. The land has no value, and there is no military value to the area either. What makes the invasion of Chernobyl particularly stupid is that the soil, especially in the so-called Red Forest, is still radioactive, and driving tanks on it disturbs the soil and releases huge radioactive dust clouds. (Yes, tourists visited Chernobyl all the time prior to the invasion, but these visits were extremely controlled, and one of the strict rules for any visitor is to n...

There is one thing that flat-earthers just cannot explain in any way, shape or form, not even with made-up claims, not with pseudoscience, not by throwing fancy terms at it and pretending it "explains" it, and they can't even deny that it happens. This one counter-argument is completely impervious to all flat-earther arguments. And that is: How is science able to predict every single solar eclipse years and even decades ahead of time, to the accuracy of seconds, and the exact places where there will be full and partial eclipses? Even they cannot deny that it happens. They can deny the validity of photographs, video, scientific tests and measurements when it comes to other topics. They can even argue about the nature of solar eclipses themselves (ie. what they are and what causes them). However, the predictions are so utterly and clearly undeniable that even flat-earthers and their kindergarten-level IQ can't deny that it happens: Every single time that science has pre...

This slide is from a 2023 presentation by the famous video game development company Activision Blizzard: Let's put aside for a moment the racial discrimination in hiring that's quite clearly happening in that company. Here Activision Blizzard is meticulously observing and documenting the race of their employees. They are paying members of their staff to observe, research, classify and document people by their race, compartmentalizing them based on that innate trait. Activision Blizzard: Do you know what that's called? It's called racism. Pure, unadultered,  bona fide  racism, plain and simple. In an actual non-racist environment it shouldn't matter what people's "race" is supposed to be. It plays no role. People would not be classified nor compartmentalized by it. And especially it wouldn't be something that's meticulously researched, documented and charted. Activision Blizzard, you are a racist company, plain and simple. There's no way aro...

I have written about this very subject before, but I think it deserves repeating because I see it on YouTube pretty much every single day, and to this day I have absolutely no idea why they behave like they do. If you are in the United States, try going all on your own, alone, for example to a car of local law enforcement of federal agents, and damage the car in their full view, like slashing a tire or breaking a windshield wiper. What happens? You'll be arrested in a millisecond. You'll be lucky if they don't shoot you. However, gather 50 people to accompany you, to show slogans and be all angry at the cops, and then go and damage their car. What happens? In most cases, nothing. Perhaps one of the cops  might  shove you aside, but that's it. No arrest, nothing. This is not hyperbole or just hypothetical.  It happens all the time . Nowadays it happens many times a day. In the vast, vast majority of cases the result is the same: No arrests. The cops  refuse  to e...