What grinds my gears

Quite a while ago I wrote a blog post about one of the biggest flaws in the Finnish judiciary system . You see, unlike for example in the United States, in Finland the winning party in a lawsuit gets automatically his legal fees paid by the losing party, no questions asked. On paper this makes sense: If you are innocent, you must not be punished in any way, shape or form, and losing money to pay for attorney fees would be such an unjust form of indirect punishment. Thus, the legal system has been built onto the foundation that the losing party pays for the legal fees of the winning party, period. If you are guilty, your victim must not suffer any monetary losses because of the lawsuit. If you are not guilty, then you must not suffer any monetary losses, because you did nothing wrong. On paper, and at first glance, that makes a lot of sense and seems very unjustified. The problem? It actually gives the lawyers of the winning party pretty much free range to punish the losing party howeve...

The YouTube channel BantuCityDiaries is run by an African black man who, rather unusually, is completely open about all the problems that sub-Saharan African countries are experiencing (including chronic poverty, systemic corruption, and so on), and is not ashamed of telling and explaining the actual situation and the actual reasons, rather than taking refuge in the European far-leftist multiculturalist propaganda and rationalizations. He doesn't soften the blows, he doesn't use rationalizations, he gives the middle finger to "political correctness", and just states the situation as it is, without shame. He is clearly showing an attitude of "I am an African, I have lived my entire life in Africa, I have visited a lot of African countries, I see what is happening here and I'm completely tired of pretending and making excuses, and I'm completely tired of European/American leftist multiculturalist propaganda that's trying to hide and distort the issues ...

In the United States you: Can't get a driver's license nor drive a car without an ID. Leftists are A-ok with this. Can't open and own a bank account without an ID. Leftists are A-ok with this. Can't rent, lease or buy an apartment or home without an ID. Leftists are A-ok with this.  Can't apply for a job without an ID (mostly for taxation purposes). Leftists are A-ok with this.  Can't travel by airplane without an ID. Leftists are A-ok with this. Can't purchase a firearm without an ID. Leftists are A-ok with this. Can't purchase prescription drugs without an ID. Leftists are A-ok with this.  Can't buy alcoholic beverages without an ID. Leftists are A-ok with this. Can't buy "medical" marijuana without an ID. Leftists are A-ok with this. Yet, because legislation is being introduced that would mean that you: can't vote in congressional and presidential elections without an ID, suddenly that's a huge problem and crime against human...

Jay Jones is a representative of the Democratic Party of the United States who is a candidate for the position of Attorney General. Some time ago quite a controversy arose when text messages he had sent to a colleague surfaced, which directly and unambiguously wished violence and death against the children of Republicans. The text messages have been corroborated as genuine, including by Jay Jones himself, so they indeed happened and are real. As I have come to conclude, all American far-leftists are psychopaths , and Jay Jones is no exception. He has absolutely no empathy and no value for human life. Not only does he fantasize about the murder of the children of people he doesn't like, but he's so consumed by it that he openly told about it to a colleague. Recently he was interviewed on a news channel owned by ABC, and he was asked about those text messages. His response: "Well, again, I so deeply, deeply sorry for what I said, and I wish it hadn't happened, and I woul...

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has always been infamous for having astonishingly lax enforcement of their own rules and the laws of the country in general, and pretty much granting any patent application that it receives, with about the only requirement being that the patent form is correctly filled. Infamously, it has granted probably hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions, of patents that should have been invalid because they do not fulfill the requirements of the law nor the rules of the USPTO itself (such as, for example, granting patents for inventions and methods that have existed for decades and were not invented by the people filing the patent.) The general policy of the USPTO has pretty much always been one of "grant all patents by default, let the private corporations and citizens fight about it between themselves in court." That's how you get completely ridiculous patents, of things that are not patentable according to the law of the United...

This is one of those misconceptions that not all flat-earthers hold (strangely enough), only some of them, but there are several examples of the latter, who have made YouTube videos about it. And that's the strange idea that "you wouldn't be able to see the Sun and the Moon at the same time on a globe Earth". That seeing them on the sky at the same time somehow disproves the globe Earth and proves the flat Earth. I seriously and genuinely have no idea why they think that. And, in fact, in none of the videos I have seen about this do they explain their reasoning. They just make that statement and... that's it. They don't explain any further. They don't even attempt to explain why, or what their reasoning and logic is. They never show graphics or pictures, or give any sort of geometric explanation. Or any explanation of any kind at all, geometric or otherwise. They just say it, and that's it. It just goes to show the complete inability of some people to ...

After several years the United States Department of Justice finally released to the public all the files that it had confiscated from the late Jeffrey Epstein. All 3 million pages of it. Unsurprisingly, 3 million pages contain the names of a huge amount of people. Also unsurprisingly, a lot of people are abusing those files and people's appearance in them for political purposes and attacks. One has to remember that that's a raw dump of all business documents, correspondence, contracts, emails and everything else that the DoJ could gather from the late Epstein. If he sent a "happy birthday!" or a "Merry Christmas!" email to someone, it will be there. Epstein had a huge amount of contacts and business deals with a huge amount of powerful people over the decades. Not all of it had anything to do with his infamous island and the illegal activities being done there. Much of this correspondence was probably just completely normal and legal business dealings or per...

I have been writing for quite a while now about my realization after the Charlie Kirk incident that far-leftists are psychopaths . Not a metaphor, not hyperbole, not exaggeration, not a random insult ignoring the meaning of the word. Actual literal bona fide psychopaths. Thus, there's nothing new about this. However, it's appalling to encounter clear examples of this again and again and again. Take, for example, one Giancarlo Esposito, a Hollywood actor most famous for his role in the TV series Breaking Bad, as well as others. He said recently in an interview, and I quote: "They can't take us all down. If the whole world showed up on Putin's doorstep, or on the Iranian's doorstep, or in Washington, they would kill five hundred, or fifty million or whatever, but the rest of us would survive with the new... This is time for revolution. It's time for it, and they don't even know that's what they have started." He is advocating for and promoting vi...

In a previous blog post I wrote a bit about the reasons for the absolutely astonishing difference in technological advance between Eurasia and most of the rest of the world, up until the age of imperialism (when all that technological advancement was pushed onto that rest of the world.) After all, Europe and large parts of East Asia had astonishingly advanced technology compared to the rest of the world: They had million-people cities, a very advanced money-based international economy, the printing press, firearms, ships that could sail across oceans, absolutely massive castles and cathedrals,big multi-storey buildings, extremely advanced and meticulously crafted musical instrument that were used in huge concerts in enormous lavish concert halls and theaters, and so on and so forth. At the same time, in most of Africa and the American continent people lived literally in the Stone Age, in straw and mud huts, used tools made of wood and stone, very few had even figured out how to use me...

"Veritasium" is one of those huge and world-famous YouTube channels that has 20 million subscribers and creates such high-quality documentary style videos that they rack up about 10 million views per video on average. Some of the videos are extremely interesting and didactic. Perhaps the most brilliant of such examples is his "Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED" video, which is not only technically and historically very interesting, but something that most people don't know. Given how technical many of his videos are, sometimes dealing with deep scientific subjects, some of his videos are not without their criticism and, perhaps, slight controversy. Perhaps one of the most infamous ones is the video "The Big Misconception About Electricity", which was criticized by many experts. Not in that what he was presenting was wrong per se, but in that the explanations and the video overall was needlessly complicated and cryptic for something that...

Modern far-leftist activists can be roughly divided into two major groups: The brainwashed drones, and the "larping revolutionaries". The first group forms the bulk of far-leftist activists, probably 99% of all of them, if not more. These are the activists who have been deeply, deeply indoctrinated into supporting, promoting and being activists in support of whatever happens to be the current agenda this particular week. They do not think, they do not question, they do not criticize, they do not doubt, they do not have their own opinions that might differ from the rest (or even if some of them at some semi-subconscious level do, they are way, way too scared to express them and act according to them.) They do as they are told, to support the positions they are told, without hesitation, without question, without skepticism, without criticism. It doesn't matter if today they are told to support a particular cause and tomorrow the exact opposite cause: They will just do what ...

All the way back in 2017 I wrote a blog post about " individualism vs. collectivism " where I posited the (quite widely known) fact that the modern far-leftist ideology is a fundamentally collectivist one. This is not a mere wild conjecture, "reading between the lines", doing some analysis and discussing at the meta level something that leftists are doing but are not actually directly saying. No, this is  directly  one of their stated principles. Zohran Mamdani, the recently elected mayor of New York City, who is very openly and brazenly a socialist, said it very directly and unambiguously in his inauguration speech: "We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism." And that was not just some kind of throw-away poetic sentiment or a metaphor. It summarizes the exact context of what he says in that part of his speech. This is, once again, one of the most evil, destructive and discriminatory ideas in modern far-leftism,...

On January 30th of 2026, a first-of-a-kind lawsuit was settled in New York for 2 million dollars: A 22-year-old woman sued two doctors for malpractice because those doctors coaxed her into getting her breasts surgically removed when she was only 16 and confused about her gender. She currently fully identifies as a woman and sued the two doctors for having pushed her into the operation. What's worst, the girl's mother opposed the surgery, but the doctors fear-mongered her to consent to it. She was essentially intimidated by the doctors to consent against her will. As a first in the country, the victim won the lawsuit and was awarded 2 million dollars in compensation, as the jury found both doctors liable of medical malpractice. This might give hope for the future. Those psychopathic quacks committing crimes against humanity do not understand reason and have no compassion, and the only thing they understand is the language money. Such lawsuits need to become much more common. So ...

That sentiment actually goes all the way back to the 1990's, especially in the leader of European multiculturalism, ie. Sweden. Indeed, already in the 90's and early 2000's there were newspaper articles and opinion pieces written by leftist multiculturalist journalists (who were already a scourge especially in the Nordic countries back then) pretty much directly and unambiguously stating that it's unfair that some white people get to live in peace and quiet in their almost-100%-white rich neighborhoods and towns, and how the government should make plans on how to forcefully introduce immigrants into those places. (And, obviously, by "immigrant" they meant people from the Middle East and North Africa. Because for some reason those two areas have always been the "foreign enough" places all the way since the 90's. You never, ever saw them pushing for, say, Japanese or Canadians or Italians or even South Africans, particularly if white, to invade the...

LegalEagle is a lawyer and very popular youtuber with millions of subscribers. His channel started with quite interesting content: For the most part, commenting on legal procedure shown on movies and TV shows and grading them by their accuracy, or commenting on the crimes made in movies and TV shows, and sometimes making videos about some current real life events regarding lawsuits. He seemed to be mostly politically neutral. In fact, during Trump's first term in office he made a video about some random lawsuit against Trump, and covered the facts very neutrally and keeping to the facts (and, in fact, if I remember correctly, even defending Trump's position, as incredible as it might sound.)  Then, for some reason, one day he turned a leftist activist. It primarily started with an infamous video where he commented on a deleted scene in the Captain Marvel movie where the eponymous character completely illegally assaults some douchebag and steals his motorbike... and LegalEagle d...

The worldwide far-leftist mob first were making a huge ruckus about Ukraine, but they have made an even bigger ruckus about Palestine, and have been doing so for literally years now, non-stop, and not just with their endless violent protests, but even to the point of harassing and assaulting Jewish people (who have never even been in Israel and have absolutely nothing to do with the entire thing.) They are all against genocides and humans rights violations and so on and so forth. Yet, where are they now, when Iranians are being butchered on the streets by the Iranian government by the tens of thousands? Where are they now when Christians are being massacred in Nigeria? Where are they when the Kurds are being massacred by the tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands? And there are in fact, many more examples of this happening around the world. The exact same people who have been pestering western countries for years about Palestine are 100% silent about those massacres. Why? Sure, ...

I wrote a year ago about the show South Park and how it's strange how the creators are completely irreverent towards almost every single sociopolitical and religious ideology and are clearly not afraid of the backlash and being called names... with one quite prominent example, which has been quite clearly over the entire history of the series: They quite clearly appear to be morbidly afraid of being deemed racists. They don't care if they are deemed homophobes, transphobes, islamophobes, or whatever, but one accusation is quite clearly off limits: Racists. They are, in fact, apparently so afraid of that label that in that particular regard they are outright far-lefist "woke" to the extreme, embracing the entire far-leftist ideology and doctrine on that particular subject. Perhaps the epitome of this, the culmination, the moment when they fully revealed and declared themselves to be 100% extreme far-leftists when it comes to race, was an episode where Stan's fathe...

The British people voted for the United Kingdom to leave the EU. The British government had 4 years to prepare for this exit, but instead of doing so, they sabotaged the entire thing by doing nothing. Instead, they spent the entire 4 years engaging in nothing but anti-Brexit propaganda and trying to find any possible way they could annul the voting result. They didn't succeed in that. However, they did succeed in sabotaging the entire thing by not preparing for it, and thus when the day came (effectively the EU had to forcefully kick the UK out because the time was up, I'm not even kidding) it "caught them by surprise", causing a lot of logistical and economic turmoil. A lot of anti-brexiteers then sneered at it, saying:"See? See? We told you that exiting the EU would cause an economic crisis! You should have listened to us!" Of course it did, because the UK government deliberately sabotaged the entire thing, did not prepare for it, and directly caused the e...

The Linux kernel was always written in C, and during its entire existence its author and sole owner Linus Torvalds has always rejected all and every single suggestion of replacing it or adding support for other programming languages. Unsurprisingly, over the decades there have been literally dozens of such suggestions, and many of the suggested programming languages would have been completely adequate for the job, and with safety features that C lacks. Invariably, Torvalds summarily rejected all of those suggestions. (One of the major officially stated reasons for this is that C is the  de facto  embedded systems programming language, and the amount of C experts, who know the language inside and out, and know how to use it for something like the Linux kernel, is staggering. Thus, changing to a completely different programming language would severely limit and diminish the pool of potential contributors and maintainers, and the number of people reviewing and auditing the code f...

Like so many other European countries, also Spain has a huge illegal immigration problem, with over half a million such people who have illegally entered the country. How to fix that problem? Well, the Prime Minister of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, has had a perfect idea, the perfect solution: Just grant all of them legal residency permits in one fell swoop. That's the perfect way to get rid of all illegal immigrants! The funny thing about that? He is passing the law allowing that... bypassing the Spanish congress completely, in other words, not even putting it up to vote by the congress. In other words, bypassing the democratic process completely. (I have no idea how or why the Spanish legislative system allows this kind of thing, but apparently it does, and the Prime Minister is going to take advantage of it.) In other words, he, personally, is going to pass a landmark law without asking anybody, without putting it up to vote by the congress, without asking the people of Spain, bypassin...

"Moist Cr1tikal", aka. "pengiunz0", aka. as simply "Charlie", is one of the most popular and biggest "talk-to-the-camera" YouTube commentator and entertainer, with over 17 million subscribers and raking 1-2 million views per video pretty much without fail (and given that he uploads such videos several times a day, he is literally a multi-millionaire by that ad revenue alone, something that he has himself confirmed.) He has always been known for his rational, smart, level-headed takes and commentary on stuff, be it video games, be it movies, be it some online drama, be it current real world events, be it funny videos, be it scams, and myriads and myriads of other various topics. One key to his immense popularity is that he has always been politically semi-neutral. Not 100% neutral, not 100% avoiding recent politics and political drama, but what could be deemed as "semi-neutral", presenting level-headed reasonable comments and opinions on...

Recently ABC News in the United States ran a harrowing story about how a preschooler boy, the son of an illegal immigrant, was returning home from preschool when heartless ICE agents detained him and kept him outside in sub-zero temperatures, trying to see if his family members, most of them illegal immigrants would show up, in other words, essentially keeping the boy as hostage and bait to draw out his family. Carefully selected photos and video clips were shown during the segment to really paint this picture and drive it home, with the cute boy being detained by heartless evil tyrannical gestapo-like ICE agents in the cold of winter. As I have been writing many, many times in this blog: If you just assume that when leftists make a claim about people they oppose, it's a complete lie and fabrication, there's a 99.9% chance that you would be right. And once again you would be completely correct. What actually happened was that ICE agents stopped the car of the father, who had hi...

Measuring someone's IQ, in addition to being somewhat unreliable, is also way too simplistic. Two people with the same measured IQ can be completely different in their cognition, knowledge, experience, ability to reason, skills, and overall behavior. One might not be able to solve complicated logical puzzles but still be very competent and skillful at his job and life in general, while the other, even having the same measured IQ, might be a complete incompetent moron who knows nothing about anything and does everything wrong. Most flat-earthers probably have a slightly lower measured IQ than the average (in other words, probably in the range of about 80-100 or the like, where 100 is the average), but that doesn't tell the entire story. They are very different in a separate axis to most other people in that same range. I don't know if these independent "intelligence axes" have been much studied, researched and discussed in psychology (they probably have), but they ...