What grinds my gears

I have been writing a few blog posts about the youtuber who goes by the nickname Thunderf00t, who is one of the longest-active youtubers with a significant amount of subscribers, having been there since almost the very beginning of the platform, and still uploading videos semi-regularly. He became originally famous for his science content, particularly his videos debunking scam crowdfunding and other similar projects that promised physically impossible things. Then at some point, he became a notable anti-feminist, one of the first ones on the platform, and a very notorious one. He had a long beef with the part of the world-wide (although primarily American) atheist community that had been completely invaded and taken over by radical far-leftist activists set on aggressively pushing their leftist political agenda onto the atheist community. He still created videos on the topic of science and crowdfunding scams while doing that. However, at some point, for some reason, he suddenly became...

Some years ago law enforcement in the United Kingdom, quite clearly having taken notes from the Chinese government, decided to install surveillance cameras in several cities that had automatic facial recognition software in them, to more easily find criminals. Unsurprisingly, and quite justly, a lot of people raised concerns about the question of privacy issues that this would create, and commented and protested on how this was once again just another step towards a totalitarian surveillance state, just like China. However, turns out that UK citizens had nothing to worry about because, very much unlike in China, in the UK the problem solved itself. Why? Well, consider the ethnicity of the majority of criminals identified by the automatic surveillance system. Do I even need to say more? (Indeed, the British government is now worried about "racial bias" and "racial profiling" that these automated systems are, unsurprisingly, engaging in.)

Nelson Mandela is most famous for being the South African leader who ended Apartheid and became the president of the country for five years. He is, in a way, also somewhat famous in an ancillary way for the so-called "Mandela effect", named after him, and that's the misconception that Mandela was imprisoned and died in prison, when in fact he lived for years after (and became the president of the country). However, that's not the misconception I'm talking about here. The misconception, by far and large more common than "he died in prison", is that he was a pacifist, and that he ended Apertheid and became the president of the country through extreme pacifism. This couldn't be farther from the truth. In actual reality Nelson Mandela was a violent Communist revolutionary who advocated for and associated with other violent revolutionaries, most of them staunch Communists (some of them, in fact, having moved there directly from the Soviet Union). In fact,...

There are many crafts and professions in this world that have two rather different layers to them: The superficial layer that only cares about the end result, and the layer where the professional is passionate about the crafting itself, where the end result is rewarding but not the ultimate source of the passion for the craft (and, moreover, the end result is rewarding  because  of the effort put into it, rather than regardless of it.) For example, to most people a car is just a convenient tool: It's very handy to travel to places and to transport people and stuff from one place to another. They don't really care all that much what happens under the hood as long as it works and gives them what they want. But then there are the car enthusiasts: To them the passion is not just driving the car, but about what happens inside. They might spend hours and hours every day for example fixing an old car, or fine-tuning their existing car. Sometimes they spend more time in the garage tin...

Some years ago I wrote a blog post about the sad fact that, very much unlike far-leftists, when anti-leftists try to promote and fight for some cause, if it doesn't immediately take hold, they just give up and move to something else. Sometimes they might try to fight for the cause for a few years but eventually it will just fade away and they will give up. Sometimes they give up in just mere weeks. (There's a great deal of irony that being independent individualists who think for themselves and are not just brainwashed drones is both a strength and a weakness: It's rather obviously a strength because they are much harder to manipulate and dissuade into destructive behavior. But it's also a weakness in that trying to organize them is like trying to herd cats: They just don't want to follow the crowd, and even if they do show some interest for a little while, they quickly get tired of it if it doesn't seem to produce immediate results, and move to something else....

Tyler James Robinson is the primary suspect for the infamous assassination of Charlie Kirk, which happened on September of 2025. He was arrested in that same month. As of writing this, that was 6 months ago. One might ask: How is the lawsuit going? Well, the lawsuit has not even started yet, as of writing this, even after six months. In fact, the first  preliminary hearing  is scheduled to happen two months from now, in the 18th of may. Why is that? Because his lawyers are stalling the entire thing like mad, that's why. They are issuing motions, complaints, objections, arguments, every single possible legal tool at their disposal, to delay the proceedings as much as possible. Every single minor thing they can think of, they are throwing at the legal proceedings to try to stall them as much as possible. That's how they have managed to delay even the first preliminary hearing by 8 months after the arrest. Why? I don't really know. Standard sleazy lawyer tactics, I suppose. ...

While they are a fringe microscopic minority, there are a few American far-leftist zealots who have been brainwashed and fear-mongered so deeply and so completely that they have or are planning to actually leave the United States and move to another country (obviously "to escape fascism"). In the few cases that do this and they do follow-ups on their new lives in those new countries, it almost invariably turns out that those other countries were not the socialist paradises that they thought they would be (and often they are shocked about how expensive and difficult it is to live there, after having lived their entire lives in the US, where everything is relatively speaking cheap and taxes are very low.) There are two rather curious things about these people that I have noticed: 1) Every single example of this that I have seen has the far-leftist move to a rich western country where, most usually, the population demographic is even more white than in the US. This even when the...

A British man in his 50's is at an airport with his wife waiting for their flight to go on vacation, when a whopping six armed police officers show up to arrest him. Was he suspected of some kind of heinous crime? Robbing a store with a knife? Assaulting someone? Beating up people with a baseball bat? Threatening to kill someone or plant a bomb somewhere? Nope. They were there because of a Facebook post he had made. So surely that post must have been something very serious, like threatening to hijack or bomb the plane, or threatening to kill someone, or something like that? Nope. The cops were  suspecting  that the Facebook post was "racist" and "offensive to someone". And the kicker is that he had made that Facebook post something like six months prior, not like a couple days. After six months of the post sitting there the UK cops finally found it and decided to send a whopping six armed police officers to arrest in at an airport while he was waiting for a flig...

A notorious flat-earther, David Weiss, has for quite some time now issued a Kent Hovind style "challenge" for anybody to give him a single proof of a globe Earth, the prize being three bitcoin. What is a "Kent Hovind style challenge", you might ask? It's a type of impossible-to-win challenge that was popularized by the infamous young-Earth creationist Kent Hovind: He offered thousands of dollars for anybody who would give him a proof of the theory of evolution. The problem? Not only has he not given any description of what he would consider valid proof, but more egregiously, Kent Hovind himself is the only and sole judge of whether your proof is valid or not. Thus, it's a very easy and safe "challenge" to give: He can simply reject all proofs given to him (usually just by saying "that's not evolution") and he doesn't have to pay. Because he is the only and sole judge, he is the only person who decides whether he has to pay or not....

Jacinda Ardern was, essentially, "the Justin Trudeau of New Zealand". Indeed, just like Trudeau, she was elected Prime Minister of New Zealand, she is a raging far-leftist lunatic, and she was so incredibly proud and smug about having elected an "incredibly diverse" (her own words) cabinet for the government of the country. Which, of course, mirrors almost exactly Trudeau in Canada. And what do you know, just like Trudeau, she quickly became an absolute tyrant, curtailing freedom of speech, enacting totalitarian measures, and surprise surprise, opening up the borders of the country to almost unrestricted immigration. There was no justification for opening the borders. New Zealand's economy was doing just fine (and, in fact, was one of the richest countries in the world), birth rates were just fine, none of the go-to excuses for opening the borders applied. And what do you know, eg. in 2023 over 225 thousand immigrants were taken into the country. At the same tim...

To the surprise of absolutely nobody, American leftists are currently protesting  in support  of the Iranian totalitarian regime, which has not only been brutally oppressing its people (particularly women) for decades, but became recently world-famous for ordering its law enforcement to start shooting at protesters, killing thousands of them. A particularly egregious human rights violation and a mass murder, but which was only the top of the iceberg. It's not astonishing that American leftists are protesting in support  of the Iranian government. That's just par for the course, and to be expected. What is sad about it is precisely that: That it  is  unsurprising and completely expected, and was very easy to predict. It just goes to show how unhinged and brainwashed the American left is. If they are told to protest in support of a totalitarian oppressive regime famous for its human rights violations and for mass-murdering its own citizens for engaging in protests...

There are many videos or similar that explain something interesting and cool about some technique, procedure or invention used hundreds or even thousands of years ago that's very ingenious and achieves things that the average person usually didn't know was even possible back then. While it thankfully doesn't happen often, it irks me a bit when the narrator (or text) makes a point about how that thing was achieved "before computers" or "before modern machinery", or "before modern refrigeration systems" or, in general, before modern technology. I find it irking because of how patronizing it sounds. As if the author thought that the viewers are so stupid and so ignorant that they need to be explained that hey, computers didn't exist a hundred years ago, or that modern power tools and construction equipment didn't exist a thousand years ago, or whatever. As if we didn't know that already. I think even the most clueless, stupidest, least...

I have been writing several blog posts now calling all far-leftists pscyhopaths , and written posts about several individual people who are particularly egregious examples of this. I have been saying this many times and I am going to repeat it here: I'm not being hyperbolic, I'm not exaggerating, I'm not being "edgy", nor am I using this as just a random insult (completely disregarding what the word actually means.) Leftists do that all the time, ie. they just love to throw insults at their enemies with complete disregard to what those words mean. I don't do that. When I say that these people are psychopaths, I really mean it. And now this includes one Zara Larsson, who is one of the worst far-leftist psychopaths I have ever seen. And again: I am being 100% serious and literal here, no hyperbole, no exaggeration, nor just a random careless insult. She is  literally  one of the worst psychopaths I have ever seen. One of her fans, another total pscyhopath, wrote...

1) We can make very precise very frequent observations of the motions of the planets (which move differently from stars) and the Sun over a long period of time, which allows us to trace their exact paths to a very high degree of accuracy, and everything in the solar system matches perfectly a heliocentric model where planets orbit in slight ellipses around the Sun, and when we take into account the Sun's apparent movement on the sky, we can see that it matches perfectly what we would see if the Earth was also orbiting around the Sun, just like the other planets. This is not just mere claims, this is not speculative: This is actual real-life empirical observation and measurement to high degrees of accuracy, at frequent intervals over very long periods of time, and it matches perfectly. And not only that, but it matches perfectly what the orbits would be if we assume that the Sun exerts the same gravitational force on the planets as we can observe right here on Earth, with practical ...

One of the most evil recent developments in the consumer technology industry, which has been plaguing certain products for quite some years now, is the phenomenon of a company selling some kind of electronic household "smart" product, initially with completely unlimited access, and then later uploading a firmware update to the device (often without user consent and full knowledge of what the update is going to do) that locks some features of the device behind a paywall. It is, for all intents and purposes, ransomware: Locking the user out of some features of the device and demanding money to unlock it (and usually not just a one-time payment, but a regular subscription). It's bad and questionable enough if electronic devices have this kind of limitation from the get-go, since purchase. It's a million times more indefensible if the limitations are only pushed onto the device later, long after purchase. There are many infamous examples of this. And, apparently, this is ...

Some American far-leftists have been so indoctrinated and so deeply fear-mongered into being scared of the mythical "far right" that they think is prevalent everywhere in the country, that they have contracted literal delusional paranoia to the extent of being outright life-crippling and self-destructive. One particularly notable (and hilarious) recent example is a woman, a self-proclaimed "scholar of the far right" (whatever that's supposed to mean), who had become so utterly paranoid about said "far right" that she recently moved to Canada, for the explicitly stated reason to "flee" the "fascist" regime of the United States and the "far right". And mind you, she lived in Los Angeles, one of the most if not the most far-leftist city in the most far-leftist state of the country. It's not like she lived in some backwater rural town in the Deep South or something. She made several TikTok videos about her harrowing "...

"First Amendment auditing" is a practice done by many people, most often in the United States (and to lesser extent in some other countries), where they simply go to public places or public governmental buildings with a camera to see if their First Amendment right to film in public is respected by officials, police officers, governmental workers, security guards and citizens in general. As you might guess, First Amendment auditors come in all sizes and shapes, and I'm not here referring to physical appearance, but to tactics, behavior and personality. 1) The absolutely best kind of auditor: The one who is always polite and respectful, knows all the relevant laws and statutes and always stays strictly within them, never bothers anybody, never even engages anybody unprompted, never does anything to deliberately or even indirectly provoke anybody, never even speaks to anybody unless spoken to. When engaged by other people, he responds politely and with professionalism, is ne...

For over 20 years now the United Kingdom has been on a self-imposed path of destruction which has only been accelerating at an exponential rate in later years. It is the outright stated goal of the people in power to replace the native population with immigrants, and not just any immigrants but most particularly those that are the least compatible with British culture and values as possible, people who are least likely to integrate and the most likely to cause crime rates to soar and to take over when they gain absolute majority. It's cultural and societal suicide. There are already political parties in the UK, especially the Green Party, who are openly advocating for the destruction of British culture and the entire British national identity. They are carrying flags of foreign nations during their campaigns, and making political campaign videos in foreign languages, and are openly intent in not only bringing in as many illegal immigrants as possible, but to just legalize them and ...

As I wrote in November of last year , Zohran Mamdani, an open socialist, was voted as the mayor of New York thanks to his promises of raising taxes for the rich and offering free services to the public, such as free public transportation. Unsurprisingly, none of that has happened. In fact, it has only gotten worse for the citizens of New York, who are now realizing the error of their ways. I wrote in that previous post how the mayor of one city has no say on the tax levels of the state (in other words, the mayor of one city cannot just raise the taxes of certain people willy-nilly). However, I have to make one correction: There is at least one tax that the city can decide, and that's property tax within the city limits. That's indeed one thing that an individual city and its mayor can decide, because it only affects the people living in that city, not in the entire state. And what do you know, that's exactly what Mamdani has done: Raise property taxes because his government...

The answer is very simple: Recoil. Surely you are familiar with the concept of recoil? The most famous example of this is, of course, with firearms: When you shoot one, you get a "kick": The firearm experiences a strong force back, ie. the opposite direction that the bullet goes to. That's recoil. (The reason why that happens is due to conservation of momentum, but that's not all that important. The important thing is to understand that it happens, and firearms are the perfect most practical example.) And yes, the exact same recoil happens even if the firearm is shot in a vacuum: Put one in a vacuum chamber, suck all the air out, and fire it using some mechanism: It will experience the exact same recoil. It being in air or in vacuum makes no difference. And this happens with everything: Push a friend with great force, and you will be shoved back in the opposite direction by your own push. That's also recoil. If you were floating in a weightless environment (even i...

AI-generated videos are becoming more and more convincing by the month. Where just a year ago they looked absolutely ridiculous, at the moment of writing this blog post they are already reaching that critical point where you can  barely  distinguish that it's AI-generated. In most videos there are still some telltale signs that you can see if you know what to look for, but it's becoming harder and harder. It's without the shadow of a doubt that within the year AI-generated slop will be completely indistinguishable from actual videos. The scary thing is that YouTube is actually  encouraging  this. They want  AI to become a tool for people to use to create videos. Their rationale is that it allows people to easily express their ideas, so that video creation becomes available to everybody, not just the microscopic minority of people who have the talent, knowledge, experience, resources, tools and time to put their ideas in video form. This view, although it might s...

A dozen or so fully armed and heavily armored police officers engage in a special operation to arrest someone outside their jurisdiction, and they go there in the middle of the night when the suspect is sleeping, start banging on the door, and soon shots are fired and the suspect is killed. The problem? They went to the wrong house and killed a completely innocent man who had done nothing wrong. The house number, which they had been told by dispatch several times, was 489. So they got confused. Perhaps the house where they incorrectly went to had a very similar-looking number, like 488, or 498? Easy mistake to make? Nope, the house that they wrongly went to was number 511, which looks nothing like 489. And yes, the house number was clearly visible from the front. So, why did they go there in the first place (particularly because the house was outside their jurisdiction)? Was the (original) suspect some kind of wanted criminal who had committed armed robbery or murder? Was he a known dr...

What is "toxic positivity"? Well, it's one of the several things that happens when a company hires a bunch of political activists who have been brainwashed, indoctrinated and trained at American colleges and universities. As these brainwashed drones have gotten more and more power and influence in these companies, by now often having (for some inexplicable reason) climbed the corporate ladder into positions of power within the company, they have been doing their hardest to make these companies an extension of the university campuses that they came from. To apply the same rules with an iron fist, the same conduct requirements, the same ideologies. What they were taught and lived at university, they are now enforcing in these companies. These rules are authoritarian, extremely strict, and very numerous (most of it relates to illegal discrimination in hiring and promotions), but one of them is what has been coined by critics as "toxic positivity". And what is that?...

For some years now the American far-leftist activists and politicians have adopted the word "democracy" as one of their pet buzzwords. Everything they don't like is "a threat to democracy", and many of their insane demands are "to protect democracy" according to them (even though quite often it does the exact opposite, like for example allowing anonymous voting, ie. not demanding people to ID themselves to vote.) I predict that in the following years their tune will change, especially when they finally realize that their fear-mongering and abuse of the buzzword isn't working. I expect one of two possible changes: 1) Less likely but perfectly possible (because the far-left is completely happy to reverse positions on the blink of an eye), they will actually start  opposing  democracy. After all, democracy allows people to vote for the "wrong" candidates. If they do this, they will argue that democracy has failed and is not a good system bec...

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 justified. The problem? It actually gives the lawyers of the winning party pretty much free range to punish the losing party however ...