What grinds my gears

The United States is notable for an almost unique quirk of its (current) laws, which automatically grant citizenship to anybody who is born within the country. This completely regardless of the circumstances of the birth. Indeed, if for example, say, a pregnant Belgian woman just happens to be visiting the United States for a week as a tourist, and she happens to go into labor and give birth when there, the child will be automatically given US citizenship merely because of the location where the child was born, and no other reason.  And, indeed, the United States is probably the only country in the world that has this quirk (or, at a minimum, is one of the extremely few that do.) Pretty much no other country in the world has this, and citizenship is not granted automatically even if you are born in the country. This is the result of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which states: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdic...

Several free open-source projects are once again, as of writing this, virtue-signaling for the millionth time with some completely made-up bullshit event, like this: As if "trans" people were not already "visible" enough, given how much they have been pushed to the forefront everywhere by everybody in every single aspect of society. It's all nothing but empty virtue-signaling, political activism and social engineering. What they are saying there is also quite clearly completely made-up. KDE, and all the other open source projects out there, would be completely fine without the self-appointed "trans contributors". This is nothing but empty words placating to an agenda (not even to people, ultimately, but to the political agenda). Also it is extremely clear that the vast, vast majority of those alleged "trans contributors" are not actually transsexual. They just claim to be. A common response to that is "why would anybody lie about it?...