What grinds my gears

Hogwarts Legacy is (as of writing this) the latest video game based on the Harry Potter universe. Officially it's not intended to be a direct part of the official canon stories, ie. an official prequel, instead being a kind of alternative story within the same universe, but it's still very faithful to the official lore and does not contradict almost any of it, and while it has no direct references to almost any of the characters in the books, many of the historic characters from the books are heavily referenced. Set in 1890, it effectively acts as a prequel to all the other official Harry Potter stories. As a game it's mostly innocent and charming (although enemies do literally die, they aren't eg. just rendered unconscious or transported to a prison or another dimension; they are literally killed by the playable character and others; but their corpses do not stay around, and instead vanish.) The British accents and polite British demeanor of both the playable characte...

Claims that in the modern western world, especially the United States, there's egregious, blatant, widespread racist discrimination against white people are most often just dismissed, laughed at and mocked. Nothing but silly and stupid racist white supremacist conspiracy theories with zero basis in reality. Well, turns out that it's actually 100% real. The racist discrimination is extremely widespread, and extremely blatant. According to an article by Bloomberg , the top 100 biggest companies in the United States hired about 300 thousand people in 2021. From those, only 6% were white. Not 60%. Not 16%. Only 6% were white. This even though 75% of the population is white. "That's just one article by one publication. How do we know it's real?" Well, consider that Bloomberg is a notoriously far-leftist publication, and the article considers that number a good thing. This is not some kind of niche far-right publication claiming that white people are being discrim...

There would probably be literally hundreds and hundreds of examples of this, but this one caught my attention because of how unusual it was. The police in Los Angeles are, once again, chasing a stolen car. While the car is driving recklessly (eg. at one point driving on a sidewalk) it's not driving at extraordinarily high speeds, and even stops many times. The cops, the cowards they are, do absolutely nothing to try to stop the car, they just meekly follow it from a distance. Because these 50-IQ morons can't do their jobs, regular citizens need to step in and do their job for them, boxing the car in: It's just amazing how much more courageous regular citizens are. The cops are too afraid that the driver of the stolen car will shoot at them or something, so they always keep a distance, while regular citizens need to step in and be the courageous ones, and do their job for them. Then the driver tries to exit the car through the window, and his pants get stuck, so he struggles...

For many years now, in many of the most far-leftist cities of the United States, there has been going on a social engineering campaign that on the surface seems to be completely insane. The two most prominent and significant measures of this campaign are to significantly defund the police forces, and to essentially decriminalize shoplifting. Only a complete and absolute moron with an IQ lower than a plant wouldn't realize what it means if there is no law enforcement. It's not like there aren't past examples of this exact thing , so we know pretty well what happens to a society when there is no law enforcement. If, on top of that, the city prosecutor openly and deliberately stops prosecuting shoplifting and theft, it's not hard to guess what's going to happen very quickly. One prominent example of this is the city of Chicago, which has implemented both of these things in the past few years. Unsurprisingly, crime rates have skyrocketed there. Murders and gun violence ...

I wrote earlier a blog post about a rather egregious case of a police officer just stopping a random person on the street (because the officer mistook her for 10-year-old child from behind, but turned out that she was just a small adult woman), and demanding her ID for absolutely no reason whatsoever, even though there was literally no suspicion of anything at all , and when she refused the officer proceeded to just handcuff her. Again, even though absolutely nothing suspicious was going on. Nothing. The officer couldn't even name what the suspicious thing was, yet still demanded ID and got butthurt when she was denied her ID fetish. This isn't a unique case either. Here's a more famous case (that even got news coverage and a lawsuit). In this case there at least was some suspicion of a possible infraction, but other than that, the situation was extremely similar to the one above. A legally blind veteran (not completely blind, but having vision impaired to such extent t...

Recently the famous American conservative commentator and activist Matt Walsh uploaded a video named " Why Men Care About A Woman's Body Count (And Should) " where he gives his opinion on why most men care about a woman's "body count" (ie. how many men that woman has had sex with), and why they should, in fact, care about it. After all, the modern "progressive" mainly-leftist narrative is that this should have no bearing on anything, and it's nobody's business, not even of future boyfriends or husbands, and that this is completely inconsequential and people shouldn't care about it nor even ask for it nor in any way be concerned about it. It's her business and it has no effect on anything, and even questioning this is derogatory, patronizing, patriarchal, misogynist and ultraconservative. Women should be free to have sex with whoever they want, with as many people as they want, and this should have no effect on anything. Matt Walsh g...

Check this video of a guy standing on a public sidewalk holding a camera in his hands filming the surroundings. A dozen or so people ask him what he's doing. Some of them berate him for filming people without permission. Even a Starbucks employee comes out of the establishment to tell him that he can't film without permission. This behavior really baffles me, seriously. The reason for this is that those exact same people don't have any problems with cameras... as long as they are affixed to walls, poles... or even cars. There are probably security cameras inside and outside that Starbucks. There's a gas station at the other side of the street, and it's very probable there's at least one camera, probably more, oriented so that the Starbucks is clearly visible. It's very likely that there are even more cameras affixed to walls nearby. Also, dash cameras are very common (especially in the United States), and are often visible behind the windshield and rear win...