What grinds my gears

For a very long time I have been a purist when it comes to non-English movies, TV series and cartoons, especially Japanese anime: I absolutely loathe dubs and want to always watch them with the original soundtrack with subtitles. It's the best and most accurate original experience, exactly as the authors intended. Even when dubs are very well and professionally made and of high quality, they just cannot carry that same original tone, the way in which the native people speak, the mannerisms in the voice and how people speak. This is particularly relevant when it comes to Japanese because it's a (quite strongly)  pitch-accent language which, as a consequence, has its very peculiar cadence and sound to it, which English just cannot replicate. (Japanese also has many peculiarities that English lacks, such as literally dozens of different first-person pronouns, all of which have subtle and sometimes not-so-subtle differences in tone and idiomatic usage, and it's something that...

For 30 or so years Linux, as the ubiquitous and most popular free open source operating system, prided itself with supporting a staggering amount of different hardware architectures. For a time Linux was in a kind of "soft competition" with FreeBSD to see which one would support more computer architectures, and the list of supported such architectures was long indeed. Yet, for some reason, it appears that those times are slowly but surely coming to an end. The Linux kernel itself has been steadily dropping support for more and more old and obsolete computer architectures, which in many cases is understandable (particularly when their market share is completely abysmal and even that little is quickly diminishing). Also gcc, the ubiquitous compiler used mostly in Linux, has been dropping support for different processor architectures one by one. Perhaps not at the same speed as the kernel, but still. But that's not the major problem. Many of the biggest and most important so...

There's a flat-earther called Kate Shemirani who in some kind of podcast has said this: "Do you think it's a globe hurtling through space? I don't anymore because I worked for British Airways for 10 years on long haul and I met quite a few pilots who said it's not a globe, but we can't talk about it." It should be quite obvious that no British Airways pilot would ever, or has ever said that, at least not seriously. So what exactly is happening here? There are many possibilities: 1) She's a actually not a flat-earther and she's actually trolling the guy she's interviewing (who is a bona fide flat-earther.) It's all just a social experiment or some kind of prank on stupid flat-earthers. Who knows, maybe she hasn't even worked for British Airways at all and is making it all up to make fun of the flat-earther. 2) She is a flat-earther and she is consciously and deliberately lying through her teeth in order to promote the conspiracy theory. ...

For about 10 years now riots have been pretty much a daily occurrence in the United States. At this very moment, as of writing this, Minnesota in particular has escalated to absolute anarchy. For several months rioters have been harassing people, assaulting people, destroying property, impeding law enforcement and committing all kinds of other serious crimes 24/7 without interruptions. Only a microscopic number of these criminals have been arrested, and even from those only some of them have been convicted for their crimes. It's notable that the United States is literally the only country in the world where this can happen. Yes, there have been massive riots in other countries, but in general they last a day, at most two, and usually people are arrested by the hundreds, even the thousands. In pretty much no other country have such massive riots been happening 24/7 for months on end. And do you know why that is? What is the difference between the United States and all the other coun...

Isn't it a bummer that it's so hard to distinguish the nazis, fascist and ICE agents from your own people? You have already attacked your own side numerous times. Well, here's my suggestion for you, to help you distinguish the good guys from the bad guys: You should all start wearing a distinctive piece of clothing that's easy to see and isn't very common. Like for example a shirt of a particular color. I recommend brown, as that's an uncommon shirt color. And to make it even clearer, you could also visibly wear some kind of symbol that symbolizes your side. For example an armband to be put on the upper arm. I recommend bright colors that are easily visible from a distance, like for example bright red and white. If the symbol is in black ink on the white background, it will make it extra visible. You could also have a secret sign that nobody else uses that helps you recognize each other. A hand sign is the most effective and easy to show. For example some kind o...

There was a period of time about six years ago (as of writing this) when, in the United States, for some strange reason a lot of black people were harassing and often violently assaulting East Asian people. Yes, these assaults were extremely widespread, and for some strange reason were almost completely restricted to black people. (I have never heard a good explanation of why.) Well, in one such case a young black man deliberately and purposefully (which he himself later admitted) ran at full speed against and pushed an 84-year-old elderly Asian man, extremely violently knocking him to the ground. The elderly man died of his wounds a couple of days later. In the court trial, which lasted a whopping 5 years for some reason, he admitted having deliberately assaulted the man, and he admitted that his actions directly caused his death. This is a textbook and quintessential clear-cut case of so-called second-degree murder: Killing someone in the process of committing a crime against that pe...

The current situation in Minneapolis has got so bad that psychopathic far-leftist bigots are literally harassing, attacking and assaulting random people on the streets, sometimes even people on their own side. They are in a complete frenzy. Even the tiniest accusation or even suspicion that someone might be "ICE" (which by this point is pretty much everybody) or not an extreme radical psyhopath elicits them harassing and assaulting that person, regardless of who he is. There are many videos out there of them doing this to completely random passersby who have done absolutely nothing. There's even one video where they attack one of their own in this manner. They are not only completely psyhcopathic, they have gone completely berserk. They have stepped up their common tactic that they have been using for the past 10 years of vandalizing public and private property, to just assaulting random people on the streets with zero consideration to anything. And what is the Minneapoli...