What grinds my gears

As I have written before , flat-earthers cognitively live in a very strange world. A world that's effectively like the Bronze Age with modern technology inserted into it. In other words, a world where yes, maybe we have some technology, but we still have no idea how the universe works, we know very little about physics, astronomy or the world itself, we have no idea what's beyond the visible sky, and most of what we do is nothing but guesswork and religious beliefs. They seem to think that all scientists are nothing but cult members who blindly believe what they are told and never question anything, and who most certainly don't know what's going on in the universe, or what the shape of the Earth even is. And, somehow, this cult spans the entire of the Earth, all countries, all the hundreds of thousands if not outright millions of scientists, all of whom unanimously agree on the same belief system without question, without skepticism, without corroboration, completely bl...

In this era of global easily accessible internet, of digital distribution platforms, of online discussion forums, of social media, of huge video sharing distribution platforms where anybody can upload their videos for millions of people to see, traditional video game journalism is completely obsolete. It has been for at least 10 years now, even longer. But that's not the worst of it. It's not merely that the profession has been long obsolete and unnecessary. The worst of it is that, like so many other professions and industries, it has been almost completely taken over by far-leftist activist zealots, most of who are not even gamers by any measurable way or definition of that term. Video game journalism has since long become yet another platform for political activism, and more damningly, for political activism that has absolutely nothing to do with video games and, on the contrary, is most often fighting  against  gamers, not  for  them. Indeed, modern video game jo...

Rust is a programming language introduced a couple of decades ago. From a programming language design point of view it's relatively unremarkable, even ugly, lacks quite many features that most other programming languages have (such as inheritance), uses horrendous naming schemes especially for its standard library, and is not very different from the literally hundreds and hundreds of similar languages that have been  invented in the past 40 years. However, if you were to listen to the Rust cult, it's the Second Coming of Christ. And the strangest thing is that a lot of program development companies and communities are rushing to replace everything they have with Rust code, for no discernible reason. It's literally like a religion. There was, for example, a recent speech given at a conference related to a large open source software project (I think it was related to Wayland, or Ubuntu, or something like that), where the presenter sounded more like a preacher than a programme...

As I have commented many times in this blog, most flat-earthers seem to have the cognitive capacity of a 7-year-old. This is not just a random insult and spurious defamation. I'm being 100% serious. They seem to be, in many aspects, stuck at the 7-to-10 years old level of intellectual, mental and cognitive capacity, while having the life experience of an adult (this life experience being about the only thing that allows them to function in society acceptably well.) One good example of this is how many of them seem somehow incapable of understanding the concept of "force", and they have the same misconception about it than a friend of mine had when we were about 12 or so: And that's that they think that a "force" being applied to an object towards a certain direction means that the object has to  move  towards that direction (and, thus, if the object doesn't move to that direction, or moves to some other direction, that means that there is no such force.)...

I started watching the British TV series "Black Mirror" on Netflix, and noticed a curious abundance of black actors in the series. Most (if not all) episodes of the series take place in the UK, so the amount of black people in the series is quite disproportionate to the real demographics of the UK (even to this day, and especially in 2011, when the first season was made.) My problem is not with black people appearing in such a TV show. Of course leftists would never believe me, but I can genuinely say that I'm not some kind of racist who hates black people and doesn't want to see them in movies and TV. Heck, some of my all-time favorite actors are black (and that's because those particular actors are so charismatic and badass .) The problem is not the skin color of the actors, or even their abundance. Heck, I would be completely fine if the entire series had nothing but black actors and nobody else. The problem is that I know  why  there are so many black actors: ...

For some unfathomable reason the citizens of New York City elected one Zohran Mamdani as their mayor. What's peculiar about him, and the very reason why they voted for him, is that he is very openly and blatantly socialist and communist, preaching the virtues of socialism and collectivism , denigrating capitalism, and making all kinds of asinine promises, like free bus rides for everybody, "taxing the rich", lower rent, and so on. New Yorkers got bamboozled by him on many fronts, and some of the frauds were clear even before he got elected, as pointed out by many politicians and experts. Most prominently, he cannot raise taxes on the rich because he is a city mayor, and income tax is decided at the state level (by the New York State Senate in this case), not at the city level. He literally cannot raise those taxes. So that was just an outright lie from the get-go. So what did he do instead? Well, he increased taxes that the city  can  legally raise, and that would be cit...

I have been writing for over 15 years now how American universities are pumping out thousands and thousands of brainwashed drones who have been trained in political activism and who are going to get into all positions of power and take over every institution, every organization, every company, and enforce their insane political activism. Well, what do you know, we are already seeing the results of this, not only in the fact that almost all of the major corporations have been completely invaded (and thus are engaging in a massive amount of illegal racial discrimination), but there are brainwashed drones in all positions of power now, all the way up to the Senate, as well as several city mayors. One of their openly stated goals is "tax the rich". To raise the taxes for the richest people to egregious levels. They appear to live in this illusion that the richest people in the country are somehow stuck in their current place of living. As an example, the mayor of New York, who is...