What grinds my gears

Can you guess how many of the characters in the recent live-action version of Disney's Moana film were acted by actual native Polynesian people? All of them. Every single one of them. Can you guess how many of the characters in the recent The Odyssey film, by Christopher Nolan, were acted by actual native Greek people? Not one of them. None. On the contrary, there are several actors in the main cast that are absolutely not period-accurate nor faithful to the source material (and that's completely on purpose.) On top of that, the creators of the live-action Moana film went to excruciating length to represent Polynesian culture, traditions and aesthetics as accurately and faithfully as possible. In contrast, Christopher Nolan didn't give a flying fuck about being period-accurate... or accurate at all, regardless of the time period, to ancient Greece, as almost everything in the movie is not just completely anachronistic but outright fictitious, not corresponding to real ancie...

Ann Widdecombe was a very conservative and traditional British MP, who was recently murdered. Unsurprisingly the far-leftists hurried to social media to celebrate. Why? Because they are psychopaths . All of them. That's why. I have been repeating this over and over, and I will never, ever get tired of repeating it: Far-leftists are  literally  psychopaths. This is NOT hyperbole, this is NOT figure of speech, this is NOT exaggeration, this is NOT just a random insult with no regard to what the word actually means. I am being 100% serious, 100% literal. They are actual literal psychopaths. All of them. Every single one of them. And I'm done defending their rights . Whatever happens to those sick psychopaths, I literally could not care less. I don't give a flying fuck. I will never get tired of repeating this. 

Stealing other people's content to make a YouTube video, committing plagiarism and/or possibly copyright infringement? What's new? It has been a plague in YouTube since its very inception. Some of the plagiarism is actually surprisingly elaborate, with authors going to great lengths and putting effort into videos ... which are just almost direct copies of other people's videos. Othertimes it's just extremely lazy and sometimes even inadvertent copyright infringement, like those videos that do nothing but read some Reddit posts aloud (the authors probably not even realizing that technically speaking they are committing copyright infringement by doing that.) One rather similar form of  extremely  lazy content theft (and possibly copyright infringement) has become extremely popular in later years. This form of video content is nothing new, and has been going on for a decade or more. However, the  amount  of such videos has absolutely exploded in later years, particula...

One of the most fundamental cornerstones of a justice system, very much including and very prominently the American justice system, is that someone accused of a crime and being on trial because of it has the absolute legal and constitutional right to a defense, to present his case, to have legal representation if needed, and a fundamental part of this is that the accused needs to know exactly what he's being accused of and what the possible penalties for it are if he's found guilty. This is, in fact, one of the very first steps in court trial procedure: An initial plea hearing where the accused (and his lawyer if he has one) is informed of exactly what he's being accused of, what the possible penalties are, and for him to enter a plea ("guilty", "not guilty", "no contest"). Except... For some completely incomprehensible and insane reason judges are allowed to sign a so-called "protective order" that, get this, orders the court and all...

Perhaps not so much in other countries (as of yet), but especially in the United States more and more new college/university students who are actually competent are finding themselves in an unusually frustrating situation. You see, in the United States over the last 5+ years there has been an absolutely gigantic decrease in literacy and basic math skills among high school graduates. More and more college professors have been complaining that a big portion of freshmen don't even know the most basic arithmetic, such as how to add two two-digit numbers, even though this is something that even first-graders (as in, 7-year-olds) should know. Their literacy is also abysmal, and they just don't read anything besides social media, and their writing skills are likewise abysmal. So what's happening more and more in American colleges is that the few students who are actually studied, learned and smart, who actually do read and are proficient at math and writing, are being constantly a...

In the era of about 2010 to 2015, give or take, when the far-leftist political invasion of American universities was in full force ("invasion" not being a figure of speech, exaggeration or hyperbole, as in many campuses it was literally a physical takeover by activist students and professors, even up to including pretty much in essence taking university staff as hostage, not even making that up), the concept of "feminism" was being  extremely  aggressively being pushed onto society. Everybody was talking about and declaring themselves to be "feminists". Heads of state, such as Justin Trudeau, were openly and proudly declaring themselves to be "feminists", entire governments were declaring themselves to be "feminists" (such as the governments of Canada, Finland and several others), institution after institution, especially universities, were declaring themselves to be "feminist" (and not even just in the United States), and so ...

I have been ranting in this blog for quite many years about the sometimes really aggravating use of the pronoun "they" to refer to one single person, which has been very actively (and often aggressively) pushed by the modern far left for the past 15+ years. One particular pet peeve of mine is how the math popularizer famous youtuber Matt Parker started actively (and excessively) using it for that purpose some time in 2019, and has never really stopped (good example blog post here .) Because I like to be fair and academic, I would like to present here three different sides to this question, three different positions and arguments about it. 1. The modern leftist position It's very disrespectful and hurtful to just assume someone's gender, and with some people it could outright trigger a mental episode. Assuming that someone is a "he" or a "she" can be the wrong assumption to make and thus can be very hurtful, even psychologically violent, and thus on...