What grinds my gears

Rather obviously this was extremely easy to predict already over 10 years ago, in other words, that the open source development community, particularly everything involving Linux, would be invaded, taken over and completely radicalized by far-leftism and far-leftist activists. But while this was always an extremely easy prediction to make, it's still sad to see it happen before own very eyes. The invasion was quite slow, quiet and "under the radar" for over a decade, but in the past year or so it has been put in full gear, and they are not holding back anymore. Project after project has become openly, blatantly and brazenly radicalized, with the most radical views and actions. For example, the organization that's primarily in charge of the development of the X.org software and its attempted "successor" Wayland software, has for a couple of years now been on a very active and aggressive quest to completely kill the former and replace it with the latter (their...

We are witnessing history in the making in the United States, and worldwide, because never before in the entire history of humanity has there ever, ever been in any country that has ever existed, constant country-wide violent daily protests for about 10 years now, non-stop, without fail. During some days the protests might be somewhat fewer and somewhat less violent and disruptive, but it's safe to say that during the past 10 or so years there has not been a single day, not one, when there was not a single far-leftist protest somewhere in the country. And the vast, vast majority of the time it has been at a minimum in several dozens of places. In fact, some cities have seen periods of literally  months  of constant non-stop violent protests, every single day without fail (usually with the blessings of the city government.)  Before this, the left in the United States, ie. the people who vote for the Democratic Party, have been brainwashed and radicalized for about a decade...

Ask any American lawyer, and he will tell you that you should never, ever voluntarily consent to cops searching your car. If they ask you, you must always clearly state "I do not consent to any searches". A Floridan man had clearly not gotten that memo and some time ago found out the hard way why that's a good idea. Cops stopped him for "window tints", ordered him out of the car, put him in handcuffs (which is already legally questionable) and asked if they could search his car. The man, knowing that there was absolutely nothing illegal in his car, was naive enough to consent. He probably thought that the traffic stop would go easier if he just consented. A lawyer would have told him a huge categorical "NO!" but alas, not many people know this. There was indeed nothing illegal in his car, but what followed was a year-long nightmare for him that not only had a big psychological toll on him, but cost who knows how much money. The cops found some prescrip...

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.)...