What grinds my gears

Jay Jones is a representative of the Democratic Party of the United States who is a candidate for the position of Attorney General. Some time ago quite a controversy arose when text messages he had sent to a colleague surfaced, which directly and unambiguously wished violence and death against the children of Republicans. The text messages have been corroborated as genuine, including by Jay Jones himself, so they indeed happened and are real. As I have come to conclude, all American far-leftists are psychopaths , and Jay Jones is no exception. He has absolutely no empathy and no value for human life. Not only does he fantasize about the murder of the children of people he doesn't like, but he's so consumed by it that he openly told about it to a colleague. Recently he was interviewed on a news channel owned by ABC, and he was asked about those text messages. His response: "Well, again, I so deeply, deeply sorry for what I said, and I wish it hadn't happened, and I woul...

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has always been infamous for having astonishingly lax enforcement of their own rules and the laws of the country in general, and pretty much granting any patent application that it receives, with about the only requirement being that the patent form is correctly filled. Infamously, it has granted probably hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions, of patents that should have been invalid because they do not fulfill the requirements of the law nor the rules of the USPTO itself (such as, for example, granting patents for inventions and methods that have existed for decades and were not invented by the people filing the patent.) The general policy of the USPTO has pretty much always been one of "grant all patents by default, let the private corporations and citizens fight about it between themselves in court." That's how you get completely ridiculous patents, of things that are not patentable according to the law of the United...

This is one of those misconceptions that not all flat-earthers hold (strangely enough), only some of them, but there are several examples of the latter, who have made YouTube videos about it. And that's the strange idea that "you wouldn't be able to see the Sun and the Moon at the same time on a globe Earth". That seeing them on the sky at the same time somehow disproves the globe Earth and proves the flat Earth. I seriously and genuinely have no idea why they think that. And, in fact, in none of the videos I have seen about this do they explain their reasoning. They just make that statement and... that's it. They don't explain any further. They don't even attempt to explain why, or what their reasoning and logic is. They never show graphics or pictures, or give any sort of geometric explanation. Or any explanation of any kind at all, geometric or otherwise. They just say it, and that's it. It just goes to show the complete inability of some people to ...

After several years the United States Department of Justice finally released to the public all the files that it had confiscated from the late Jeffrey Epstein. All 3 million pages of it. Unsurprisingly, 3 million pages contain the names of a huge amount of people. Also unsurprisingly, a lot of people are abusing those files and people's appearance in them for political purposes and attacks. One has to remember that that's a raw dump of all business documents, correspondence, contracts, emails and everything else that the DoJ could gather from the late Epstein. If he sent a "happy birthday!" or a "Merry Christmas!" email to someone, it will be there. Epstein had a huge amount of contacts and business deals with a huge amount of powerful people over the decades. Not all of it had anything to do with his infamous island and the illegal activities being done there. Much of this correspondence was probably just completely normal and legal business dealings or per...

I have been writing for quite a while now about my realization after the Charlie Kirk incident that far-leftists are psychopaths . Not a metaphor, not hyperbole, not exaggeration, not a random insult ignoring the meaning of the word. Actual literal bona fide psychopaths. Thus, there's nothing new about this. However, it's appalling to encounter clear examples of this again and again and again. Take, for example, one Giancarlo Esposito, a Hollywood actor most famous for his role in the TV series Breaking Bad, as well as others. He said recently in an interview, and I quote: "They can't take us all down. If the whole world showed up on Putin's doorstep, or on the Iranian's doorstep, or in Washington, they would kill five hundred, or fifty million or whatever, but the rest of us would survive with the new... This is time for revolution. It's time for it, and they don't even know that's what they have started." He is advocating for and promoting vi...

In a previous blog post I wrote a bit about the reasons for the absolutely astonishing difference in technological advance between Eurasia and most of the rest of the world, up until the age of imperialism (when all that technological advancement was pushed onto that rest of the world.) After all, Europe and large parts of East Asia had astonishingly advanced technology compared to the rest of the world: They had million-people cities, a very advanced money-based international economy, the printing press, firearms, ships that could sail across oceans, absolutely massive castles and cathedrals,big multi-storey buildings, extremely advanced and meticulously crafted musical instrument that were used in huge concerts in enormous lavish concert halls and theaters, and so on and so forth. At the same time, in most of Africa and the American continent people lived literally in the Stone Age, in straw and mud huts, used tools made of wood and stone, very few had even figured out how to use me...

"Veritasium" is one of those huge and world-famous YouTube channels that has 20 million subscribers and creates such high-quality documentary style videos that they rack up about 10 million views per video on average. Some of the videos are extremely interesting and didactic. Perhaps the most brilliant of such examples is his "Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED" video, which is not only technically and historically very interesting, but something that most people don't know. Given how technical many of his videos are, sometimes dealing with deep scientific subjects, some of his videos are not without their criticism and, perhaps, slight controversy. Perhaps one of the most infamous ones is the video "The Big Misconception About Electricity", which was criticized by many experts. Not in that what he was presenting was wrong per se, but in that the explanations and the video overall was needlessly complicated and cryptic for something that...