What grinds my gears

Something quite strange has been happening in the Linux development community over the past few years. It's not one single thing, but a number of things, every one of them bad on its own, but the situation being all the worse because of the sheer number of changes in said community. For almost three decades the Linux development community, especially the Linux kernel development team, have been very careful and conservative in the sense of how they approach the development work and what kind of tools, languages and technologies they adopt for said work. In fact, the Linux kernel itself has had for a couple of decades one of the strictest rules in existence for any major software project in terms of the requirements for its code and accepting patches and updates. Yet, all of this has been radically changing in the span of just a few years. The Linux development community at large, including the Linux kernel development team, for some unfathomable reason has been rushing to adopt eve...

In the UK, not only are cops infamously looking the other way while foreigners are sex-trafficking and raping teenage girls, not only is there a clear two-tier policing system where the population is divided into two very distinctive tiers based on ethnicity, with one being policed much more leniently than the other, and not only are the cops making Gestapo-style raids on people's homes because of posting mean words online, but now the cops will even be complicit in your murder if you happen to be of the wrong ethnicity. Not some kind of figurative or metaphorical "murder", but  literal  murder. Indeed, recently a Sikh man, who is on the privileged tier of people who are allowed to carry knives around even though the rest of the population aren't, stabbed an English man. When the cops arrived, the Sikh man alleged "racism", and even though the English man was clearly bleeding from his upper body and was in clear distress and saying that he couldn't breat...

I previously wrote about the motte-and-bailey fallacy , and how feminism, particularly 10+ years ago, was rife with it. And one of the most perfect examples is: If you criticize feminism and its excesses and abuses, the standard reply (particularly back then) was: "So you don't support women's rights?" In other words, with an accepting audience "feminism" has a huge amount of tenets, dogmas, ideologies, agendas and goals, many of them rather destructive ones (ie. the "bailey"), but when criticized feminists would retreat to the "motte" with "oh, so you don't support women's rights? Feminism is just about women's rights and nothing else." Here's another perfect example: Abortion. The modern western world has been by far and large socially engineered and brainwashed into supporting abortion no matter what, no matter the circumstances. Heck, a lot of people think it's "a basic human right", believe it ...

A lot of terms that originally had, and in fact even today have, a particular meaning often get misunderstood and used incorrectly, with the incorrect meaning in a context that doesn't fit. One that's gets misused a lot nowadays is "gaslighting". Curiously, in my experience it gets misunderstood and misused by all sides, not just the far left (which loves misusing words and change their meaning to suit their agenda.) A lot of people seem to think that "gaslighting" is synonymous with "deceiving", in other words, making someone believe something that's not true, to have them have an incorrect belief about something. While "gaslighting" is a  form  of deception, of making someone believe a falsity, it's not the generic term for it, nor a synonym for it. It's a very  specific  form of such deception. In particular, "gaslighting" is making someone doubt his or her own memories about something, with the end goal of having...

Christopher Nolan is one of the most famous film directors in the world, up there with the greatest and most famous of them. He is best known for highly successful movies such as Memento , The Dark Knight trilogy, Inception , Interstellar and Oppenheimer . While his writing/directing style might not be exactly as recognizable and unique as eg. that of Quentin Tarantino, it's still quite much so, and he is famous for it (a style that he most clearly demonstrates in Inception and Interstellar .) In the context of this post and his most recent upcoming movie, his previous movie,  Oppenheimer , is quite notable: It's a historic docudrama that depicts the eponymous historic person and the development of the atomic bomb as historically accurately as possible, with only very slight deviations from actual historic events for the sake of drama. The movie prides itself for its historic accuracy, and isn't pushing any political agendas or sugar-coating anything. It is, thus, incomp...

There are not enough words in the English language to describe how absolutely despicable and abhorrent of a grifter Anita Sarkeesian is. Over ten years ago she knew nothing about video games and, in her own words, actually hated video games, but only nominally entered the gaming sphere for one purpose, and one purpose only: To invade the entirety of the video game development industry and to change it to become a propaganda piece for her far-leftist "feminist" "progressive" agenda. And she is still at it, to this day, as has been seen numerous times. For some unfathomable reason she is being used as a consultant by many video game developers, she is giving private lectures to said developers (some of these videos have been leaked online) and she is engaging in all kinds of activism. If you are a gamer, she despises you. If you oppose or criticize what she's trying to do, you are an "asshole" according to her (yes, her own literal words.) According to h...

I have written about the American "sovereign citizens" several times (although they don't call themselves that anymore because of the bad reputation and the FBI having declared them domestic terrorists, but their beliefs and conspiracy theory remain exactly the same to this day), and how the conspiracy theory that they believe in is absolutely enormous and explaining it full detail would require an entire thick book or a 4-hour-long documentary video. However, here's a summary of one part of this conspiracy theory that's relevant to the question in the title of this post: The American "sovereign citizen" conspiracy theory asserts and believes that the United States government is, secretly behind the scenes, behind the public facade, a private corporation, which operates like a private corporation, and which considers citizens to be "abstract corporate entities", each with their own super-secret bank account worth billions of dollars (in which b...