What grinds my gears

During Biden's administration there were literally  millions  of migrants moving from the South American continent to the United States, through Mexico, and Mexico did very little to stop them. They just opened their borders and allowed millions of South American migrants to pass through, to their northern border. The country didn't care. Not their problem. But now that Trump has quite effectively closed the border, Mexico has found itself in quite the pickle: While perhaps not as many, there are still massive amounts of migrants trying to enter Mexico from the south. Problem is: Now they are stuck in Mexico because the US is not letting them in. Thus, now it's Mexico that's becoming flooded with illegal migrants from the south. The flow through has been blocked, so they are amassing in Mexico itself. And with them, all the related problems have been skyrocketing in the country. Nowhere to house the millions of illegal migrants, increased governmental tax-funded spendin...

The YouTube channel Don't Walk, Run! Productions recently (as of writing this) published a video where the author comments on a socialist recruitment webinar , where a socialist activist tries to explain and exalt the virtues of socialism, to try to convince people and recruit them to that political ideology. Ironically, that speech is so scary that it made my anti-socialist convictions even stronger than ever before. Not that I needed any convincing that socialism is a very, very bad idea, but that speech made that fact even clearer and stronger. Consider what she says that the goals of her political party are in the United States: * Violent revolution. While she doesn't say it directly outright, she very clearly implies that the democratic voting process is not good enough and the only way to establish the American Socialist Utopia is to bypass it and engage in violent revolution, whether the majority of people want it or not. She speaks in lengths about this revolution, with...

I wrote before how the popular Veritasium YouTube channel has in later years started to suffer from what I call the "Numberphile syndrome" . In other words, an immensely popular channel with millions of subscribers and millions of views per video, which for many years was very interesting and published very interesting didactic videos, has in later years started producing videos that are longer and longer, more and more tedious, and containing way too much irrelevant detail and minutia, with explanations that are needlessly long and boring for things that wouldn't really have to be. His latest video, as of writing this, is no exception to that: (What a boring and unusual thumbnail for his channel. Although I'm sure that he will change it in the next days to something else entirely. Probably several times, as he always does. The title might also be changed, like he also most of the time does.) The video is almost 40 minutes long. For a subject matter that could very we...

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...