What grinds my gears

Especially in the United States there's a brand of ultra-conservative highly homophobic Christians who, among other things, have loudly sensationalized how homosexuals are trying to convert children into homosexuality. This conspiracy theory is quite ridiculous, and I have laughed at it as much as anybody else. I'm not laughing as hard anymore. Not exactly homosexuals per se, but feminists are finally making that conspiracy theory actually somewhat true. For instance: 80 primary school pupils a year seeking help to change gender UK Police Target Schoolchildren As Young as FOUR With Tax Payer Funded, Transgender Propaganda Boy aged 5 returns to school as a girl It really is happening. This is not just a question of raising awareness of transgenderism. It's actually encouraging kids as young as four years old into it. This crosses the line. No matter what your stance is on gender identity and transgenderism, it can be medically and scientifically argued th...

What is the highest honor that a movie can receive in the United States? Lots of Oscars and other film awards? Yeah, sure. However, I would argue that there is an even higher honor that can be bestowed on a movie (although, of course, this is subjective and a matter of opinion): Being inducted into the American National Film Registry. The Registry was founded in 1988 for the purpose of officially preserving movies that are culturally and historically significant. Only a very, very small selection of movies get this honor: At most 25 movies are selected per year. Oscar-winning movies are aplenty, and most of them are forgettable. I'm sure that if you try to think of any oscar-winning movies (no matter when they were made), you would remember just a tiny, tiny fraction of them. Only a very small portion of all oscar-winning movies are actually culturally and historically noteworthy. And the original Star Wars, made in 1977, was this in droves. It was more than just a movie. ...

The game Watch Dogs became very infamous because its final release had quite drastically lowered graphical quality (even at maximum graphical settings) than what was showcased prior to launch at E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo.) People were disappointed that the final version of the game didn't look even nearly as good as what was shown at the expo. The thing is, the footage shown at E3 was, ostensibly, video of real-time gameplay, not some pre-rendered graphics. In other words, the developers themselves had a PC that could run the game at that graphical fidelity with a good framerate. Therefore most high-end PC gamers likewise would have had a gaming PC capable of running it. Thus these gamers felt a bit cheated and robbed when what they got was visibly of lower graphical quality, even at full settings. Watch Dogs is not the only example. Other examples of exactly this include Far Cry 3 and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt . Both of them had E3 pre-launch demo videos with higher ...

I was watching an episode of the TV series Extreme Makeover Weight Loss Edition . The episode was about a woman who weighted 133 kg (292 lbs), was in extremely poor shape, suffered from psoriasis mostly caused by her weight, and was extremely unhappy about her life. So unhappy, in fact, that she confessed that she had been seriously considering taking her own life prior to being contacted by the TV show. (Now, I understand that these American reality TV shows really love to sensationalize things, and create extra drama via editing and coaxing their participants. However, such a thing as suicidal thoughts is so serious that, unless somebody can definitively prove to me otherwise, I'm willing to believe that the woman was being completely serious and honest, rather than being coaxed by the show's producers into telling such a lie, as that would be a new low even for such a TV show.) During the course of a year she lost weight from 133 kg to 73 kg (162 lbs), which is basically...

In the United States (and some other countries) brave people fought to end racial segregation, which was rampant and really egregious. Today, spoiled privileged entitled rich kids at universities want it back. They are demanding "safe spaces" at universities, which are effectively "no whites allowed" zones. And the staff of these universities are caving in into every such demand, like sheep. All these people seem to forget that racial segregation is illegal in the United States. It was criminalized in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (which full text you can read here .) Here are some relevant excerpts: "All persons shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, and privileges, advantages, and accommodations of any place of public accommodation, as defined in this section, without discrimination or segregation on the ground of race, color, religion, or national origin." "All persons shall be enti...