What grinds my gears

A good portion of people are morbidly afraid of nuclear reactors. The vast majority of environmentalists and nature activists heavily oppose nuclear reactors (which is highly ironic given that they are, by far, the least polluting form of energy production, even when taking account the mining of nuclear fuel) and fear them like the plague. The notion seems to be that if there's a nuclear reactor accident it would be pretty much in essence like dropping a nuclear bomb on the city. Millions of deaths! The city, or perhaps the entire country, would turn into a nuclear wasteland! But how dangerous are nuclear reactor accidents in reality? By far the worst such accident that has ever happened is the Chernobyl one, which happened 1986. This was the absolutely worst-case scenario that could ever happen to a nuclear reactor: The entire roof of the reactor core was blown off by the steam explosion, and the entire core, including all the enriched uranium inside it, was completely exposed ...

A year ago I wrote a blog post about how the extremist leftist "social justice" ideology, which hates, loathes and detests white people (all white people, every single one of them without exception), and literally considers them a sub-human sub-species that's separate from the angelic perfect superior races, is in increasing amounts engaging in historical revisionism about slavery . According to them slavery did not exist before white people invented it. All other races lived and prospered in peace and harmony, until the evil white sub-humans came and destroyed, killed and took them as slaves. Before that slavery did not exist, and after that some non-white people took other non-white people as slaves only because they learned the practice from the white sub-humans, and only to sell those slaves to them. That's, of course, by far not the only topic on which the far left is engaging in historical revisionism. Pretty much everything that they oppose and hate was invente...

If there's one thing you can be sure of the modern far leftist ideology, it's that it has absolutely no consistency and will flip-flop their opinions to the complete opposite at the drop of a hat, whenever it's most convenient for the narrative. What's today acceptable is tomorrow despicable, if it serves the narrative. What's today despicable is tomorrow mandatory, if it serves the narrative. Whatever the leftst intelligencia decides will be the gospel, and the far-leftist brainwashed drones will switch their opinions on the subject immediately, without question, without criticism, with zero self-awareness. In most cases these opinions are relatively minor and inconsequential (such as whether there should be "spaces" exclusive for women which men can't enter, or whether homosexuality is an immutable innate characteristic you are born with and which can't be changed). However, sometimes they will flip-flop at the drop of the hat on quite major poli...

Recently Joe Biden gave a public speech, and once it was over he turned to his right and put his hand forward, as if trying to shake someone's hand. There was nobody anywhere even near him (in the full video of the speech it's shown that the closest people at his right side are at least 10-20 meters away.) And it's not like he offered his hand but then quickly lowered it after noticing there's nobody there. He kept it in that position for quite many seconds. Did he really try to shake hands with a non-existent person? Has he become so senile that he's hallucinating and seeing people that aren't there? Or, perhaps, was he so confused that he tried to shake someone's hand, saw that there was no-one there, and just stood there for a good several seconds perplexed, with his hand in that position, not knowing what to do, perhaps zoning or blacking out? Many of the biggest and most famous conservative political commentators on YouTube and elsewhere seem to think s...

The so-called "advance-fee scam", often called "Nigerian scam" or "419 scam" (which refers to the penal code of Nigeria that makes it illegal) has been a bane of the world for at least a century. It's often called "Nigerian scam" because, while scammers can be from pretty much anywhere in the world, it has always been especially prevalent in Nigeria for some reason. The most technically correct term is "advance-fee scam". It takes many forms, but it always works pretty much in the same way: You get an email (before the internet an actual physical mail letter), nowadays sometimes a browser popup from a dubious website or even a robocall, telling that you can receive millions of dollars (the most common alleged source being some African royalty member or associate who wants to transfer that money overseas). When someone responds to such an email, there's a back and forth exchange between the victim and the scammer (sometimes even ...

In several previous blog posts I have commented how the far left, very much including the majority of the mainstream media, has been facing quite a problem with numerous clear hate crimes that they can't use for their narrative because they were committed by "inconvenient" perpetrators. Such as, for example, two Marines of Mexican descent being harassed , racist slurs thrown at them, and assaulted by a mob of white people, a significant increase in physical assaults against Asian people and against Jewish people in several American cities (with the racist motivations behind these assaults being very clearly expressed by the perpetrators), or someone entering the offices of a Jewish Democrat mayoral candidate and shooting at him with the intent to kill . The examples of this just keep on coming. The latest example is a guy bringing a firearm to a Brooklyn subway and shooting at people. Quite fortunately, while he did wound several, he failed to kill anybody because his w...

Many people have noticed that whenever there's a mixed-race couple shown in an advertisement for some product, in at least 90% of the cases (perhaps even more) it tends to be a black man and a white woman, rather than the other way around. Very rarely do you see a couple consisting of a white man and a black woman in such ads. One has to wonder why. It may or may not be completely conscious and deliberate, but it seems to me that there is some kind of psychology behind it. Something that drives advertisers (who are overwhelmingly far-left politically) to show mixed-race couples precisely in this manner, rather than the reverse. If it's not a deliberate agenda-driven choice, it's an instinct. Whether it's a conscious and deliberate agenda-driven choice, or whether it's a subconscious instinct, I think that the motivation (or one of the principal motivations) is what could be called "race-taunting": The desire to taunt and mock the "racists". It is...

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the famous basketball player, recently wrote a blog post about the Oscars ceremony incident where Will Smith assaulted Chris Rock live on stage . At first glance the post seems quite agreeable: He strongly condemns the assault and finds it completely unacceptable. Any rational civilized person can get behind that sentiment. However, when you start reading the post in more detail, you start finding some less-than-agreeable details about what Kareem's opinions actually are. It becomes relatively clear that when he saw the assault, he didn't see one person assaulting another because of a lame joke. He didn't see this as an immoral and unethical action, which is also very illegal (and rightly so). At no point in his long post does he mention anything about morality and ethics, and how people should behave in a modern civilization. Moreover, at no point does he show any concern about the possibility of Chris Rock having been actually physically harmed, whic...