What grinds my gears

Currently there's a huge controversy about an activist group taking credit for inducing several payment processors, including VISA and Mastercard, to demand that several video game online distribution platforms take down games that this activist group doesn't approve of. This is not just empty words, as both Valve and itch.io have delisted or hidden thousands and thousands of games, which can no longer be found even if searched for. Lots and lots of youtube channels are talking about this, and thousands of gamers are flooding the support telephone lines of both payment processor companies with complaints. There's one thing I find a bit strange about this whole thing, though. Something that so far I have not seen any of those youtubers, or anybody else, point out: Neither Valve nor itch.io have told what exactly are the demands that they have supposedly gotten from VISA and Mastercard. In both cases the announcement and rules changes are extremely vague, and only refer to so...

Professional bodybuilders, especially those on the top, will spend up to 10 hours in the gym almost every single day, sometimes even more, and they consume copious amounts of nutrients and enhancement drugs (such as steroids), both legal and illegal. Have you ever wondered where they get their living? That's a surprisingly rarely asked question. Some of them have legitimate source of income, actual jobs from which they get a salary. They just manage to get both things done. Others may get their living from bodybuilding magazines, tours and other such events. However, given how many thousands and thousands of professional bodybuilders there are, not all of them can be this lucky, or have a job that would allow them spending 10 hours a day in the gym plus all the expensive drugs and supplements. So where  do  they get their money? How exactly do they live and manage all that? Well, while these are only rumors, some insiders have confirmed that at least some of them get their mon...

Many people are quite baffled at the upcoming Warner Bros / DC Entertainment movie " Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires " which, unsurprisingly, depicts the Aztecs as the good peaceful noble guys, and the European conquistadors as the evil villains set on conquering, destroying, killing and oppressing. This is just a symptom of the modern far-leftist zeitgeist: The demonization of white people and, consequently, the sanctification of non-white people.  All  non-white people, regardless of anything. The typical mental picture is like one of those animated movies where woodland creatures live in peace and harmony in nature, and then humans come and destroy and pollute their environment, take all the resources, and kill the woodland creatures and take them captive. Except in this case the "woodland creatures" are of course all non-white people and the "humans" are white people. And this isn't even an exaggeration, as the majority of modern far-leftists genuin...

Here is one idea for flat-earthers to test the flatness or curvature of the Earth, particularly a large body of water, that they can perform for a modest sum of money (or even almost free if any of them happen to own such a boat): Rent, borrow or use a fishing or recreational boat that's medium-sized and capable of navigating while a 50-foot pole has been installed vertically on it. Then, as suggested, procure a pole (or similar lightweight structure) that's 50 foot long. Place bright differently-colored light bubs at 10 feet intervals on this pole, the first starting at 10 feet, the second at 20 feet, and so on, with the last one being at the tip of the pole. These should all use different colors (like yellow, red, green and so on) and be as bright as possible, and powered by the boat's own power source or a separate battery or generator. Install this pole vertically on the boat. Now stand on the shore of a big-enough lake or the sea, with all the camera equipment and tele...