What grinds my gears

I have written previously about the extremely strange phenomenon that happens in many parts of the United States, and that's how government officials and law enforcement officers refuse to do anything to illegal squatters , in other words, people who have invaded an unoccupied house and are living there illegally, without paying rent or anything. In the vast, vast majority of other countries (particularly the free democratic ones), such people would be removed and arrested by police probably within the hour. Not in many parts of the United States, though. Because of some extremely strange contrived set of laws, it appears that city officials and the police forces can't legally do anything to squatters without a court order, and even more strangely, getting that court order seems  extremely  difficult. There are documented cases of home owners trying  for years  to get rid of illegal squatters in their premises, without success. The police will do nothing about them, ...

Remember about four years ago when the American left, including all the leftist politicians, were up in arms about "insurrection", how absolutely horrendous of a crime it is, how the so-called "insurrection" was literally the worst event that has ever happened in the entire history of the United States (I'm not even making that up), and how every single person even remotely involved must absolutely be prosecuted in the harshest of terms (so much so that corrupt judges sentenced innocent people into astonishingly long sentences for no crimes whatsoever)? The horrors of "insurrection" was the constant talking point for several years. They kept pounding on it again, and again, and again, pretty much non-stop, trying to make it true via sheer repetition. Multiple kangaroo court congressional hearings were held about it, as the Democrats were trying to push really, really hard into making it an actual "insurrection" and trying to somehow throw Tru...

For quite a long time, pretty much as long as what can be called "primary school" has existed, pretty much everywhere in the world, students were not just taught to read, write and things like mathematics, history, geography and other theoretical stuff, but a quite big portion of the curriculum was dedicated to teaching them practical skills: How to cook, how to do woodwork, how to repair stuff at home, how to sew a button or a torn cloth, and so on and so forth. This was very common in the vast majority of schools up to some time in the 1970's or 1980's, give or take, depending on the country. In fact, it's  still  the case in some countries, although perhaps to lesser extents than it was in the past. Then something happened in many countries. There formed this strange mentality that teaching such practical everyday skills does not belong to school. That primary schools are nothing but preparation for high school and university, and you don't need to know how...

American far-leftists are complete psychopaths , every single one of them. They also cannot open their mouths without lies pouring out . Pretty much everything they say, when it's not pure hatred and racism, is a lie. The complete list of lies that they have promoted during the last ten years would be really, really long. However, their latest prominent lie is so incredibly obnoxious that it's just astonishing. They feel absolutely no shame about lying about it, no matter how clear it is that it's not true. What is it this time? The claim that "Donald Trump shut down the government", or the Trump administration, or the Republicans (but most importantly Trump himself.) If you guessed that he did no such thing, you would be 100% correct. Neither Trump, nor his administration, nor anybody in the Republican Party shut down the government. It's the  Democratic Party  that shut down the government, just like they did 8 years ago. They, and only they, did that, and t...

Some time ago, perhaps 10 to 15 years ago, the police forces in the United Kingdom, for reasons unknown (I have never seen anywhere how or why it started), started becoming a speech police: They started policing people's "wrong" opinions online. Since then it has only escalated more and more. What started by just a dozen or so incidents per year quickly escalated to several hundreds of arrests per year, to several thousand arrests per year, and there has been no end in sight to this escalation. It has become so bad that, I kid you not, the UK police is making over 30 arrests  every day  for things that people have said online. That's something like ten thousand arrests per year. And that's just the number of arrests; the number of times that the UK police goes to harass people at their homes, sometimes even in the middle of the night (literally!), is even higher. They investigate, harass and arrest literally tens of thousands of people every single year, while at ...

On the first days of Russia's full-scale invasion attempt of Ukraine, they occupied the city of Chernobyl. Yes, exactly  that  Chernobyl. The logic behind this beggars belief. It's a mind-bogglingly stupid move. It shouldn't be any surprise to anybody that the Pripyat area, including Chernobyl, has no military value. There are no military bases there, or is there anything of military strategic value in the area, for rather obvious reasons. It is, for all intents and purposes, a radioactive toxic wasteland with zero value. The land has no value, and there is no military value to the area either. What makes the invasion of Chernobyl particularly stupid is that the soil, especially in the so-called Red Forest, is still radioactive, and driving tanks on it disturbs the soil and releases huge radioactive dust clouds. (Yes, tourists visited Chernobyl all the time prior to the invasion, but these visits were extremely controlled, and one of the strict rules for any visitor is to n...

There is one thing that flat-earthers just cannot explain in any way, shape or form, not even with made-up claims, not with pseudoscience, not by throwing fancy terms at it and pretending it "explains" it, and they can't even deny that it happens. This one counter-argument is completely impervious to all flat-earther arguments. And that is: How is science able to predict every single solar eclipse years and even decades ahead of time, to the accuracy of seconds, and the exact places where there will be full and partial eclipses? Even they cannot deny that it happens. They can deny the validity of photographs, video, scientific tests and measurements when it comes to other topics. They can even argue about the nature of solar eclipses themselves (ie. what they are and what causes them). However, the predictions are so utterly and clearly undeniable that even flat-earthers and their kindergarten-level IQ can't deny that it happens: Every single time that science has pre...