What grinds my gears

It is a well-known and well-recognized phenomenon that when a person gets older, time seems to pass much quicker. Meaning that, for instance, a year feels much shorter than it did when one was young. As a young kid, a year felt like an extraordinarily long period of time. Things that happened a year earlier feel like they happened a really, really long ago, and that tons and tons of things have happened since those times. However, the older you get, the more "compressed" time starts feeling. As a 10-year-old, things that happened a year earlier feel like really distant, having happened a really, really long time ago. As a 40-year-old, however, things that happened a year earlier feel like they just happened a bit ago. In fact, even longer periods of time don't feel that long. Even when fully realizing the exact amount of time that has passed, one still can't get rid of that feeling that they happened "not so long ago". One thing I have noticed this p...

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For a few years now some feminists have created this complete nontroversy about what they call "the pink tax" where, they claim, women's products are more expensive than men's products, which, they say, ends up costing women thousands of dollars more per year than men. Like "women's razors" are more expensive than "men's razors" and so on. Firstly, and most obviously, this a completely and absolutely asinine thing to complain about and try to make it into a controversy. Why? Because nobody is forcing you to buy the more expensive product . For fuck's sake. Why does this even have to be stated? It's a free country. Buy whatever product you want. There is no law that says you have to purchase the more expensive "women's" version of the product. They always talk as if they were somehow forced to buy the more expensive product. Secondly, and more damningly, whenever you see a video of theirs about this subject, they ar...

People have all kinds of misconceptions about what is and isn't "socialism". Many people even have these misconceptions about their own country . I have seen, for example in the comment section of YouTube videos dealing with socialism vs. capitalism, countless people from all around the world, such as Europe, Canada, South Korea, etc. saying that their country is "partially socialist". The reason for this is something I already commented in a previous blog post : People confuse "social services" (in all of their forms) with "socialism". Just because the word "social" is used in both concepts doesn't make them related. Socialism is a form of government where the state owns all means of production of the country. All the industry, all the corporations, all commerce. There are no private corporations, and there is no private ownership of the means of production. The economy is owned and run by the state. (In socialism people ...

According to polls, approximately 85 to 90 percent of Americans consider themselves Christian. Approximately 80% of Americans think that the Bible is either directly the words of God, or inspired by God. Yet surprisingly few of these people actually own a Bible, or has ever read one. Even fewer know almost anything of what the Bible says, apart from a very cursory knowledge of a few passages taught at Sunday school. You could make up vaguely biblical-sounding passages, which aren't actually in the book (or anything even close), fake passages that anybody with even a modicum of knowledge of the book would quickly recognize as fake, and ask random people, who think of themselves as Christians, if these are passages from the Bible, and many would probably say yes. (Conversely, there are many passages that are in the Bible, but which many of these people would probably guess are not, if the question is posed as "which of these passages are from the Bible and which are made up...

Since to most people from outside the United States (including myself) it's easy to confuse the terms "Democratic Party" and "Republican Party", here's a quick reminder of what they are: The "Democratic Party" is the one on the "left" of the political spectrum (in the American sense), espousing social liberalism and progressivism. Their latest presidential candidate was Hillary Clinton. The "Republican Party" is the one on the "right" of the political spectrum, espousing conservatism and classical liberalism. Their latest presidential candidate was Donald Trump. Democrats, at large, strive for many things that are easy to agree with (depending, of course, on your personal views), especially from outside the country, such as environmentalism, stricter gun control, free universal healthcare, strong social safety nets, taxing corporations more heavily, and so on. Republicans, however, on average tend to espouse id...

What does it look like if you film somebody putting on sunscreen, using an UV camera (iow. a camera with a filter that only lets UV light pass, and translates it to visible shades of gray)? It looks like this: And what does that look like? So I'm calling it now: If SJWs get hold of this, they will start hollering about "blackface", and demand that white people stop using sunscreen. It wouldn't even be the most idiotic and asinine thing they have ever said.