What grinds my gears

I highly recommend skimming through the New York Penal Law Article 240 . It's surprisingly free of "legalese" and it's actually quite an interesting read. Most prominently, consider how well sections 240.05 through 240.36 fit the actions of antifa, the BLM rioters, and other activists roaming the streets almost every day. The text of the vast majority of those sections reads like a highly accurate list of transgressions of those people. I could list examples of them here, but there are so many that fit to a T, that if I were to list them all here, I would just be replicating almost all of that page. Most states in the US have similar laws as well. Or consider, for example, the Federal law 18 U.S. Code §2385: Advocating overthrow of Government . Condensed quote: Whoever knowingly or willfully advocates, abets, advises, or teaches the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying the government of the United States [...] by force o...

I'm not going to name the guy, but there's one particular youtuber I used to watch quite a lot years ago because his videos were quite well made and entertaining, and he made lots of good points. He was (well, still is) a skeptic, ie. someone who examines, criticizes, comments on, and sometimes makes fun of all kinds of quacks, charlatans, anti-scientific religious ideologies, the most ridiculous cult practices, and so on and so forth. He has been making YouTube videos for quite a long time, 9 years now. Examining his list of videos chronologically, especially when it comes to view counts, paints a rather interesting picture: His videos from 9 years ago, when he started his YouTube career, have an average number of views in the ballpark of about 20k to 30k apiece, with some individual videos breaking the 100k mark. As you scroll up the list, the average number of views starts steadily increasing. Videos he made 8 years ago already have about 40-50k views on average. 7-yea...

Launch almost any program installed in your computer. What's the first thing that you notice? It may take at the very least a significant fraction of a second to show on screen. With some programs it may in fact take several seconds. And in some cases this may happen even for programs that are extremely simple and small. A few of them may in fact be so slow to start that they actually have loading screens. Yeah, loading screens for applications. Why do they take so long to launch, rather than appearing literally instantaneously on screen the millisecond you launch them? How about using them? Some programs may be really responsive and present no discernible lag between a keypress or mouse button click, and the action it's supposed to do. Yet others may present noticeable lag sometimes. In the worst cases it may be so bad that if you, for example, write test fast enough, the program will lag behind and not keep up with your typing. Clicking on a menu option that opens up a d...

An (alleged) white nationalist makes a terrorist attack in New Zealand to a mosque, killing about 40 people, and the west goes absolutely crazy. Everybody politicizes it and plays the blaming game and demands all kinds of draconian measures to be taken to punish people who have absolutely nothing to do with the incident (ironically exactly what the terrorist was explicitly aiming for). Now, let me ask you a question: Do you know how many fatal terrorist attacks have been committed by Islamic terrorists, and how many people have been killed by them, in the past week (as of writing this)? Not the past year, or the past month. The past week. I bet you have absolutely no idea. Probably for all you know there hasn't been a single such attack, because basically no news source reports them. The reality, however, is rather shocking. Merely in the past week, ie. between 17th March and 24th March of 2019 there have been a total of 33 terrorist attacks by Islamic radicals, claiming the ...

Especially in the current political climate, if some kind of celebrity, even if it's just a minor celebrity related to a very particular field (such as voice acting, for example) gets accused of something that the regressive leftist social justice warriors don't like, and this gets traction among them, they will do everything in their power to ruin that person's entire life and career. And the scary thing is that it works. To achieve this, the social justice warriors will engage in a massive coordinated, planned and sustained harassment campaign against that person, blocking him (and it's most often, although not always, a him) from anything that he may ever do anywhere, especially if it's related to his profession or what he's famous for. If, for example, that person is due to attend some kind of conference related to his field of work (such as voice acting), the social justice mob will do everything they can to stop it from happening. It, obviously, st...

It's actually scary how much the regressive extremist left has been indoctrinated into a (among many other things) culture of fear. They are being constantly bombarded by their own side with the most extreme alarmist, and for the most part completely fictitious, visions of the world and their surrounding society. In their world, almost all women experience sexual harassment and rape, almost all black people experience racism every single day and will be likely be killed by the police, and so on and so forth. When Donald Trump was elected the president of the United States many social justice warriors were making YouTube videos that were absolutely insane. I kid you not, many of them were acting like they were Jews during the Holocaust, and the SS were going to bang on their door at any moment. Many of them were literally crying in desperation, expressing their absolute anguish and hopelessness, telling how they were seriously thinking of killing themselves. Others made really s...

The government of the United Kingdom is trying their hardest, and apparently succeeding, in delaying Brexit even further. Something that I, among others, have been predicting for years. I still think anybody who believes that Brexit will actually happen is naive to the extreme. (I'll freely admit I was wrong if it indeed does end up happening eventually. Won't be holding my breath, though.) Many people have been for years trying to argue that leaving the EU will be bad for the UK and its citizens. However, nobody I have seen has ever considered this: The United Kingdom, over the past 10 or 20 years, has become more and more of a police state. Not just allegorically speaking, but literally. The police has become bolder and bolder over the last years in enforcing regressive leftist moral standards, up to completely ridiculous extents. They are literally investigating people, and even putting them in jail cells, for the horrible crime of misgendering someone online. They are...