What grinds my gears

I have been playing Elite Dangerous actively for about 2 years now. I really have to rant about two types of players that I truly, truly despise: Gankers and whiners. So-called "gankers" are a bane of most online multiplayer games that allow player-vs-player combat (in games where that's not the sole goal of the game, eg. "arena-style" first-person shooters. Although in certain types of even those games there can be what could be considered "gankers" as well.) These are players with extremely advanced end-game equipment or builds who will attack and kill weaker players, just for the sake of it. In Elite Dangerous, for instance, they will attack players, including much weaker players who have absolutely no way of defending themselves, and shoot them in the back while they are trying to flee. Their only and sole purpose is to ruin the game for other players. Nothing else. If the victim complains to the ganker that he had no way of defending himself and

Dear Japan. Your government is betraying you, and is on a very fast path of destroying your society, your culture, your country. It's not yet too late to stop it, but you have to do it NOW. You cannot wait 10 or 20 years, just watching it happen, until it's too late to do anything. Your government has either believed, or for one reason or another is actively pushing, the lie that diminishing birth rates are an impending catastrophe for the country, and that the only solution for this looming "disaster" is to import as many immigrants as possible into the country, mostly from poor countries. Millions and millions of immigrants. Do not believe these lies. Falling birth rates might have some relatively minor effects on the economy of the country, if it continues for long enough, but these effects are nowhere near catastrophic, and are always temporary. Your country, like most other countries, has had significantly worse economic catastrophes many times in the past, and

I wrote in an earlier blog post how South Korea is making a HUGE mistake . What mistake? Believing the modern "falling birth rates and an aging population is a big impending catastrophe" and that unrestricted mass immigration from poor countries is the only solution to fix that "problem". Indeed, South Korea, one of the cleanest and safest countries in the world, with some of the lowest crime rates, drug use and poverty, is already planning on opening its borders to millions of immigrants from, you guessed it, the poorest countries in the world. Well, not to be left behind, it appears that Japan has swallowed the exact same lie about this being a "problem" and that the only solution is unrestricted immigration. Japan, too, is planning on increasing immigration by orders of magnitude, in order to fix this impending huge disaster looming in the future. Japan is genuinely one of the cleanest and safest countries in the world. Crime rates are astonishingly low

The far-leftist "feminist" "social justice" ideology, which started mostly in American universities in the early 2000's and earlier, and from there spread like a cancer to the entirety of society (because the vast majority of journalists, politicians, CEOs, and so on and so forth are university graduates and, thus, have been indoctrinated into the cult and trained for political activism), has successfully taken over the vast, vast majority of American society (as well as the society of many other western countries) and are no invading and taking over every single aspect of society they can. Anything that they can take hold of, they will, and this is very much their very explicit intent and purpose, and they are completely open about it. Their indoctrination and training of university students exists for the very purpose of invading and taking over every single aspect of society. They aren't even secretive about it, and will say so out loud. Their methods, t

Some time ago I wrote a couple of blog posts about how consistency is not one of the strong points of far-leftist "social justice" ideology. They will strongly defend and fight for a particular position today, and do the same thing for the exact opposite position tomorrow. Whichever position suits their agenda and gives them most power, that they will defend. The exact same people can extremely strongly say one thing today, and the exact opposite a year from now, and they will not even bat an eye (and, of course, they will be completely silent about their past opposite opinion.) There are several examples behind that link above, but here's yet another one: Many years ago the far left was strongly advocating for the notion that there is no such thing as a "male brain" and a "female brain", that both men and women have literally identical brains and it's impossible to distinguish between the two. Many articles were written about how scientific study

The Nazi mass book burnings are and will probably forever remain as one of the most remembered and symbolic events of recent history. They are one of the most prominent symbols of totalitarian ideology that stands as the polar opposite to the principles of free speech and free expression, and freedom in general. As is so common, totalitarianism and other similar oppressive ideas can only withstand and survive by suppressing, censoring, gatekeeping and destroying all dissent, all criticism, all contradicting opinions and ideas. There's no more striking image that symbolizes this act of censorship than a bonfire made of books that are considered "harmful" to the totalitarian ideology. The destruction of literature for the purpose of censorship and gatekeeping is considered abhorrent and against the core fundamental ideals of freedom and liberalism. Good ideas can survive and, in fact, welcome criticism and scrutiny. Bad oppressive ideas can only survive by banning and destr

I have written quite many posts in this blog about the absolutely ridiculous mentality and behavior among American police forces. This mentality and behavior seems to be very uniform across the entire country, even though local cultures otherwise can vary very wildly from state to state and even within a state. The United States is one of the very few countries where you can actually refuse to identify yourself to a police officer if he doesn't have an actual legal reason to demand your ID (ie. a reasonable articulable suspicion of a crime). This is a direct consequence of the 4th Amendment to the Constitution (something that most other countries lack). Most other countries are so-called "stop-and-id states" where you are legally required to identify yourself to a police officer if he demands it, no matter what the situation, no matter why he is demanding it. If you refuse, you can be issued a fine. The United States is one of the very few countries in the world that is