The most important work I do these days is thinking hard and trying to make good decisions. The people I work with are usually better than I am at implanting those decisions, whether that be fixing farm equipment, talking to customers, or doing accounting. I subscribe to the best artificial intelligence available and have been astounded by its exponential advances to now reach higher levels of intelligence than any humans.… read more “Grok Heavy vs Gemini Pro”
The farm boys and I sang this ditty about our ongoing battle with local bureaucracy…
Stick in your earbuds and turn it up 
Context and links to our fight in the comments below! 
The first post fighting the state stealing my land: https://www.facebook.com/joelgross.joelx/posts/pfbid0PBTBDfup9RPwrbpbgbmD1FWQvAPNJPfq2bBsPPkdhheQ46MBM7Gegn4LBngg7Wqbl
The public retaliation: https://www.facebook.com/joelgross.joelx/posts/pfbid0zE52YVQ57xDNZYt7eA8JtD3iCvdg4awAxaR5QA43AZw8SPbNDi1dRkX4mC7RmYEol
The nepotism: https://www.facebook.com/reel/28150029621287557
Retaliation becomes national news: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1973458806643152
I never set out to make enemies: https://www.facebook.com/reel/2329041131233478/
https://youtube.com/shorts/Q9V-irqVxK0?is=xCmPSqpySegBxtmE
There are two major laws in Washington state that prevent new housing from being built and dramatically raised the costs for anyone to buy even basic homes: the growth management act also known as GMA and the State Environmental Protection Act also known as SEPA.
Both of these laws were initially past 30 years ago with good intentions, but have been twisted and warped beyond recognition by NIMBYs and bureaucrats and special interests.… read more “Trapped as renters?”
If we want to have all of these environmental and labor laws to protect our people, we cannot just throw our workers right back under the bus by buying cheap goods from nations that use slave, labor and toxic lakes. We are worsening the problems of climate change and human trafficking and slavery by adding long distance shipping to it and hiding it out of sight.… read more “We badly need tariffs on everything”
In his memoir Palace Gate, WWII and Vietnam pilot Richard Brown reveals a gut-wrenching truth about post-war Vietnam:
When he returned a decade after the war, the corrupt monarchy hadn’t been “liberated.” It had simply been replaced by an even more corrupt communist politburo.
The common people were still peasants. The elite were still kings. You see this pattern in every socialist state from Cuba to Vietnam—they collapse into aristocracies with a ruling class and a peasantry.… read more “Palace Gate”
People who want to book themselves in jail for a period of time should be allowed to do so. Jail should not be a nice place, but sometimes a person like the woman who murdered her own children need a way to protect other people from themselves.
https://youtube.com/shorts/9PwuaQnjIJw?is=QzTm0RA1ORiP45jy
The 5th Amendment says the government cannot take your private land without paying you full market price. But bureaucrats found a loophole, and it is costing local landowners millions.
I just spent ten hours digging through 116 official public permit files. What I found in the county’s own records is infuriating.
Over 1,200 acres of private property have been effectively stolen through forced deed restrictions.… read more “1200 Acres Stolen”