Grok Heavy vs Gemini Pro

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”

Washington Froze Rents; Thus Freezing New Investment and Repairs

If you’re wondering why housing in Washington is getting harder to find and even harder to afford, look at what happened when Olympia passed House Bill 1217. Far left politicians promised it would protect tenants, but the hidden mechanics are actively crushing new construction and freezing repairs on older buildings across the state. Why would a person invest in building a new mobile home park (the best housing for fixed and low income folks) when you are guaranteed to lose money?
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The farm boys and I sang a little ditty…

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/

Trapped as renters?

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?”

We badly need tariffs on everything

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”

Historically accurate land acknowledgements

Historically Accurate Land Acknowledgements:
England
I hereby acknowledge we stand on land stolen from the Normans, who stole it from the Anglo-Saxons, who stole it from the Romans, who stole it from Iron Age Celtic tribes like the Trinovantes and Catuvellauni, who stole it from the Bronze Age Bell Beaker culture, who displaced the Neolithic builders of Stonehenge, who stole it from Mesolithic Western Hunter-Gatherers, who replaced earlier human populations, going back through thousands of territorial conquests until the first humans arrived in this area.
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Palace Gate

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”