Do you want to give another 10% of your income to the fools in Olympia who are already wasting $7,700 of your money each year? Are you happy with your police protection? With the condition of our roads and infrastructure for that money? We should be getting far better services for such an enormous chunk of our earnings.
Month: December 2025
DIY Road: New to me John Deere 772 CH Motor Grader
Mysterious Chicken Mass Murder Mystery
The Seattle Times is a Far Left Propaganda Mouthpiece
One of the most striking things about moving from a world of building things to a world of watching things is how much the incentives for honesty have changed. In the startup world, if you lie to yourself about your product, the market corrects you. You go out of business. But in local media, especially in a city like Seattle, there is no such correction.… read more “The Seattle Times is a Far Left Propaganda Mouthpiece”
The 10,000-Generation Debt
The most important thing to understand about history is that it isn’t a story; it’s a filter. If you’re alive today, you are the beneficiary of an unbroken chain of success stretching back to the beginning of the species. For ten thousand generations, your ancestors did the hardest thing a living creature can do: they survived long enough to reproduce.… read more “The 10,000-Generation Debt”
The world and Zwift
The circumference of the world is 40,000 km. I have ridden my bike on Zwift 24,000 km. 5 years of exercise on that bike and I’m only a little over halfway around the world. The world is humongous!
America Needs a Great Firewall
The most important thing to understand about the internet is that it has stopped being a separate place. In the early days, we thought of it as a frontier where the physical rules of geography didn’t apply. But as the internet became the operating system for society, it inherited all the problems of the physical world, plus a few new ones. … read more “America Needs a Great Firewall”
Universal Basic Income
UBI is mostly just socialism with a fresh coat of paint. To understand why it fails, you have to understand what money actually is. Money isn’t some mystical resource that appears out of nowhere. It is a way of representing favors. It is a much more efficient way of trading a website for a bag of potatoes than actual bartering, but it only works if it represents real value created by someone.… read more “Universal Basic Income”
America Today
Romney published an Op Ed and says, “No one countenances cutting benefits for current or near retirees. But Social Security and Medicare benefits for future retirees should be means-tested — need-based, that is to say — and the starting age for entitlement payments should be linked to American life expectancy.”
This unfortunately has been the philosophy of those in power for the last 50 years… basically they want to subsidize benefits for themselves at the expense of our children and grandchildren.… read more “America Today”