I think that this is an important video for people to watch. Lots of movies and TV shows give the dangerously false impression of how violence between men and women goes. Movies often portray a normal woman as just having to try a little bit and they can punch or kick a larger man and send them flying and be done.… read more “Female Pro Fighter vs Larger Opponent”
Author: Joel Gross
Joel Gross is the CEO of Coalition Technologies.
Escaping containment
I feel like I am in one of those nightmares where you are running from an unseen horror that is rapidly catching up, but your legs are stuck in jello.
I spent the day today using AI to build a program. It built a program that in the past would have taken me weeks of totally committed work in a few hours.… read more “Escaping containment”
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?
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.
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”