Author: Joel Gross

Well I just finished a day of painting with the Graco X7 airless gun… I’m not sure if it was a disaster or a success lol. I spent the morning prepping the shed and furniture. Set up the sprayer at noon, but it didn’t spray correctly most of the time. I started with a five gallon bucket of kilz 2 primer, halfway through it started to spray better.… read more “New paint sprayer and sprayed shed today”

With all of the news cycles consumed with death of the queen and coronation of the king, I have been very confused.

Why does anyone care about one parasite being replaced by another? There is not even a fraction as much attention paid to the deaths of even our greatest inventors, entrepreneurs, or thinkers. Why?

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/charles-britains-conflicted-new-monarch-2022-09-08/

Why does England still have a monarchy? Why haven’t they been beheaded? Why hasn’t there property been auctioned off to the public? Why hasn’t there money been taken to fund the state?

Royalty are simply ancient criminals who built their wealth at the point of a sword.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/05/business/ups-teamster-union-strike/index.html

Both the Teamsters Union and UPS should be broken up. Small, entrepreneurial companies without unions take better care of their customers and their employees than do big bureaucracies like unions and UPS.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/chairman-russian-oil-producer-lukoil-dies-after-falling-hospital-window-source-2022-09-01/

One of these days, Putin’s henchmen will wise up and realize Putin that if Putin can randomly kill his other associates, they are vulnerable too.

The AMA has an anticompetitive monopoly where they limit the number of seats at medical schools and keep medical costs sky high since demand is inelastic and disguise it by blaming insurance companies. It’s why reforms never work here. 27% of our GDP is stolen by doctors and hospitals. They keep supply smaller than demand so doctors and hospitals literally charge thousands an hour.… read more “AMA”

This was a seven week series on Zwift called the Zwift Classics. I am by far not the best rider in my category, but I had a good time slot for my races and a very strong group of competitors to draft. Every week saw me setting personal bests! Super happy with my performance. The guy who beat me, Frank the tank, has pro level power at 400 watts.… read more “#2 Out of 4,600 racers in Zwift Classics in my category”

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01443-2

Deeply concerning… science needs to be kept completely separate from policy views. This new ruleset by the most popular journal in science basically says ignorance is better than knowledge if it runs counter to our pre-existing beliefs…

I think the thing Sovereign Citizens folks miss is that power is not derived from words on paper in books… Power is derived from force. If the people in charge of the force say the law is one way… That’s the way it is. If you break the law as they see it, God help you.… read more “What Sovereign Citizens do not understand”

We have been QuickBooks online customers for over a decade and for the last few years QuickBooks online has gotten significantly worse and the support is absolutely atrocious. This is my personal opinion in this review. This week things have really come to a head:

On August 25th, 42 team members received a duplicate payment. That was equal to about $55,000 deducted from our accounts.… read more “QuickBooks Online Sends $55,000 Out Incorrectly And Won’t Fix It: My Review”