Author: Joel Gross

Do something meaningful with your life. Fulfill your biological purpose.

Who cares about running and winning a few stupid races. In ten or twenty years, you won’t be doing it anymore and will wonder why you ever cared.

TV and fiction books you forget almost right after consuming them. Sugar for the brain.

Having children continues the grand tradition every one of your ancestors succeeded in doing.… read more “Children”

Negative Externalities are when a group of people knowingly make a choice to privately profit by damaging the public. Examples include cigarette companies knowingly selling a product that causes lung cancer, manufacturers who dump waste into streams, and private equity groups that load up businesses with debt and sell them.

The cause of this issue is that executives at these companies can make money by causing damage or taking risks at others expense without themselves having any personal risk.… read more “Proposal to Solve the Problem of Negative Externalities”

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/05/11/magazine/brazilian-butt-lift.html

This is a horrifying trend. These women have been brainwashed by social media on their phones and Kim Kardashian. Brazilian Butt Lifts are extremely dangerous, agonizingly painful and simply an abuse of the medical profession.

The male version of this is hair restoration… Equally stupid but at least much less risky.

Accept and love yourself for who you are.… read more “Butt Lifts Are Booming. Healing Is No Joke. – The New York Times”

https://www.newsweek.com/john-mccain-warning-rand-paul-vladimir-putin-ukraine-vote-1706301

Rand Paul has had multiple subordinates convicted of being traitors. John McCain, an American patriot, said he was a potential traitor years back.

I have a major environmental problem for you… Right to Repair. Basically, every manufacturer from phones to dishwashers to cars to heavy equipment have explicitly designed their products to not be repairable or only repairable by them. They also design products specifically to fail following warranty periods. Finance MBAs drive this to increase profits… And they’re right, it does.… read more “Right to Repair and the Environment”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/rand-paul-trump-russian-2016-election-b2030602.html

When you are trying to call medical providers, every single voicemail repeats the same irritating phrase, “If you are experiencing life threatening symptoms, please hang up and call 911.”

I think I have heard that phrase 50 times today. Sometimes 4-5x in the same medical providers phone system.

Our lawyer centric country is a disaster.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/07/world/americas/un-loan-project-services.html

Government waste at it again at large scale. American tax dollars wasted by the UN. The US needs to back out of the UN, and shrink the size of it’s government. Government has no accountability for taxes it spends, so the money just goes to waste and is stolen by scum.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/03/magazine/surrogates-ukraine.html

Great story about women in Ukraine who were surrogate mothers when Russia invaded.

Laurel and I just had a family friend be our surrogate, so we especially understand.

The parents in this story who did not go into Ukraine to get their babies are cowards. I would probably leave Laurel behind with our kids, but an intended parent owes the surrogate and his own baby to do everything to be there for the birth.… read more “Ukrainian Sureogates”