Things I’ve cared about that I have changed my mind on

I thought it would be interesting to look back at things I cared enough about to write a blog or social media post on that I’ve later changed my mind on.

2007 https://joelx.com/the-midas-touch/14/ I used to think the stock market was a good place to invest. I now think the stock market is where business owners sell their businesses when they no longer believe in them, that the stock market is at least partially rigged, and that retail investors get crushed by large scale investors.… read more “Things I’ve cared about that I have changed my mind on”

What Matters in Life

It took me my whole life to work through the false guesses and outright lies other people provide for the meaning of life.

First, I was told loving Jesus was the meaning of life. It took me till I was 17 or 18 to figure out that Jesus and other religions were just fakes. Religion is a mind virus that spreads through people’s fear of death and hell, and their hope to see their dead loved ones again although it has no basis in reality.
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IRS Efile Form 2290 Scam

Apparently to fill out a simple IRS form for heavy vehicles, you have to pay a third party some random fee to submit what is basically just an HTML form. Why doesn’t the IRS itself offer this form directly for free? Yet more unnecessary government red tape and regulation that harms business and gives money to special interests.