The Curious Engineer

Joel Gross's Blog

2020–2026

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October 2026

  1. Why do I feel like what I am shown is not what you are shown?
  2. Citizen Vigilante
  3. Is it too late?
  4. You’re not the fisherman. You’re the catch.
  5. “Trust us”
  6. Three rocketeers
  7. Can we though?
  8. Microsoft letting go of over a quarter of it’s workers, who’s next?
  9. Water rights legal defense preparation by AI
  10. Should I have winterized my boat?
  11. Opening day
  12. A thrilling read. I am on page 49 of 1,581.
  13. They asked the AI for one more report. It said NO.
  14. If AI doing decades of math progress in a day doesn’t get people’s attention, what will?
  15. Intelligence explosion
  16. AI advances again
  17. Permanent Damage! The MMA Horrors Of Human Destruction…
  18. Tired of hallucinations?
  19. When will AI surpass humans?
  20. Bill Gates: The aliens are here, they just didn’t come in spacecraft.
  21. Superintelligence advanced quantum computing 40% in minutes
  22. AI Scientist: 99.9% Chance Super Intelligence Wipes Us Out By 2030

September 2026

  1. Most cited scientist in the world says AI threat is IMMINENT
  2. What will it take to wake humanity up?
  3. God casting Satan from heaven
  4. An AI Takeover Scenario
  5. 5 Winners of the Fields Medal Emergency Statement: AI Is Superhuman Now
  6. AI ethics and the future of safety | Dr. Roman Yampolskiy | TEDxMiami
  7. Godfather Of AI: We’re Not Prepared For The Superintelligence That Is Co…
  8. Female Pro Fighter vs Larger Opponent
  9. Escaping containment
  10. Grok Heavy vs Gemini Pro
  11. Washington Froze Rents; Thus Freezing New Investment and Repairs
  12. The farm boys and I sang a little ditty…
  13. Trapped as renters?

August 2026

  1. We badly need tariffs on everything
  2. Historically accurate land acknowledgements
  3. Palace Gate
  4. Fixing 2012 Ford F450 Rear Door Power Lock
  5. Jail self booking
  6. 1200 Acres Stolen
  7. Addiction destroys choice
  8. Is letting drug users destroy a park empathy or abandonment?
  9. Sane people with a million dollars buy
  10. Stop thinking about dollars as money
  11. WHY A $250K HOUSE NOW COSTS $500K
  12. Grant County WA Retaliation Statement by Former Chairman of the Republican Party
  13. Civilization
  14. History
  15. Tesla on Inventors
  16. Is America’s Most Popular Hike Actually Worth The Hype?
  17. Weaponized: Washington Farmer Targeted After Criticizing Government Regulations? – AgWeb
  18. Short social media videos
  19. The terrifying reason we threw out TV in the trash and why you will too
  20. A man of worth
  21. Farming Opportunity
  22. The 20 Year Sunset Amendment
  23. AI 2027
  24. They Thought Doxxing My Family Would Silence Me. They Were Wrong.
  25. The 30-50% Bureaucracy Tax Hiding in Every New Washington Home
  26. I never set out to make enemies. I’m a farmer and business owner who spo…
  27. Nepotism in Grant County WA?
  28. Grant County Bureaucrat Jim Anderson Cook Retaliates Against Farmer

July 2026

  1. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN COUNTY OFFICIALS WEAPONIZE THEIR POWER AGAINST A LOCAL FARMER?
  2. Daddy Lesson #5: SLEEP IS CRITICAL
  3. Drug Dealers Are Murderers
  4. The Difference Between a Democracy and a Republic | 5 Minute Video
  5. Why Democracy is Killing America
  6. A Republic, Not A Democracy by Dan Smoot 1966 Apr 18
  7. Daddy Lesson #4: Your Physical Health Is Everything
  8. All land is “stolen” and has changed hands many times through history
  9. I Run a US Factory. What I Just Saw in China Should Terrify You.
  10. Daddy Lesson #3: The characteristics of who you should marry
  11. Daddy Lesson #2: The Most Important Decision In Life Is Who You Marry
  12. The purpose of life
  13. Government thugs
  14. Trapped In The Regulatory Nightmare of Washington State
  15. The dead can’t speak
  16. ICE Raided My Home
  17. Socialism is Unstable
  18. The following story was told to me by someone on Reddit
  19. Totaled my boat
  20. The Hungry Heron food review in Moses Lake
  21. Alcohol during college
  22. Government schools indoctrinate kids with socialist propaganda
  23. Scotus Ruling Win- No Limits on Free Speech
  24. DIY Setting 5 HP Well Pump 630 ft Deep
  25. Alert: WA State Democrats Plan to Use Reparations To Take Your Cash and Home

June 2026

  1. Communism Kills
  2. On Socialism
  3. The Terrifying 5 Step Playbook That Destroys Entire Nations
  4. Fun family weekend
  5. Are you politically polarized?
  6. WA State Steals Private Lands
  7. AI Rep Counter
  8. How much of your earnings is fair for the state to take?
  9. Why the AI Race Will End Humanity
  10. Beware
  11. Trump’s MOU Is a Surrender to Iran
  12. How Midwits Became The Experts
  13. How to Earn a Billion Dollars
  14. Hiking Tipsoo Lake and Owyhigh to the falls in Mt. rainier
  15. Family Cabin Purchase / Inheritance in Packwood WA
  16. Grandpa’s Service
  17. Welcome to the new world order
  18. Washington state Gargantuan Settlement by Bob Ferguson
  19. Bill Gates: Is he Good or Evil?
  20. Kids Waterwheel Electrical Generator Project
  21. Free Markets and the Industrial Revolution Freed All Slaves
  22. Huge pop star is openly racist
  23. Sci fi imaginings
  24. Digging In SOLID ROCK – Temporary Power Trench

May 2026

  1. WA State Cultural Resources Survey Scam / Bribe
  2. Tee Ball Coach
  3. The Invisible Crisis Crushing Our Girls
  4. WW2 – Soviet Artillery Tribute [Real Footage]
  5. Outdoor Boys Told Law Grads What No Professor Would
  6. Record: Most Assassination Attempts
  7. Ditch the classroom: Why your kid needs an apprenticeship
  8. The Coming Wave
  9. Personal Fortune
  10. Such a good mechanic video and very funny
  11. Henry Ford on Stock Speculation
  12. Solaredge review video – don’t use it!
  13. Henry Ford on Thomas Edison
  14. Government Spending Habits, Then and Now
  15. Tip for the DOJ on Meat Packers
  16. 100x Doge
  17. The purpose of life
  18. Communism vs National Socialism vs Capitalism
  19. Thank you
  20. We need tariffs

April 2026

  1. Fight back
  2. MIT Explains the 12 Possible Endings for AI
  3. Washington State Impending Recession according to top real estate agent
  4. Google founder leaves California due to socialism
  5. Two Ways to Marry a 9
  6. Allergies
  7. Spring in Wilson Creek
  8. Government agencies and NGOs
  9. Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind
  10. AI Spending Hyperscale
  11. Trader Joe’s Vs Keim: End Abusive Class Action Lawsuits
  12. Government risk to freedom
  13. Far Left Reddit Owners Ban Me for Talking Justice System Reform
  14. Never let criminals out of prison
  15. Revolution

March 2026

  1. Everything should be public
  2. Grandpa
  3. Good luck, have fun, don’t die movie review
  4. L.A. County CEO, who got $2-million settlement, is resigning – Los Angeles Times
  5. Watched “The Terminator” with my kids tonight and told them it was a documentary
  6. Trained!
  7. Why work hard if your tax dollars go to fraud?
  8. Bill Gates “Source Code” Book Review
  9. We do not have a democracy
  10. Dario Essay on AI Risks
  11. WA Income Tax Resulting in High Income Flight
  12. Humanity’s Last Exam
  13. New racism
  14. Slaughtering three pigs

February 2026

  1. AI is a lethal threat to us this year
  2. Inside the World’s Most Unconventional Prison | El Salvador Prisons
  3. Public vs Private vs Homeschool Outcomes for Students
  4. Bernie and I finally agree
  5. Democracy fails without trust
  6. I Love America
  7. Farm Dump Truck Disaster
  8. I Was a Director at Amex When They Started Replacing Us With $30K Workers
  9. It’s Just a Box—So Why Is It Illegal to Sell?
  10. “This is going to hurt”
  11. Free Countries Much Wealthier Per Capita
  12. End Factory Learning, Return Choice to Families
  13. Public vs Private School Test Scores
  14. Washington State Public School Spending Per Student vs Test Scores
  15. Washington State DSHS / RCS Fraud Investigations Needed

January 2026

  1. Alliant Credit Union has the absolute worst customer service ever
  2. Zwift -Club Ladder 5v5 -Reckless Rhinos vs ATP Atoms -Astoria Line 8 -20…
  3. Building a Label Maker
  4. No Politics on Hacker News
  5. Hacker News Threat to PG
  6. Academic research
  7. FMCSA “Modernization” Motus NIGHTMARE!
  8. Children
  9. Farming in Central Washington
  10. Should the US help the protestors in Iran?
  11. Flying and Building a DIY RC Airplane From Scratch: Costs, What to Buy, …
  12. Foreign Actors Turned a Tragedy Into an Information Weapon
  13. Firefighters and Teachers Versus Police Officers
  14. Pig Butchering Delay
  15. Auction Find: Front Loader – Was it Worth It?
  16. I Investigated Minnesota’s Billion Dollar Fraud Scandal
  17. Term limits for all government employees
  18. Venezuelan Nobel Prize Winner on Socialism
  19. Why Aren’t All Approved Building Plans Available to All?
  20. Victory Versus Evil
  21. Governor Ron DeSantis’ Keynote Address at the Term Limits Summit
  22. Three Plumbing Leaks in Two Months!
  23. Daycare Fraud in Washington and Portland

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December 2025

  1. Frustrating tax scam
  2. Merry Christmas!
  3. Washington State Income Tax Foolishness
  4. DIY Road: New to me John Deere 772 CH Motor Grader
  5. Mysterious Chicken Mass Murder Mystery
  6. The Seattle Times is a Far Left Propaganda Mouthpiece
  7. The 10,000-Generation Debt
  8. The world and Zwift
  9. America Needs a Great Firewall
  10. Universal Basic Income
  11. America Today
  12. Wilson Creek Kids Singing Frosty The Snowman
  13. Archaelogical Survey Scam in Washington State
  14. RIPOFF Warning: EngineDIY
  15. Two Contrasting Experiences
  16. Grant County, WA Planning Department
  17. $10,000 Settlement After Product Failure
  18. Washington State Farmers Plight
  19. Luddite
  20. Buying vs. Renting Farmland?
  21. SEPA Archaeological Survey Scam
  22. DIY Pig Feeder – Easy and Fast Build. Heavy duty plywood hog creep feeder keeps out rain and pests!

November 2025

  1. Amazon Black Friday deal same price I paid a month ago
  2. My car charger can boil water really fast
  3. HUNT AND COOK IGUANAS WITH STALEKRACKER!!
  4. Bankruptcy Mechanism For Government
  5. IQ differences of identical twins reared apart are significantly influenced by educational differences – ScienceDirect
  6. Legal Restrictions for Selling Local Meat & Dairy
  7. Fascinating Interview
  8. A year without caffeine, part 1 | Bryan Alexander
  9. Tariffs
  10. The Banished Bottom of the Housing Market – by Ryan Puzycki
  11. Stop Patent Trolls
  12. How the PRIME Act Could Change Food Freedom in America | Joel Salatin
  13. Is Wealth Inequality actually bad?
  14. The Profit Motive
  15. Artificial Intelligence
  16. Los Angeles Votes To Become a Slum
  17. Socialists Policy Platform
  18. Every One of the Worst Dictators Started as a Socialist
  19. Socialists are here to help!
  20. AI is finally getting me into art! 😂
  21. Don’t take from those who work
  22. Defining Government
  23. New baby + state pay for women with children
  24. Model T Housing
  25. Why is housing expensive?
  26. Stories
  27. Seattle fixer uppers $800,000
  28. SCAM: Archaeological “Surveys” in Washington State
  29. The government shutdown is a disaster
  30. Welcome Emily!
  31. Book Review: Empire of Silence
  32. My weight
  33. Veterinarian Scarcity Brings Misery to Animals

October 2025

  1. Teaching my six year old son to mow the lawn
  2. During weaning yesterday, a steer got me right on the schnoz!
  3. American Medical Care
  4. How to palpate beef cattle for pregnancy diagnosis
  5. More friends, more division
  6. Hunting and Processing and Smoking a Mule Deer for Jerky and Pepperoni S…
  7. Government power
  8. My man built this by himself!
  9. How to Trick Monkey Brain To Like Doing Hard Things (Dopamine Detox)
  10. The Far Left Is Calling For Your Murder
  11. Replacement AI
  12. Abuses of government power
  13. How To Skin A Deer
  14. Thoughts of the day
  15. Turner Pumpkin Patch
  16. 4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence. Irony is overwhelming | Hacker News
  17. Standing armies
  18. Free markets and democracy
  19. Something for nothing
  20. Buck
  21. Socialism
  22. Farming vs Service Businesses
  23. Supermajority of Americans Say Government too Powerful
  24. Fascism Can’t Mean Both A Specific Ideology And A Legitimate Target
  25. Student Gradations
  26. Hyperinflation?
  27. Alcohol
  28. Options for kids
  29. Why are American students test results so bad?
  30. What if we expanded our current school system further?
  31. Kids Choices
  32. Why the end of support for Windows 10 is uniquely troubling
  33. The TRUTH about EGR DELETES… Actual Science!
  34. Dissent video in Duncan v Bonta California Large Capacity Mag Ban
  35. Year One Results! Thermal Performance of the Concrete Thermal Mass
  36. Government shuts down for parasites

September 2025

  1. Madness
  2. 911 Failure
  3. Outsourcing
  4. Private equity
  5. We are system slaves
  6. Delusion
  7. Why Arabs Lose Wars – Middle East Forum
  8. Universities
  9. Wife and Son First Time Running a Lawnmower
  10. Guns 2
  11. Learning Land Development
  12. TIL a Virginia man discovered he had unintentionally left his phone recording before undergoing a colonoscopy, and while he was under anesthesia, it captured audio of medical staff mocking him. In 2015, a jury awarded him $500,000 for defamation, medical malpractice, and punitive damages. : todayile
  13. Celebration!
  14. Right vs Left Should Not Matter
  15. Tyler Robinson’s father
  16. Big government, small rights and small liberties
  17. Should evil people die?
  18. Shootings
  19. Charlie Kirk Murdered
  20. Dump Truck Bought at Auction
  21. Learning competition and sportsmanship
  22. DIY Smokehouse In Progress
  23. Feeding the chickens and the pigs
  24. The twins’ chickens and our garden
  25. Beautiful garden
  26. Feeding treats to the pigs
  27. RV Chloroplast Reattachment
  28. Pigs snoozing
  29. Good example of why the government should be far smaller… Everything the government controls gets corrupted and fails eventually.
  30. New Boat: 19′ Blue Water Mirage 1999
  31. Feasibility on the DIY Land Development Deal
  32. Homeschool in action
  33. Pigs: The Kids Newest Business!
  34. Accomplishments
  35. The BEAUTY of LESS – What We Gain When We Stop Chasing More
  36. Marriage

August 2025

  1. 2 Failed Woom Bikes with Promax Solv3-ST Brakes
  2. Liberty, freedom, and personal rights
  3. Moses Lake, WA Custom Beef 1/4, 1/2, Whole Beef For Sale
  4. Stage 4: Kick ‘N’ Sprint: Rolling Highlands… I’m starting to learn D rac…
  5. First day of first grade
  6. Top Power Producing countries
  7. Why Washington state farms are shutting down
  8. No alcohol
  9. How to sell land / property
  10. DIY Road Building 7: Neighbor Helps Out!
  11. Language decides who wins issues
  12. Accidentally offered $100k too much!
  13. Mice in the air ducts of my car
  14. Club Ladder 9685 – ATP Adventure vs Rocksteady Rhinos – 6 Laps of Neokyo…
  15. AI Wrote This Story

July 2025

  1. Liberal Tears vs Conservative Tears
  2. How to Test Voltage Regulator Rectifiers for Motorcycle, ATV, UTV, Snowm…
  3. Microsoft’s Horribly Misguided Greenwashing
  4. Minority Rule: First Past the Post Voting
  5. I Went Into a Nuclear Plant and It Changed How I Think About Radiation -…
  6. Epstein
  7. Framing
  8. The sound of inevitability | My place to put things
  9. Court scheduling
  10. Fixed RV Trailer Wiring – Brake Light Out, Shorts and Fuse Issues
  11. Tree Topping Update
  12. CGI 3D Animated Short “The Albatross” – by Joel Best, Alex Jeremy, and …
  13. Taxes
  14. Jeffrey Epstein & The Powerful Corrupt
  15. “And I think to myself, what a wonderful world.”
  16. How I “Cured” My Hip Osteoarthritis

June 2025

  1. Flathead Lake
  2. Why Most People Are Never Satisfied
  3. I Tried To Make Something In America (The Smarter Scrubber Experiment) -…
  4. Government is the number one threat to rights and freedoms of citizens
  5. Milo Land – I made a chair
  6. Harberger Tax – Wikipedia

May 2025

  1. On Vasectomies
  2. 5 Year Old Girl Learns to Drive a 27,000 lb Excavator – Road part 3
  3. How to Live on $432 a Month in America – by A.M. Hickman
  4. Neuralink and the Brain’s Magical Future — Wait But Why
  5. Dream 2
  6. DIY Above Ground Pool Install: Costco Bestway 20′ x 12′ x 4′
  7. Fraudulent Research
  8. The God of War
  9. A little singed
  10. Straw Bale Home Basics – InterNACHI®
  11. DIY Driveway Road Construction on a STEEP Hill
  12. Chris Rock – How not to get your ass kicked by the police!
  13. 2025’s Ugliest Racist Law
  14. A Farmer’s First Year in Washington State
  15. Torture’s effectiveness (or lack thereof)
  16. DIY Chicken Processing: Start to Finish! Hang, Scald, Hand Pluck, Clean!
  17. Accountability Sinks – by Martin Sustrik – 250bpm
  18. Fentanyl’s deadliness: in the mixing?
  19. DIY Concrete Patio
  20. Against patents

April 2025

  1. Single-payer
  2. This inflation
  3. Academic freedom
  4. The Best Argument Against Veganism | Joel Salatin | EP 539
  5. This is a new level of disrespect.. a mouse ate my mousetrap! 😂
  6. Unanticipated Effects of a Wealth Tax in Washington State
  7. Rich vs. King in the Real World: Why I sold my company
  8. Driving on 4 pints and 7 whiskeys! 1977
  9. Investment Moves
  10. Buying a Steiger Cougar Tractor after the old Steiger Bearcat’s Engine S…
  11. Chicken coop trailer and mobile run
  12. AI 2027
  13. The average college student today – by Hilarius Bookbinder

March 2025

  1. Northrup Canyon Hike Trail Review March 2025
  2. The End of Children | The New Yorker
  3. Animation vs. Addiction
  4. Farm Tour
  5. World History Theory
  6. Quote from Durant
  7. Is Avian Influenza a New Problem & How Do We Respond to It? | Joel Salatin
  8. Good article
  9. Far left ideology and it’s effects
  10. Gallup poll
  11. Waste and Laziness in the Federal Government Bureaucracy

February 2025

  1. Legal System
  2. Caffeine
  3. Why are products getting worse from big businesses?
  4. USD Ponzi Scheme
  5. How companies turn evil

January 2025

  1. Modern finance
  2. Five days in
  3. Tariffs
  4. Education or Indoctrination?
  5. People 2
  6. North Korean Squid Game
  7. Doctors and Hospitals Hide Overbillings
  8. Proposal for future city firestorms

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December 2024

  1. Charity
  2. The Inherent Value of Density (…And The Cost of Sprawl)
  3. What Makes a 46 Year Marriage Last
  4. Google Search Result’s Extreme Far Left Bias
  5. GOP Congresswoman found living in a dementia care home
  6. Polygamy vs Monogamy blog post
  7. The far left
  8. Assassinated – why did United Healthcare Group’s CEO die?
  9. The deceptive sales techniques the U.S. government has used on the American people, one of them—the Social Security Act—gets far too little attention. Buckle up because this is a wild ride.

November 2024

  1. Where’s the best zoo for kids? Wildlife World Zoo, Aquarium, and Safari …
  2. Unrealized gains taxes in Germany and Norway
  3. Even the wealthy can’t get healthcare in America
  4. Book recommendations
  5. Treating the herd
  6. The Truth about Socialism in Norway
  7. Speaker Johnson Questions USTL Director about Term Limits
  8. Finally! The 3 Reasons why the Democrats REALLY lost the 2024 elections!
  9. 2025 Suggested Policies for President Donald Trump & Republicans
  10. Only 3% of Corporate Media Journalists are Republican

October 2024

  1. What idea has killed more people than any others in history?
  2. Big Media Is Lying To Us
  3. DIY Re-Roofing Farm House, Costs and Work Time in Description
  4. Quit your Job and Farm Full Time: Joel Salatin’s Recipe for Success
  5. Age specific advice
  6. Save Democracy
  7. Nexus book
  8. Medical treatments
  9. Corrupt Criminal Union

September 2024

  1. What happens when we all stop working?
  2. Giant Prehistoric Bird Visits My Farm – Strange Emu Found
  3. Parasites Vs Producers
  4. Social media review
  5. Website for Our Big Family Farm Launches!
  6. Climate Change Theory
  7. Rent or own
  8. Discrimination in Hiring
  9. Who to trust?
  10. Degrees of deception: How America’s universities became debt factories – Anand Sanwal
  11. The most important leadership trait
  12. A billionaire farmer fights jailing as tycoons face crackdown in China
  13. Family Philosophy
  14. Milton Friedman: The Rise of Socialism is Absurd
  15. Elon Musk Vs Evil

August 2024

  1. School Vouchers
  2. Replacing shop electrical panel
  3. Things I’ve cared about that I have changed my mind on

July 2024

  1. True 2
  2. DIY Slip N Slide
  3. What Matters in Life
  4. Starship | Fourth Flight Test

June 2024

  1. The Case for Not Sanitizing Fairy Tales by Haley Stewart
  2. IRS Efile Form 2290 Scam
  3. Rebuilding a dangerous pumphouse

May 2024

  1. Cutting a hill, finding cow bones
  2. Downer Cow, Buying Backhoe, Walking with Bulls, Branding, Mortality

March 2024

  1. Buying 2 bulls, branding them, why I chose to become a farmer at 40
  2. Moving to WC, More Tagging Calves, Tractors and Sprayers
  3. Bought a telehandler, tagging calves, remodel update, installing RV to s…

February 2024

  1. Yarbro Virtual Heavy Equipment Auction – Backhoe and Telehandlers
  2. Javier Milei delivers Argentina’s first monthly budget surplus in 12 years
  3. This Made Nixon Wary of The Bureaucracy
  4. Pulling A Calf – Ranch Handbook
  5. South Korea trainee doctors resign to protest plan to add more physicians | Reuters
  6. Moving a large playground set
  7. Parenting Advice: the 17 year old success
  8. Broken finger, new baby, remodel update, fencing
  9. Milton Friedman – Redistribution of Wealth
  10. Limited Liability is Evil
  11. A way to remove Google Business Profile negative reviews
  12. Best Business Books
  13. Are friends detracting from families?
  14. McDonald’s with Play Places are my new favorite restaurant

January 2024

  1. 11 Days in on the Farm: Remodeling the house
  2. Politicians should not be allowed to take bribes, like speech fees
  3. Interactive Brokers Makes it a NIGHTMARE to get your money out
  4. Spinner Chronos Drive Belt Available on Grainger for $82

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December 2023

  1. 1991 2
  2. Finding Hope in a Hopeless World – Oliver Anthony x Jordan Peterson
  3. Is Veganism Bad For the Environment?
  4. Term Limits for Congress
  5. Joel Salatin on The PRIME Act

November 2023

  1. Charlie Munger has died | Hacker News
  2. Allowing small problems to grow big
  3. Excavator Clearing Land, Bonfire, & Repairs John Deere 490e
  4. Children and Friends
  5. Why Home School?

October 2023

  1. Building & Launching Model Rocket 3x: Estes 12 pack of rockets built and…
  2. Education System
  3. Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order by Ray Dalio
  4. Fallout Shelter 2: Review
  5. Changing a burst hydraulic hose on my excavator
  6. Red Rocket Launch
  7. Will my 5,200 pound excavator counterweight fall off?
  8. jUsT StOp OiL
  9. Installing 800′ of water polyethylene pipe and 4 water hydrants

September 2023

  1. The purpose of life
  2. Relationships with others
  3. How Vodka ruined Russia
  4. Should Humans Eat Meat? Biology, Nutrition, and Culture
  5. Military power and trust are the fundamental basis of political power
  6. Worldwide Government Nightmares
  7. Possible eBay Scam? I am out $277
  8. Father Son Hike – Skyline Loop Trail on Mt. Rainier
  9. The Tyranny of the Marginal User – by Ivan Vendrov
  10. Replacing Frayed and Heavily Damaged BAL Accu Slide Cable
  11. Disaster! Destroyed my water and electrical pipes!
  12. Dead children
  13. I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup | Slate Star Codex
  14. Labor Day

August 2023

  1. It’s a pleasure to meet you – part 2
  2. Stung by a wasp while filling a trench
  3. Excavator cost of ownership is HIGH
  4. Replacing hydraulic hoses: stubborn fitting, high costs, clearing land
  5. How to swap 2012 F450 console for a jump seat and back
  6. Old family photo

July 2023

  1. Great diagram for well pump and pressure tank setups
  2. Endodontist Selection
  3. Nice view

June 2023

  1. Watch “Installing Pitless Adapter on Well Longer Than My Arm Can Reach” on YouTube
  2. Watch “Fixing Broken Sprinkler Riser Hose” on YouTube
  3. Low-ball house / property offers
  4. Watch “I don’t believe the 2nd law of thermodynamics. (The most uplifting video I’ll ever make.)” on YouTube
  5. Watch “Rowan Atkinson on free speech” on YouTube
  6. Watch “The A.I. Dilemma – March 9, 2023” on YouTube
  7. Being a good dad means getting wet unexpectedly

May 2023

  1. Watch “NO Manure in the Garden???? Why We DON’T Use Cow, Goat or Horse Manure” on YouTube
  2. Who to marry
  3. Three economic systems
  4. Corporate socialism is evil
  5. Watch “Differences in Tilled and No Till Soils” on YouTube
  6. Google Fi’s Support Is the Worst From Any Carrier By Far
  7. Conspiracy theories
  8. ‘The Godfather of AI’ Quits Google and Warns of Danger Ahead – The New York Times
  9. Chapter 3: The Downward Spiral — Wait But Why
  10. I highly recommend buying this book
  11. Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund – Protecting, defending, and broadening the rights and viability of independent farmers, artisanal food producers, and their consumers.
  12. Finding a Spouse

April 2023

  1. Blowout today driving with the fifth wheel trailer
  2. Joel Salatin “Folks this ain’t normal”
  3. Benjamin Franklin on government jobs
  4. Funny quote
  5. Always follow the money
  6. An Illustrated Guide to Self-Censorship | The Free Press
  7. How the US is subsidizing high-risk homebuyers — at the cost of those with good credit
  8. GA4 Coming, GA3 Out
  9. The School That Couldn’t Quit Covid | The Free Press
  10. Business In the US
  11. The Only Way to Deal With the Threat From AI? Shut It Down | Time

March 2023

  1. AI ChatGPT SEO Spam Example
  2. Joel Salatin, I Agree With You!
  3. Kubota 3350b Regen DPF Issues SOLUTION!
  4. Status of B3350 Regen Issue? | OrangeTractorTalks – Everything Kubota
  5. Why You Can’t Trust Products To Be Safe: The LLC
  6. Watch “How to Stay Motivated” on YouTube
  7. Everything Everywhere All At Once Movie Review
  8. Alpha Movie Review
  9. Care.com’s Scam… My review of the paid service
  10. Watch “Renovating the Home My Great Great Grandfather Built” on YouTube
  11. Compounding effect of learning
  12. Watch “Jeremy Clarkson Loses £4,000 of Crops To Insects and Flooding | Clarkson’s Farm” on YouTube
  13. Clarkson’s Farm Season 2
  14. Risk and thrill seeking
  15. The Ride of Their Lives | The New Yorker
  16. Watch “South Park Tolerance Camp” on YouTube
  17. Watch “How Washington’s Assault Weapon Ban Is Going to Be Far Worse Than You Think” on YouTube
  18. Watch “Why Blue Whales Don’t Get Cancer – Peto’s Paradox” on YouTube

February 2023

  1. Watch “Fixing a broken power miter saw (checking the switch with a multimeter).” on YouTube
  2. Watch “JET ENGINE FUNDAMENTALS” on YouTube
  3. Focus 4
  4. Watch “Warren Buffett: Why Going To Business School Is A Waste Of Time” on YouTube
  5. Tracked tank poraxy stem kit
  6. Do Not Accept American Express

January 2023

  1. Watch “Richard Nixon Predicted Putin and Russia (1994)” on YouTube
  2. Watch “What Amish Schools Are Like 🇺🇸” on YouTube
  3. Watch “Invited To Amish Dinner 🇺🇸” on YouTube
  4. SanFrancisco recent review on YouTube…you can steal up to $950 without being arrested
  5. Seattle and residents turn against “progressive” policies
  6. Watch “Plastic Welding 101 [How to Plastic Weld]” on YouTube
  7. Watch “The Unfortunate Truth About Toyota’s Hydrogen V8 Engine” on YouTube
  8. Unleash the regulatory stranglehold on Washington’s businesses – Washington State Wire
  9. Watch “Ari Shaffir – JEW (2022) FULL SPECIAL” on YouTube
  10. Kids 2
  11. Watch “Hitzer Heller Aller 192 Pump Installation on well alongside existing electric pump” on YouTube
  12. “Appeasing Putin is more dangerous than opposing Putin”
  13. Watch “Entrepreneurs do more to solve poverty than any politician or reformer” on YouTube
  14. Watch “How did Thomas Edison create so many inventions?” on YouTube
  15. Watch “Don’t use a clock – Edison” on YouTube
  16. Watch “Edison slept on a table often, why?” on YouTube
  17. Watch “Wealth is created by Entrepreneurs, not Politicians” on YouTube
  18. DEI Vs Truth In Colleges
  19. My Mom’s Memorial Service – Linda Marie O’Tyson
  20. Watch “”Patents are for the weak” – Elon Musk #spacex” on YouTube
  21. Watch “Entrepreneurs do more to solve poverty than any politician or reformer” on YouTube
  22. Watch “Car Thieves vs the Final GlitterBomb 5.0” on YouTube
  23. Watch “The horrible truth about cobalt mining and lithium battery – Joe Rogan & Siddharth Kara” on YouTube
  24. The Rabbit Hole on Twitter: “The women’s deadlift and bench press weightlifting records in the UK were broken by @ZubyMusic who identified as a woman at the time. https://t.co/JUM9PcsFvZ https://t.co/ewNTWK5h3p” / Twitter
  25. Tim Urban on Twitter: “I read like 75 books in English classes throughout my childhood and I disliked almost all of them. Not because they were bad books but because English class ruins books. School sucks so much more than it has to.” / Twitter
  26. Matt Walsh on Twitter: “Opposing abortions “with exceptions” is a morally incoherent position. Either the child in the womb is a human being and abortion is murder, or not. If not, there is no reason to oppose abortion at all. But if so, it is insane to support murdering a child under any circumstan

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December 2022

  1. Stanford hates fun | Hacker News
  2. Human Neurons
  3. Bonelli Bluffs RV Park is Great!
  4. Business schools
  5. Believe
  6. Blu Rolland was allegedly drowned in toilet
  7. My recruiting philosophy
  8. The C.E.O. of Anti-Woke, Inc. | The New Yorker
  9. Chat GPT is a Liberal Democrat

November 2022

  1. Congress needs to set the railroad deal terms
  2. Little rascals loan guy
  3. Just How Long Should the US Send Aid to Ukraine? – Defense One
  4. Why Are Conservatives Happier Than Liberals? | RealClearScience
  5. Henry Ford on How To Increase GDP
  6. Message for CEO Jeannine Grinnell of Valley Medical Center
  7. Why Doctor’s Don’t Email
  8. National Security & Environmental Risks
  9. Watch “How Long Would Society Last During a Total Grid Collapse?” on YouTube
  10. Letter to my wife
  11. Socialization needs with children
  12. Lies of the Liberals and Lies of the Conservatives
  13. Better Regulatory Framework for America
  14. Multicare Emergency Room Scam on South Hill, WA
  15. FTX: Greed, Grift and Grandiosity
  16. USDA ERS – ERS Tracks Meat Prices at the Retail, Wholesale, and Farm Levels
  17. First Fifth Wheel Road Trip
  18. National Parks Service
  19. Book recommendation
  20. Buying a newish fifth wheel camper trailer: is it worth it?

October 2022

  1. Henry Ford on Laws
  2. Henry Ford on Speculation
  3. Henry Ford on Reformers
  4. Accidental Perverse Incentives
  5. Fact Check: Has Biden Sold Off More Oil Than Every Past President Combined?
  6. How to get a good life
  7. Seattle Councilmember Sawant says her property is being vandalized, criticizes police investigation
  8. Bipartisanship Needed To Fight The Return Of Global Slavery
  9. Stock Market Hours Need To Be Reduced
  10. Saudi Arabia, Iraq Supporting Russia’s War on Ukraine with Oil Output Cut
  11. Venezuelan migrants in shock and limbo after new US immigration plan | CNN
  12. Truss fights for her job, new UK finance minister says she made mistakes | Reuters
  13. How Britain’s pension scheme hedge became a trillion pound gamble | Reuters
  14. Atlanta Fed President Discloses Violations of Financial Transaction Policies – WSJ
  15. Russia Using Rape Systematically In Ukraine According to the UN
  16. Casino tycoon Wynn defeats U.S. lawsuit over Chinese agent claims | Reuters
  17. Von Clausewitz on Why America Can’t Win Wars
  18. Capitalism vs co-ops
  19. Pierce County shouldn’t be home to new Puget Sound airport | Tacoma News Tribune
  20. Cutting Out Caffeine To Improve My Decision Making
  21. Southern California faces new water restrictions next year – Los Angeles Times
  22. Dutch Close Europe’s Biggest Gas Field Despite Energy Crisis – Bloomberg
  23. Myths
  24. Beware of scam emails
  25. North Korea conducts longest-range missile test yet over Japan | Reuters
  26. Watch “Why Did Cat Stop Making Truck Engines?” on YouTube
  27. Crying men
  28. Why Men Are Hard to Help | National Affairs
  29. Genocide
  30. Watch “Ukrainian POW reveals torment at hands of Russians” on YouTube

September 2022

  1. Why are nuclear power construction costs so high? Part III – the nuclear navy
  2. Even as Iranians Rise Up, Protests Worldwide Are Failing at Record Rates
  3. Putin’s options
  4. The penalty for treason should be death
  5. ‘Putin Is a Fool’: Intercepted Calls Reveal Russian Army in Disarray – The New York Times
  6. Root problem of the internet
  7. Why Merkel chose Russia over US on Nord Stream 2 – POLITICO
  8. 2 Pierce County airport sites recommended for further study | Tacoma News Tribune
  9. Right To Repair: Why Wyoming Farmers Are Buying Old Tractors Instead of New Ones | Cowboy State Daily
  10. European businesses are rethinking their plans for a ‘closed’ China
  11. 4 Ukrainian regions schedule votes this week to join Russia | AP News
  12. Emergency War Surgery
  13. Doomberg on Twitter: “1/ In the second half of the 16th century, Britain plunged into an energy crisis. At the time, the primary source of energy driving the British economy was heat derived from the burning of wood, and Britain was literally running out of trees.” / Twitter
  14. Watch “As Utah’s Great Salt Lake Dries Up, Economic Crisis Looms | WSJ” on YouTube
  15. Caffeine Free
  16. New paint sprayer and sprayed shed today
  17. Queen
  18. Charles III, Britain’s conflicted new monarch | Reuters
  19. UPS: One of the biggest strikes in American history is brewing – CNN
  20. Putin Murdering Opponents

August 2022

  1. Ama
  2. #2 Out of 4,600 racers in Zwift Classics in my category
  3. Nature Will No Longer Publish Science Counter To Their Political Views
  4. What Sovereign Citizens do not understand
  5. QuickBooks Online Sends $55,000 Out Incorrectly And Won’t Fix It: My Review
  6. Banning Oil Is a Bad Idea
  7. California votes to ban new gas car sales by 2035 – CNN
  8. Reacher TV Show Review
  9. Biden Student Loan Forgiveness Impacts Millions, Raises Inflation Questions | Newsmax.com
  10. Fixing US Education
  11. Biden to Cancel $10,000 in Student Loan Debt for Borrowers Earning Less Than $125,000
  12. All Racism Is Wrong
  13. Government Handouts Led to Trillions in Fraud
  14. Solving Life’s Problems
  15. Psychoactive Chemicals
  16. Whole Foods CEO John Mackey: ‘Socialists are taking over’
  17. NAPA Auto Parts – Eatonville Auto Parts
  18. Solution to Immigration Crisis

July 2022

  1. Watch “Disaster! Broken fitting in the fuel tank drain! Trying to get JD 490E running again” on YouTube
  2. Ukrainian POW castrated by Russians in ‘sickening’ video
  3. Russian Arms Dealer for Grinder prisoner swap incredibly short sighted
  4. Ryan Hoover at Ceed Civil Engineering Review
  5. Watch “Obesity is a National Security Issue: Lieutenant General Mark Hertling at TEDxMidAtlantic 2012” on YouTube
  6. Watch “Neuroscientist: “First Hour of The Morning is CRUCIAL” | Andrew Huberman” on YouTube
  7. Reproduction is good, thus vasectomies are bad
  8. “I am in a cult. Well, that’s not exactly right. It’s that the cult is all around me and I am trying to save kids from becoming members.”
  9. The mammary gland
  10. Bad ideas
  11. The family cow
  12. Lost Academia
  13. Learning
  14. “They took away my spring, they took away my summer, and now they’ve taken away seven more years of my life,”
  15. Diesel fuel cost

June 2022

  1. Watch “Milton Friedman – The Real World Effects Of Unions” on YouTube
  2. Free speech and social media
  3. Fascinating Debate
  4. When was the last time you changed your mind on a political topic important to you?
  5. Abortion is Murder
  6. Watch “Milton Friedman – The Great Depression Myth” on YouTube
  7. Watch 900 ATVs and Motorcycles Bulldozed under Eye of NYC Mayor
  8. Watch “Milton Friedman Crushes Man’s 3 Questions like Dixie Cups” on YouTube
  9. Greenwashed: Electric Pickup Trucks Are Dirtier Than You Think | Hacker News
  10. Analysis: Viral ‘RINO hunting’ ad goes too far
  11. Seattle’s Budget Such a Hard Issue?
  12. Watch “‘Slaughtered’: Eyewitnesses Recount Killing Of Three Ukrainian Teenagers” on YouTube
  13. Watch “Milton Friedman – Understanding Inflation” on YouTube
  14. The Case Against Affirmative Action | STANFORD magazine
  15. The Sad Irony of Affirmative Action | National Affairs
  16. It’s Your Friends Who Break Your Heart – The Atlantic
  17. Why Biden Shouldn’t Run in 2024 – The Atlantic
  18. As European Leaders Visit Kyiv, Putin Cuts Their Gas Supply
  19. I might be wrong about patents
  20. Spanking, and a reflection on other violence
  21. Bipolarization
  22. Top Gun:Maverick Review
  23. Watch “Why We Won’t Raise Our Kids in Suburbia [Remake]” on YouTube
  24. War rap: In Ukraine, an angry voice for a furious generation | AP News
  25. Managerialism
  26. Arm The World
  27. New York state passes first electronics right-to-repair bill – Ars Technica
  28. Opinion | To Cut Gas Prices, Congress Should Allow the U.S. to Sue OPEC – The New York Times
  29. Review: USAA Auto Insurance Scams Customers After Accidents Total Their Vehicles
  30. Watch “Why Have Oil Dictatorships Have Driven Gas And Oil Prices So High?” on YouTube
  31. Watch “12 x 16 Shed: Final Walkthrough” on YouTube
  32. John Deere is Anti-American
  33. Fed up with rise in thefts and shoplifting, small-biz owners take action
  34. CA State Employees Scam Taxpayers

May 2022

  1. Plastic Recycling Doesn’t Work and Will Never Work – The Atlantic
  2. Watch “The Fallen of World War II” on YouTube
  3. Russia should be richest
  4. Watch “Shed Project: Hanging my shed doors” on YouTube
  5. Watch “Shed: Putting on a hasp clasp and a combination lock” on YouTube
  6. Watch “Garden Irrigation System: Easy, Fast, Cheap. 1/2 black garden pipe and adjustable drippers.” on YouTube
  7. Savage
  8. Guns
  9. Tradition
  10. Watch “Hacked files reveal Chinese “shoot-to-kill” policy in Uighur detention camps – BBC News” on YouTube
  11. Term, age limits are needed for presidents, Supreme Court, Congress
  12. More than half of Americans support a maximum age limit for elected officials | YouGov
  13. Why Did Filipinos Vote Overwhelmingly for Ferdinand Marcos, Jr? – Open Canada
  14. Right to Repair and Patent Reform
  15. The people at the US EPA who make the missions rules have never used an engine
  16. The Volunteer Movement Enraging China – The Atlantic
  17. Children
  18. Proposal to Solve the Problem of Negative Externalities
  19. Butt Lifts Are Booming. Healing Is No Joke. – The New York Times
  20. Rand Paul Is Putin’s Boy: Rand Paul is a Traitor
  21. Right to Repair and the Environment
  22. Traitors at it again with Rand Paul blocking Ukraine Aid
  23. Putin and Russia’s Theme Song ;)
  24. Hang up and call 911
  25. Why Did a U.N. Agency Give a Family $61 Million?
  26. Ukrainian Sureogates
  27. Watch “My Grandfather, Who Raised Me, Met Napoleon: Bertrand Russell Interview 1952 – Restored Video/Audio” on YouTube
  28. The Revenues and Expenses Song
  29. Russian Tycoon Criticized Putin’s War. Retribution Was Swift. – The New York Times

April 2022

  1. One Reason for Rising Food Prices? Chinese Hoarding. – Bloomberg
  2. Eliminate Raytheon’s patents
  3. Before Giving Billions to Jared Kushner, Saudi Investment Fund Had Big Doubts – The New York Times
  4. This Eminent Scientist Says Climate Activists Need to Get Real – The New York Times
  5. Watch “Crops are looking great but with nitrogen fertiliser hitting £1000/tonne, what happens next year?” on YouTube
  6. Watch “Teen sisters ‘raped’ as horrors from Ukrainian town cut off for 35 days emerge | ITV News” on YouTube
  7. Watch “Curious Number Of Russian Oligarchs Have Died Since Invasion Of Ukraine” on YouTube
  8. Massive Hidden Government Subsidies
  9. Smartphones: A Harsh Addiction & Powerful Tool
  10. Fights
  11. Reform the Patent System says NYTimes, I Say Abolish the Patent System
  12. Poison pills need to be banned
  13. Dictators and Democracies are Natural Enemies
  14. Environmentalist Laws Are Shortsighted and Foolish
  15. Watch “Ukrainian Woman Discovers Son’s Body In A Well” on YouTube
  16. Watch “Should YOU have the “Right to Repair” your Engine?” on YouTube
  17. Watch “Rescued From The War: Evacuated Orphans Of Ukraine” on YouTube
  18. John Deere 490E Excavator Pilot Hydraulic Hose Leak & Repair
  19. Theory of Employment
  20. Watch “What Is Right To Repair?” on YouTube
  21. Watch “Apple Store vs. Repair Shop: What the Right to Repair Is All About | WSJ” on YouTube
  22. WARNING: DO NOT BUY A KUBOTA TRACTOR!!!
  23. Is Every Life Priceless?
  24. Conversation
  25. Questions
  26. Watch “Teenage Refugee From Chernihiv: I Saw My Mother Burn” on YouTube… Freedom is paid for in the blood of patriots and tyrants
  27. Watch “‘Dad, Please Don’t Die!’: Harrowing Video Captures Deadly Russian Attack On Ukrainian Father And Son” on YouTube
  28. Watch “Gruesome evidence points to war crimes on road outside Kyiv – BBC News” on YouTube
  29. Watch “Video Purportedly Shows Russian Snipers In Ukraine” on YouTube in 2020 prior to recent invasion
  30. Free Nations Need To Send Troops to Ukraine…

March 2022

  1. Tucker Carlson is a Traitor
  2. Putin Is About To Win
  3. What if Putin Didn’t Miscalculate?
  4. Accounts of Russian Rapes Are Growing, Ukraine Officials Say – The New York Times
  5. Disappearances and detentions in Ukraine: They tried to reveal what life was like under Russian occupation – CNN
  6. New Supply Chain Risk: 22,000 Dockworkers Who May Soon Strike
  7. Watch “Ukrainian 9th-Grader Recalls How Russian Soldier Killed His Father In Cold Blood” on YouTube
  8. Watch “Russia Struggled to Capture a Ukrainian Town. Intercepted Radio Messages Show Why.” on YouTube
  9. Talking to a friend about drinking
  10. WA DOR Website Is a NIGHTMARE
  11. Watch “Cold Calling Russians To Discuss The War” on YouTube
  12. Everyone needs to read this
  13. Saudi Arabia not responsible for any oil shortage after Houthi attacks, SPA says | Reuters
  14. Watch “These viral videos about Ukraine invasion are completely fabricated” on YouTube
  15. Watch “Ukraine War: Russian forces kill people queuing for bread” on YouTube
  16. Why modern movies suck
  17. How I Built A Fallout Shelter
  18. Watch “Kyiv Volunteers Get Last-Minute Training On Powerful Anti-Tank Weapons” on YouTube
  19. Joe Biden / Kamala Harris Administration Needs to Back US Oil Production
  20. Saudi Arabian Dictator Makes Economic War on the West
  21. Russia’s rich look to stash wealth in Dubai | Reuters
  22. Watch “A Former Soviet Pilot’s One-Man Campaign Against Putin’s War” on YouTube
  23. How Dubai Could Undermine Sanctions on Russian Oligarchs
  24. U.S. ties easing of Venezuela sanctions to direct oil supply | Reuters
  25. Progressive Auto Insurance Customer Service is Terrible – Review
  26. Watch “‘Not afraid of anyone’: Zelenskiy says he will stay in Kyiv until war is won” on YouTube
  27. Watch “America Was Wrong About Ethanol – Study Shows” on YouTube
  28. Watch “Zelenskiy: Talks With Russia Needed To Stop The Killing But Compromise Has Limits” on YouTube
  29. Watch “Collapsed Lung, 11 Broken Bones, Dead Olympic Dream, and Fighting Health Insurance is the Worst Part” on YouTube
  30. Watch “Why Russia is Invading Ukraine” on YouTube

February 2022

  1. Washington State People Not Trustworthy
  2. Putin puts nuclear forces on alert | Reuters
  3. Klitschko brothers to take up arms and fight for Ukraine | Reuters
  4. Weight lifting, cardio, exercise.
  5. Ukraine Conflict / Russian Invasion
  6. Industrial Revolution Abolished Slavery
  7. Is the Free World Under Attack?
  8. If true, this story is concerning
  9. Injury Risk
  10. Shed
  11. Clarkson’s Farm – Wikipedia
  12. Zwift Weight Cheaters
  13. Supply chain shortages
  14. Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Twitter: “Not all but, in general. This is why I follow in Principia the principle that EVERY institution must have an expiration date.” / Twitter
  15. Every institution needs an expiration date or bankruptcy mechanism
  16. Persistent

January 2022

  1. Are you a single 20 or 30 something adult feeling lonely and depressed?
  2. New workout plan
  3. Biden vows to nominate Black woman to U.S. Supreme Court by end of February | Reuters
  4. Watch “Do Transgender Athletes Have an Unfair Advantage? The Science” on YouTube
  5. Bike Workout Theory – Deep hole of Fatigue, then Full Recovery
  6. John Deere Hit With Class Action Lawsuit for Alleged Tractor Repair Monopoly
  7. The Witcher Netflix Show
  8. Covid – Return to Normal
  9. Another example of garbage patents destroying innovation
  10. Bitcoin Energy Use

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December 2021

  1. Racial Preferences in Government Contracting: How It Happens and Why It’s Wrong – Regulatory Transparency Project
  2. Patents held back the Industrial Revolution
  3. Brilliant ideas: Henry Ford’s autobiography
  4. Antiwork and the Labor Shortage
  5. The Importance of Price Signals
  6. Econ history lecture
  7. Replication Crisis in Science
  8. Evil George B. Selden – Patent Troll
  9. Watch “How Much Does it Cost to Build a Post Frame?” on YouTube
  10. Lecture on Economic History
  11. How China Uses Contractors to Spread Propaganda on Facebook and Twitter – The New York Times
  12. Mergers and Acquisitions
  13. Racism by Google and Youtube?
  14. Closing the loop: a deep dive on a Facebook reseller of bikes stolen in Colorado
  15. ‘Get that money!’ Dermatologist says patient care suffered after private equity-backed firm bought her practice
  16. Kids
  17. Daddy’s First Ponytail
  18. Teaching
  19. Keystone Pipeline Protests
  20. Plans you’re not supposed to talk about
  21. Royalty and Clergy Are Parasites
  22. Guilds and Unions Held Back Progress for Centuries
  23. Government Solutions
  24. When the Crime Wave Hits Your Family
  25. How To Improve Service Academies
  26. Groups Never Admit Failure
  27. Reasons for optimism after a difficult year | Bill Gates
  28. Here is why you should keep $0 in cash ideally
  29. Animal World

November 2021

  1. No More Government Lockdowns
  2. Cancelling NyTimes and Washington Post Subscriptions
  3. Bill of the Month: Critically ill woman skips ER after spouse’s costly stitches : Shots – Health News : NPR
  4. Opinion | I Live in Arkansas. Why is My State Telling Me Not to Boycott Israel? – The New York Times
  5. I am losing the addiction battle with my phone
  6. Subscriber Censored by the New York Times
  7. Bill Maher, Chris Cuomo clash on Dave Chappelle’s Netflix special: It isn’t ‘transphobic’ | Fox News
  8. Doctors
  9. Government regulation
  10. Social Climbers
  11. Nuclear Power Is the Best Climate-Change Solution by Far – WSJ
  12. Greed
  13. Vaccinated
  14. How To Spend Your Life

October 2021

  1. South Spanaway
  2. Study: Better sleep habits lead to better college grades (2019) | Hacker News
  3. The Great Myths of World War 2
  4. Doctors Won’t Recommend Lifestyle Changes
  5. Ryan Petersen on Twitter: “What caused all the supply chain bottlenecks? Modern finance with its obsession with “Return on Equity.”” / Twitter
  6. Solution to Global Supply Shortages
  7. Abolish the limited liability company
  8. Former hospital executive wins $10M in discrimination case | Raleigh News & Observer
  9. Bitcoin, Crypto, and NFTs are a Ponzi Scheme
  10. Higher Education
  11. Long Beach Port Bottleneck Solution
  12. Better Elections Through Education
  13. Sexism
  14. Special Interests
  15. Women earned the majority of doctoral degrees in 2020 for the 12th straight year | Hacker News
  16. VCs destroy capitalism
  17. Watch Chappelle’s New Special
  18. Some reasons to work on productivity and velocity
  19. Free Markets Need Perfect Competition
  20. Stop Government Handouts
  21. Watch “I Asked Bill Gates What’s The Next Crisis?” on YouTube
  22. Underrated Intelligence Factor: Scam Detection
  23. Conversation with a Venture Capitalist
  24. California Shutting Down Nuclear is a Disaster
  25. Stage 4 Osteoarthritis of the Hip
  26. Rick and Morty season 5 review
  27. Watch “BANNED: Woodworking’s most dangerous tool?” on YouTube
  28. US Government Sanctioned Racism and Sexism in Contracting
  29. Free Market Reforms We Need
  30. Pierce County Government Needs to Synchronize Traffic Lights on Meridian
  31. Medieval cathedrals
  32. NFT Projects are just MLMs for Tech Elites – Napkin Math – Every
  33. Scam: Washington State Long Term Care Insurance Mandate

September 2021

  1. Going solo versus having a co-founder
  2. Politicization of Science
  3. How to reduce car accident fatalities
  4. Google Ads Monopolistic Dark Patterns
  5. I quit. Peak indifference, big tobacco… | by Cory Doctorow | Medium
  6. Hospitals lift curtain on prices, revealing giant swings in pricing by procedure | Healthcare Dive
  7. Google Ads Is Now a NIGHTMARE
  8. Cosmic crisp apples are amazing
  9. Watch “Did IKEA Destroy Carpentry And Woodworking?! (“THE IKEA EFFECT”…What It Means For Tradespeople)” on YouTube
  10. Make Planned Obsolence a Crime
  11. Watch “This is why we can’t have nice things” on YouTube
  12. Watch “How I started my Business, The Secret May Surprise You” on YouTube
  13. My University Sacrificed Ideas for Ideology. So Today I Quit. – by Peter Boghossian – Common Sense with Bari Weiss
  14. Progressives and Genetics
  15. Digital Coins
  16. Dismantle the US patent system
  17. Sports Rated by Usefulness and Health Benefits
  18. College
  19. System Builders
  20. Are Investors Driving Up Housing Prices?
  21. How did American “wokeness” jump from elite schools to everyday life? | The Economist
  22. Cutting people off
  23. Leaving Social Media
  24. Patents At Fault for Cut Off Fingers

August 2021

  1. Cancer
  2. Big oil coined ‘carbon footprints’ to blame us for their greed. Keep them on the hook | Rebecca Solnit | The Guardian
  3. All sponsorships must be public
  4. What really happened in Afghanistan
  5. Focus 3
  6. Fashion and Jewelry
  7. Ban Bitcoin
  8. Lake Chelan
  9. Watch “30 Weird Chess Algorithms: Elo World” on YouTube
  10. Special Interests Destroying America
  11. Full General AI Is Here
  12. Scams By Attorneys: Class Action Lawsuits, ADA Lawsuits
  13. How to Build a Toddler Stand To Wash Hands – DIY

July 2021

  1. “Mean Bugs” part 2
  2. Our new pet wasps
  3. Defund & Shut Down the FCC
  4. Why Is the University of California Dropping the SAT? – The Atlantic
  5. Dances with Wolves – Wikipedia
  6. Why is America good at conventional warfare?
  7. Business Levels
  8. Ideas are worthless, execution is everything
  9. Money
  10. Yelm Tenino Trail Solo Ride
  11. Fun vs Useful College Degrees
  12. High Pharma Costs
  13. Thousands of Cubans protest to demand end to dictatorship | Miami Herald
  14. Special interests rule the world
  15. Watch “Cop pulls over off duty cop for reckless driving 134 mph” on YouTube
  16. Patent trolls are evil
  17. Non-Screen Projects

June 2021

  1. Why do we have bad monopolies?
  2. Doing what you love
  3. Bad Apple* – The Pull Request
  4. Unions
  5. 15 Universities Have Formed A Company That Looks A Lot Like A Patent Troll | Electronic Frontier Foundation
  6. Marketing channel effectiveness review for 2021
  7. I strongly agree
  8. Why the Mexico City Metro Collapsed – The New York Times
  9. Stock Market Crapshoot Casino
  10. Opinion | Five Former Treasury Secretaries: Fund the IRS – The New York Times
  11. Don’t Buy 4 Cycle Ryobi S430 Trimmer / Polesaw / Cultivator
  12. The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax — ProPublica
  13. People Management 101
  14. Dinner from the garden
  15. Pool time with Dada

May 2021

  1. EU agrees new Belarus sanctions after plane arrest – BBC News
  2. Sports Vs Jobs for Kids
  3. Netflix Movie: Army of the Dead is Terrible
  4. True Terrorism
  5. You Probably Shouldn’t Work at a Startup – Napkin Math – Every
  6. Watch “The Legend Dean Potter – Free Solo Climbing With A Parachute” on YouTube
  7. Hundreds of PPP Loans Went to Fake Farms in Absurd Places — ProPublica
  8. Meet Kevin Paffrath for Governor of CA
  9. Get Rid of Patents to Reduce Tax Dodging
  10. Outlaw Paying Ransoms
  11. Hack Knocks Out Pipeline for Third Day With Traders on Edge – Bloomberg
  12. The Ultimate Guide to Inflation
  13. DIY Playset and Swing Set with Swing, Climbing Holds, Climbing Net, Trapeze bar, Slide
  14. Watch “Playing Card Machine Gun- Card Throwing Trick Shots” on YouTube

April 2021

  1. Most News Wastes Time
  2. Watch “German WWI veteran describes killing a French soldier in a bayonet charge” on YouTube
  3. Another Good Reason To Abolish Patents
  4. Ransomware gang threatens to expose police informants if ransom is not paid | The Record by Recorded Future
  5. Police
  6. Nassim Taleb: Bitcoin failed as a currency and became a speculative ponzi scheme | Hacker News
  7. More Fake Fox News Reporting
  8. The Tragedy of the American Military – The Atlantic
  9. Corporate Information Should Be Public
  10. Watch “WHERE HAVE ALL THE CARPENTERS GONE?! (Why The Trade Labor Shortage Is Only Beginning…)” on YouTube
  11. Wit Studios Far Superior to Nappa Studios
  12. Covid Vaccine Prioritization Was Done Wrong
  13. Credit Suisse (CSGN) Should Fire It’s CEO
  14. Businessweek – Bloomberg

March 2021

  1. Fixing housing
  2. How to tell if someone is lying
  3. The Taliban Think They Have Won in Afghanistan, Peace Deal or Not – The New York Times
  4. Opinion | He’s a Famous Evangelical Preacher, but His Kids Wish He’d Pipe Down – The New York Times
  5. Truck Parade
  6. Gender, Race, and Entrepreneurship: A Randomized Field Experiment on Venture Capitalists and Angels by Will Gornall, Ilya A. Strebulaev :: SSRN
  7. H&M Stores Shuttered in China as Backlash Over Xinjiang Grows – Bloomberg
  8. Watch “Farmers Are Hacking Their Tractors Because of a Repair Ban” on YouTube
  9. Prediction
  10. Bitcoin ($BTC) Has an Electricity-and-Chip-Consumption Problem – Bloomberg
  11. Washington State IVF Laws Are a Scam
  12. Built an Irrigation System This Weekend
  13. Patents
  14. China’s Combat Drones Push Could Spark a Global Arms Race – Bloomberg
  15. Navalny Greets Supporters From Prison: ‘Our Friendly Concentration Camp.’ – The New York Times
  16. NFTs are a dangerous trap | Seth’s Blog
  17. On The Experience of Being Poor-ish, For People Who Aren’t – Resident Contrarian
  18. Daniel Sloss on HBO is Funny

February 2021

  1. Bruce Eide: My Illegitimate Absentee Father
  2. Death, through a nurse’s eyes
  3. Gamestop, Bitcoin and the Commoditization of Populist Rage
  4. The Fed is Down
  5. Risk
  6. Thorsten Ball – How can you not be romantic about programming?
  7. The Real Population Problem | Do the Math
  8. You Call this Progress? | Do the Math
  9. Peak What? | Do the Math
  10. BBC Questions Indefinite Growth | Do the Math
  11. Pump Up the Storage | Do the Math
  12. US Should Respond To Australian Attacks on US Tech Companies
  13. How This Ends – AVC
  14. ‘Roaring Kitty’ Sued for Securities Fraud Over GameStop Rise – Bloomberg
  15. Texas Power Outages – A Conscious Decision By Texans?
  16. Amazon Fake Reviews Problem
  17. Economic Japanification: Not What You Think
  18. Washington State Needs More Hydro Power
  19. Why America Lost It’s Manufacturing
  20. Bailouts Vs Bankruptcies
  21. Watch “Twins – SNL” on YouTube
  22. SPACs = Scams
  23. Idiotic Inslee proposal to remove dams would help create more fossil fuel pollution
  24. It’s not a venture until it’s made a profit.
  25. Laurel gave me the best haircut of my life!
  26. BLNK – Garbage Stock
  27. Robinhood GameStop Saga Pressures Payment for Order Flow – Bloomberg
  28. Corruption Is Inevitable

January 2021

  1. Why Robinhood Disabled Buys but not Sells
  2. Risk of Broker Bankruptcy?
  3. Cautionary Note on Stock Mania
  4. Short Selling Is Not Immoral
  5. Why Robinhood Stopped Trading on GME
  6. Toddler Climbing Toy Indoor – DIY Framed Lumber
  7. Tractor Shed Failure
  8. Best Ways To Increase Real GDP Growth Rate
  9. Opinion: Garry Kasparov on extremism and what happens next – CNN
  10. Another reason to not buy bitcoin
  11. On Spanking
  12. Tesla Stock Valuation Question
  13. The most important problem of our time
  14. Building Better Company Tools

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December 2020

  1. How to avoid Griffin or Kate dying
  2. Amazon still hasn’t fixed its problem with bait-and-switch reviews | Ars Technica
  3. Unemployment fraud: How international scammers took $36B from the US
  4. How to protect against predatory privatized prisons
  5. The Great Danger of Government Protection
  6. Pierce County Rapid Covid Test
  7. Man is a Nightmare Species
  8. Shed Fail
  9. Bitcoin
  10. Ian Harris on “Surgery, the Ultimate Placebo” – SkepDoc
  11. Avoid VC’s
  12. Alone TV Show Strategy Ideas
  13. Quotes on financiers
  14. Solving Fake News
  15. My First Job Out Of College
  16. Vaccine Distribution: All Covid Deaths Are Not The Same

November 2020

  1. Best Cycling Computer Game Idea
  2. Indoor bike / treadmill = game controller?
  3. The Internet Is Now Terrifying
  4. Idea: Inflation Taxation
  5. Critters
  6. Fire

October 2020

  1. Very, very sad comment
  2. Hackers extorted $1.14M from UCSF | Hacker News
  3. Pastor’s kid
  4. Inside Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin
  5. Why Didn’t C-Span Fire Scully?
  6. VC Sucks
  7. Tornato7 wins comment of the year…
  8. Intergenerational Wealth Transfers to Boomers
  9. Good comment
  10. Daddy Haircut for Griffin
  11. Former Patent Litigator Becomes Federal Judge And Begins Advertising For Patent Trolls To Come To His Court (And They Have In Droves) | Techdirt
  12. Opinion | The I.R.S. Is Outgunned – The New York Times
  13. Bill introduced to promote prescribed fire intends to reduce fire risk – Wildfire Today
  14. Big Companies Are Starting to Swallow the World – The New York Times
  15. Watch “First Debate Cold Open – SNL” on YouTube
  16. Watch “Dictators – Vladimir Putin” on YouTube
  17. Saturday Zoo, Walk, Lunch Adventure
  18. Pumpkin Patch at Produce Palace
  19. No One In Eatonville is Reliable… 3rd Guy In A Row LOL

September 2020

  1. Applies Today
  2. Divide Then Conquer
  3. Stonks
  4. Wind is bad for the environment, use nuclear
  5. Pulled this dead fruit fly out of my ear
  6. Setting Up A Trust Fund For Your Child
  7. TWS API – Solving Incorrect MinTick / Price Increment
  8. Mark Twain on Religion : Thoughts of God
  9. Putin Sends Message

August 2020

  1. Why I Work
  2. Policing Cannot Be A Fair Fight
  3. Shut Down Police Unions, Don’t Defund Police
  4. Special Interests Destroying America
  5. Allergists – Special Interest Racket
  6. Pregnancy Surrogates
  7. Putin’s Political Interference
  8. Nothing in the world matters like family
  9. Amazon Support Vs Google Support
  10. Tiktok
  11. John Deere Repair Manuals Ripoff
  12. Freedom is Dying Globally, What Will You Do?
  13. Watch “What I learned from President Obama – Smarter Every Day 151” on YouTube
  14. Russia is Crushing USA in Cyber Conflict
  15. We need a national right to repair law
  16. The Problem with Government Regulations
  17. Private Equity Destroys Hospital Chain
  18. China Uighurs: A model’s video gives a rare glimpse inside internment – BBC News
  19. Free Market Capitalism vs Government Socialism
  20. Cancel Culture
  21. Family Trip to Rainier

July 2020

  1. Sweets
  2. Theoretical Physicists Say 90% Chance of Societal Collapse Within Several Decades – Slashdot
  3. Watch This Video!
  4. 100 Best SEO Digital Marketing Agencies
  5. Terrifying
  6. Airport Security Theater Kills Equivalent of 4 Jumbo Jets of People Per Year
  7. Robinhood and How to Lose Money – Margins by Ranjan Roy and Can Duruk
  8. VC’s Are Destructive Predators
  9. Reopen Immediately
  10. CMV: US presidential candidates should take an exam covering US government and law, foreign policy, as well as undergo a comprehensive cognitive exam. – changemyview
  11. Jimmy and Joel’s Most Expensive Shelf Ever
  12. The High-Finance Mogul in Charge of Our Economic Recovery | The New Yorker
  13. This politically-correct witch-hunt is killing free speech, and we have to fight it

June 2020

  1. Unpopular opinion – Reopen Everything
  2. Cardio and Seasonal Allergies
  3. Robinhood 20yo trader with no income loses 700k on options, takes life | Hacker News
  4. Read this
  5. Google Fi or Google Pixel 2 Refurb Possible Security Vulnerability
  6. Police Departments or Unions?

May 2020

  1. My Babies!
  2. Resignation / Termination versus Layoff
  3. Patents Prevent Innovation and Entrepreneurship – Why Boeing is a Buy
  4. Trickle Down Money Puddles Very High
  5. Tustin Buick GMC Dealer Add On Pricing Scam
  6. Massive Personal Changes
  7. Review of Consumer Reports
  8. TV news is slow, visual Twitter
  9. Python Datetime, MySQL & Django – Weird Bug
  10. Tweet from David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud)
  11. Selling My House By Owner – Step By Step Guide in 2020
  12. Viral Future
  13. Reopen Before We Starve

April 2020

  1. Reopen California
  2. Excellent read, hits too close to home
  3. Reopen The World Now
  4. Brad Pitt on SNL
  5. Best Twitter Thread
  6. Keep Companies Small
  7. The $600 Unemployment Booster Shot, Insane Disaster
  8. Sydney Poitier
  9. Idea from HN I Like
  10. How to beat Regulatory Capture?
  11. Daddy and the man
  12. Ban Patents to Save Lives
  13. Griffin The Climber
  14. Michael Burry of ‘The Big Short’ Slams Virus Lockdowns in Tweets – Bloomberg
  15. Freaks – another great movie
  16. The platform is a great movie

March 2020

  1. What do we value?
  2. TimeDoctor vs ActivTrak vs Hubstaff
  3. The Virus War
  4. The US in a nutshell – pics
  5. Taiwan’s new ‘electronic fence’ for quarantines leads wave of virus monitoring – Reuters
  6. Bailouts = Corporate Socialism and Crony Capitalism
  7. Bill Gates: US missed its chance to avoid coronavirus shutdown
  8. Thank You Note
  9. Social Distancing Required
  10. Coronavirus Can Be Stopped Only by Harsh Steps, Experts Say – The New York Times
  11. Herd Immunity
  12. Don’t Bailout Businesses, Bailout Minimum Wage Workers
  13. No Bailouts, Use Bankruptcy
  14. Patents Preventing Coronavirus Tests, Treatments
  15. McConnell’s GOP Stimulus Plan Is a Scam
  16. $50b for cure or vaccine of coronavirus
  17. How to respond to COVID-19 | Bill Gates
  18. Don’t Bail Any Firms Out
  19. 4 Hour Line At Gun Store In LA, Ammo Shortage
  20. Coronavirus Law Ideas
  21. Amazon will be the last man standing after the covid19 virus
  22. TWS API
  23. Lucky Timing
  24. Math

February 2020

  1. My life now
  2. New Laravel Project From Existing Files for Laravel on Existing Homestead
  3. Slot machines
  4. Mark Sanford – a Good Boomer on Our Debt
  5. WebCEO Add Competitors
  6. Good tweet series
  7. Spinner Bike Chrono with Zwift
  8. Programmer Terror
  9. PHPStorm Laravel Not Finding Alias Class for Laravel Goutte
  10. Xdebug Setup for PHPStorm for Laravel 6.x on Windows 10

January 2020

  1. Fox News Actual Leading Headline on Site
  2. Learning About My Body
  3. Daddy and Kate Snoozing
  4. The voice of sadness is censored as sick. What if it’s sane? | Aeon Essays
  5. Go Bloomberg!
  6. For Suicide Prevention, Try Raising The Minimum Wage, Research Suggests : Shots – Health News : NPR
  7. A Sick Giant — Wait But Why
  8. Political polarization by George Washington
  9. Love You Forever book
  10. No more drinking
  11. Temecula wine tasting and hot air ballooning
  12. Remove Patents on Drugs

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