15 responses to “Sandbox – 28may26”

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   fish

   29 May 2026

   ”The purpose of a system is what it does, and what the political system in Los Angeles, as in most big, blue cities, does is generate crime, homelessness, rampant drug use, and decayed common spaces.

   It doesn’t do normal things because it doesn’t want to do normal things, and it doesn’t want to do normal things because, at core, leftism doesn’t want things to be normal. Why that is is open to interpretation (personally, I think it’s because leftists want the outer world to be as disgusting and disordered as their inner selves) but the pattern is there. And you can get away with it, so long as people think the decline in their world stems from some sort of organic causes, rather than being a choice.

   But decline is a choice.”

   The above sentiment sums up the current situation in the “Blue Zones” pretty well. As always read the whole thing and while you do, think about the mentality of a person in their 60’s pirating a child’s movie while sitting in a local theater. That’s a pretty good indication of the “spoiled child” behavior that animates the left today.

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   https://instapundit.substack.com/p/bringing-back-normality?r=9bg2k&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

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   fish

   31 May 2026

   blocked huh….?

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   fish

   31 May 2026

   Lets try again…..

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   POLYMARKET: BASS EASY FRONTRUNNER IN LA MAYOR RACE…

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   Los Angeles deserves Karen Bass!

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   fish

   31 May 2026

   Hmmm….maybe just the phone then!

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   scenes

   31 May 2026

   re: LA mayoral contest.

   Given that large cities are essentially giant grift machines consisting of public unions, large-scale contractors building poorly made things on the public dime, the occasional large company held hostage by local government, one gajillion people on public assistance, it’s fairly obvious just what sorts of candidates are successful.

   It’s funny how small liberal towns have different motivations. That’s a case where love of the microphone and your own personal kinks give you ‘activists’, HOA Karens, and the whole diversity/peculiar sex habits kind of thing. Different, but the same political party. Odd.

   I always wonder to what extent the death of the small family farm gave us modernity. After a 100 year fling with manufacturing of physical goods, now largely dead, you end up with a population broken by lack of useful things to do.

   Sterling Hayden: “What does a man need – really need? A few pounds of food each day, heat and shelter, six feet to lie down in – and some form of working activity that will yield a sense of accomplishment.”

   Lacking genuine accomplishment, you end up with a broken people.

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   scenes

   02 June 2026

   Speaking of griftery, here’s a fun one I was idly browsing through:

   https://data.usatoday.com/paycheck-protection-program-loans/

   Type in the town or business of your choice. Watch the money flow. In this area there were a few people that really knew how to work the system. Dunno why they pretended they were ‘loans’ (and on Trump’s watch no less, lol).

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   Don Bessee

   02 June 2026

   Now thats funny – What’s stopping California lawyers from going back to work? Climate change, of course

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   scenes

   03 June 2026

   re: YAY! IT’S PRIDE MONTH!!!

   I’ll have to take a swing down through Pride Town, but no doubt there are flags everywhere (that’s ‘flags’, son) in a veritable Nuremberg Rally of Pride.

   I see that Facebook fights have broken out already between the more frisky conservatives and the ‘progressives’ who specialize in Motte/Bailey Defenses. The Motte, naturally is ‘DO YOU THINK GAYNESS SHOULD BE PUNISHED BY LIFE IN PRISON!!!’, the Bailey is an entire set of political belief systems that come with that flag…obviously it’s no different than turning Pride Town into MAGA Town for a month a year and making the Other Half a bit irate.

   What I’d like to film, maybe a sort of short documentary, would be to get the gay dudes a bit liquored up and have them explain their dirty weekends to all the crazy old ladies with signs. That would be a sight to behold.

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   scenes

   03 June 2026

   here, I’ll try again. Seriously, GR managed to find software that was even worse than WordPad. Not his fault, but Good Lord. Forums had to have been a solved problem 30+ years ago.

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   re: YAY! IT’S PRIDE MONTH!!!

   I’ll have to take a swing down through Pride Town, but no doubt there are flags everywhere (that’s ‘flags’, son) in a veritable Nuremberg Rally of Pride.

   I see that Facebook fights have broken out already between the more frisky conservatives and the ‘progressives’ who specialize in Motte/Bailey Defenses. The Motte, naturally is ‘DO YOU THINK GAYNESS SHOULD BE PUNISHED BY LIFE IN PRISON!!!’, the Bailey is an entire set of political belief systems that come with that flag…obviously it’s no different than turning Pride Town into MAGA Town for a month a year and making the Other Half a bit irate.

   What I’d like to film, maybe a sort of short documentary, would be to get the gay dudes a bit liquored up and have them explain their dirty weekends to all the crazy old ladies with signs. That would be a sight to behold.

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10. 

    Rebane

    03 June 2026

    scenes – not sure I understand what your complaint is. I notice you’ve posted the same comment twice.

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    scenes

    03 June 2026

    George. Sometimes they post. Sometimes they don’t. Sometimes they take a few minutes to actually come up. Sometimes your software simply tells me that I can’t post for some reason or the other. Sometimes it takes a few refreshes.

    It’s absolutely crazy making. It could all be done as simple text with a few images, but instead there’s 160MB of magic.

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    fish

    03 June 2026

    It’s absolutely crazy making. It could all be done as simple text with a few images, but instead there’s 160MB of magic.
    

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    Yep….

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    fish

    03 June 2026

    If it’s the right sort of “piecework”

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     Far-left Southern Poverty Law Center reimbursed Klan members for cross-burnings: feds.

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    …it can still be lucrative!

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14. 

    scenes

    04 June 2026

    re: SPLC.

    Good catch, it’s hard to get griftier than the SPLC. It’s a lot worse than our local grifty non-profits in that it’s basically an extortion organization rather than simply a way to funnel public money into private pockets.

    I had to laugh at one of the Great Minds on local Facebook today. Evidently, some guy named Steve Hilton (governor candidate?) was MENTIONEDINTHEEPSTEINFILES!!!!!

    So, like a dummy, I check it out. ‘Steve Hilton’ was mentioned in passing as a David Cameron staff member, and was mentioned for being on Fox. That’s it. This is the sort of thing people feed on now.

    re: Yep…

    I wonder how hard it is to self-host a reasonable clump of forum software that is performant and doesn’t mine the users identities for a few shekels. It sure could be snappy. I always think of this as a proof of concept.

    https://based.cooking/

    Especially amusing when you consider that recipe sites are probably the only thing worse than newspapers for excessive cruft. Enshittification is real, and coming for everyone. The internet was OK while it lasted. It’ll all be AI nonsense soon enough.

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15. 

    fish

    06 June 2026

    When the party deems that you are of no further use…..!

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    State officials investigating Swalwell for possible campaign finance violations

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    Team EVIL is usually pretty good about protecting their F-up’s (see Biden, J. Senator MBNA) but in a high profile race in an unusual important election year moves are made!

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