There’s at least one abandoned house in our neighborhood. This is an upper middle class area with $700,000+ homes. But it’s California, so what Misha said applies here. We speculate some old person either died or went to Shady Pines and the kids (if any) have no incentive to do anything with the house.
Month: April 2026
Delu Facts
I both believe most places should be more walkable and that the urbanism “walkability” fanatics are completely fucking nuts most of the time. Most of what they imagine doesn’t apply to the majority of Americans, cars are in fact great, and hardly anyone wants to give them up.
They are just delusional about a lot of these facts.
Hiterally Litler
This began on progressive blogs in 2003-2005 timeframe. It got much worse from there, but that’s where it all started. Most people situate this quite incorrectly in time and origin because they were not there.
If you showed up and earnestly asked questions to attempt to learn more, well, that was very bad. You were accused of JAQing off, derailing the conversation, were obviously a terrible progressive if you didn’t already know this stuff, and then you were ridiculed and dismissed. It was even worse if you disagreed in any way. Then they would say you were “literally Hitler” and you’d be immediately banned.
This stunning dismissal of curiosity and allowance of any differing views then managed to metastasize to the entire culture. So now we’re here. But it all began on blogs like Pandagon, Shakesville, and the broader feminist/progressive blogosphere of that era. Those sites did not invent that brand of moralized contempt, of course, but they did mainstream it. They were the leaders of treating any disagreement as malicious, taking any confusion as bad faith, seeing all questions as sabotage, treating curious outsiders as interlopers, and accepting the already-converted as the only legitimate audience.
And from that inauspicious beginning, much that was terrible resulted.
Worlds Apart
Agreed. She looks good in the dress, which is all that matters.
Levee Levy
What? I only watched Muireann Bradley’s version of “When The Levee Breaks” about 50 more times.
Totally normal.
People smugglers are launching boats from beaches in Belgium in a new tactic to evade police and take migrants to England. A few .50 cal rounds or a Hellfire missile will solve this problem.
Inside China’s plans to fight in space.
The AI Splurge Is Costing Big Tech Its Workforce.
Maybe Europe is winning after all. Boring and wrong cope.
4TB of voice samples were just stolen from 40,000 AI contractors.
DeepMind’s David Silver just raised $1.1B to build an AI that learns without human data.
Ottoman
Despicable and so sad to see; a great civilization falls.
Oner
Assuming 2.5% inflation per year, in 2026 dollars that’s $340,000. Doesn’t seem quite as onerous then.
And if you paid an extra $400 per month on the mortgage reliably, it’d be $285,000 interest in 2026 dollars. People like to “do the math” but don’t actually do the math.
Intent to Steal
Spent 20 hours on a technical test just to be ghosted by a recruiter.
General rule of thumb: Any test relating to a role that takes longer than an hour or so to complete is intended to steal your work and use it somewhere, not to give you a job.
Always push back or outright refuse.
Fully Done
It’ll almost certainly be the latter. The UK is done; all that’s left is the decline and the gang raping.
Conversion Case
If you import feral third worlders into your country it doesn’t make them into anything else, but it does convert your country into the Third World.
Something Is Happening to America’s Moral Code.
There’s no mathematical way to open the borders and retain Western civilisation.
Teaching Biology to a Race Denier.
Universal patterns emerge across 22 languages, mapping how vocabularies evolve.
US consumer sentiment slumps to record low in April; inflation expectations rise.
It is common, in political debates, to hear people respond “Nobody is saying that!” This can be quite baffling because it is so often said in response to someone addressing something that people are, quite clearly, saying. The idiot left does this constantly.
When Your Digital Life Vanishes.
An AI Agent Just Destroyed Our Production Data. It Confessed in Writing.
Nuclear Command
That is pure evil. Europe is so very absolutely and terribly fucked.
Big concern now is what happens when the jihadis get hold of the British and French nukes. Which is just about inevitable.
LV Vo
I abhor Dylan, his singing, and everything he stands for.
Laura Veirs is a good bad woman vocalist.