Vegas is a weird place. My brother claims it is out of phase with the rest of reality.
Yes, vast of numbers have moved from California to Vegas. The suburban neighborhoods could be mistaken for SoCal.
I once read a historian who claimed that Vegas represented the modern America better than any other place. At first, I was rather bothered by the idea, but it is all phony and focused on immediate gratification and leaves most people with fuzzy memories and such, but I later realized the historian was correct. Modern America is as empty and soulless as Vegas and not even as fun.
> It’s not that Vegas is great, it’s that it’s no worse than California and California costs four times as much to live in.
I will grant that CA is 4x as expensive, but having lived both places, I'm not sure Vegas isn't worse. I mean, I didn't live in either one very long, and don't live in either of them now, but CA at least *has* a soul, even if it's corrupt.
Still, very little desire to even visit either of them, at this point.
The people who have chosen to make California their home have transformed it into an irredeemably corrupt cesspool. But the land and the climate are indisputably among the most beautiful and pleasant that can be found anywhere on our planet.
Jan 19, 2023·edited Jan 19, 2023Liked by Handwaving Freakoutery
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I was at an education conference in LV in 2008 (how to scam the Feds for millions by lying about the need for tutoring and counseling for minorities, and more bloated admin, etc.)
A local higher ed guy that was working as conference staff told me that he had lived in LV for about 20 years or something like that, originally from the UK.
He said that LV is owned by the Mafia, but run by Mormons (who had a reputation for being card dealers that never stole any money from the house). Harry Reid (Mormon, Democrat) was from Searchlight, a typical little desert town south of LV on the side of the highway about to be surrounded by solar farms.
There was never any reason for LV to be anything but an escape from reality. There are lots of little desert towns all over Nevada, some founded on the basis of mining investment scams, that were arguably the prototype.
Look at other gambling towns (Atlantic City?), and you are unlikely to see anything but the same kind of verminous, greed-driven subhuman culture. The desert setting probably just gives the empty subhumans a sense of freedom to be the biggest assholes they can.
The obvious comparison would be to Reno. Reno is also overrun by California escapees, is too expensive and has an element of sleaze, but it isn't as bad as LV for some reason. Maybe because the winters are colder, there is a more diverse economy, and the community, if you can call it that, goes back to the silver mining days in the 1800s.
???
My "ski bum" 24 year old daughter (who is getting back country EMT/avalanche certification, maybe ski patrol training) lives in Incline, Nevada (north Lake Tahoe) and they have the usual problems of a major tourist area. The skiing and outdoor sports tourists are ok, but a lot of the "summer" tourists are super-cringe level "entitled" rich a-holes.
There is a fraction of property owners in Incline that are arguably even worse, they are like the virtue-signaling NIMBY rent-control/trustfunder zombies in the SF Bay Area, utterly devoid of any common sense or decency.
I'm hoping she eventually moves north to a more working-class logging town in Plumas or Lassen County.
but i thought they were trying to tell us covid was the number one cause of death with kids? can’t they ever make up their mind? guess it’s just a game of death du jour, think about the children coming to take away the last of our rights to individuality more than anything?
Vegas is a weird place. My brother claims it is out of phase with the rest of reality.
Yes, vast of numbers have moved from California to Vegas. The suburban neighborhoods could be mistaken for SoCal.
I once read a historian who claimed that Vegas represented the modern America better than any other place. At first, I was rather bothered by the idea, but it is all phony and focused on immediate gratification and leaves most people with fuzzy memories and such, but I later realized the historian was correct. Modern America is as empty and soulless as Vegas and not even as fun.
> It’s not that Vegas is great, it’s that it’s no worse than California and California costs four times as much to live in.
I will grant that CA is 4x as expensive, but having lived both places, I'm not sure Vegas isn't worse. I mean, I didn't live in either one very long, and don't live in either of them now, but CA at least *has* a soul, even if it's corrupt.
Still, very little desire to even visit either of them, at this point.
The people who have chosen to make California their home have transformed it into an irredeemably corrupt cesspool. But the land and the climate are indisputably among the most beautiful and pleasant that can be found anywhere on our planet.
1000 yards? I'm impressed.
Me too. We don't shoot that far in Georgia because there's trees and hills in the way.
Hawk - chicken? Nature at work.
Linked.
I've got two employees at Shot Show, looking for work stuff. Say "hi" if you see two big white dudes with beards. ;-)
THAT'S SO DESCRIPTIVE I'M SURE I CAN'T MISS THEM
Sublime. Thanks.
I was at an education conference in LV in 2008 (how to scam the Feds for millions by lying about the need for tutoring and counseling for minorities, and more bloated admin, etc.)
A local higher ed guy that was working as conference staff told me that he had lived in LV for about 20 years or something like that, originally from the UK.
He said that LV is owned by the Mafia, but run by Mormons (who had a reputation for being card dealers that never stole any money from the house). Harry Reid (Mormon, Democrat) was from Searchlight, a typical little desert town south of LV on the side of the highway about to be surrounded by solar farms.
There was never any reason for LV to be anything but an escape from reality. There are lots of little desert towns all over Nevada, some founded on the basis of mining investment scams, that were arguably the prototype.
Look at other gambling towns (Atlantic City?), and you are unlikely to see anything but the same kind of verminous, greed-driven subhuman culture. The desert setting probably just gives the empty subhumans a sense of freedom to be the biggest assholes they can.
The obvious comparison would be to Reno. Reno is also overrun by California escapees, is too expensive and has an element of sleaze, but it isn't as bad as LV for some reason. Maybe because the winters are colder, there is a more diverse economy, and the community, if you can call it that, goes back to the silver mining days in the 1800s.
???
My "ski bum" 24 year old daughter (who is getting back country EMT/avalanche certification, maybe ski patrol training) lives in Incline, Nevada (north Lake Tahoe) and they have the usual problems of a major tourist area. The skiing and outdoor sports tourists are ok, but a lot of the "summer" tourists are super-cringe level "entitled" rich a-holes.
There is a fraction of property owners in Incline that are arguably even worse, they are like the virtue-signaling NIMBY rent-control/trustfunder zombies in the SF Bay Area, utterly devoid of any common sense or decency.
I'm hoping she eventually moves north to a more working-class logging town in Plumas or Lassen County.
That vehicle needs a snorkel to be truly cutting edge!
but i thought they were trying to tell us covid was the number one cause of death with kids? can’t they ever make up their mind? guess it’s just a game of death du jour, think about the children coming to take away the last of our rights to individuality more than anything?
Well that's what I was going for, so hopefully I came close.