Comments on: Los Angeles, a land of even stranger contrasts http://thetarpit.org/2025/los-angeles-a-land-of-even-stranger-contrasts "Now I feel like I know less about what that blog is about than I did before." Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:50:26 +0000 http://thetarpit.org hourly 1 By: London, the 1.5k-word summary « The Tar Pit http://thetarpit.org/2025/los-angeles-a-land-of-even-stranger-contrasts#comment-6275 London, the 1.5k-word summary « The Tar Pit Sat, 26 Apr 2025 14:12:23 +0000 http://thetarpit.org/?p=559#comment-6275 [...] after moving my ass all the way to the West American side of the so-called Anglosphere and back, this fine Easter evening I just landed back on my way [...] [...] after moving my ass all the way to the West American side of the so-called Anglosphere and back, this fine Easter evening I just landed back on my way [...]

]]> By: Cel Mihanie http://thetarpit.org/2025/los-angeles-a-land-of-even-stranger-contrasts#comment-6018 Cel Mihanie Tue, 25 Mar 2025 12:39:27 +0000 http://thetarpit.org/?p=559#comment-6018 This brings back memories of when I visited California myself, specifically Menlo Park, San Fran, San Diego. Of course this was back a decade ago, and we didn't veer too much off the beaten path, so the reality is likely much worse now. One of the feelings that struck me is that although all the fixtures of civilization and Nature were nominally there - buildings, trees, humanoids - everything seemed somehow... unreal, desaturated, desolate, holographic. One of those 'places that should not be'. It's probably because people really would not be able to live there without heavy and constant technological intervention. The US is indeed huge and I would hope that there are places further up north that are more natural, more like something you would find in Romania, except more LGBT-friendly. One can't do without Liberty, Guns, Babes, Trump after all. This brings back memories of when I visited California myself, specifically Menlo Park, San Fran, San Diego. Of course this was back a decade ago, and we didn't veer too much off the beaten path, so the reality is likely much worse now.

One of the feelings that struck me is that although all the fixtures of civilization and Nature were nominally there - buildings, trees, humanoids - everything seemed somehow... unreal, desaturated, desolate, holographic. One of those 'places that should not be'. It's probably because people really would not be able to live there without heavy and constant technological intervention.

The US is indeed huge and I would hope that there are places further up north that are more natural, more like something you would find in Romania, except more LGBT-friendly. One can't do without Liberty, Guns, Babes, Trump after all.

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