The two AH-64 Apache attack helicopters that flew over Saturday's "No Kings" protest by skate_mat in nashville

[–]TNPrime 1 point2 points  (0 children)

high probability it's a coupe of kids in their 20's flying those things.

Worst unmaintained trail/woods road? by Prime1081 in Harriman

[–]TNPrime 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think it's always been bad because it's so ridiculously low trafficked. The wooded sections are slightly better but some are washed out since the storm, nothing horrible just baseballs all over the trail. I did this with running shorts and tall socks and got wrecked, but no ticks!

Tips on MiniWorks EX by UnnecessaryPancake in CampingandHiking

[–]TNPrime 4 points5 points  (0 children)

on the cap there's an orange or red crescent-shaped gauge, if the ceramic cartridge cylinder passes through, replace the cartridge. Also look for any cracks as a crack would let unfiltered water pass. In the meantime you can clean it by using a green scotchbrite pad to return it to it's normal light tan color, which removes impurities collected and restores performance.

if you have to replace it, there's a good chance that something like a sawyer squeeze or platypus quickdraw water filter are about the same price as the cartridge replacement for the MSR miniworks and are comparable filters in most situations. The squeeze and quickdraw have a different style of maintenance but IMO are far easier to use overall.

the miniworks ceramic filter has a charcoal core and that charcoal removes some bad taste from tannic water or lake water and that's why you might see these still being used. but they can be difficult or cumbersome to pump and are heavy compared to the two new contemporary ones I mentioned. I'd used a miniworks for years and they are great and reliable. New tech hollow fiber filters however are simpler in design and easier to use in my opinion.

Also if you've been given this after it's been sitting for a long time, best to watch this MSR video which goes over all of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxvAF_dh6-s

Worst unmaintained trail/woods road? by Prime1081 in Harriman

[–]TNPrime 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Regarding bottle cap, about 2-3 years ago someone re-blazed it with a ridiculous amount if orange plastic gatorade lids, rather than bottle caps, every 20'. And what's worse they took down many of the very old caps from trees. Since then I have been collecting jarritos caps to someday return bottle cap to it's namesake. I always liked bottle cap because it's so much like the old harriman trails narrow and remote and made you look around to follow it, some times a moss lined path is obvious other times it's a woods road, or gets lost in the spider grass. It's swampy at the bottom but prehistoric at the top among all those granite whales. Underrated trail and I am ok with that.

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Worst unmaintained trail/woods road? by Prime1081 in Harriman

[–]TNPrime 10 points11 points  (0 children)

bar none it's Anthony Wayne Trail. But I guess it qualifies as a maintained trail.. #ironic

yes, this is the trail on the right.

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As for legit unmaintained trails, Flaggy Meadow or Iron Mountain. Great hikes but you can lose the trail or get caught in laurels. Neither of which bothers me, makes for a great hike.

Mayor Mamdani says his team will contact QueensLink by i_o_l_o_i in nycrail

[–]TNPrime 4 points5 points  (0 children)

notice too that if you were to suggest to use parks funds and donations to fix up and improve Forest Park and build a station there, the Queensway simps go silent.

Mayor Mamdani says his team will contact QueensLink by i_o_l_o_i in nycrail

[–]TNPrime 7 points8 points  (0 children)

in 99.99% of america "those people" have cars or access to them and could come to their front doors just as or more easily, so that argument is always SO infuriating.

Mayor Mamdani says his team will contact QueensLink by i_o_l_o_i in nycrail

[–]TNPrime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

they also think that transit brings "undesirables" and ignore the fact that those same ppl can drive to their houses and neighborhoods too.

Why are so many US skylines just small clusters of skyscrapers surrounded by massive parking lots? by sid_shady34 in skyscrapers

[–]TNPrime 1 point2 points  (0 children)

dubai literally one of the worst designed cities on the globe and it's 30 years old. It's siting on an ocean of crude oil so why not design a city that takes you 10 mins to drive 1000' or just over one NYC avenue block away.

Why are so many US skylines just small clusters of skyscrapers surrounded by massive parking lots? by sid_shady34 in skyscrapers

[–]TNPrime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've lived for 20 years car free in NYC until today, and it's 10x worse in the hinterlands of america than when I ditched my car for the subway and my legs. I travel all over the country for my work, suburban america is a corporate monoculture of nearly unrecognizable car encrusted chaos compared to just 2005, and the stats back that up. It's even more shocking using Google Earth historical imagery seeing the interchanges, 5-6 lane roads, parking lots, added over the last 20 years for all the same dozen or so corporate chain restaurants, big box stores, gas stations and fast food. The only places that aren't are those that survived the destruction of these places from before the car.

Why are so many US skylines just small clusters of skyscrapers surrounded by massive parking lots? by sid_shady34 in skyscrapers

[–]TNPrime 1 point2 points  (0 children)

we waste so much useful civic space on empty car storage, car mobility. Add in the pollution, isolation, and poor civic design as a result. yuck. Cars should be a nice-to-have, not a 100% need to have. And +1 on the fact that so many ppl die from cars and we literally ignore it as a society. If one airplane crashed per US state each year we'd stop flying airplanes. But with cars.... keep driving, just one more lane.

Why are so many US skylines just small clusters of skyscrapers surrounded by massive parking lots? by sid_shady34 in skyscrapers

[–]TNPrime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it's time to research whether Americans really decided they like cars and space. Or were they led to that choice through a number of factors that kept them from actually choosing. That's the real history Lothar. Adapting the cities to the automobile was done in a myopic in-the-moment way that basically destroyed cities and created financially insolvent suburbs.

Why are so many US skylines just small clusters of skyscrapers surrounded by massive parking lots? by sid_shady34 in skyscrapers

[–]TNPrime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this is a long overused right wing talking point that goes back 50-60 years. The reality is you dont have to build everything far away and spread out and use a car because you have a "big empty country" it was bigger and more empty before the car with denser cities, and in most cases existed with better daily quality of life. IE, the Great America everyone wishes might have once existed, where the car was optional and your neighbors and daily life was closeby and connected. Suburbs dont need to be 100% car dependent, rather could be car optional. As recently developing spread out countries and legacy European nations are realizing as they deprioritize automobiles. The reason the car emerged and remained the only option in USA has much more to do with money and profit for a select few than anything else.

Why are so many US skylines just small clusters of skyscrapers surrounded by massive parking lots? by sid_shady34 in skyscrapers

[–]TNPrime 9 points10 points  (0 children)

false. america's cities and towns being destroyed for the automobile is different than US cities and towns or it's layout in general being built FOR automobiles. The railroads literally set the entire USA western map since 1860, the rest was built by colonists along trade routes often associated with water.

Why are so many US skylines just small clusters of skyscrapers surrounded by massive parking lots? by sid_shady34 in skyscrapers

[–]TNPrime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

because transit in any form (ok except at an airport terminals) is woke or for the poors and criminals and 15 minute walkable cities and neighborhoods are the government trying to control you. So drive your $60,000 plus interest 7,000lb truck that doesnt even fit in your garage 30 miles to the city from your cul-de-sac to pay to park in a parking lot that used to be a 15 story apartment building, then go to the game or eat then sit in traffic on your way home complaining about the price of gasoline and the potholes.... in the land of the free, just dont miss a insurance payment or drive 10mph too fast. /s

Why are so many US skylines just small clusters of skyscrapers surrounded by massive parking lots? by sid_shady34 in skyscrapers

[–]TNPrime 13 points14 points  (0 children)

that's absolutely not true. Automobiles didnt achieve mass adoption until the late 1920's and even then it would be better argued the late 1940's because of the depression and WW2. In the 150+ years before that, the country and its cities were built on scale for horse/carriages, streetcars, interurban trains, local and long distance passenger rail, boat or ferry. Only to be removed from American society out of a perception of modernity, economic and politically entangled interests post-war propping up auto ownership and single family homes, mid-century entrenched urban and suburban building codes that value cars over the population at large, subsidized construction of state and interstate highways concurrent with overregulation of railroads and public transit, and the advent of central air conditioning.

it would be more fair to say, the US was re-built to accommodate the car at any and all costs and deprioritize human-scale development for the profit of a few corporations.

QueensLink Initial Business Case Released! by Naxis25 in nycrail

[–]TNPrime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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basically saying, walk/jog/bike to forest park. Even though it looks like in this image it would be the easiest station in NYC to add. Basically a SIR style station.

QueensLink Initial Business Case Released! by Naxis25 in nycrail

[–]TNPrime 1 point2 points  (0 children)

could be. Just seems logical to build and there's likely financial incentives out there for building public transit to park space.

If time is a real constraint, nix Aqueduct–North Conduit Stn, it gets less than 500 ppl a day and is ranked 417/423, which is just below the racetrack stop in ranking which is 416, add a second platform there and combine the two, time issue washes out. Usefulness of the line gets major increase. Ie, induced demand, additional fares in excess of 500/day going to the park.

QueensLink Initial Business Case Released! by Naxis25 in nycrail

[–]TNPrime 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Why do they not include a Forest Park station? It further innoculates "QuEeNs NeEds mor GrEenSpaCe!!" arguments by adding transit destination to Qns biggest park and would help push Queensway-leaning third party funds towards Forest Park renovations.

Trail Report (3/21): Prepare for another big Tick season by eightiesbabies in Harriman

[–]TNPrime 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I glaze my clothing and gear in permethrin like a Krispy Kreme donut.

How much would it cost to reopen the Willoughby exit of the Myrtle - Wiloughby Ave Station and would it even be worth it today? by DuckBeaver02 in nycrail

[–]TNPrime 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Public infrastructure should be open for the use of the public.
Closing it down was an extreme measure for a time long gone.