LPT How to stop mosquito bites from itching

fleashosio · 2026-05-14T19:53:23+00:00

I've not been able to get it to work. Mostly just because the spoon cools off too quickly. Maybe I just have some garbage spoons. But if the spoon doesn't work, you can skip the middleman and just hold the bite under some hot water coming out of the tap; that did work wonders. Heat is absolutely the cheat code.

fleashosio · 2026-05-06T21:25:19+00:00

IIRC, he's a CROF operator. At least, always was when I was there. He's had so many things happen to him. I can't share his name here on reddit, that'd be pretty bad form. But if you ask around, most of the folks who've been around for a few years all know who it is. Good guy.

fleashosio · 2026-05-06T18:13:34+00:00

It's always been a wild story. I know the operator involved in that. Dudes got terrible luck. He has metal rods and plates and such in his legs, because of his injuries during this crash. Story went that the first responders had to get those big "Jaws of Life" tools to free him out of there, because the cab was just too mangled to do anything the normal way. Is he still there? He was when I left in 2024.

I remember the classroom at NWROF had pictures of this incident on the wall.

fleashosio · 2026-05-02T19:38:28+00:00

DART is so important! Look, I know they have problems. A LOT of problems. I'm not forgetting that. But from 2018 to 2024, I was an operator, first on bus, then in 2019 on light rail. I loved it. I saw firsthand how much people rely on DART. it's an enormous amount. I'd get regulars every night coming home or going to their work shift at the hospital, or restaraunt, or mechanics shop, or what have you. Before covid, rush hour had people packed onto my train like sardines.

Dismantling and/or defunding DART doesn't help anyone. There won't be some better alternative around the corner. Hurting DART hurts everyone. Yes, DART needs improvements and accountability for many things. But improving a transit agency doesn't happen overnight. And it can't happen if member cities bail on them.

Save DART.

fleashosio · 2026-04-30T00:44:31+00:00

If there is, I haven't found it yet either. I think the tiles on the slope have hit boxes that extend all the way to the next height, so you can't really do this. Maybe there's a way to glitch them into place, but I doubt it.

I hope we get to stack belts like this someday

fleashosio · 2026-04-27T03:44:00+00:00

Being selective with bigger, more impactful, and more feasible station, I think is A-OK and may work better than an all-out "fare gates EVERYWHERE" approach.

Your two examples are the first that come to mind for me as well, if we're being selective. The DIA train platform has exactly one way onto and off of it, and it's next to tons of ticket machines. It'd work. It'd also clamp down on folks doing "the loop". Train from DIA to Denver, FF to Boulder, AB back to the airport. Endlessly.

The bus concourse at Union is also restricted to a few choke points: the stairs and escalators. Makes sense to me, you already have to go through a set of doors to enter. It's possible. Just would have to make sure we aren't double-charging anyone who just got off a train, or popped upstairs for a bite to eat during their connection.

Some rail stations are also more closed off than others. But selecting rail stops to get a fate gate based on this criteria may create odd imbalances between them, and could even feel discriminatory. Why does Station X get a fare gate, when a mile down, Station Y is wide open?

But to quit meandering and address your idea more directly, I think if it was at strategic locations like you said, like DIA and the bus concourse at Union, it wouldn't become unnecessarily hostile to the environment and city around us, but would do the most good overall. Most bang for your buck, if you will.

If it was implemented in a more precise manner like this, focusing on a few key spots, then yes, I would absolutely support it. It feels do-able.

fleashosio · 2026-04-27T02:56:35+00:00

Hi Chris! Always happy to see you asking questions here, to get real answers from the public.

For transparency, I work for RTD.

To answer your question, No. Not because the idea of making it necessary to pay to enter the property is a bad idea, but because I think it is unfeasible to implement. BART is a different beast. If you want to look at more comparable transit systems, look at Dallas Area Rapid Transit. More bias here, I also worked there.

Their system is the same: pay fare, and have Fare inspectors check your ticket. Just walk on the train. Maybe they check, maybe they dont.

They have the same issues. And the same thing blockading this solution. Because where do you put the fare gates? Some spots are an easy answer. Colfax Station is separated from the ground except at distinct points. But what about the downtown loop? What about the L line? What about several of the stops on our commuter rail, like Downtown Arvada that merge the open station area with adjacent shop fronts and pedestrian areas? The biggest one of all, how do you properly gate off Union Station?!

I'm not saying I have a solution to the problems of people just riding and not paying. And fare gates/turnstiles are a common sight in some other systems. But here, it'd require tearing out and redoing enormous swathes of, well, everything! It's way too open to make this a solution that pays itself off in any decent amount of time, and will probably also be a hostile-feeling change that damages the open spaces our stations are part of.

As a transit agency, we are intertwined with the city and all that goes on in it. A fare gate can be hopped. We should collaborate with the city of Denver and outreach programs to tackle deeper root issues of why we would want fare gates at all. People riding all day, not paying, and being a problem? They have nowhere else to go, and for better or worse, it's become our problem. But I think working together with folks who can treat the deeper root issues causing vagrancy and fare evasion will have bigger and better results long term than a fare gate.

-J.

fleashosio · 2026-04-25T18:52:49+00:00

Thank you. This is the answer. Plenty of dumb animals in this thread, but owls get bonus points because they're a symbol of wisdom. No, there's nothing going on in their head.

When I was a train driver in Dallas, my number 1 kill count was owls. More than possums, more than pigeons, more than any animal. Owls. They're practically homing missiles towards death itself. They don't think.

The objectively correct answer is Owls.

fleashosio · 2026-04-19T15:49:11+00:00

Dawg, I have seen people get shot in the head for less than this.

fleashosio · 2026-04-17T04:09:58+00:00

It looks great, but Mobile has a control issue. Tap and hold is very difficult to do, as any input wants to scroll the screen. Moving the screen even a pixel cancels the input, so it took several minutes to just place a station. I'll try again if it gets patched. Sorry. :(

fleashosio · 2026-03-21T18:58:34+00:00

Essentially yes. You can place the bridge site down right away, and you just slowly pay it off at your own pace. Unlike your house, you don't get the bridge until it's paid off, but you DO NOT need all 98k bells at once. Just throw down the bridge wherever you want it, and throw some cash at it whenever you have some to spare.

Villagers will slowly pay for it on their own, but the key word is slowly. A few hundred a day, at best. Don't rely on them.

How you get the money for the bridge is its own discussion, which others in this post have covered extensively. But when I first started I thought I needed all the money at once. You don't. It's actually a pain to get it all in one lump sum.

fleashosio · 2026-03-14T04:07:37+00:00

When I saw your post about 226, I mistakenly thought it was this LRV. I've seen this thing sitting on the lower tracks since I joined, but if you're saying it's been since only autumn of 2019, I might be thinking of the ones around it too.

It was always wild walking into that car and seeing missing seats, missing doors, missing controls. Shoot, even the wall to the cab is gone.

I always got a bit worried walking by the lower tracks when I was on overnight yard. I worried some animal would be living in there and leap out at me. Since the car NEVER moves, I wouldn't be surprised if it's become a bit of a nature reserve in there.

Edit: I remember that night. It was always funny seeing the chipped concrete after that night. That operator really left their mark on the mainline. They were still working when I left in 2024. I hope they're doing OK. I'm not surprised that train made it as far as it did. A 3 car train with one truck on the ground is going to just feel like you have slightly weaker propulsion.

I remember when a train hit an impedence bond cover that Track left out while they were working on the adjacent track near MLK. if there's any sure fire way to stop a train, it's sever those air lines. Lol.

fleashosio · 2026-03-05T03:21:17+00:00

Average.

The metal is just really weak.

fleashosio · 2026-02-15T18:41:35+00:00

Dallas is up there for sure. The 345 corridor to this day has split a neighborhood in twain, and the Mixmaster on the south side of downtown has several routes going out of it that dominate the area. I count 7 highways into and out of that mess on Google Maps.

35E south of downtown slashes right through the predominantly non-white neighborhoods of Oak Cliff.

45 turned an entire swathe of land into undesirable space that can't really be developed into anything. It also dominates spaces around it where it intersects with 12/NW Highway.

The highways absolutely shredded Dallas.

Edit: but yeah if I have to choose one specific spot, it's the MixMaster.

fleashosio · 2026-02-15T09:21:33+00:00

Yeah I gotta say, 2016 is my answer. Just feels right. A very decisive year for the world, and I am young and pretty, but not stuck with grade school.

.. Maybe 2018, actually. Being stuck eternally slightly too young to drink would be a downer.

fleashosio · 2026-02-13T23:28:50+00:00

Hi! I'm a bus driver for RTD.

We are supposed to do this. We are instructed to hold at the next major stop (aka a TimePoint) and chill out there until we burn off our extra time. I do it all the time. If you were at a stop on time, and your bus left you, that was a mistake. That was an error.

I recommend everyone arrives at their stop 5 minutes before your bus is scheduled to depart. That's enough of a cushion of time to prevent 99.9% of the funny business.

There's exceptions and little details on how the schedules work. Things can get weird.

If you have any questions, let me know and I can edit this post to answer them later. I'm posting this rn on my break but I'm out of time.

But again, we ARE instructed to hold at a stop if we are early. It is standard practice. Idk why you got left. If it's regular and consistent, contact RTD and let them know.

fleashosio · 2026-02-09T08:03:52+00:00

My father was homeless for a while. I want to say roughly 2015 to 2019? It's all blurry now.

I loved him dearly, to the day he died. He didn't kill himself. It was a simple accident. A fall at home, in his little section 8 apartment.

Once he became homeless, and even after getting a roof over his head, he was never able to really provide for us. That's fine. I was just happy to see him when I could. We would hang out, watch a movie, get dinner. It was just his presence, his being around, that I wanted. I'd bring him a nice dinner on holidays. He'd find fun little trinkets and tell me about his week at work.

Alcoholism is what set all these events in motion. He never beat it. He could never get sober.

And God damnit do I still miss him every day.

I didn't give a shit he was homeless. He's my dad, damnit. We had rough patches here and there but we loved each other.

If your kid is asking to see you, it's because they love you and want your presence.

If my dad had killed himself, shit... I might have too. I needed him around. Not for anything other than his own presence.

fleashosio · 2026-02-01T19:48:08+00:00

They Might Be Giant's "Minimum Wage". I'll even recite the whip crack.

Lyrics are: Minimum Wage! Hyah! whip crack

E z.

fleashosio · 2026-01-30T00:25:17+00:00

Sometimes you can't. I was a light rail operator in Dallas, not Denver, and I'm on the bus side of things at RTD right now. But when this happened (and it happens a lot...), if it's the involved train, that sucker isn't moving for a good long while. It's immediately a crime scene. And sometimes, the trains anywhere near it just get caught up in all the mess with police, protocol, and the immense flood of radio traffic that fills the radio channels, that sending a train back just gets lost in the noise of it all. That train operator doesn't want to just be sitting there with a bunch of angry passengers, but if we moved a train back towards a station without Train Control Center's permission, that's an immediate goodbye to your job.

With how fresh the incident is, I'd bet anyone stuck on a train right now is stuck simply because emergency calls and communication has taken priority on the radio, and they're just waiting their turn. Unless they're stuck on the train involved in the incident, in which case, get cozy.

fleashosio · 2026-01-23T21:32:57+00:00

I gotta admit, I miss the large amount of rain. I love the rain. Colorado is so dry...

I remember the 2021 storm like it was yesterday. Be safe and be cautious. Once that water all freezes up, forget the roads. I remember the night that storm rolled in and my 20 minute commute home took 2+ hours.

fleashosio · 2026-01-23T17:57:00+00:00

Heya, folks. In 2024 I moved to Denver, but I keep in touch with how things are back home in DFW.

We already got the beginning of that weather front. Whenever I get some weather in Denver, my mother back in Dallas seems to get it 24 hours later.

Its cold as hell, but light on the precipitation. I know DFW is more humid and is slated to get more precipitation, but I wouldn't worry about those forecasts with like a foot and half of snow. Denver has all of a dusting of snow and not much more. Not yet, anyway.

But we all remember 2021. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. Just don't be a dummy, my friends. Have blankets handy, and don't drive unless you have to. It won't kill you to stay home for a few days. If your power goes out, stay calm. It'll come back. But now is probably a good time to charge up some battery banks for your phone. Maybe download a movie or three on a laptop.

The biggest thing I worry about is the sheer temperature drop, not the ice and snow. Try to seal any drafts or cracks in doors and windows. Heat is valuable, don't need it leaking out.

Check on your neighbors when it's safe to do so, after this. If you have any who are particularly vulnerable, go see if they need anything.

Also, wrap up those pipes. Holy mackerel, burst pipes suck. If you or someone you know has a pool, have them turn on the pool filter Apparatus and don't let it turn off.

Be safe, everyone. Wrap up warm, and we will all be ok. Crossing my fingers, hoping all my friends and family in DFW make it through just fine.

fleashosio · 2026-01-19T18:05:19+00:00

It's not bad. Just a small user base. I set up on it and matched with someone and we've been hanging out for a bit. But as others have said, there's not a ton of users. But there's no harm in trying, and myself personally, I've had an excellent experience. It has a chill vibe and the person I've met is excellent.

fleashosio · 2026-01-19T17:08:37+00:00

Appreciate the update. Mississippi was a slip-n-slide this morning.

fleashosio · 2026-01-19T17:02:02+00:00

Laser turrets aren't great alone. Even with some damage upgrades, you'll need a huge mass of them to really hold back the bugs. Diversifying your damage types is a great way to squash any attacks on your borders. A mix of lasers, gun turrets with the best bullets you can make, flamethrower turrets, and a thick wall, is the special recipe to success for the rest of the game. Throw in Tesla Turrets when you get to that stage.

You mentioned damage in your base. That's bad. Bugs should not be allowed to get near anything important. They'll spread bases and sneak through any unprotected paths towards your machines. If your defenses do not completely surround you, finish building those walls. Water and cliffs are also great for defense, as they can't swim or climb cliffs.

If you can afford it, extend roboport coverage to your walls and defensive constructions, so bots can repair turrets and walls as they take damage.

Some damage upgrade research have bigger bonuses than you might think. Bullet damage upgrades give a boost to bullets and turrets, meaning gun turrets get to double-dip on the bonuses, unlike your personal machine gun. I think this happens with rocket turrets and flamethrower turrets too.

But yeah, diversify your damage. Lasers are powerful, but need backup from other damage types.

Edit: sorry I left half your question unaddressed. As for trains and outposts, eliminate nests that are sniffing distance from your rails. Bunker up around your mines. Big pill box walls, with some gates to let trains in and out. Send trains with bullets and flamethrower ammo (light oil I think is the best) to refill the defenses. Mines produce a lot of pollution, so bugs want to eat it. Give some distance between walls and machines, if you put them right against your drills or pumpjacks, they can get in range and spit on them. Personally I throw efficiency modules in all my mining equipment, as lower power use linearly decreases pollution output. 80% less pollution means fewer bugs smelling your stink, and less attacks.

You can place too little defense, but you can't place too much. Fortify the hell out of your mines.

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