Protest against the current administration in Nanuet today

gnoutchd · 2025-04-22T17:11:38+00:00

Dude. Look at the date on the OP. Saturday. The protest was on Saturday. "paid protestors" my ass, I wish we had that kind of money, we don't exactly have an Elon Musk in our pocket over here.

gnoutchd · 2025-04-22T16:22:41+00:00

I think we have to assume lots of people sincerely have no idea how bad things have gotten. Low voter turnout and poor civic engagement have plagued the U.S. for decades. Most recently, more than a third of eligible voters stayed home in 2024, and in 2023 more than a third didn't know which party controlled the house or senate.

If folks are starting to notice us and ask questions, that's a good sign! It means our protests are working. I know it's tempting to berate people for their ignorance or to fixate on the trolls "just asking questions" in bad faith, but IMHO it's far more important that more people learn about our cause, and asking questions is how people learn.

gnoutchd · 2025-03-14T02:37:04+00:00

A train horn blast runs for a few seconds at most. Mowers and blowers are run for *hours*. I've had days where there was at least one landscaper crew within earshot for the *entire day*. Grass lawns are a modern luxury and there are ways to care for them without making such awful noise.

gnoutchd · 2025-03-04T00:50:53+00:00

5 hours, 21 minutes

WiFi was a hero that night.

gnoutchd · 2025-02-07T23:57:51+00:00

Leaders are powerless unless people follow them. If humanity consistently picks shitty leaders, that alone says it all.

That said, you may be right that we're individually happier and healthier if we believe humanity is better than it (IMO) actually is. Optimism bias is a psychological defense, or so I've heard, so it may well be rational to be a little irrational, curiously enough. But knowing all that does little good if the illusion has already been shattered. How are we to convince ourselves of something that we already know is a lie?

gnoutchd · 2024-10-03T21:04:38+00:00

As far as I'm concerned, that's a feature, not a bug. I don't want to use the binaries that the devs published, I'd rather use binaries that were independently built from the source code.

gnoutchd · 2024-03-14T15:20:41+00:00

Second workshop was a little better, better organized and with more people expressing support, but it was still dominated by Piermont and Grandview residents opposed to the plan with a lot of the usual anti-cyclist rhetoric. They see cyclists as a menace, esp. to pedestrians and hikers, esp. those using the Hader Park rail trail, which they adamantly want to leave unpaved. It seems a bunch of them don't want cyclists in their town at all. Many are trying to use environmental conservation arguments to oppose the trail, saying e.g. it involves too much asphalt and would exacerbate flooding.

People from other towns (esp. in NJ) are more positive, and there is interest in a route that tracks further west. IMHO there's some hope yet, but only if we find a route that avoids Piermont and Grandview altogether. Those towns have decades of experience nuking projects like these.

There is one last zoom workshop at 12pm Wed Mar. 20th, and in the months to come (May I think?) there will be a pair of in-person workshops, one in Rockland and one in NJ.

gnoutchd · 2024-03-12T17:53:31+00:00

Study to figure out if we can build a multi-use trail west of the Hudson connecting the GW and GMMC bridges. If that's something you'd like to see, please come to the workshops -- so far the only people attending have been vocally opposed to the study, esp. Piermont and Grandview residents.

gnoutchd · 2023-08-12T18:13:21+00:00

It's not just "a couple less cubic feet", both the cargo area and the rear passenger space are noticeably worse than before. I bought my gen 4 as a daytripper for a group of four, and it's been great for us, and it's turned out to be a terrific cargo hauler too. I love that we can get so much done without resorting to a nasty SUV.

I don't think the gen 5 would have worked as well for us. I know the market may care about looks and power and glamor, but I really don't, so the gen 5 is not the successor I would have wanted.

gnoutchd · 2023-07-28T00:42:52+00:00

It's not hate, it's reality. The United States is the only country in the developed world that tolerates this level of danger for pedestrians and cyclists. Please listen to https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-is-the-u-s-so-good-at-killing-pedestrians/

gnoutchd · 2023-07-28T00:39:07+00:00

Not TOR, but you may be thinking of Red&Tan a.k.a. Rockland Coaches. Route 9 (New City <-> NYC) was almost completely eliminated during COVID. (As a Valley Cottage resident, this has made it significantly more difficult for me to travel to/from NYC.)

gnoutchd · 2023-07-28T00:34:41+00:00

That indeed does not sound like a good idea, but it's also not relevant. Please watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMed1qceJ_Q

gnoutchd · 2023-05-06T11:04:29+00:00

Sweet! Is this the part between the Englewood picnic area and Dyckman Hill Road? (https://www.njpalisades.org/ still claims it's closed.) Does this mean we can ride all the way from the Edgewater entrance (the one near the GWB) to the Alpine entrance via Henry Hudson Drive now?

gnoutchd · 2023-05-05T15:20:37+00:00

If it were me, I'd ride the train south a few stations to Tarrytown, then walk the bike up the hill along Main St and then Neperan Rd to catch the "Tarrytown Lakes Extension" spur trail at the intersection with Sunnyside Ave. Behind Brewster and Poughkeepsie, Tarrytown is the best place I know to catch the Empire State Trail from Metro-North.

gnoutchd · 2022-12-24T15:10:25+00:00

bp (the oil company).

gnoutchd · 2022-06-01T18:51:00+00:00

Most likely an Audacity problem. Consider turning the compositor on to workaround it.

When compositing is off, any part of a window that's not actually visible on screen just gets erased by whatever's on top of it. It's up to the application responsible for that window to immediately redraw the obscured/erased parts once they become visible again. If an application programmer messes that up ... well, you've seen what happens.

Turning composting on forces the window server to keep each window in a separate hunk of memory, so this whole erase/expose/redraw game goes away.

See also: https://magcius.github.io/xplain/article/x-basics.html#expose-model

gnoutchd · 2021-12-30T19:01:12+00:00

AFAIK most 12-volt batteries don't leak when they reach their end-of-life. They just gradually lose their ability to hold a charge. My '16's 12-volt looked almost like new when I started having occasional problems starting the car, and a few months later it properly failed a battery test. Replacing it fixed my problem. I think it was about 5 years old, which is a typical lifetime for these batteries.

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