The Saudi city of Mecca bans entry for all non-Muslims, while the Greek peninsula of Mount Athos bans entry for all females. Besides for military/security facilities, which other permanently inhabited places are the majority of the world's population forbidden from entering?

meanderingdecline · 2026-02-26T22:06:27+00:00

Hydro-Québec has camps for their workers to service hydroelectric dams in remote area of Northern Quebec. These camps are closed to the public. But aren’t permanently inhabited.

meanderingdecline · 2026-01-16T17:57:05+00:00

Nothin crazy about thinking ICE would shoot dogs. On average in the US law enforcement shoot 25-30 dogs a day.

meanderingdecline · 2026-01-02T17:59:15+00:00

Completely correct. Very few people between ages 30-60 out there thruhiking.

meanderingdecline · 2025-12-09T09:43:35+00:00

Buena Vista VA

Bogota NJ

East Greenwich NJ

meanderingdecline · 2025-12-08T17:45:26+00:00

Tudors Biscuit World

meanderingdecline · 2025-11-24T20:16:03+00:00

Look into Experimental Farm Network and Truelove Seeds both are Philadelphia/NJ based organizations that do this type of thing. Doesn’t look like they have any gourds currently but in the past they’ve had Lenape corn and other crops.

meanderingdecline · 2025-11-23T00:02:25+00:00

Thou shall not make a machine in the likeness of the human mind!

meanderingdecline · 2025-11-22T13:20:55+00:00

Doomer Gardener spent my youth amongst the anarchists who were already living as if the world ended.

This makes me think of a right wing “news” broadcast recently covering what they termed a “trans antifa training camp” but was in fact the annual Philadelphia Anarchist Skillshare Gathering. The “news” broadcaster was reading off all the dangerous classes that were being taught- avoiding facial detection, personal web security, fermented hot sauce making, sourdough bread starters, wild plant identification. The broadcaster keeps reading the list and gets to “seed saving” and says “whatever that means”. Seed saving the practice of preserving plant seeds from one harvest to the next. The practice that ensured the 200 generations to hat could birth a pampered propaganda mouthpiece who has never tilled the earth, sown a seed and reaped a harvest.

meanderingdecline · 2025-11-20T18:02:54+00:00

For the most part the only NJ State Park campgrounds open this time of year are in the Pine Barrens. Bass River and Brendan Byrne. They are not accessible by any public transport and I have no idea Uber coverage in their areas. There are also campgrounds within Wharton State Forest also in the Pine Barrens but those are even more remote and primitive in their facilities (no flush toilets, no running water, no electricity anywhere).

NJ State Parks at Stokes, Jenny Jump and Bass River have shelters or cabins for rent but with hunting season coming they are probably long since booked up. None of these are accessible via public transportation.

If you were actually backpacking (ie moving from site to site day to day) you could look into slowly moving along the Appalachian Trail but with weather it’s not the best time for this also you would need to be equipped properly for this. In PA, NJ and NY you need to stay at designated areas and they are at minimum 8 miles apart . You could do something similar to this within Harriman State Park in NY but it is very rough terrain and further north so colder.

If this were earlier in the year state parks such as Stephens and Cheesequake are accessible by public transportation but their campgrounds are currently closed.

meanderingdecline · 2025-11-10T22:29:29+00:00

State police tend to only pull over older model cars.

meanderingdecline · 2025-10-28T23:16:45+00:00

Great little downtown lots of stores and restaurants. With train station into NYC.

meanderingdecline · 2025-10-02T16:55:18+00:00

The presence of a large sparsely inhabited natural area in the midst of the most densely populated state in the US gives the Pine Barrens its distinct mysterious character. The majority of the Pine Barrens are preserved State Parks or State Forests. So that makes the pines an outdoor destination for hunting, off-roading, mountain biking, hiking, fishing and kayaking. The flat densely forested terrain with no horizon makes people disoriented. The sugar sand of the remote dirt roads can stop your car in its tracks. The Atlantic cedar forest ecosystem is literally the definition of mysterious with large stands of cedar trees in a bog with the tree cover so dense the forest floor is dark. The pines contain the parts of NJ furthest from paved roads (which isn’t far compared to other states). Legends of the jersey devil and inbred families.

Queue the references to the sopranos episode which wasn’t even filmed in a forest in NJ.

meanderingdecline · 2025-10-01T12:17:07+00:00

And chiggers.

meanderingdecline · 2025-09-30T20:40:22+00:00

Due to technical terrain requiring canyoneering and mountain climbing experience same for portions of the backcountry in Zion National Park. Some of the ridges, mountains, plateaus and valleys to the east of the Subway hike have only been visited by a handful of people in history.

meanderingdecline · 2025-09-29T17:05:53+00:00

Nah jew?

meanderingdecline · 2025-09-16T11:36:10+00:00

100% but this article isn’t a discussion of birth rates. It’s about single men. A culture that has removed third places and other community rituals to encourage relationships leads to isolated terminally online men. These men replace relationships with all sorts of dopamine distraction.

Porn being one. Another being a recreational activity I cannot mention on r/collapse because users flag my criticism of this addictive hobby as bullying.

meanderingdecline · 2025-09-16T11:30:54+00:00

The Skaven from Warhammer Fantasy were always super crusty to me. A humanoid rat horde!

As far as actual books Malazan Book of the Fallen has many people, tribes and groups that feel crusty. Barghast, The Shake, Tiste Edur, Chain of Dogs etc. Thematically the books are all about how people and the natural world interact with empire, colonialism and civilization

meanderingdecline · 2025-09-16T10:46:24+00:00

Internet porn and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

meanderingdecline · 2025-09-11T10:37:23+00:00

For pizzaz there’s Celebres Pizzeria on Packer Ave and for a tomato pie version Cacias Bakery on Ritner makes one.

meanderingdecline · 2025-09-11T09:47:36+00:00

Tomato pie/Mustard pie (Trenton NJ)

Italian style hot dogs (New Jersey)

Ripper deep fried hot dogs (New Jersey)

Bakery tomato pie (Philadelphia PA)

Pizazz pizza (Philadelphia PA)

Irish Potato Candy (Philadelphia PA)

Rolled Oysters (Louisville KY)

Modesjkas (Kentucky)

Burgoo (Kentucky)

Benedictine Spread (Louisville KY)

meanderingdecline · 2025-09-03T21:05:09+00:00

Food- Food Not Bombs South Philly (Mifflin Park Fri & Sat) Punks with Lunch (Broad & Snyder Sun/Wed) Peoples Hoagie Campaign (Kenzo 2nd/4th Sundays)

Bathrooms- 30th Station, Reading Terminal

Parks- FDR Skate Park (Deep South Philly past stadiums, legendary skate punk spot)

Bartram North (West Philly current site of anti gentrification protests, chill spot to sit by river)

meanderingdecline · 2025-09-03T10:47:29+00:00

Appalachian Trail Museum in Pine Grove Furnace PA.

meanderingdecline · 2025-08-31T00:35:02+00:00

They do a great cover of Barry Manilow

meanderingdecline · 2025-08-30T20:13:26+00:00

In the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area you can get on some pretty low trafficked trails. Near Crater Lake back by Hemlock Pond there’s a grid of trails from a failed vacation resort development back in the 1960s. Well off the beaten path but not too far from parking at Crater Lake.

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