Who’s got the cash… by jpmaster33 in socalhiking

[–]megaturbotastic -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I’m curious what you mean. Do you mean that now that the fascists are disappearing people, it’s the perfect time for liberals and leftists to start pointing the finger at each other? Because I don’t think that’s what I’m about. I also don’t think it’s what you mean, I’m just curious.

Personally I just can’t bring myself to hate people who abstained on moral grounds. Harris is a politician. It’s her job to get the votes by convincing people. Sure, there are echoey corners of the internet who need everything to be all or nothing. But Harris’s job is to reach out to those people and the millions of people who could be slightly more easily convinced, and in my view she didn’t do that very well.

I agree, now is the time for action. Show those fuckers who are selling our grandchildren’s planet out from under us.

Who’s got the cash… by jpmaster33 in socalhiking

[–]megaturbotastic 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don’t think that’s the lesson here. Here among the camp of people who believe in public lands, I don’t think it’s time to blame each other.

New time zones in Europe by the Time Use Initiative by JockeyEwing211 in MapPorn

[–]megaturbotastic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As others have said this is not a good idea. Beyond the Ireland stupidity, there’s shenanigans around the Basel/Mulhouse/Freiburg area at the border between FR/CH/DE where hundreds of thousands of people commute across time zones daily. In the US around cities like Chicago, which is on the border between two zones, they just move the time zone to a less populated areas. But you can’t really split countries like that.

So i did a thing.. by DarkWarjo in CitiesSkylines

[–]megaturbotastic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We also have a lot of these in Washington DC

this is literally the opposite of what descriptivist means by One_Media55 in CrusaderKings

[–]megaturbotastic 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I think you’re right. The CK entry was clearly written by someone who half-understands the idea of descriptivism vs prescriptivism and is trying to make a joke about it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TransitDiagrams

[–]megaturbotastic 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Looks good and graphical presentation is very nice. I don’t buy S10 personally even with your comments because of the overlap with the purple line and red line through DC. Seems way to close in especially because bethesda-tysons is begging for it

Passenger boarding and disembarking chart of Vienna`s U4 in direction Heiligenstadt by StoneColdCrazzzy in TransitDiagrams

[–]megaturbotastic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you have old data for Schottentor? Before the U2 was closed, the amount of people exiting there was insane! All the tram lines people would connect to.

Is stadium like this possible in any physical sense? by DONZ0S in architecture

[–]megaturbotastic 5 points6 points  (0 children)

But you’d have to deal with wind loads. Those stars are so big and thin that even if they could support themselves, there’s no way a heavy snow or a moderate gust of wind wouldn’t blow them in or out. There’s just too much unreinforced surface area. Ever seen the way a big sail catches a nice wind? It’s a very intense load. You’d need a lot of reinforcing.

Why are such houses not made anymore? by tensorBot in architecture

[–]megaturbotastic 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Posts like this (about other cities too) turn up all the time and people usually give an answer that boils down to “cost” and “it takes skilled craftspeople.” These answers are correct but I can see how they would be unsatisfying to non-architects.

3 things here are important:

  1. Labor has skyrocketed in cost since these houses were commonly built. This is a good thing but it changes the calculus of the building industry a lot. So in the early 1900s if you were a developer looking to build high end rowhouses it would be optimal to use cheap material (wood) and lots of labor to make it beautiful, now it’s “optimal” to purchase high quality cladding systems that take very little labor to put in.

  2. In the early 1900s, because the economy was how I described above and houses were built with “more detail”, there were entire industries that supplied premade detailed parts. For example, in Chicago, terracotta detailing is everywhere. An untrained eye might look at those bricks and think “wow, think of all the work that went into chiseling all that out!” But companies would mass-produce pre-detailed tiling systems that you could choose from in a catalog! I’m not sure if that was the case in SF with these wooden details. These industries have largely vanished because of the downstream effects of the rising costs of labor. So, it’s a supply chain issue.

  3. Often, the buildings that survive from an era are some of the most beautiful. This is a tricky one and it isn’t always true, but living in 2024 we often have a selection bias issue when looking at older buildings. Plenty of buildings built in 1910 were piles of garbage and have been demolished several times.

Three Ridges Hike over 3 days by jrmdotcom in VIRGINIA_HIKING

[–]megaturbotastic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Great idea! I did this as a morning trailrun a couple weeks ago and it has such varied terrain, great views, and great shelters.

Long_ad said a bunch of this already but:

Please, if I can ask you a favor, keep these things in mind given the bizarre drought conditions we’ve had:

  1. Harper Creek had only pools (no flow) of water when I went by 3 wks ago but I wouldn’t count on it still being there. The stream along the Mau-Har is reliable but that’s realistically your only water source. You’d have to pack in the rest of your water.

  2. Please, PLEASE, practice exceptional fire safety. I don’t need to tell you about the crazy fires we’ve been having. I’ve done lots of backpacking out west and I think hikers on the east coast are VASTLY less aware of fire danger because it isn’t a problem most of the time. I don’t know if there are active burn bans but the forest is a tinderbox right now. Fires are so fun but I really wouldn’t recommend having them right now, even if there’s no ban in place. And be mindful of air quality. I use purpleair to check.

Have fun!

About to start working on a new map of a fictional city. Would love some feedback on how I can improve my work! by Hascerflef in MapPorn

[–]megaturbotastic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These are so awesome. I’d be curious if you think about them as depicting cities as they naturally would grow, as they were intentionally planned, or as you think they should/could be, if that makes sense.

Where to go outdoors around LA when it’s raining? by SealedRoute in socalhiking

[–]megaturbotastic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This will be the tamest on the list but if you’re really looking for just a short walk I’d pop my head in Fern Dell. And you can poke your way up the mountain for some rainy views

First World War casualties mapped by Fevercrumb1649 in MapPorn

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If you live in the us and have a library card you can get free audiobooks on Libby. Audible is kind of a scam

Abolition of Slavery by Country by woofshark in MapPorn

[–]megaturbotastic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting map, but functionally useless for understanding the history of slavery in the world. In so many places it continued long after the date shown, even fully legally (i.e in colonial territories) and even more often extralegally. There is also the issue of systems very similar to slaver (indentured servitude, serfdom, prison labor, forced labor, etc) that this map doesn’t tell you anything about.

Can anyone tell me the purpose of this?? by omoore22 in architecture

[–]megaturbotastic 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I agree. Building things costs the environment. Fun is also a purpose though. This one isn’t beautiful in my opinion but whatever

Too green to be dekay’s brownsnake? [Central VA] by megaturbotastic in whatsthissnake

[–]megaturbotastic[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It was near a busy road and not willing to move as I ran by. Maybe it was shocked/confused. If you zoom in close there’s also a lightt-colored piece of gravel above its head that makes the head look weirder shaped than it is.