Trainguyrom
@Trainguyrom@reddthat.com
- Comment on thank goodness 1 day ago:
I have been a good bing 🤗 and you have been a bad user
- Comment on 💩. 1 day ago:
My metabolism is funky. If I lump around all day I’m usually at the low end of this scale, but start doing some cardio and I leap into the ideal zone.
Case in point, last week I was traveling so I got no real walking or biking in for a full week. First day back I get a good walk and bike ride in and immediately back to the good zone. No transition just an immediate leap back to where I should be
On the upside my metabolism will automatically reduce to asking for a less than normal adult amount of calories when not exercising then start demanding a normal amount of calories once any exercise enters my routine
- Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG 3 days ago:
Thank you kind sir and/or madam, that’s a million times better!
- Comment on Truly 4 days ago:
I went to a casino once to see what it’s about. Ultimately just felt like I was staring at a visual stimulation machine more than anything (my local casino is basically only penny slots)
I spent an hour that felt like 3 there and turned $40 into $60 and I don’t feel like I ever need to do that again. Also worst of all was the ice cream place I was hoping to go to afterwards closed
- Comment on Truly 4 days ago:
I attended one of Corey Taylor’s solo concerts at a casino once and as all of these rock and metal fans come out of the oldies concert (because he was performing the music of all of the bands who inspired him) and walking out at midnight from the concert I got the dirtiest looks from the old people pressing the buttons at the slot machines and it was honestly kinda hilarious being judged by retirees spending the night gambling for heading home after enjoying a concert. Also absolutely nobody looked happy to be there as they started glass-eyed at the screens
- Comment on I can't find a single decent bedtime story online. 90% of the articles are AI slop. 4 days ago:
Go buy a cheap $20 bookcase at $bigboxstore find the nearest thrift store and buy $20 worth of picture books. Read one every time the child is being out to bed and you’ll figure out which ones go back and which ones become favorites pretty quick. It’s one of the best things one can do for their kids (and once they’re in school teachers can immediately tell what kids have parents who read to them and what kids don’t)
- Comment on Unified Theory of American Reality 4 days ago:
I’ve always appreciated Douglas Adam’s take on this:
The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
- Comment on Unified Theory of American Reality 4 days ago:
I prefer to take a more The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street approach to the worst acts of humanity, is not that it comes from a place of evil, but instead a place of fear that a very small handful have used to manipulate those who wouldn’t commit these acts otherwise.
- Comment on Unified Theory of American Reality 4 days ago:
For me when I realized I was more grown up than the adults around me, I realized I could relax a bit and not hold myself to such an unsustainable standard. On the other hand I still have lofty goals for myself that I still strive to reach so I’ll pick up a ton of cool experiences along the way and maybe I’ll achieve those pipedreams or maybe I won’t but either way it beats just stagnating and aging in place
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 6 days ago:
As someone with mostly female friends, all I can think is hell yeah potentially more friends! More natural conversations with an extra body, plus first date is more about vibes than anything so if a trusted friend improves the vibes then bring that trusted friend!
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 1 week ago:
My work has me using 3 different 2FA apps depending on what service I’m accessing. It’s great! Especially with the noticable battery consumption increase after setting up 2 more 2FA apps than I had before
- Comment on Who cares what it looks like? It works. 1 week ago:
That is definitely a risk with that kind of mod. Trunks are designed so that if someone were to become entrapped they can be opened from the inside.
- Comment on What's your favourite menu music in a game? 1 week ago:
The Anno games always had really good music. Anno 1602 for example had this as the title music
Anno 1503’s title music is engrained in my memory as well
- Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG 2 weeks ago:
There might still be an operating wigwag signal at Devils Lake State Park. When I was last there about a decade ago it was still there and operational (and for revenue service no less!)
Otherwise the IRM has a really good collection of railroad signals. Many are actually in use on the mainline (so crews have to be familiar with even the biblically accurate railway signals along with all sorts of fun obscure variations. And if I remember correctly as you first enter and cross the streetcar loop and the steam shop/long barn sidings (long enough to store the entire Zephyr trainset on one track, as well as where quite a few cosmetically restored locomotives are stored including multiple articulated locomotives and a DDA40X) there’s a wig wag protecting the crossing
- Comment on NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE 2 weeks ago:
I’ll give you the same advise I recently took to heart and started following for my hobbies: don’t wait until you can make it perfect. Start working on the garden you can do right now…er next spring?
If you start small now, you can start enjoying it now, then you can build up your experience, skills and tools, and once you have the time and money for the epic garden you want, you’ll also have the skills to absolutely make full use of it!
I’m doing the same thing with model railroading. I’ve been waiting for the perfect time to start on my first model railroad as an adult. A few weeks ago I finally said “fuck it” and bought a door at the hardware store and some mounting hardware. I’ll have a car I can fit a 4x8 sheet of insulation foam into in a couple of weeks so then I can get rolling and start building a nice little starter layout and enjoy that right now. Then later on I can build something bigger and better (plus have more skills and experience under my belt to do it better!)
- Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG 2 weeks ago:
The good news is that soon there’ll be the California High Speed rail line. I’m hopeful that I can make a good long trip over there once it opens in a few years to check it out. Heck maybe I’ll move to California for a year or two? Who knows!
- Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG 2 weeks ago:
Those aren’t necessarily tracks but services. 3 services can share one mainline and several stops. Makes (dis)boarding easier for longer distances if passengers don’t have to change trains after they get out of the peninsula, plus 3 services hitting the same stations means 3x as much frequency along that corridor. Someone going Jacksonville to Miami can pick between the Chicago, LA or New York route and someone going from Miami to LA can just hop into the LA route and stay there until they arrive without changing trains
- Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG 2 weeks ago:
The above map basically connects every major city in the country with a high speed rail route, makes it easy to travel by high speed rail from any major city in a region to any other major city in a rrhion and standard speed routes to connect some of the smaller major cities and provide alternate cross connections for less populad itineraries
- Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG 2 weeks ago:
By memory this was a group of enthusiasts realistic dream for a high speed rail network. Basically a possible but lofty goal to lobby for.
The grey lines would be standard speed rail service topping out at 87MPH (some match current Amtrak services, and I’m going to assume without verifying that the others match existing rail infrastructure because the Venn diagram between foamers and river counters has quite a large overlap)
- Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG 2 weeks ago:
I know it’s a shitpost and AI has come a long way but holy cow it still made a ton of mistakes in that image. Rails are only spiked on one side, perspective changes between the foreground and mid-ground, wrong wheel arrangement for Thomas (he’s famously an 0-6-0, which is established within the first 30 seconds of the first episode of the TV series) no vacuum breaks which Thomas should have, the white house sign can’t decide if it’s a station sign or a sign for the building (styled like a British station sign but it’s the wrong color, wrong shape and half in the grass)
Honestly I think I’d prefer a shitty image macro of Thomas with a red tie pasted into the Whitehouse lawn
- Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG 2 weeks ago:
The California railroad museum is definitely one of the best in the country but if you want to see potentially the largest collection with lots of cosmetically and mechanically restored equipment, you have to check out the Illinois Railway Museum
Of course if you’re more into narrow guage the Colorado Railroad Museum is hard to beat. Or if you just want an epic train ride, take your pick of the Durango and Silverton, the Cumbres and Toltec or the Royal Gorge Route
Personally I’ve been to the California Railroad Museum (back when they were still Orange Empire), the Illinois Railway Museum, the Cumbres and Toltec and the Colorado Railroad Museum. The IRM is great anytime but especially if you come during an event weekend like Labor Day or Memorial Day because they run their mainline and trolley loop at full capacity during the holiday weekends with as many as 8 trains running at once, but they also have enough accessible equipment even on weekdays when they just run a single electric interurban to make it still worth a visit. The Colorado Railroad museum whelmed me when I was there on a weekday, but I’m sure it’s far more exciting on a weekend or event day with more going on. It’s pretty small but has pretty unique collection (including 3! of the galloping gooses) Cumbres and Toltec was definitely a worthy bucket list ride, and when I was at the California Railroad Museum I joined a tour group, had the entire group split off, so the guide took me off the beaten path and gave me a really in depth tour of literally everything he has keys to and shared a ton of neat information about a lot of the equipment (such as the interurbans that were specifically built to serve one of the college campuses. As he put it “y’know how in Wisconsin bored college kids will go cow tipping? Well here they’d go street car tipping, so they built these to be much heavier so they couldn’t be tipped and ran them exclusively at the campus”)
- Comment on whats your dumb purchases? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve not seen freely available software to split such a workload across multiple machines, but realistically if I did I’d be looking at less performance that if I just got a single used datacenter card (like one of the Nvidia Tesla cards) off eBay for the same price and popped it into a computer, or if I got a single much more modern server.
I can however cluster them in fun ways for redundancy! Most hypervisors support clustering so that VMs can be migrated to another host if one needs to be taken offline for anything, or if one unexpectedly powes off the others will continue the workload. Or clustered storage where it spreads the storage across multiple hosts for redundancy as well as speed. I definitely want to get some of those old 25GB or even some of those 40GB infiniband cards and run a glusterFS or Ceph cluster to really see what clustered storage can do (I ran a Ceph cluster in a lab in college but it was over a gigabit network so everything was painfully slow)
But those projects will account for only about a dozen computers at most, so I have to find more projects and more willing people to have these systems foisted upon
- Comment on NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE 2 weeks ago:
I’m in a similar boat. When I moved in there were lovely flowers that kept popping up every time the last ones finished blooming throughout the entire season. Then I went back to college and next thing I knew some sort of fast growing something or other has completely taken over all of the flower beds. It’s probably killed everything that isn’t hosta already. My new next door neighbors are clearly shut ins like me and their flower beds have gotten overrun as well
- Comment on whats your dumb purchases? 2 weeks ago:
I bought a pallet of computers at an auction at a local college for $250 a year or two ago. HP Elitedesk GenIIs specifically (4th Gen i5, 8GB of RAM, 256gb SSDs, and space for add in cards and more drives if needed) I did not expect my throwaway bid to win but it did. So now I have a bunch of computers. I have some projects in mind, but honestly I’ve mostly been tossing them to friends and family when they need a computer for something. Eventually they’ll all be allocated, sold and given away but it’s certainly taking a bit
- Comment on Autism has been announced! 2 weeks ago:
Hopefully it means more trains. The train autists seem to be less numerous than they once were
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 2 weeks ago:
So super short version is a conservative dude or three tried to create /c/conservative and were immediately drowned out and made fun of, then they transferred moderation to others who now use it to make fun of republicans
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 2 weeks ago:
Y’know what, reviewing your post history, I believe you. You happened to step on a landmine though with your above comment about criminals, because the general problem of overpolicing and excessive force is reinforced by a laws that help perpetuate it.
For an extreme example, if you make it illegal to sleep under a bridge, any homeless person trying to get some rest in a public space that happens to provide a little bit of shelter is now a criminal. But do you think the police are going to hassle grampa who dozed off sitting at a park bench because it’s 3pm and he usually has had a nap by now? And when the newly deemed criminal gets upset about being arrested for just trying to get some shut eye that can be determined to be resisting arrest therefore the police can use more force. Maybe that triggers some PTSD and they start fighting back in which case the amount of force escelates.
The law and the criminal justice system are unfortunately designed to perpetuate a cycle of criminalism. Punitive prisons and sentencing make it difficult for anyone who has been arrested to adjust to living in society again. Parole and probation (the supposed support structure provided to people as they leave the prison system) is structured to penalize folks who already have it rough for struggling to make ends meet, and can quickly land people back in prison for offenses as simple as having work schedule them during their mandated parole meetings and needing to choose between potentially losing their job and becoming homeless or potentially being arrested again. Or they might find that they can make an actual living wage working in a black market (drugs, vehicle chop shop, etc.) because having a record excludes them from better paying employment options that offer a better work-life balance. Or maybe they couldn’t afford the restitution payments required (fines that were part of their sentence and fees for participating in the justice system) they go back to prison and ultimately come out much later even less able to adjust and the cylce continues until they die in prison, die homeless living in a gutter or die a death related to whatever trade they can pick up with their criminal record (industrial accident, drug overdose, gang violence, take your pick)
So yeah in short, some folks have a tight line to walk so that their existence isn’t criminalized
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 2 weeks ago:
There was an SNL skit a while ago with a similar vibe. A bunch of white nationalists having a meeting and one guys describing his vision for a white utopia and the other guy is like “yeah I just got back from Vermont and it really sounds like you’re describing Vermont”
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 2 weeks ago:
I get some AI generated vibes off of that image honestly, which would definitely explain the funky star alignment if my gut instinct is correct
