|
Silver Alicorn posted:I'm just thinking about steam locomotives and how they required human people to shovel coal into the boiler. like, otherwise the engine stops. p. weird compared to today's technology MY DAD used to volunteer on an antique excursion railroad thing and they had like 3 dudes in the engine at all times just to keep the engine fed and all that
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2017 01:34
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 25, 2024 15:15 |
|
|
Notorious b.s.d. posted:looking for the word "mechanical stoker" led me to wikipedia and the article is cool oh p cool my source was that episode of top gear
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2017 02:00
|
|
|
Notorious b.s.d. posted:looking for the word "mechanical stoker" led me to wikipedia and the article is cool when did they start calling things like that APUs i wonder
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2017 02:28
|
|
|
its extremely hosed up to think that people used to make their swansons pot pies over burning campfires or osmething cause they didnt have microwaves crazy but true
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2017 03:02
|
|
|
mate imagine using a wood fired stove to heat up your bathwater one gallon at a time
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2017 03:23
|
|
|
Silver Alicorn posted:mate imagine using a wood fired stove to heat up your bathwater one gallon at a time guess what you can get your hipster friends together in the woods for just this 
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2017 07:05
|
|
|
i would love that, i wish i fit in a regular apartment bathtub 
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2017 07:06
|
|
|
there's a BBC show called Victorian farm where they just live like it's 1860 for a year. They cooked with coal stoves and that sounds unimaginably gross.
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2017 07:09
|
|
|
life pro tip. go to and enjoy Korean spas. very relaxing to hop between the hot/cold pools, and saunas. unfortunately there's no bus stops near by, but there's a big parking lot with a snow cone place out front. think I'll go tomorrow and relax. have a good weekend!!!
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2017 08:10
|
|
|
Silver Alicorn posted:mate imagine using a wood fired stove to heat up your bathwater one gallon at a time welcome to a finnish summer cottage
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2017 08:17
|
|
|
(okay, it's not used for bathing, just washing up after the sauna) also these things are pretty popular these days
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2017 08:19
|
|
|
hobbesmaster posted:when did they start calling things like that APUs i wonder i think the difference is that the secondary steam engines can't generate their own steam they turn steam into power, but they are not power sources unto themselves
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2017 16:46
|
|
|
saw this over in the osha thread and it made me think of you guys! whelp later!!
|
|
#
?
Mar 13, 2017 18:58
|
|
|
it's funny b/c everyone who speaks negatively about city living and in particular making GBS threads on the idea of using public transit almost always signals that they don't like being around people, or especially being near people when they have no power of selectivity urban life owns if you aren't a paranoid misanthrope
|
|
#
?
Mar 13, 2017 19:30
|
|
|
H.P. Hovercraft posted:it's funny b/c everyone who speaks negatively about city living and in particular making GBS threads on the idea of using public transit almost always signals that they don't like being around people, or especially being near people when they have no power of selectivity i know plenty of people who ascribe to the "buses are for poor people but subways are good" which is p hosed up
|
|
#
?
Mar 13, 2017 19:32
|
|
|
tbf i get p annoyed by showtime whenever i'd ride the subway in nyc or even on the bart here but that's more of a failing of enforcement than anything else
|
|
#
?
Mar 13, 2017 19:40
|
|
|
bump_fn posted:i know plenty of people who ascribe to the "buses are for poor people but subways are good" which is p hosed up that's because buses are bad and subways are good
|
|
#
?
Mar 13, 2017 19:41
|
|
|
H.P. Hovercraft posted:urban life owns if you aren't a paranoid misanthrope i am a paranoid misanthrope and urban life owns nonetheless, there's an incredible amount of anonymity in a city of millions of people. no one gives a gently caress who you are or what you're doing, and you will be left entirely alone unless you intentionally seek out interaction with others
|
|
#
?
Mar 13, 2017 19:42
|
|
|
knew i could count on shaggar to be classist and wrong
|
|
#
?
Mar 13, 2017 19:48
|
|
|
buses are universally terrible idk how you could even debate that. subway is so much better in every way.
|
|
#
?
Mar 13, 2017 19:49
|
|
|
Shaggar posted:buses are universally terrible idk how you could even debate that. subway is so much better in every way. buses are used to cover routes for which there aren't subways and are v useful and cool
|
|
#
?
Mar 13, 2017 19:49
|
|
|
hurr durr how do people get to the subways?
|
|
#
?
Mar 13, 2017 19:51
|
|
|
bump_fn posted:buses are used to cover routes for which there aren't subways and are v useful and cool if u cant get to and from where you want to go either walking and/or via subway its not worth going or you should just drive.
|
|
#
?
Mar 13, 2017 19:53
|
|
|
if it's worth going to, there'd be a highway exit for it 
|
|
#
?
Mar 13, 2017 19:55
|
|
|
the "buses bad" thing from white people is mostly because cities have spent decades spending the money to pave and widen silky smooth roads in white people areas, while just sending increasingly run down and poor operating buses into the mangled streets of the poor areas. transportation access was/is one of the most common ways of red lining. this is also when cities decided to run freeways through the poor neighborhoods and populate their downtowns with parking lots for white weekend car visitors. as a consequence, white people look over at the poor people on the rickety, slow buses and snear in cities that didnt engage in that game, mostly because they were massively white to start with like Seattle, there is almost no stigma at all with bus ridership
|
|
#
?
Mar 13, 2017 19:55
|
|
|
buses are alright, but i wish they weren't the only transit option in so many cities.
|
|
#
?
Mar 13, 2017 19:56
|
|
|
shaggars just mad about when they bussed in black kids in boston
|
|
#
?
Mar 13, 2017 19:57
|
|
|
that doesn't follow
|
|
#
?
Mar 13, 2017 19:58
|
|
|
aside from torturing children with a bus ride which i would be against.
|
|
#
?
Mar 13, 2017 19:59
|
|
|
the BART Warm Springs (peepee) station next to the Tesla factory is gonna open next saturday apparently. thats the old NUMMI plant, for u this american life listeners out there!! the Milpitas and Berryessa stations will open late this year or early next year i guess
|
|
#
?
Mar 13, 2017 20:06
|
|
|
kinda sad that they can't afford to drive to their car factory
|
|
#
?
Mar 13, 2017 20:11
|
|
|
blugu64 posted:kinda sad that they can't afford to drive to their car factory welcome to
|
|
#
?
Mar 13, 2017 20:57
|
|
|
Cygni posted:populate their downtowns with parking lots hate this poo poo, parking lots are the worst one of the worst parking lot offenders i see on the reg is the target i go to. the city and target really hosed up wit how they situated the store on the property.  like, they could have put the building closer to university (where it was before it got turned into a super target), but instead anyone going there via light rail has to walk across a quarter mile of parking lot to get to the store. it's gross and terrible.
|
|
#
?
Mar 13, 2017 21:18
|
|
|
awwwwwww poor babies have to walk a whole quarter of a mile? awwwww
|
|
#
?
Mar 13, 2017 21:28
|
|
|
theres no form of public transit where you wont be walking at some point
|
|
#
?
Mar 13, 2017 21:30
|
|
|
looks like you could transfer to a yospos-approved bus and get closer.
|
|
#
?
Mar 13, 2017 21:31
|
|
|
Endless Mike posted:awwwwwww poor babies have to walk a whole quarter of a mile? awwwww it's not that far but it's still a bad decision.
|
|
#
?
Mar 13, 2017 21:32
|
|
|
Elder Postsman posted:hate this poo poo, parking lots are the worst i'm not sure why you're criticizing the most well-designed block in that stretch of midway. if you take the couple of blocks to the west, i.e. the one with the Wal-Mart and the one with the "Rainbow", those are a lot worse; the target block makes much more sense in contrast to them. like if you put the target building farther north on that block, it would just create a dead zone next to St. Anthony Ave, much like you see on the other blocks i mentioned. and pedestrian access to that block is actually quite nice: contrary to your claim, pedestrians do not need to ever set foot in the target parking lot (at least on the Hamline side), because they can just walk on the public sidewalk on either the west or east edge of the block, and then go directly to the private sidewalk in front of the target. the stoplights on Hamline in the middle of the block are even fully signed with walk/don't walk and crosswalks for pedestrians. contrast this with those other blocks, which are a mish-mash of crappy little parking-lot fiefdoms that often have poor/no good places for pedestrians to walk to get to the stores on the block of all the bad urban/suburban experiments and the downtown asphalt wastelands that you can find in MSP, imo that block is nowhere near the top of the list
|
|
#
?
Mar 13, 2017 22:24
|
|
|
is mini metro an accurate representation of how public transit works?
|
|
#
?
Mar 14, 2017 01:27
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 25, 2024 15:15 |
|
|
lampey posted:is mini metro an accurate representation of how public transit works? if the timescale was 100x longer and you had to pass a ballot initiative every time you wanted to add a new line, yes
|
|
#
?
Mar 14, 2017 01:31
|
|
