AllTrails and other apps like it put publically accessible trail/hiking maps into app form and have user reviews and trails rated for their difficulty. And they use GPS for trail navigation to help out inexperienced hikers or mitigate poorly maintained trail markers.

They also charge a subscription fee for features like the ability to download a map and use it while not connected to the internet. “Pay us or you’ll get lost in the woods” is profitable, apparently.

Apple might be embedding trail maps into Apple Maps, but this article doesn’t explain that.

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Hexbear, I have bought fancy heirloom dried beanis from Rancho Gordo in the past. Does that make me a liberal? Beangeosie?

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I read a book called Good Intentions Aren’t Good Enough that basically went over all this.

It helped, I think. It’s been years since I read it.

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Quora is Yahoo Answers, except the majority of posters there have contracted terminal LinkedIn brain and the site has the SEO of Pinterest.

I don’t think your theory about it being a CIA op is too far off - Jorban Peterman first got famous on Quora, and the power users’ politics range from libertarian hustle grindet to fascist.

But, the site would be no different whether it was ran by libertarian tech bros or the US state department.

This might be known already, but I bet that Microsoft decided to switch Edge to Chromium instead of forking Gecko/Firefox because Google either bribed them or threatened to lower Microsoft sites’ ranks in search results.

Otherwise why would MS use a web browser controlled by one of their very few competitors?

Edit: maybe they were enthralled by the promise of using Proton/Chromium based “desktop applications” (which just contain an entire Chromium browser in their install directory) to cheaply create apps that people are forced to use in their jobs, like Teams. Which is still awful even after they made it a full UWP desktop app. Like Skype already was.

The Nintendo Switch Joy-Con drift problem, except it’s on your steering wheel and you will get pulled over by a cop or rear-ended when it stops working.

Lynn, these are sex people.

The Wagner group logo looks like it is from a made-up enemy country in a video game.

If I had a billion dollars I would simply never drive myself, and I would not ride in a Tesla. It’s the same car that techbros drive and has a subpar safety record.

A lot of celebrities used to drive Priuses as the eco-friendly choice back when it was new, and I didn’t read anything about them dying in crashes. But Priuses don’t have the acceleration of a drag racer or quality control problems.

Thank you that’s awesome, what a good dog.

I would like to diminish the cat/dog skills gap. Cats could be bred to be much larger and their addiction to the scourge of catnip removed, allowing them to flourish. And make it so their natural predator instincts are only aimed at invasive species.

My idea is to create a breed of dog that can climb trees. I have no answer for why or how.

I’d be a Moogle that you deliever messages for and helps you save your game, kupo!

One of the biggest cities in the USA, where the weather is perfect year round. That was designed and built up within the last 80 years around cars - it wasn’t designed for horses or walking and there should be plenty of room for bike lanes.

Why wouldn’t people want to ride bikes or commute via streetcar or bus? Hell, they could build one of those flat escalators that they have in airports and it would be usable 95% of the time.

Imagine if in the 40s the city planners of LA weren’t racist, there could be a sweet network of bike paths going under, over, and alongside roads linking every part of the city. Instead these losers want to cater a major metropolitan area to the operators of mechanical deathboxes.

Plenty of Angelinos want good urban transport, but they’re not backed by commercial real estate interests and aren’t whining loudly online about it every day.

I use red potatoes in anything, except shredded because they’re too small.

They’re best roasted, but great any other way. A potato salad, creamy soup, potato pancakes, Irish farls (potato bread) etc would all work.

Edit: the best way to roast them is to find a good smashed potato recipe. The one from America’s Test Kitchen is good but behind a paywall now probably. You boil them, then smash them (the ATK recipe has you smash another pan on top to make it easy) and they bake up terrifically.

My prediction is that General Barhandle will be this Civil War’s General Burnsides and bring about the next mustache trend.

When my hvac broke and was replaced they put in a 4 inch wide filter box, instead of the 1 inch it was before. They said it allowed 5-10x the amount of air to go through and that seems true. Airflow from the vents is way better and I’ve noticed less dust, plus the filter doesn’t have to be changed as often.

Removing and adding the sheet metal on the intake for the furnace filter isn’t easy, but in case you have the skills or know someone that does it made a huge difference. Or build one of those box fan filters, if you look up Corsi-Rosenthal box you’ll find instructions online.