EDIT: I feel like an idiot. It's boilerplate text pulled from a USFS standard.

Or did the Forest Service give this job to a sarcastic intern and nobody proofread it?

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[–] 37 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Original page.

Clearly not AI. Here's where you can find the trail types, OP, including "standard terra trail". As @wjrii@lemmy.world notes, it's used to distinguish from things like snow trails.

And here's where you can find, centralized, that verbatim definition. It's pulling from a prebaked list of definitions as @Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe suggests.

a. Standard Terra Trail: A trail that has a surface consisting predominantly of the ground and that is designed and managed to accommodate use on that surface.

b. Snow Trail: A trail that has a surface consisting predominantly of snow or ice and that is designed and managed to accommodate use on that surface.

c. Water Trail: A trail that has a surface consisting predominantly of water (but may include land-based portages) and that is designed and managed to accommodate use on that surface.

That's a reasonable way to express it when other options are "predominantly not the ground".

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  • [–] 16 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

    My immediate question is precisely what constitutes the remainder. That seems like important information.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 weeks ago

    You're not an idiot. It's impossible to tell the difference between a robot and a bureaucrat.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 weeks ago

    Given the structure I wonder if the phrasing is a default and it pulls from a database for the surface material.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Maybe it means as opposed to constructed or paved walkways

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  • [–] 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    It's to distinguish from snow or water. It's pulled from a Forest Service publication. I'm less sure it's a super useful datapoint to expose on whatever site this is.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago*

    geez people are already having AI psychosis, are we also going to have anti-AI psychosis now?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    Only the trails a T-800 has visited.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    I'm not entirely sure but I'm pretty sure the ground is made of ground

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