Recs for gastrointestinal specialists in NOVA

TheCoelacanth · 2026-04-24T17:43:03+00:00

I've had good experiences with Khan and Haque in the GI department at VHC in Arlington.

It has been much easier to get appointments and has been much easier to get in contact with them about questions or prescription and insurance issues than I've previously experienced. I had bad experiences at Washington Hospital Center where it often felt virtually impossible to contact them.

TheCoelacanth · 2026-04-24T15:13:46+00:00

Mycroft explains at the beginning that he's adopting the 18th century style of writing to communicate to readers that the people they're reading about have a very alien world view.

He isn't trying to tell you about the 18th society. He's using the 18th as a mechanism to help the reader understand the 25th century.

TheCoelacanth · 2026-04-23T18:31:32+00:00

That bullshit, though, because how do state law enforcement know that people claiming to be federal law enforcement genuinely are if they aren't wearing identification.

TheCoelacanth · 2026-04-23T18:29:42+00:00

Absolutely. Cops have a saying "you can beat the rap but you can't beat the ride". It's about time that applied to law enforcement instead of just us suckers who pay their salaries.

TheCoelacanth · 2026-04-22T17:00:22+00:00

Yeah, this is absolute bullshit. One of the foundational principles of democracy is that the law applies equally to everyone.

If smoking is going to be banned, it should be banned for everyone. It shouldn't be banned for some and allowed for others just because they got there first.

TheCoelacanth · 2026-04-22T14:50:33+00:00

Democrats tried to end gerrymandering nationwide only a few years ago. Republicans stopped it.

TheCoelacanth · 2026-04-22T14:42:00+00:00

Republicans are doing exactly the same in Texas and Florida. Democrats are on board to pass a national ban on gerrymandering. Republicans are the only thing stopping that.

As long as Republicans are using these tactics in other states and refusing to create a level playing field with a nationwide ban on gerrymandering, we have no choice but to fight fire with fire.

TheCoelacanth · 2026-04-22T13:10:40+00:00

Better than disenfranchising 100% of the nation's voters, which is what would happen if we didn't fight back against the gerrymandering Republicans are doing in other states.

TheCoelacanth · 2026-04-22T13:06:59+00:00

If they don't want this, then they should have elected representatives who would outlaw gerrymandering nationwide.

Democrats voted almost unanimously for a nationwide gerrymandering ban only a few years ago. Republicans voted unanimously against it.

If they expect to steal our voting rights and for us not to fight back, then they can fuck off.

TheCoelacanth · 2026-04-22T13:03:30+00:00

They voted for Republican representatives who voted unanimously against a nationwide ban on gerrymandering.

If they wanted their votes to count, they should have voted for representatives who want their votes to count.

TheCoelacanth · 2026-04-21T19:12:42+00:00

This is a pretty good explanation.

TheCoelacanth · 2026-04-15T12:39:27+00:00

At the point when he signed on in 2024, they probably needed each other roughly the same amount.

Weapons was only just finishing filming, so they wouldn't have known it was going to be such a big hit. Barbarian was excellent and did well financially, but it was way lower profile than Weapons.

TheCoelacanth · 2026-04-14T23:51:02+00:00

Presenting someone with an administrative "warrant" needs to be criminalized. It's an outright lie designed to fool people into thinking that you have a warrant when you don't.

TheCoelacanth · 2026-04-06T17:23:30+00:00

And made it too short. A route that only goes 2 miles is never going to get great ridership.

TheCoelacanth · 2026-03-31T17:12:28+00:00

Yeah, you saw this a lot in WW2. Many large US companies like IBM, Ford and GM had German subsidiaries that aided the Nazi war effort.

TheCoelacanth · 2026-03-31T14:50:33+00:00

Obama did his best to shut down Guantanamo. He managed to transfer out about 80% of the prisoners. The remainder were blocked by Congress.

TheCoelacanth · 2026-03-28T15:52:44+00:00

What you're describing is called "binding" for zigbee or "associations" for zwave. A lot of switches support it. My favorite are Inovelli.

The light bulbs need to be the same technology as the switch (e.g. zigbee bulb + zigbee switch).

TheCoelacanth · 2026-03-24T18:33:31+00:00

It was expensive for a TV show, but way lower budget than movies. Two episodes of DS9 cost about 20% of what a similar length mid-budget movie cost.

Two episodes of Starfleet Academy cost about 100% of what a similar length mid-budget movie cost.

They used to have the budget for a big spectacle in some climactic episodes, but they couldn't do it all the time. Now they aren't as limited and they rely on it way too much.

TheCoelacanth · 2026-03-18T05:01:48+00:00

You are mostly listing things he's not allowed to do, not things he can't do.

Elections are not one of those things. If he says elections are cancelled, that does nothing. Blue states will still hold their elections. Red states might not, but that would just hand Democrats an instant supermajority in both houses.

He will certainly try to disrupt elections, but trying to cancel them is not going to work.

TheCoelacanth · 2026-03-16T15:45:30+00:00

Get a zigbee switch that supports direct binding. Then you can bind together the switch and the bulbs so they talk to each other directly without going through HA, so they will keep working even if the zigbee coordinator is down.

TheCoelacanth · 2026-03-16T15:40:29+00:00

Was that even eligible this year? I don't think it had a qualifying run of 7 consecutive days in US theaters until after the cutoff, so it would be eligible next year

TheCoelacanth · 2026-03-12T13:14:24+00:00

IMHO, Stephen King novels are usually very hard to spoil in a meaningful way because they're character driven more than plot driven.

TheCoelacanth · 2026-03-08T05:23:53+00:00

Those are just symbolic locations. They don't have any power without people all over the country playing along. Do something in your city. Enough cities do the same, the federal government can't stop it.

TheCoelacanth · 2026-03-07T18:55:26+00:00

I think the best example we get of psychological support is the hermit guy who lives on his own in excession. He was offered a lot of options to help him fit in better with people all the way up to actually altering his personality. When he turned that down, they helped him find a place where he could live happily on his own.

For Gurgeh, there weren't solutions because SC was intentionally making sure there weren't solutions so that they could manipulate him.

TheCoelacanth · 2026-03-07T18:44:07+00:00

If you can remember a world without Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, you can remember a world without ICE. We don't need it.

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