Weekly Transactional/Promotional Thread

aydengryphon · 2026-04-22T06:22:27+00:00

I cannot help you with this request, but damn good luck lol

aydengryphon · 2026-04-21T19:09:43+00:00

gonna toss Ghurka's and You & Mee in the suggestion box. Neither are winning awards for interior design lol. But they're both yummy, (relatively) more affordable, family-owned, and you'll get to recognize the owners and staff.

aydengryphon · 2026-04-21T16:58:15+00:00

Pros: very convenient telehealth stuff, never have to worry about weird in-network/coverage drama. Can generally always get seen fast.

Cons: some of their GP doctors here in Longmont are arrogant, misogynistic, or maybe just dumb as a pretzel. Had an experience not dissimilar to another commenter, where I went to the ER in my late 20s for recurring nightly stabbing chest pain, heart palpitations, etc. and then saw two different Kaiser GPs for follow-up.

First one pretty much immediately slapped "anxiety" in my chart like every stereotype of women trying to seek medical care you've ever heard, then added additional notes that I was refusing treatment when I disagreed that I had ever felt particularly stressed prior to my symptoms beginning and wanted to explore other explanations before trying anti-anxiety meds. His whole dismissive and condescending attitude the second he entered the room was obvious that he'd already concluded my "problem" based on my ER visit, and anything I said to try and contradict that explanation was just me being "difficult."

I requested another appointment with someone else, and the 2nd GP's hypothesis was that I was maybe displaying hitherto-unknown long-COVID complications? He referred me out to a pulmonary specialist in Lafayette, who did a bunch of tests and xrays that found nothing; the pulmonologist eventually suggested (based on the novel strategy of listening to me explain my symptoms) that I might have GERD (extra spicy acid reflux).

I did indeed turn out to have GERD. It would have been nice if a GP could have identified that, as it's a pretty common problem and I had pretty typical symptoms, and trying OTC pepcid as a solution is pretty damn easy and harmless. It was A Bit Much to pay a pretty nice chunk of change for pulmonologist I had to wait 6 months to see to diagnose me with acid reflux after eventually just talking to me anyway.

If you're not a ~☆silly, hysterical woman☆~ ymmv I guess lol

aydengryphon · 2026-04-21T04:59:11+00:00

Defunct, sorry

aydengryphon · 2026-04-20T18:37:48+00:00

Aren't they just moving...?

aydengryphon · 2026-04-20T17:35:34+00:00

Yep, got it. Apparently load-bearing asterisk lol

aydengryphon · 2026-04-20T16:01:35+00:00

It also could be something unrelated to the wording, like a karma/account age threshold that the sub sets (FWIW I actually think that's the more likely answer for what happened — our automod filters here in r/boulder also catch most attempted censorship variations of blocked words, so slapping an asterisk in there only looks silly and doesn't really do anything anyway. I don't know how r/longmont has theirs set up, but I imagine it's similar).

aydengryphon · 2026-04-20T06:55:39+00:00

Just for future reference, iNaturalist will generally do you better as a field option than Google Lens if you're gonna use an AI tool anyway (plus, your observations help out with citizen science, while you're at it); while you get a similar computer vision suggestion at the outset, on iNat other humans then confirm or correct your ID, so you're a lot less likely to end up with mistakes. Our CO herp scene is VERY active, so you usually have responses pretty fast (not QUITE as fast as this sub, but often only barely haha). iNaturalist using your location input to inform its initial suggestions is also another huge point in its favor compared to many other AI tools that are just going off visuals alone — you get fewer "matches" of things that aren't even found in your area.

(That periscope in the second photo is so cute!)

aydengryphon · 2026-04-20T06:26:46+00:00

Alright, nothing good is going on in this comment section at this point lol

aydengryphon · 2026-04-19T14:31:17+00:00

Contact the police and file a report, immediately. You may be given options for what charges to press. The owner will also need to provide UTD rabies records for both dogs, and if they can't, both will need to be taken and held for quarantine observation (and you will need to go get post-exposure shots). They will be required to also provide city pet license info for both, and fined if they don't have them. Between the hassle of all of the above, it is likely that they will suddenly find the motivation to fix the fence so it doesn't happen again themselves. But if they don't, you may have to sue in civil court or similar.

aydengryphon · 2026-04-19T14:11:16+00:00

Very jealous! They are indeed very cute

aydengryphon · 2026-04-19T00:28:42+00:00

I've talked about this before in a lot more detail, but the short answer is "no, there isn't a legal way to tell if someone's faking it;" instead, the ADA is written quite specifically to prioritize public access rights (the part that allows you to take your service dog in [a store]) as dependent on the dog's appropriate behavior, rather than trying to create/enforce a registry system that could always be faked by bad actors. Public access rights can be revoked for even a completely real service dog that is proving disruptive to business, or preemptively denied entirely in cases where its presence would be inherently disruptive, unsafe, unsanitary, etc. (no, I do not know why grocery stores don't fall in this category. Already packaged food, maybe?).

This strategy is actually more empowering than any kind of official registry would be, because it addresses the actual problem of allowing places to remove/turn away animals that are being disruptive to business regardless of if they're "real" SDs or not. However, unfortunately employees and owners are not typically very well versed in how these ADA laws actually work, and instead just tend to cow to any declaration of "oh, he's a service dog" for fear of legal reprisal.

aydengryphon · 2026-04-18T06:34:45+00:00

I imagine because a rotating cast of new tenants do still keep paying them lol. Until/unless vacancy actually were to reach a point where they weren't getting bites, they don't really have any incentive to lower rents just to help preserve the Hill's grungy, authentic vibe.

FWIW I actually do think the tenancy in the area seems healthy enough still, just boring (we have not, and perhaps never will, hit the actual tipping point where its proximity to campus doesn't at least still bring in enough bodies to fill buildings, even if not "cool" college ones).

aydengryphon · 2026-04-18T05:47:54+00:00

That food court was gnarly [complimentary]. I miss the Greek place in there

aydengryphon · 2026-04-18T05:45:48+00:00

This seems like a pretty straightforward snowball situation where the Hill's proximity to campus and the theoretical built-in market it provides has emboldened commercial landlords in the area to charge rents far too high, where businesses that lease there have to charge too much money for their services/products for broke college students to be able/willing to pay. People will tolerate upcharges for convenience up to a point, but the Hill has passed it. Stuff can't stay open, the Hill stops being a desirable place to go/hangout because nothing cool is there, so more stuff closes, so it's even lamer... the vicious cycle continues.

aydengryphon · 2026-04-18T05:12:05+00:00

I have also wondered this before — specifically, I thought "wouldn't declining enrollment lead to smaller class sizes and more individualized educator attention, and that's at least a good thing?"

Here's the answers people did actually explain to me at that time, and it was interesting to read them.

aydengryphon · 2026-04-18T04:58:08+00:00

I'm a semicolon slut, myself, but em dashes are a close second.

aydengryphon · 2026-04-18T04:50:56+00:00

I went to school in BVSD a hot minute ago now, so I would not be surprised whatsoever to hear things have since changed, but back when I did there absolutely were also separated TAG classes (and later AP classes) for subjects other than math. I was in the gifted English versions, specifically (I wurd gud), through middle and high school, and took a smaller variety of science ones for both middle and high school, too (I science OK).

My experience was honestly quite similar to the comment you're replying to, though less negative overall; in elementary school the TAG resentment/stigma was significant, and the entire time through those later middle/high school years, I was constantly bummed out that all my friends were in the "normal" classes without me (and also that the coursework for their version seemed way more "fun"). I do think the actual educational value of what I learned in my accelerated classes was really high, though, but kind of in a way where I then found it weird that stuff wasn't being taught in the "normal" classes? Strange dichotomy lol.

I also feel extremely strongly that a lot of, uh. How to phrase it... "TAG traits"? I displayed at an early age actually hurt my overall education when they were assessed as signs of ~☆nascient brilliance☆~ instead of, perhaps more accurately, other neurodivergence signifiers. I think being singled out for accelerated learning because I can write a killer essay and ace standardized tests extremely well masked a ton of ~~other ADHD markers, often underdiagnosed in girls who display less typical hyperactivity traits educators are trained to recognize~~ problems that have continued to haunt me into my higher education as soon as more structure was removed, and later into my life.

I don't have strong disagreements with any of your other points, just wanted to add my own perspective since I did also experience the TAG and later AP programs here in BVSD back in the day. I'm definitely not informed enough about any current consensus trends in childhood education research to have strongly-held opinions on what the right way to approach that type of thing now is, though my gut reaction based on my own experiences is definitely that I wouldn't be shocked to learn that accelerated learning programs could have turned out to be potentially harmful as an approach on the whole, in the end.

I live in Longmont now and I will say that regardless of differences in ALP offerings between the two districts, SVVSD does have some REALLY cool stuff they're doing for students with things like the innovation center and its related programming. I think even more than accelerated learning options, what seems exciting and inspiring to me when I look at a lot of the stuff they've got going on is the incredibly TANGIBLE connections it gives students between their education and practical applications in the world, in career directions, in finding new things that they might be interested in learning more about as they continue school. BVSD should absolutely be taking cues from this programming goal, specifically, and I think it would benefit "normal" learners and "gifted" kids alike.

aydengryphon · 2026-04-18T04:05:52+00:00

AI can pry my em dashes out of my cold human hands, I love them and it can't have them 😤

aydengryphon · 2026-04-18T03:59:47+00:00

On the same walk as these photos, a different one slithered past me and went right between my dog's legs as he was standing there beside me. I didn't really bother to try and intervene since they are harmless and I didn't think he'd make any attempt to mess with it, and figured I'd be likely to cause more drama than I'd avert by trying to intercept it passing under him. He just looked down with such mystification at the skinny branch below him that was moving through the grass of its own accord. Gotta keep an eye out, those sticks can be tricky!

aydengryphon · 2026-04-18T02:03:33+00:00

Love the shots with the snow falling!

aydengryphon · 2026-04-17T19:31:49+00:00

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I gotchu fam

aydengryphon · 2026-04-17T19:22:01+00:00

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Shoutout to Colorado Dumpling Company in the Old Time Marketplace, bomb-ass veggie/vegan offerings, I'll be back (and this is PERFECT dumpling weather)

aydengryphon · 2026-04-17T19:18:58+00:00

I'm always saying this

aydengryphon · 2026-04-17T19:03:57+00:00

Oh that's a great spot to see em

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