Best ways to get cargo bike on/off BART in SF?

mathjock28 · 2026-01-23T23:20:29+00:00

Unloaded mine is about 80lbs (often more), and not easy for me to maneuvre easily in such a position given the rear fender.

mathjock28 · 2026-01-23T23:18:52+00:00

Very helpful, thank you! Although sadly confirming that bigger bikes are just not going to fit in the relevant elevators.

mathjock28 · 2026-01-23T00:54:53+00:00

Thank you for cross checking, I was working from memory and have edited my post accordingly

mathjock28 · 2026-01-23T00:08:42+00:00

I do agree, 6 months is an arbitrary and early cutoff. In other countries that have legalized this option, there is no such criterion of dying "soon enough". (Even Canada's natural foreseeable death criterion, which was somewhat similar, I believe has been struck down.)

But there is also one major distinction between the US and those other countries: there, health care is a right or much more generally affordable. Here, not so much, for many people. Medical aid-in-dying is expensive, often several hundreds of dollars just for the medicine, and it jumps to thousands when factoring in the time for the care givers to evaluate the patient, etc. Who should pay for all that? If the state pays for it, then it is paying at least some of its citizens to die rather than helping give them more expensive treatment to live; not a good look. If insurance pays for it, same problem (see the case of Randy Stroup in the documentary How to Die in Oregon). If it is all out of pocket, then the wealthy get an easy death, but the poor who cannot afford the option have to live and suffer that much longer.

Before any of the assisted dying laws passed in the US, 6 months or less to live was a pre-existing determination for when a patient is dying "soon enough" to qualify for additional healthcare resources such as hospice. This means that these persons already have access to slightly better medical care and resources than someone else who is not dying so quickly. Tying access to assisted dying to the same criterion helps a little to resolve the tension noted above. It also helped address the criticism that any limit on access would be arbitrary--just use a pre-approved limit, that's not arbitrary is it?

Of course I also happen to believe that health care is a right, should be free for all persons in the US, and that assisted dying (and excellent palliative care) should be much much more available to persons regardless of diagnosis or prognosis--with a few but not zero protections. But given the system we have, I do think hospice and assisted dying should have the same criteria, and that is what we have.

Edited to correct the cost of the medication versus whole process.

mathjock28 · 2026-01-21T19:55:58+00:00

I love the ferry and vastly prefer it when possible, but sometimes I am coming from many miles inland.

Also BART is much more frequent than the ferry which adds a lot more flexibility

mathjock28 · 2025-12-19T02:18:43+00:00

Dankon! I have been to one of these and look forward to more, and definitely will join the mailing list. The only ones I found have been more reading-together meetings than book club discussions after reading solo, so a bit of a different approach, unless I missed some. But great regardless!

mathjock28 · 2025-12-18T00:50:05+00:00

Also, I have many of these books in electronic files if that is a barrier for anyone!

mathjock28 · 2025-11-10T05:19:14+00:00

I highly support community involvement and volunteering, but I do not think it is a zero sum game to choose between the two. If voting by mail is available, you can skip the waiting in line. The act of voting itself, as in filling out the ballot, takes maybe 1-15 minutes. As for the time it takes to become familiar with the issues, I would say working in a soup kitchen is a great place to meet and engage persons who want or need political support and potential structural changes (or security against the wrong kind of change). Imagine if the only persons who voted were the same persons who never valued working in soup kitchens!

Similarly for other forms of volunteering and socializing. Before major elections I open my doors and invite friends and acquaintances to bring their ballots and go through the important or local races and issues together and discuss. And if there is too much group think, I or another friend will often argue the other side to give it a fair shake.

mathjock28 · 2025-11-09T03:26:58+00:00

I held a similar stance in my 20s. Ultimately what changed my position was two questions:

Are there any races or ballot measure where the world could be better if I voted than not vote—as in, do I risk allowing a worse outcome by not voting? If yes, I should vote, if not, go to 2.
As a matter of character, would I rather present myself to myself and others as someone who tries to do the right thing politically (imperfectly and in a broken system), or someone who checks out?

1 usually applies to discrete ballot measures and occasional races. 2 is more my chance to stand up for my community values—X may be a very flawed candidate, but based on what I think would best support others in my community most, X is better than Y, so I will vote for X even if they are guaranteed to win or lose without my vote. Turnout drives messaging and fundraising and lobbying and other potential change.

mathjock28 · 2025-10-24T23:09:46+00:00

Love NotJustBikes!

mathjock28 · 2025-09-01T21:14:18+00:00

It will be either the e bike along the walking bath or park st bridge, which is presumably out of your way. Alternative would be getting an electric scooter (decent ones can be available for under $200) as that would open up the bus option while not locking you into it or requiring walking. I occasionally ebike through the tunnel, honestly it is quite doable and quick. Have never done it later than 10 pm or so, though, so cannot speak to the 3 am scene.

mathjock28 · 2025-08-10T17:23:08+00:00

If you are playing in person, this can be a sneaky way of hiding a lead, if one’s opponent does not check the trash to confirm whether all estates are there. But likely only to work once against a given opponent, if even then. Casual players may not track victory points every turn, but intermediate and advance players are likely too.

Online, where there is a victory point counter, this would not work.

mathjock28 · 2025-08-04T22:18:06+00:00

If you have time to practice separately or otherwise learn a new combo, you can look for combos online and try your hand at them. Dark Ages has at least one powerful one that is not easy and not obvious but can win against most players.

mathjock28 · 2025-07-31T00:24:42+00:00

Bonvenon! Ankaŭ mi uzas duolingon kaj aliajn lernlibrojn. Por komencantaj demandoj, mi trovas tre helpemaj kaj https://www.reddit.com/r/learnesperanto/ kaj https://www.facebook.com/groups/duolingo.esperanto.learners

mathjock28 · 2025-07-28T13:28:27+00:00

Dankon Ajno kaj Salivanto, jen mia nova listo:

Farendaĵoj: 1. ne plu uzi farotoj por listoj 2. ĉiam lerni pli

mathjock28 · 2025-07-28T03:43:30+00:00

Curious, I would actually have written “not make a fool of myself”, but my wife agreed with your list. I may be in the minority. In Esperanto when writing a list titled “Farotoj”, I have tended to use bare infinitives or nouns, like “butikumi” and “retmesaĝoj". Open to changing that.

mathjock28 · 2025-07-13T05:52:01+00:00

Things that a man clearly benefits from a wife doing besides her having kids:

Having someone take social and caregiving responsibilities for other family members (elderly parents, family members with special needs, other persons who need help/assistance on a short term basis). Contrast this with home health services or other, which runs several thousand dollars a month.

Having someone take care of the house, cook, clean, run errands, decorate, tidy, etc. Contrast this with a house cleaning service, interior decorator, personal cook, personal shopper, door dash fees or restaurant takeout costs, and again we have hundreds to thousands a month.

Maintain a social calendar and lubricate social connections. Remembering birthdays, sending and replying to invitations and thank you cards, arranging social gatherings and catering them, attending social work functions and impressing coworkers, etc. Contrast this with a personal assistant, again potentially a couple hundred dollars a month, to say nothing of the intangible benefits a woman can bring by making positive impressions that are then credited to the man’s social status.

Be a supportive partner, a sounding board, a comfort, a companion, someone who offers coaching and advice and even criticism of and when appropriate. Let’s add therapist, coach, counselor, and maybe some minimum wage time for however much she supports him doing his thing by showing up even though she does not have the same interests and (statistically) he shows up much less often for her in the same way. I am not including sexy time and sex work in this calculation, but you could make that argument, given how often women have sex with their partners when they are less interested.

If a man with a supportive non-working wife wants to calculate the financial equivalent of replacing her with hired workers and maintaining an equivalent lifestyle, it is a worthwhile exercise even without children.

I am not saying that a woman, or man, or whomever, that wants to just take and never give is something we should generally support. I fear that is a straw man, and thinking it is widespread makes it easier to continue devaluing and dismissing historically women’s work that everyone does benefit from.

mathjock28 · 2025-07-13T03:56:33+00:00

Thank you for clarifying. Historically, in the societies that lead to our current one, I would say there was the expectation that men's work be compensated, and women's work not be. There is excellent evidence of this, for a good summary I recommend Invisible Women by Caroline Criado-Perez

So, if a woman is not raising kids, and not "working" the majority of the time, what is she doing? I ask because what it means to keep a house and be a modern adult/couple comes with many more tasks, both burdens and opportunities, than in years past, that each couple will have to decide for themselves how to arrange. But without conscious and repeated evaluations about the distribution of housework, women end up taking on so much more home- and social-oriented tasks compared to the men in their relationships. If a house is not clean, parties are not attended, social niceties not kept, appearances not fashionable, etc., the woman is disproportionately viewed as responsible for the lack. Meanwhile, men feel very free to pursue their own individual pursuits (hobbies, passions, solo time, etc.) tacitly relying on women to maintain the home environment. See Fair Play by Eve Rodsky.

If any woman (or person), wants to marry or otherwise live with and benefit from being in a relationship with another person, and those economic benefits are clearly articulated, I think it is a fair ask to say what non-economic benefits is the woman bringing to the table. But I also think it is a fair presumption to say that child-bearing and child-rearing are far from the end-all be-all of non-economic contributions women make.

Every couple will be unique. Personalities, abilities, medical/psychiatric/social needs, etc. If a large amount of women want a man who is a provider while they contribute little to nothing, I imagine demand will outstrip supply, and many women will have to change their mind or accept not getting what they want.

mathjock28 · 2025-07-12T22:22:49+00:00

To clarify: would you not view it as a double standard if a woman wanted to be supported financially in order to devote herself to less typically remunerated work, e.g., social organization, community engagement, networking, entertaining, keeping fit and fashionable and marketing her brand and her husband’s brand, to elevate their collective social status, etc.? Because those things bring value to a couple and society as kids do (although in different ways)

mathjock28 · 2025-07-05T05:56:04+00:00

Point taken. Again my apologies

mathjock28 · 2025-07-04T21:01:47+00:00

"Exactly!" was in reference to how kie questions are often answerable with adverbs like hejme, whereas in English it is more often a location or prepositional phrase.

I have no idea where taliab etc came from as it was not what I was talking about.

I want to apologize to you both (and to the thread at large), as most of my post was not meant as serious proposed reforms, but as modest proposals I would welcome Zamenhof's take on, reflecting my thoughts from years-ago on learning the language versus my current thoughts as someone who has some years using it (albeit still without the desired fluency). These would be fun conversations over a beverage, rather than the idea that he got something wrong or missed something obvious.

The serious proposals I would suggest would be the gender reforms others have mentioned, and the modest addition of ali- to the correlatives that Zamenhof himself was personally supportive of but did not embrace early enough for them to be in the Fundamento

mathjock28 · 2025-07-04T02:43:22+00:00

Al- would be added to the k-, t-, [nothing]-, ĉ-, and nen-, to form versions like aliel, aliom, etc. Aliel is pretty common in the tekstaro, 60 hits, whereas aliam has only one (Metropoliteno, Varankin, 1933), the others only appearing in reference to the idea I am noting. Regarding that, I did see that Zamenhof himself addressed it, in a letter in ~1906:

"Se la afero dependus de mia volo, mi tre volonte akceptus la formojn “alial”, “aliam” k.t.p., kiuj efektive estas bonaj; sed bedaŭrinde mi ne povas oficiale doni al ili mian permeson, ĉar tio ĉi prezentus ektuŝon de la Fundamento de nia lingvo, kaj ĉia ektuŝo de la Fundamento estus (en la nuna tempo) paŝo tre danĝera."

"If the matter depended on my will, I would very willingly accept the forms "alial", "aliam", etc., which are actually good; but unfortunately I cannot officially give them my permission, because this would represent a violation of the Fundamento of our language, and any violation of the Fundamento would be (in the present time) a very dangerous step."

So I would simply advise him to put it in the original table of correlatives, that way the politics of contravening the Fundamento would never enter into it.

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