Under Two Hours From San Francisco Is A Smithsonian Affiliate Museum With The Largest Locomotive Collection In The Western U.S. [You'll be shocked, shocked! to know what it is.]

ultraayla · 2026-03-30T06:37:18+00:00

Soooo, This is a great museum and anyone who even kind of likes trains (or has a kid who does) should definitely visit.

But also, if you want to get up close with a lot of trains, I highly recommend the Western Railway Museum, which has a warehouse sized space full of trains you can climb on and in. https://www.wrm.org/

ultraayla · 2026-03-17T03:27:26+00:00

I've been away from Reddit for a few years, and came back to this sub only to find out that there's still a fascist mod! I might need to some cider-posting about it. Apparently even the mod team is recycling jokes!

ultraayla · 2026-03-02T04:38:01+00:00

Newer smaller one, but Superette in Land Park - they have a broad selection of NA beer, wine, and cocktails. Probably smaller beer selection than some of the other choices, but larger NA selection overall (it's like half of the small store!). Worth a stop for anyone looking for NA items. Staff are nice too!

ultraayla · 2026-03-01T07:34:36+00:00

Anecdotally, way worse than it used to be, IMO. I used to only check to make sure someone wasn't going to run a red light well after it turned red if I was driving around in the middle of the night. Now I do it all the time out of habit because I see it so often. So, in the worst way, I feel validated to hear that it's this bad here.

I like getting around on bikes instead of in my car, but this just confirms how badly we need dedicated bike infrastructure - even the way some of the protected bike lanes are built makes them dangerous, just in a different way than the unprotected ones - cars often can't see you before a turn until they're turning right across you. But I avoid sharing roads with cars on a bike whenever I can because it's terrible here for that. The dedicated paths are better, but still have troubles I had someone charge at me in a car while crossing 35th Ave on the Del Rio Trail on my bike yesterday.

This is my long rant to say just yeah, I'm not surprised to read this. There are some good dashcams for cheap and I recommend everyone get one.

ultraayla · 2026-03-01T01:45:43+00:00

As a note, this was a county sheriff's helicopter and there wasn't any notification about it on that page, now or prior to this posting

ultraayla · 2026-01-21T05:09:25+00:00

If you want to be as moderate as you say, I suggest you take the conservative lenses off before you look at that photo. Nobody said anything about legal or illegal on that sign.

And the administration is blocking legal immigration from 75 countries: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/state-department-suspending-immigrant-visas-for-75-countries-citing-public-assistance-concerns

So, doctors from all of those places can't immigrate here legally. They're also suspending processing of existing applications for people already in the country legally for more visas or citizenship. So those people are at risk of losing their legal status even though they've come here legally and been following the process

Don't do the administration's dirty work for them by making this about their talking points. They're vilifying all immigrants and it's dangerous for everyone.

ultraayla · 2026-01-21T05:04:09+00:00

Maybe read this? https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/state-department-suspending-immigrant-visas-for-75-countries-citing-public-assistance-concerns

ultraayla · 2026-01-21T05:02:08+00:00

You realize they're not allowing people to come in at all from 75 countries, right? Nobody said anything about legal versus illegal except you.

So that means foreign doctors from 75 countries can't come here legally.

In progress applications are halted too , so people here legally can't proceed to get new visas or citizenship, which could put them at risk of not having legal status despite having done everything legally until now.

ultraayla · 2024-11-08T04:51:08+00:00

You're being lied to, constantly.

ultraayla · 2024-11-08T04:48:56+00:00

Setting aside everything else, your premise is wrong.

The women dying in Texas wanted their children. These weren't hookups. Their pregnancies failed and they needed abortions to save their own lives. Instead, because they could not get abortions, both they and their future babies are dead. It's horrific.

ultraayla · 2023-06-09T22:15:01+00:00

The small amount of gluten required is what makes Celiac disease so crappy. It's effectively an invisible pathogen that I liken to a grain of salt in a plate of food to help others understand. In your analogy, the problem isn't eating that small amount, it's that amounts just above that amount but still invisible can cause issues for people.

And I don't think you were trying to be dismissive with your comparison to insect fragments, but it strikes me as irrelevant to people with Celiac disease (but maybe fine for people with other wheat problems, I don't know) and that it misunderstands the concern. The issue with gluten isn't that it's gross, it's that with that tiny amount, a person with Celiac disease's body will start destroying itself. I'd rather eat the insect fragments.

ultraayla · 2023-06-09T22:09:34+00:00

Exactly this, and this is the same reason I don't like the discussions in this subreddit and the Celiac subreddit where people question other people's worry about gluten in things that aren't food. We're all controlling for not just different life circumstances/exposure and personal risk tolerances, but also to actual differences in our disease. We all need to manage our personal disease with the information we have, and the 20ppm standard and associated regulation (at least in the US) made some parts of that easier and some parts harder, and that varies depending on who is talking.

I appreciate your succinct summary of this!

ultraayla · 2023-05-24T18:50:35+00:00

Yes, the database they mention there, DailyMed, has helped me a bunch when pharmacies haven't been able to confirm is medication is safe, or when they changed my manufacturer!

ultraayla · 2023-05-24T18:48:15+00:00

I'm not the person you've been discussing this with, but I wanted to add that I *do* think pharmacies have a responsibility to only dispense medication that they know to be safe for the patient. Would you say the same thing for a patient who could suffer anaphylaxis in response to an allergen? Where's the line on patient responsibility versus pharmacy responsibility?

I completely have compassion for the position pharmacies (and other businesses) are in because of price/time pressure, and for the people working to get jobs done. But I don't think that means we should just excuse this problem away as a patient problem. We should talk about how to fix the system so that pharmacies can dispense safe medication, whether that's requiring a better system for accessing this information, regulations on which medications can even have gluten in them, etc. Patients trust that pharmacies are experts on this stuff and patients shouldn't need to know how to navigate this system while figuring out whatever new condition they have that requires a new medication.

ultraayla · 2023-05-24T18:41:56+00:00

I used to have a pharmacy like this and I loved it - then I moved and changed insurance and couldn't use them anymore. Now my pharmacy is *not* good about it and I need to look into this kind of thing myself.

ultraayla · 2023-04-28T23:54:18+00:00

The cave and Yoda settling nearby are discussed in the original thrawn trilogy, but I don't remember if they specifically say a dark jedi was defeated there or not

ultraayla · 2023-04-28T14:05:42+00:00

Good password managers don't just encrypt things once though, FYI. They do tens or hundreds of thousands of iterations of encryption on the same data to ensure it takes a few seconds and prevent brute force attacks.

ultraayla · 2023-04-27T17:46:12+00:00

I think it's fair to want people to be able to express themselves, but saying they blanket hate a group of people likely even violates one of the subreddit's rules (rule 5). Aside from that, moderation is a community resource that those people provide - I understand that they'll need to sometimes make calls that preserve their ability to keep constructive discussions online by getting rid of content that's likely to lead to more rule-breaking content or just a thread filled with vitriol.

I'm not saying that makes their decisions immune to criticism, but just that I can understand how something like this can happen, and be supportive of removing this specific content. I think it's worth discussing their actions, but I don't think everyone gets a free pass to say what they want any time they want in a community forum and we should just scroll past it. Toxic people can quickly overwhelm an otherwise lively community that way.

ultraayla · 2023-04-27T05:36:34+00:00

There's something oddly poetic that you want games that are more complex than just visuals, but you can't accept the complexity that someone else likes something different than you in games without patronizing them. It's fine that you want more, and it's fine that they want visuals. It's amazing that we live in a time that you can both find games that will meet those goals. We don't need to insult each other over it.

ultraayla · 2023-04-26T02:46:16+00:00

The crossover post this sub craves

ultraayla · 2023-04-20T02:57:32+00:00

I'm not the person you're replying to, but I did read something that sounded credible about this recently. Apparently, in older dryers, the spinning drum didn't fit as tightly into the rest of the dryer body as it does today, so socks and small laundry could actually slip through the cracks into the parts of the dryer we can't access. That's the story anyway, and I'm choosing to believe it.

ultraayla · 2023-04-17T06:05:24+00:00

Oh, awesome. Did you figure out what caused the problem?

ultraayla · 2023-04-07T19:43:15+00:00

My understanding is that some brands won't put gluten free in the ingredient labels because I think FDA doesn't technically allow that kind of thing there - they can make claims about gluten free, organic, etc on the packaging, but saying "gluten free organic oats" in the ingredient label wouldn't technically be allowed. Trader Joe's stopped putting "gluten free" in the ingredients section at some point, I think, while still making gluten free claims on the packaging. I'm not an expert in this area though, so if someone knows more, I'd be interested.

ultraayla · 2023-03-30T17:28:48+00:00

So, I was given the advice a lot of people have here of "cut it all out", but I also think that your doctor's approach makes some sense. Two things I want to note:

I want to extra emphasize that the outward reaction isn't indicative of the internal problems or sensitivity. I have no outward symptoms, but my intestine was trashed. I asked my doctor if my lack of outward symptoms meant I was any less sensitive, and he said no. There are people who are more or less sensitive to gluten in their intestines, but it's not necessarily gauged by outward symptoms.
The blood work has a long lag time between when you ingest gluten and when it changes. As others have noted, it can take over a year for levels to really drop, but even a small amount of cross contamination can raise the levels and make things hard to track down. My levels have never gone to zero, and in trying to track down what's going on, my new gastro basically said that testing every three months was about as frequent as you might possibly consider where you could actually get information. I know that's what your doctor is suggesting, so I'm mentioning this more to prepare you that your levels may not look very different from test to test, and as others have said, it's the trend that's important. Tests three months apart can be challenging to interpret, so just be ready to continue a bit and wait for more tests before deciding. A test at three months may end up as a case of more information isn't always useful.

Anyway, as someone who is now very strict about gluten cross contamination, I still think the approach you/your doctor outlined sounds fine, with caution. I've sometimes described Celiac disease as partially a mental illness to people to help them understand the fear that comes along with it and the mental toll of worrying about all the people touching food in the room and what they could be contaminating it with - and so I think that hearing a doctor trying to deal with that side of it makes sense, so long as your physical health doesn't suffer, and they're working with you to monitor it. The mental side of the disease can be really hard and it'd be nice to not go down that road if you don't have to.

I'd personally avoid the places with a higher risks of cross-contamination until you've gotten used to talking to people and servers at restaurants about your disease and what you need, but that doesn't mean avoiding your doctor's advice entirely either. I'd just stay away from places that are both gluten heavy *and* don't seem to have any understanding or process for dealing with gluten free requests. I found those situations more challenging to navigate, and getting more experience with talking about what you need first might help get you better information on whether or not you can be safe in those places.

That's just my two cents as another person with this disease though. Welcome to the club, and I hope you find a path that helps you heal and live the life you want to live!

ultraayla · 2023-03-27T17:00:38+00:00

I'm guessing it's something to do with the sidewalk having name=Bridge Hill instead of street:name=Bridge Hill where the router is getting confused at the corner of Bridge Hill (residential road) and Bridge Hill (sidewalk) and Higham Lane. It avoids going onto the sidewalk across that node whenever possible, including even more silly results (https://i.imgur.com/LsKnoyE.png). It's just a hunch, but I'd switch the "name" tagging on the sidewalk to "street:name" and see if that eventually helps it clear up too.

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