Scooters offer an alternative to folks who would otherwise use ride share or drive. And by increasing micro-mobility users - we bring attention to all micro-mobility users, like folks in mobility scooters, wheel chairs etc.

Idk it took me 15 min to bike from cap hill and then 15 min back 🤷🏽‍♂️ - I went in with the expectation there’d be crowds and was not bothered. Probably cause I was enjoying the great weather with the thousands of people there.

When there’s more people on the sidewalk than people in cars - they should walk in the streets. If I were biking (I was) or walking (at some point I was too), I would just walk between and through cars because they weren’t moving anyway 😂

We need this energy everyday

I remember there was a flag kiosk in the food court of pentagon mall. Idk if it’s still there, the last time I was there was 25 years ago when I was in HS 😂

Dans Cafe for the ambiance and variety! It’s a bit rustic and is a dc favorite for wedding proposal!

Im confident this is consistent with other busy streets - so I’m hoping we see more changes that support non-driving customers. (Ie benning/h st ne)

Often universities and think tanks offer talks that are open to the public. They’re also free and sometimes have a reception. Those are good networking events to meet other likeminded professionals.

The commenter above mentioned STEM PhD industry salaries are like 200k. Perhaps specific stem fields although most folks don’t consider social science a stem field despite science being in the name. Also the titles of positions can be confusing and arbitrary - ie a “research associate” for some organizations require a PhD while others require at least a bachelors.

I did some grading/work yesterday at a cafe while I waited for my bike to get fixed two doors down. The person next to me was in a meeting the entire time. Granted, they were using headphones with a mic - it was still like sitting next to someone talking on the phone.

I suppose it’s not different than sitting next to two people talking so idk

My PhD is in a social science. I knew what the prospects were going in sorta. I say sorta because the choice to get a PhD wasn’t entirely based on the job market - it was based on actual interest and I knew I wasn’t going to be paying for it. But it’s still a bit disappointing when going about looking for work or seeing these salaries.

I saw a few positions targeting just masters level experience and explicitly stated they won’t hire a PhD. At the same time I saw phds hiding their phds to get work. 😩

> hat incident our dog bit back for the first time and it got ugly. I guess my advice is, don’t let it go. I hope you had it documented so that the owners of the 15 pound dog couldn't argue that your dog was the aggressor.

Having recently been in the job market, many fed jobs require a specific number of years doing XYZ. So the nonprofits are a good stepping stone to get the required experience and then move on to a fed job with more security.

Sigh all the feds and military folks getting the DLS degree at SCS to advance/promote. Georgetown has a few other PhD and masters tracks that don’t require extensive research for folks in gov/mil.

Cries in PhD 😭😭😭

Cries in PhD 😭😭😭

Idk - once saw a pile of chicken bones on metro. I doubt a bunch of rats piled them on the chair lol

I wonder what folks expectations are for friends. Like are you high involvement and expect to text everyday and get a response immediately? Or do you just wanna get invited to the occasional house party?

I’m 40, gay married with two dogs. I moved here circa 2016 (but also was born and raised here). I feel like there’s always something to go to and most of the time we’re RSVPing regrets. Maybe the gay social circles are different.

Also I see enough washingtonianprob memes about dating here as a straight woman to know I’d have no hope.

I had a bone marrow transplant and was an “in-out patient” or whatever they called it for two months. I stayed in a residential apartment owned by the hospital for two months. I had appointments everyday. Depending on my labs, I’d get whatever transfusion I needed. My daily appts we’re anywhere from 1 hour to 5. Staying in the residential apartment meant not staying in a hospital room with whatever lights. I was able to cook food with my car giver and feel somewhat normal. And I just walked over to my appt each day. I also walked rounds around the hospital to get steps in.

One taken for granted benefit was the air filtration. Air was supposedly sucked out of the building to help those (most) of us who were immunocompromised. If it’s just you living in the van I don’t think it’s an issue. I’d it were me, I’d be concerned about how clean things were.

Because those solutions inconvenience OP 😂

Driving is included in “transit” but I assume you mean “mass” and “micro-mobility” transit. Driving is definitely not equitable when you consider the mounting costs, regulations, and responsibilities that driving entails.

Currently mass- and micro-transit are not equitable because of lack of access and emphasis on the needed infrastructure, much of which is caused by the car-centric culture that developed in the US for a myriad of reasons.

Never said I was surprised. But I’d like them to be more explicit about their victim blaming.

With the way you framed and included negative affect in your original post - I’d argue you don’t separate your opinion from your argument.

You’re frustrated with “inconvenience” while cyclists and pedestrians are “frustrated” with lack of safety and non-car transit options.

It’s not small minded - it’s “reality.” Imagine everyone owning a car in dc. Imagine all the new apartments requiring an additional parking garage or even an underground parking garage. Imagine all the row homes that are turned into condos and each owner parking their car on the street or families owning 3 cars and occupying street parking on a block.

Now imagine all those people transiting to work with all the people from MD and B VA as well.

Imagine promoting everyone owns a car in dc. I wonder if OP would change their tune when they come to realize the city is not geometrically designed for 700k people to own a car.