Had an incredible bar on the top floor looking down the river. They had a signature cocktail, I don't remember the name, it was like a sidecar with grapefruit juice. Very sad to see this landmark go.

When and for how long do you need it? I have around 15 spare old laptops, mostly PC and a few old macbooks

>refugification

hm?

100%. What used to be the accoutrement of Wall St made its way here.

Nah. There are two DCs - political/political-adjacent DC and normal DC. The latter is filled with people who may work nominally government jobs, but are more (primarily) technical specialists than anything else. I will concede that the former is rapidly overtaking the latter as people are getting more and more politically involved. But it really just comes down to what your milieu is. The political/transient milieu might be changing, but I wouldn't really know.

On a broader note, I would say this city underwent a revolution during the Obama years. People began to dress better, look better (there was an article in The Economist around 10 years ago about how DC went from having nearly the fewest gyms in the country per capita to having the most or almost the most in a matter of years). If DC ever was Hollywood for the Ugly, it CERTAINLY isn't that anymore. People began to care more about sitting in good restaurants and not just drinking Folger's coffee. Bike lanes really took off at that time. I won't speculate why these people and that specific moment demanded these changes, I'm just stating that's when and who changed the city. It has been relatively stable/consistent since.

Metro actually used fare cards from day 1 and it was revolutionary tech for the time (although BART introduced them just 5 years earlier, but let's ignore that). Tokens were used for busses and, fucking amazingly, are still legal tender for WMATA (page 23)

I feel ya, brother. That was one of the distinctive features of the Metro