I wish we had more multi level stations like this. I love the energy of so many trains coming and going all around. Despite living in the area my whole life I sometimes just stand and watch them from above.

I remember being in highschool over 20 years ago now when they first started doing the planning and excited I'd be able to take the Metro to Dulles "soon". When I look at other various projects being considered around the area I figure I'll be retired before they come to any type of fruition.

Most of Loudoun's busses stop running at 7pm so...ya. It's also stupidly difficult to get to the new Loudoun Metro stations unless you wanna go during normal commuting times.

What I really wish is that the Camden line ran all day like the Penn line.

It took me about half an hour to walk back yesterday, although granted some of that was thanks to crowds. Probably would have been closer to 20 otherwise. So doable, but not what I would call close.

To be fair, it's a fairly long walk from any of the metro stops to the tidal basin. I took the bus from the metro and that was also a terrible idea because of how bad traffic was. I ended up waking back.

Always look like you know where you're going, even if you don't. Look like wherever you are, you have every right to be there. I can always spot people from more rural areas by the look in their eyes, they always look lost and a little overwhelmed. I'm not someone up to no good, but if I was I know who would make an easy target by that look. I see those sorts of people approached a lot. Looking confident is key. It's ok to be "rude" and not talk to people that approach you, 90% of the time they want money. You're likely going to see homeless encampments. While I advise not getting too close if you can, MOST of the time if you don't bother them they won't bother you.

The theater scene here is probably only behind NYC in scope. There's SO many shows!

Also since all bars have to also technically be a restaurant, you get WAY more people bringing their kids to what is very clearly an adult environment and that gets annoying fast. Some places have a no kids after a certain time policy, but not many, and even the ones that do often don't enforce it.

I don't know how interesting it even is. Pretty much everything they've found is just stuff you'd find at any site that has been occupied by humans at any point.

I feel like I always just accidentally stumble upon them. Or I see a bunch of people on the metro with signs on their way to/from a protest.

It FEELS much slower for sure.

How exactly does viewing stuff in the library work? I've always been curious but too nervous to do more then look around the public areas and figured (I now realize falsely) that I needed to be in academia or something.

I wish more places would have this policy to be honest. This happens to me all the time and it's really frustrating when you see all the people with a single cup and very obviously camped out for the day with more available seats.

Which figures it's been beautiful most of the week and tomorrow when I actually have plans it's gonna be freezing again.

There's a decent number of people that honestly just have zero interest in rejoining society. A lot of people don't want to accept that. "Just give them homes" isn't a catch all solution.

After living though the AIDS crisis in the 90s and how BIG of a deal it was, it's so weird to me how generally ignored it's been that it's not only no longer a death sentence but also now potentially curable. Probably because it's been a long slow road rather than one miracle cure, but still something I would have never imagined back then. Like, ya it's reported but it's not a huge world shaking headline.

I remember like 10 years ago I kept seeing all these stories about how the PC and laptops in particular were dead and tablets were the future since they were outselling them. Not that, like, tablets were new and people were buying one for the first time.
I love my tablet, but for me it's really more of a toy. Scrolling through something sitting on the sofa or watching a movie on a plane. It's not something I replace until my old one won't function anymore and even then if I found myself in a tough financial situation, like, say the current state of inflation, it's not something I NEED.

So the food is just generic level Chinese, but I love taking out of town people to Wok and Roll because it was the boarding house used by the Lincoln assassination conspirators. https://ghostsofdc.org/2015/03/02/mary-surratt-house-wok-roll-dc/

The fighting over the silver line delayed the project by years. It was so incredibly frustrating to watch.

Interesting. I wonder if the staff just stopped caring, I'm sure it's more trouble then it's worth. Every time I've gone since 2020 there were a bunch of pissed off people and exasperated staff arguing about passes and people trying to make one then and there on their phone. I'm assuming you went in through the main entrance on Connecticut Ave?

They've required entry passes ever since they reopened after Covid. Just double checked as I haven't been since summer and it says they still do. They rarely are all gone but it's still annoying.

Kennedy Center does a ton of free stuff. I mean you aren't gonna see a Broadway show for free, but some of their free offerings are pretty decent.

I still hate that the zoo makes you have passes now. I used to love just randomly deciding to walk through there on a whim.

People turning right on red that don't even slow down or look as well. I almost got bowled over by of all things an FBI suv while crossing the street on a Walk signal going to the Holiday Market. You'd THINK you'd be extra careful there.

No actually. It's more about how quickly an AI could surpass what a human is capable of because they are just so fundamentally different. Like the fact that he thinks he's having these meaningful one on one conversations only to find out that she's having thousands of conversations at once because she is perfectly capable of doing that. https://youtu.be/Ku858jn0Qzc