u/jaiagreen

This happened last weekend but I only have time to post about it now. I am a wheelchair user. I took the B Line to Union Station, got off, tapped at the gate to exit... and nothing happened. Tapped again, nothing happened. (My card had worked fine when I got on the train.) I looked for another accessible gate, but there wasn't one. I tried a couple more times and still nothing. I was hit by the absurdity of having gotten to my destination only to be unable to leave the station -- and not because of a broken elevator, which at least makes sense, but because of a fare enforcement policy. At that point, another passenger opened the emergency gate for me and thankfully it wasn't alarmed.

I know a lot of people on this sub are fans of TTE, but fare validators break sometimes and it can cause real problems for people who can't just go to another gate. If Metro wants to implement TTE at a station, there should first be at least two accessible gates there. Really, all stations should have at least two because not being able to get on your train also sucks, but it's less ridiculous than this was.

I recently started working in a data scientist role for the first time, pivoting from mathematical ecology. (It's actually at an environmental organization, so the fit is great.) The job is hybrid, mostly remote. So far, it's been going really well.

Last week, they asked me to do a power analysis of a planned study. (Yay!) Of course, this requires a lot of information about measurements, expected values, outliers, what size change would be of interest, etc. I asked the necessary questions on Slack, along with some follow-ups and reminders. They were able to get me much of the information I needed and I found some in the literature, but it felt like I was bugging people (including my boss). Does anyone have communication tips on getting this kind of info from colleagues?

In the past year or two, I've started to develop a bit of a phobia around driving my powerchair over bridges (on the sidewalk), even when there's adequate space and I know rationally that the situation is well within my skills and my equipment's capabilities. This makes it much harder to actually cross the bridge, because my body responds strongly to those kinds of emotions and driving becomes harder, so it's a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I know that exposure is the usual treatment for this but that going too fast can make things worse. Are there any resources people here would recommend for this? If it's still a problem when I see my doctor in October, I'll ask about a therapy referral, but would like to see if I can handle it myself first.

I recently started a hybrid job and the physical location is near Santee Passage Food Court, so I thought I'd stop by and finally try Holy Basil. I came right after 5 pm. They were closed, which might not have been too surprising at that hour (they open for dinner at 5), but the security guard came up to me said and said that they had moved to 7th St. and Mateo. I can't find anything about this on their website or Instagram, though. Does anyone know what's up?

I run Linux Mint 22.3 with Cinnamon and got a new monitor that's a couple of inches larger than my old one and has 1920x1080 resolution. I was hoping to fit more content onto the screen, especially in web browsers, but instead everything is just larger. I tried enabling fractional scaling but 75% is way too small and there's nothing between 75% and 100%. Is there a way to make more fine-grained adjustments or another solution to this?