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conulyShe gets the one with the discount, and it has her photo on it.
There was a large ad in the waiting room explaining that the MTA is phasing out the old, color-coded discounted Metrocards that had people's gender on it, and now everybody is getting a plain white one instead. This might take some time, so if you really want a new card now, you can apply for it.
Which is all well and good, but I can't help wondering who ever decided it was so important to color-code them by gender in the first place. Sometimes, just sometimes, it really does seem a bit dystopian.
In other MTA news, apparently Union Square has been turned into a cheesy, family friendly haunted house. I think I have to miss it, but too bad.
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There was a large ad in the waiting room explaining that the MTA is phasing out the old, color-coded discounted Metrocards that had people's gender on it, and now everybody is getting a plain white one instead. This might take some time, so if you really want a new card now, you can apply for it.
Which is all well and good, but I can't help wondering who ever decided it was so important to color-code them by gender in the first place. Sometimes, just sometimes, it really does seem a bit dystopian.
In other MTA news, apparently Union Square has been turned into a cheesy, family friendly haunted house. I think I have to miss it, but too bad.
23 charts and maps that show the world is getting much, much better
Pondering the staple, and separately, the stapler (But how do you staple ceramics!?)
Colored filter improves dyslexic children's reading speed
There’s Someone Buried under the Floor!
Parasites from medieval latrines tell a story of changing dietary habits
To Build a Better Mosquito Trap, First Put a Cow in a Tent
Why is this African village letting mosquitoes in? (Video)
Why Futurism Has a Cultural Blindspot
When You’re Invisible in Pop Culture
U.S. courts abruptly tossed 9,000 deportation cases. Here's why
The Employer-Surveillance State
The Isolation of Being Deaf in Prison (I sort of feel like the simplest solution here would be to have separate prisons for Deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals, and then staff those prisons appropriately. Then there'd be no more excuses on this front - or, at the very least, at least the inmates could talk to each other. It'd surely be easier to hire one set of interpreters and ASL fluent teachers and so on for a single prison than to try to have one or two on call for a whole bunch of prisons. And in this age of mass incarceration, it's not like we can't find enough Deaf inmates to fill up an entire prison.)
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Members Of The Proud Boys Violently Beat Up Protesters And Weren’t Arrested. New York Police Won’t Say Why.
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Date: 2018-10-19 04:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-10-19 09:38 pm (UTC)By first carefully drilling holes into the ceramic pieces, and then inserting the metal staple, instead of punching through with the staple itself like with paper or other stuff that won't shatter.
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Date: 2018-10-19 10:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-10-20 05:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-10-20 06:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-10-20 12:01 pm (UTC)I assume it was intended as a minimal attempt to keep people from allowing their cards to be used by other people. Not much of an attempt, as it only rules out half of the human race
They seem to have stopped doing this in the past year or two -- at least, my current monthly pass doesn't have an "M" and an "F" pre-printed on it. Somebody must have decided it was silly.
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Date: 2018-10-20 03:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-10-22 10:34 pm (UTC)