@2827a0a2

Interestingly, the oldest settler community in #Alberta, located at the NW edge of #yeg, ended up hashtagging themselves as #T8N, which is their postcode.

Why? Likely because #stalbert (St. Albert) looks a *bit* too stabby at a quick glance. 

😀

 @b541bfe5 

 @b541bfe5 

Good grief. That's ridiculous!

Then again, I've had ETS drivers yell at me for 'taking too long' to tap my ARC card. You know, becuase my hands are otherwise occupied with my crutches and I am not clever enough to carry my card in my mouth or something? 😡

#yeg
#yegtransit

@a5ca146b 

 @b541bfe5

As imaginarily-satisfying as this might be, it's not a great idea to be dropping trou' in this way, as there most definitely CAN be serious legal consequences for exposing oneself/public urination/etc.

(One of many additional complications to experiencing homelessness, for example: necessary bodily functions are criminalised outside of specific facilities, and such facilities are not necessarily available or accessible. 😢)

 @a5ca146b 

 @b541bfe5 

Don't discount the possibility that children or disabled people using wheelchairs won't have access either! Even assuming this were useful, where would such scanners be placed?

(Remember Calgary's fancy new stair-laden library has an elevator for #accesssibility but they put the buttons up too high for wheelchair users to reach to prevent children from 'playing' with them. (Hopefully this has since been fixed).)

@a5ca146b 

 @a5ca146b

I forget the specific academic article I ran across, but apparently some facilities are using/planning to use facial recognition technology to allow access to gendered washroom spaces.

Which will undoubtedly be absolutely perfect and never deny anyone access for any reason including misanalysis of gender, facial differences, skin tone, etc etc etc, amrite??!? 🙄

Discrimination does NOT need further automation. 😡

@b541bfe5 

 @40ceb4c5 

I hope it will! *fingers crossed*

 @c444654e 

 @40ceb4c5 @c444654e 

Years ago I had to take an Rx in a lower dose than was actually avail, and of course it was in a capsule. 🙄

I was advised to dissolve the capsule's contents in 'x' amount of water and then consume the portion prescribed (half, IIRC), then drink the remainder at the next dose.

PITA to do and tasted horrendous but it did seem to work, yay? 😬

(No idea if this is manageable with a cat, nor if that med will make taste an issue but perhaps worth a try?)

Good luck! 🙂 

 @b541bfe5 

Yeah, all these jurisdictions now demanding people use the washroom of their birth-assigned sex do not actually want old bearded dudes like me in the womens' room, but that it the literal requirement of such laws soooooo … 

 @bb052609 

Oh, that would be terrible! I'm sorry. ☹️

Clarifications are SO critical! Indeed, though it amused me to just push buttons and see what happened, engineers observing me doing that flagged a big design problem: I was leaning my hand against a critical (delicate) component to reach a keypad. 

It never occured to the designers that users might do this because it was obvious to them that this should NOT be done. But, definitely not obvious to the rest of us! 😬 

 @bb052609 

I was loaned out to a small oil and gas tech firm to write a user manual for a new product. All I had were notes scrawled by electrical engineers and a protype I could push buttons on to see what happened. 😂

The engineers knew I was unfamiliar with their field but I impressed them with good questions nonetheless: usually, this was simply me identifying that they failed to use any verbs that might hint what Part A was doing with Part B. Deciphering grammar FTW! 😀