Disgustoid @ Disgustoid @startrek.website

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I'm half her age and I don't recover from falls and injuries anywhere near as quickly as I did in my younger days. I can barely wrap my brain around how frail a 90 year old must be.

Great point about making sure places are actually open when you want to go. I think I've taken it for granted that a large majority of the places and things I typically want to see have regular-ish business hours or are open 24/7 (e.g., something in a park or other public space).

This is AWESOME advice. I have no problem hitting up tourist spots but they can be a bit much (and sometimes hugely overrated). I try to balance those out with just living in the city eating and drinking away from all the popular spots too.

If the place you're visiting has good public transit, I've also found that I strangely enjoy riding trains and buses to random places. It's a good way to immerse yourself and get off the beaten path.

I've traveled to many corners of the planet and have a different take than most. Many people try to min/max their trip, filling up every minute of every day which doesn't appeal to me at all. I prefer a laid back, impromptu schedule to give myself time to see and do stuff I didn't plan and time to breathe and enjoy being in a new place. To me, the worst thing you can do is overplan and overschedule so you're stressed out if something happens to screw up your tight schedule.

As for selecting what to do, I usually do tons of internet and book research finding things that sound interesting. I add everything to a list and to Google Maps as saved points and then try to cluster them into days, making sure I'm not packing in too much as noted above. I'm not especially concerned if I don't get to everything--if I really enjoyed a place, odds are I'll return and put focus on different experiences.

Me neither. How long till old.reddit.com goes away? That was supposed to be the next big spike in the Lemmy growth curve.

I can't believe I read that whole thing. I take that back, I can't believe Reddit actually thought this was a good idea and put it out into the world.

Even though I was on Reddit for 9 years, I never frequented r/startrek until this year and saw the mod posts about starting a fresh Lemmy instance. Being a member of the Federation in the Fediverse just really appealed to my geek brain.

I love the Enterprise-D so much I paid through the nose to get an Eaglemoss model of it for my work desk. I'm new to that whole side of collectibles and good lord, you can drop some serious coin on those.

I, too, like to place my garbage dump on the border so my neighbor can enjoy the aroma.

Wow, what I wouldn't give to erase my memory and watch some of those shows for the first time again.

I'm currently doing a rewatch of DS9 and I stand by my opinion that the second season is loaded with good episodes; most people shrug off the first two seasons and say the show doesn't get good until the third season but not me.

Just like that hew-mon root beer barf

I hope this cursed image never becomes a meme or response template.

I didn't know he wasn't going to re-sign with the Hawks. IMO, he was the better of their two main goalies last year (the other being Petr Mrazek).

So what I'm understanding is that the big plot twist is that we're all holograms??! Really? Talk about predictable and boring.

Sisko punches Q

This instance is my first real foray into the Fediverse (aside from an unused Mastodon account) and it's been smooth sailing compared to the issues some other places have suffered through.

That Tomb Raider thing was completely asinine. It was a quality reboot of a series that had gone horribly off the rails with a lot of promise and Square tanked it with completely unreasonable expectations, apparently expecting sales in the dozens of millions. And here we are with FF apparently not meeting expectations as well--it's easy to see where the issue is, and it's not with the games.

Chicago has a weirdly high number of mattress chain stores. There's a stretch near me that has 3 of them in the span of 4 blocks. They've all been there for awhile and there's rarely ever anyone in them. No way these are legit businesses considering how often people buy mattresses.

I'm Asian. If my earwax is super dry and flaky, I hate to see the sludge coming out of other people's ears.

As for deodorant, I switched to a smaller variety of Tom's in my travel kit because the travel-sized ones from big box stores suck. I think the one I bought is aimed at women since their website shows bigger, blacker packaging for their deodorant aimed at men. I'm thinking of switching over to my travel kit ones on a permanent basis because of the fresh lemongrass and lavender scents.

Despite being a huge Trek fan, I forgot all about this show, having only seen a handful of episodes. The reviews here kind of have me wanting to actually watch it and see the slow motion trainwreck for myself.

I didn't know Firefox and Pocket were linked, having just switched over to Firefox after Google's antics.

I used Pocket all the time on Android when I had a commute via public transit and would save longer articles I found to read during the ride. Looking at the articles I have saved, my use has definitely dropped since I started working primarily from home though.

You can do it! I have faith in you!

(Also resisting taking out the trash, um...because it's drizzling and gloomy outside )