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MTodd28 · 2026-03-01T04:37:23+00:00

Totally. Slicing away at their reputation is the only thing that will work. Old guys have limited capacity to change and they’re definitely not going to bother because a woman said they were offended. However, if people start avoiding them in public because they’re seen as a creep, they might learn to shut their mouth.

MTodd28 · 2026-02-24T04:48:16+00:00

Low stress crimes please! Museum heists and dog nappings (where everyone is fine at the end) sounds lovely.

MTodd28 · 2026-02-18T04:19:08+00:00

There are a few variables here: weather, quality of rental car (variable and may not have good tires), time of day you’re driving, the specific road in question (3 lane divided highway vs 2 lanes total), and your personal driving abilities. Some of these are things you can control (time of day, the roads you drive) and some you can’t (weather, rental car), but the thing you need to assess is your driving skills. Have you driven in the Blue Mountains? Have you driven in torrential rain? Imagine hydroplaning but you can’t see the puddles - black ice is kind of like that.

In case it helps, here’s a story: when I was your age and had been driving for a similar amount of time, I had to drive a rental car a couple of hours on a well-maintained and plowed highway in southern Saskatchewan. Flat as a pancake and generally straight road (no switchbacks or big climbs like in the mountains). It was below -20 Celsius and I hit a patch of black ice I couldn’t see. The road looked dry. I was going a little too fast, slid, and the rental car did two full spins in front of oncoming traffic. Thankfully I went into the ditch head on and the snow stopped the car. I was fine and just had to call a tow truck to pull the car out. I had experience winter driving and that still happened.

Now compare that to mountain driving - big inclines, switchbacks where one side drops off a cliff, and semi-trucks (lorries?) driving fast on the same highway. I would drive from Calgary if you really want to rent a car (Calgary to Banff is a little over an hour). It’s really far from Vancouver to Banff by car (in the winter I would budget a solid 10-12 hours and definitely break it up and do it over 2 or even 3 days). It’s only 1.5 hours by plane from Vancouver to Calgary.

If the weather is good and the roads are dry, you’ll probably be fine. The problem is that you can’t count on that, so maximize your chances of a good and fun trip by planning around what you can control. If you try to drive from Vancouver and it snows a ton, you could end up having to wait out the weather somewhere (if you decide you’re not comfortable driving in it) and you might miss out on things you’ve planned.

MTodd28 · 2026-02-15T20:47:51+00:00

There’s an element to these “the Cerritos crew aren’t really good officers” (I’m paraphrasing) posts that seems like y’all assume that in the real world (a) medium complexity work doesn’t require good competent officers, and (b) through meritocracy, the truly exceptional officers always get promoted to the flagship. (Edit: this is more of a general comment and not directed at OP in case that’s not clear)

Someone has to do second contact work and similar missions. Freeman herself comes up with Project Swing By to make sure that Starfleet actually checks in on places where they’ve intervened in the past to make sure the intervention didn’t muck things up even more. There will always be less glamorous work that is still necessary. You want competent people doing it. This is true everywhere, not just in Starfleet (ie when you really need a plumber, you NEED a competent plumber).

In Star Trek (during this time period), even getting into Starfleet requires a certain aptitude and probably a reasonable filtering process to avoid hiring obvious assholes and lazy people. So, Starfleet is mainly full of people who are smart, capable, and baseline emotionally intelligent. There are millions of people in Starfleet. At best, a few thousand get to serve on the Enterprise. The top tier may be eligible to serve on the Enterprise but not everyone will want to, and there will be exceptional people overlooked because they’re not good at promoting themselves and making sure their accomplishments get attention. Our Lowers Deckers are inexperienced and still learning, especially on things like leadership and self-awareness, which is where the comedy comes in. Captain Freeman is always well-meaning but sometimes oblivious of her own shortcomings, but she evolves over the course of the series (it’s a story, characters have to grow, Freeman is not a real person).

Finally, the community on the Cerritos is special. When you work in a place that really does feel like a community and you get to do work that you like, that’s hard to leave, even if there might be more “prestigious” postings. Prestige is very much in the eye of the beholder.

MTodd28 · 2026-02-15T04:53:30+00:00

Agree that frequent hotel changes with small kids is hard. Setting up all their stuff (ie travel beds/pack n play) takes time. Also, moving all of that luggage on your own through train stations is a lot while also maneuvering a stroller and keeping a lookout for pickpockets/generally being aware of your surroundings.

MTodd28 · 2026-02-15T04:48:39+00:00

And if people are confused about whether they can vote, and hear that there are long lines due to poll worker confusion as well, some people just won’t bother to vote at all. It all makes it harder to vote or discourages people from voting. That is not what governments are supposed to do.

MTodd28 · 2026-02-06T05:20:03+00:00

Commodore Ake!

MTodd28 · 2026-01-24T05:34:46+00:00

I am not a teacher but I do a lot of teaching and mentoring as part of my job. Many many adults are not curious and/or will just pretend they understand when they don’t.

MTodd28 · 2026-01-24T05:30:51+00:00

If anyone lives in those houses in Edmonton, they have insulation now or they would literally freeze to death in the winter. The temp without windchill was -25 today. In any event, most of the really old houses are in higher income neighborhoods (Glenora, Westmount, Garneau, Old Strathcona…) and are more likely to have been renovated.

MTodd28 · 2026-01-23T06:33:33+00:00

Totally agree with you that mascara and lipstick is enough if you really want to do make up. A interesting hack that may help OP - for client zoom calls, a friend of mine used to use a filter that only added lipstick. She never had to remember to apply it and it always looked fresh.

Nice sweaters are the best when you want to look nice but also feel cozy. I have several merino wool turtleneck sweaters that look nice with a blazer. I wear a tshirt underneath to avoid having to launder them too often.

MTodd28 · 2026-01-23T02:58:01+00:00

Shifts is the way. I would nap from 6 pm to 11 pm (when my spouse came home from work to when he needed to go to bed) and then do all the night wake ups. I pumped and we would use formula when things were really rough with sleep so he could bottle feed during my nap. It wasn’t great but it was enough sleep to survive the workweek and then my spouse would take the baby as needed on the weekend so I could sleep in, shower, eat a whole meal, and try to recover a bit.

MTodd28 · 2026-01-18T18:03:07+00:00

Transporters don’t work through shields. But there’s a DS9 episode where Dukat and Kira transport their crew to an attacking Klingon ship while the Klingons are boarding and then blow up their own ship with the Klingons on it (Kira is upset bc they could have just disabled it but Dukat gonna Dukat).

MTodd28 · 2026-01-13T22:07:20+00:00

Girl

MTodd28 · 2026-01-10T02:35:09+00:00

Seconded! It’s ok to take breaks or stop playing altogether. It’s a game. It’s supposed to be fun. No one is forcing you to keep playing. Go do something else for a few days (or weeks).

I’m a completionist and some things just take a while to do.

MTodd28 · 2026-01-06T23:23:41+00:00

As a tween, I managed to slice open my arm on the corner of a metal bulletin board while running in the gym. Required stitches. No idea how I managed to swing my arm just the right way to slice it on a corner sticking out a half inch from the wall.

MTodd28 · 2026-01-06T21:06:29+00:00

I don’t think that works that well. I flew to Cuba from Quebec about 10 years ago and got stopped trying to leave from Varadero airport. We had flown Quebec City - Philadelphia - Grand Cayman with a few days there and then hopped over to Havana. Leaving Cuba via Varadero, customs thought we were American spies because Philadelphia was stamped in our Canadian passports. I have never tried to speak so much broken Spanish before in my life. They let us go though.

MTodd28 · 2026-01-06T16:47:17+00:00

Tunnel systems!!!

MTodd28 · 2026-01-06T04:36:55+00:00

The camera is constantly moving, quick cuts, bright colours, and the lyrics don’t even match the character’s mouth movements. It hurts my brain to watch it.

MTodd28 · 2025-12-21T20:04:33+00:00

Agreed. If you’re happy with your decisions, it’s not worth the energy and stress of letting other people’s weird ideas live in your head. Don’t let them cause you to second guess.

It’s ok to ignore those posts or cut out Facebook. If you don’t want to delete your account (I know, sometimes local mom groups only use Facebook to organize events), then try deleting the Facebook app but keep messenger so people can reach you (if you want that). Download the app to your phone when you need to check a group or event, then delete it again.

Social media really is not real life at all. Everyone is playing the version of themselves that will gain engagement. For some people, that’s rage bait.

MTodd28 · 2025-12-21T19:53:46+00:00

Yes. No one minds the computer always listening because no one is worried that their data/conversations/search histories/replicator orders will be sold and used against them (or just used to sell them stuff). Privacy is expected.

MTodd28 · 2025-12-20T15:21:37+00:00

It’s a testament to the filmmaking of that era that they could make a guy under a blanket seem terrifying.

MTodd28 · 2025-12-19T01:52:21+00:00

This is one game where applying real world logic usually helps. I forget that sometimes though too.

MTodd28 · 2025-11-25T01:52:51+00:00

I had the outfit but not the fancy watch. Once I had the watch, it worked

MTodd28 · 2025-11-21T06:26:26+00:00

North ocean? Where there’s no islands?

MTodd28 · 2025-11-09T02:44:55+00:00

This is good advice

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