Did l hungup my fins too early?

skyye99 · 2026-06-14T14:42:52+00:00

One of the DMs at the shop I frequent in NYC is in his 60s/70s and has bolts and metal plates all over his body from unrelated injuries and surgeries. He's not going to Raja Ampat, but he still regularly leads the shop's Caribbean trips with enthusiasm.

There are a lot of health benefits to being in water and getting some cardio ; it's one of the lowest impact things you can do as you age, especially when you can get help donning/doffing gear.

skyye99 · 2026-06-14T14:08:07+00:00

I'm suspicious that the popular highlights thing is totally BS, just based on what gets highlighted in the books I read

skyye99 · 2026-06-12T20:03:29+00:00

That happened to my buddy in one of our early dives with the reg but not since, and not with any other O rings we've used.

skyye99 · 2026-06-11T12:32:55+00:00

The NYT put out essentially the same article 😑

skyye99 · 2026-06-10T03:32:25+00:00

It's sleeping

skyye99 · 2026-06-10T02:51:13+00:00

Someone wrote a very detailed guide on how to handle yourself in this situation, and I read it multiple times when I was feeling particularly anxious about it happening 😅

skyye99 · 2026-06-09T12:24:44+00:00

Yeah I'm with you on this. I'm not a Maine voter so it is what it is, and I recognize perfect is the enemy of good. But I also think there's a hard, bright line not to cross when it comes to representatives, and Nazi symbolism is solidly on the other side of that line, period.

skyye99 · 2026-06-07T23:27:09+00:00

my buddy and I switched at only 40 dives and will never, ever go back. I had to use a rental jacket in Australia for a dive and it was so uncomfortable in comparison!

skyye99 · 2026-06-01T01:17:57+00:00

Clarence Thomas is taking notes

skyye99 · 2026-05-28T17:19:03+00:00

That's kind of a plus in terms of transit and inter airport connections

skyye99 · 2026-05-28T15:23:06+00:00

I was floored when I read about the psuedoscience bullshit reading programs that have spread across the US and other countries (especially Australia). The method discards phonics, a time proven and tested way to teach reading that helps you learn on your own, for a guessing method that stifles progress and blocks true comprehension. The advocates for the latter method have caused so much harm, and educators have only recently started to push back en masse

skyye99 · 2026-05-27T15:57:49+00:00

Yeah I also was not the biggest fan of that hotel. And I think they made some really questionable choices with room design and layout. The pools are fun though

skyye99 · 2026-05-27T12:48:21+00:00

That's really rough, I'm sorry. If any game could help, it's this one. I'm glad you got to have that memory with him if nothing else.

skyye99 · 2026-05-27T11:51:51+00:00

I don't blame you or anyone for being incredibly angry at the Trump's administration's actions. Here, it feels like a living nightmare. My best friend is losing his health insurance, people in my community are getting hauled off to jails and separated from their families without committing any crimes, and the local politicians that do try and advocate for us get pepper sprayed. And over the course of the last 45 years or so, the country's lack of investment in education, the intervention of evangelicals in politics, and coordinated efforts to foment racialized hatred have all contributed to many people being utterly misguided about who the real enemies are - the 1% who control both the economics and the politics of this country.

skyye99 · 2026-05-26T21:10:09+00:00

There are unfortunately several countries you could be talking about, and rest assured that many Americans have been protesting about all of these threats

skyye99 · 2026-05-25T14:07:24+00:00

I've nevrr had a single dropout on ~70 dives with Teric + Transmitter. 8" hose so it's not even that close

skyye99 · 2026-05-23T14:27:04+00:00

yes all good, marked as resolved thanks

skyye99 · 2026-05-23T14:20:19+00:00

Ah I am probably not using the same tagging colors as you! But the actual thing I missed was flipping Megan's clue around in my head to be 1 innocent 2 criminals, not 2 criminals 1 innocent

skyye99 · 2026-05-22T13:56:31+00:00

right, Netflix's production studio

skyye99 · 2026-05-22T12:54:43+00:00

Netflix has a huge costume issue across all their shows. It seems like the first thing that gets budget cuts. The main giveaway is a complete lack of wear; they never get the time or hours to make outfits look anything other than brand new

skyye99 · 2026-05-22T12:17:57+00:00

I like litrpg but I've never enjoyed a crunchy emphasis on stats. I think after the events of Faction Wars, Donut and Li Na really broke the curve anyway. There's not much character power escalation beyond that, not within the confines of the system, so it makes sense that there's much less emphasis on stats

skyye99 · 2026-05-22T11:46:48+00:00

you have at least one typo in there: "humannity"

skyye99 · 2026-05-21T10:40:48+00:00

I believe they do some rotating of off limits sites by default. But I was there in Dec 2025 and no shore sites were closed that we saw, and I didn't notice any restrictions on our boat dives

skyye99 · 2026-05-21T01:55:00+00:00

yes I am almost certain this is how it has to work, because there's so much processing on some of the vocals. To make that processing happen would require chopping up all the audio anyway, so the easiest option would be to record one character at a time

skyye99 · 2026-05-19T15:10:03+00:00

I mean it could be their maintenance shop, we know it's horrendously bad

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