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  • I deleted my account as part of the Great Reddit Exodus of 2023 but have periodically visited the site since without an account.

    Many of the posts I see now seem really sensationalist and almost like they were created by bots. Of course, maybe Reddit was always that way and it just some time being away for me to realize that.

  • Star Trek Social Club @startrek.website
    mikerussell @lemmy.world

    Availability of Star Trek in Spanish in the US

    For a while now I have been wanting to play old episodes of TNG, DS9, VOY, and ENT in the background in Spanish during the day to passively brush up on my Spanish.

    Paramount Plus doesn't offer these shows with Spanish audio in the US, which is very odd considering that the US has the second-highest number of Spanish speakers in the world. I also tried getting a Mexican Paramount Plus account and VPNing in, which worked for a little while until they removed all older Trek content from Paramount Plus in Mexico.

    I'd really hate having to resort to DVDs and/or BluRays, but at this point that looks like my only option. Before doing that, I thought I'd ask here and see if anyone has any other recommendations.

    Frugal @lemmy.world
    mikerussell @lemmy.world

    Adopting an animal? The local animal shelter is probably your best bet.

    My daughter wanted a dog, so I spent a few months researching breeders, animal shelters, and rescues because I saw quite large price differences among these three options for adopting an animal.

    It seems like since Covid, animal breeders charge between double and quadruple what they did pre-Covid. It also seems like general animal health, shots, spay/neutering, etc. varies a lot. My daughter wanted a smaller dog, like a Maltese or Havanese, and I saw some breeders charging close to 4 grand for a puppy. On top of this, it seemed like shots, spay/neutering, etc. were still on you, which could be several hundred dollars more.

    Animal rescues I found to be the biggest hassle of all. We applied to adopt between 10-15 dogs. Out of those, I think only 3 actually replied. In all of those cases, the adoption fee was around $500 in total, and we would have still needed to foot the bill for spaying/neutering, vaccinations, etc. What really turned me off from them, though, was the whole applicat