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Cake day: June 12th, 2026

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  • I don’t think it’s a problem to be selfish, if you can provide for the kid (both emotionally and materially).

    Also the foster/adopt system is exceedingly slow (months to years for placement) and the older children are likely to have serious issues. Personally I’d be fine with fostering to adopt but I don’t want to risk bringing a behavioral nightmare of a teen into my house.

    For new life, assuming the emotional + material needs are met, existence is definitely worth it over nothingness. Global warming and all these authoritarian politicians are definitely making for a shitty looking future for new life though.













  • I’m mainly responding to your quote about new things being against the established order and my view of NuTrek is extremely biased since I mainly get my information from RedLetterMedia but do you think NuTrek ackchyually can sit on its own laurels?

    I did watch Picard’s 3 seasons and I think it highlighted pretty well the problems with NuTrek:

    • retconning established lore to the extreme (slavery vis a vis androids is cool with the federation, earth has super drug problems)
    • gratuitous violence (I was disgusted watching the equivalent of SAW with the Borg torture porn)
    • action action action (can’t have any philosophy, gotta have fast paced machinegun phaser shootouts)

    I could probably come up with more issues, but it’s been a bit and I’m never rewatching Picard. NuTrek is a far cry from the old thinking man’s trek and is really watered down.