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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • I’m all for the establishment of a free Palestinian state, but Hamas has to go.

    Preferably through police action rather than the genocide that is a military intervention by Israel.

    Anyway, the Israeli government is in the wrong on all the counts you raised, but Hamas still needs to go. They’ve been fully co-opted by all sorts of outside groups, and their rule in Gaza before October 7th was one of fear and oppression. They are no one’s saviors, they’re just the meanest bastards in the prison, lashing out at the guards while abusing the other prisoners.

    The actual path to peace is a multinational police and peacekeeping force to come in and take over from the IDF, keeping the IDF out of it completely, and then opening up Gaza and the West Bank to the rest of the world. Possibly even ejecting the settlers from the West Bank and giving the land back.

    But a large part of this would be arresting Hamas leadership.

    And don’t think I’d let the IDF and Israeli government off scot-free for their part in all this. I’m sure there’s plenty of room in the local prisons for all the bastards in this mess.

    The end goal might be a single, secular state, where all people are guaranteed full rights and protections by the government.








  • No, Rian Johnson is a pretty shit storyteller as well.

    A competent storyteller would have seen that Carrie Fisher died, looked at the release window of the movie, with a full year left, and then ordered a single reshoot to kill Leia off instead of pulling a Space Merry Poppins.

    He also completely abandoned Finn’s Force potential in favor of whatever the fuck that casino raid was.

    And then there was the noble sacrifice that Finn was going to make, which was foiled because he decided that Finn should have a love interest, but didn’t lay any of the groundwork for it, and the sacrifice could have actually saved the day.

    So instead, he invents the hyperspace kamikaze.

    Honestly, that entire movie felt like a long filler sequence. The stakes never actually changed, and there was no payoff of anything. It was a placeholder movie, only meant to be the second in a trilogy. And the fans hated it so much that the last movie spent a good amount of runtime retconning it all.



  • The image says any cheese…

    This is false.

    There are two main categories of cheese, Acid and Rennet.

    If the cheese is made with Rennet, it will melt, and sodium citrate will make it smooth and creamy.

    If the cheese is made with acid, then it will never melt. It will burn first. Think Feta or similar.

    The exception is very long aged cheeses. They don’t melt all that well, even though they’re made with Rennet.

    Every Rennet cheese is aged, if only a few weeks, acid cheeses will spoil if aged.



  • Well, a part of it is that the people of Gaza are not allowed to leave.

    There are only a handful of crossings out of Gaza and Israel controls all but one. The Egyptian crossing leads out into a desolate desert with no services.

    Want to hop on a boat and flee that way? Israel will torpedo you. Want to walk up to the wall to see the boundary of your prison? Israel will machine gun you down, no questions asked, no warnings given.

    A large portion of the population of Gaza started out as refugees, forced out of their homes and off of their land so that Zionist settlers could have it.





  • I think I met you guys in 2004 or 2005 at Anime Weekend Atlanta… I’m pretty sure I still have a sticker or card or something that you were handing out.

    It was shoved in a storage trunk that I was digging into last year, and like any good cleaning day, I put it back where I found it and put the trunk back into the closet.