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Cake day: June 29th, 2025

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  • According to activists from the village of Umm al-Khair in the West Bank, where the shooting took place, the killing happened after a settler in a bulldozer drove through their land, destroying trees and property.

    When a resident approached to ask the driver of the bulldozer to stop, the driver knocked him down with the blade of the bulldozer. Residents began to throw stones, and Levi allegedly emerged from the settlement and began firing. Hathaleen, who was standing a distance away from the confrontation, was then struck by a bullet.

    Here are a couple of things the article doesn’t mention:

    Hathaleen (the victim) was recently deported from the US back to the West Bank while preparing to embark on an interfaith speaking tour. He was a nonviolent peace activist.

    Levi (the perpetrator) is a terrorist who has repeatedly attacked Palestinians on their own land, set fire to their fields, destroyed their property, and threatened them. He’s a menace who attempts to provoke confrontations. He was sanctioned by the US and EU, but Trump ended his sanctions earlier in the year. Genocidal forces within the Israeli government back Levi, along with many other so-called “settlers.”

    Since October 2023, over 1,000 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank by Israeli terrorists like him, and 7,000 more have been injured. Israel has demolished the homes of over 6,000 Palestinians in the West Bank. But it’s not like it started then; this has been ongoing for years.

    Many of the “settlers” are Zionist Jews from the United States, particularly NYC. A disproportionate number of US immigrants to Israel move to the West Bank, which leads to situations like extremists from Brooklyn invading Palestinian homes. Even setting aside the genocide in Gaza, no ethical person aware of the facts can look at this situation and conclude Israel has the moral high ground. (No, this doesn’t mean a terrorist group like Hamas does either, but when faced with a government actively committing genocide, Palestinians have been remarkably restrained.)

    Edit: Oops, I got fired up before seeing that this was posted in a movie community.







  • Interesting article. Just one of these vessels can cost $5M to remove and destroy. One of them sank in the Columbia and it would cost Oregon $25M to remove it and clean up environmental damage, which Oregon doesn’t have the funds for. Yet the federal government is selling them for as low as $5,000, often without verifying means and insurance. Sounds like the federal government should be paying to do the removal directly, but of course then they couldn’t shift the cost to states.

    Notable here is that the only shipbreaker companies in the country authorized to do business with the federal government are located in Brownsville, Texas, so in the event the ships are large enough to justify the cost and seaworthy enough to make the journey, this effectively becomes yet another tax Pacific Northwest citizens pay that goes to red states.

    Abandoned and derelict vessels are quietly piling up in Washington and Oregon waterways, posing a threat to fragile marine ecosystems. At least 37 of these vessels in the Pacific Northwest, including the Pacific Producer, were formerly property of the Navy, Coast Guard or another federal agency, then bought by someone who later abandoned it. Together, these former government vessels have cost Washington state and Oregon over $21 million to remove and destroy.






  • Thank you. I read the entire article and I don’t really understand what the OP is trying to achieve with this post, which no one from that group will read, just as no one from that group has ever played a video game. They just seem like publicity-seeking busybodies with time to kill between complaints about their neighbors to their HOAs.

    In particular I still don’t understand why any of this is relevant to retro games. Modern games, sure. But it doesn’t look like they’re trying to get Crash Bandicoot banned from Steam.