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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • It might be a new hope, but I couldn’t imagine when or where I saw it.

    I still remember my dad renting a vcr to watch empire strikes back. It was well after the release of the Return of the Jedi, but it was the first time we used a VCR.

    My family wasn’t poor, but money was tight and so we turned it into a huge home theater experience with lots of special foods and unlimited soda. The last half was basically non-stop terror for me and I loved every minute of it.

    I remember being more surprised that Luke lost his hand than Darth Vader being his father. My little kid brain just figured, yeah, that makes sense; not a lot of other potential dad figures lying around.





  • I may get downvoted for this, but I don’t know that I fully agree.

    Collateral damage implies there were valid military targets being struck.

    I know Hamas doesn’t exactly have bunkers and sandbags to shoot at, but the imagery coming out of Gaza looked a lot like an entire nation rolling up to a metaphorical bus stop and cutting loose.

    There is nothing just about what Hamas is doing or did here, and I’m so tired of having to include this caveat. But using an entire military industrial complex to perpetrate the same acts on a horrific and unimaginable scale doesn’t qualify as collateral damage.