It’s a hero extraction shooter, think Tarkov or Arc Raiders

The Crushinator

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Action Lab painted a room with the whitest white paint availble

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I follow some home inspectors who post videos from their new home inspections, and holy crap the things they find are ridiculous. Like, construction companies should lose their licenses bad.

4th Grade - my friends and I used to fold up pieces of paper into ‘guns’ that we would play with. They basically looked like a big L. It was right when zero tolerance policies started to get implemented, so of course I got 3 days suspension for my paper. That same year another kid got the same for an action figure gun.

11th Grade - in computer science class all of our exams were written only. I finished my test early, then went to a computer to work on my coding project for that week. The teacher I guess first thought I was cheating on the test, so called me to the front to make an example of me. When she learned I had already turned in my test she changed the charge to using the school computers for non school activities. When I demonstrated that I was working on my project she changed again to say that using the computer was against the agreement we all signed at the start of the year regarding appropriate use of the school computers. I asked to see what part of the agreement I had violated, and she pulled out the sheet to show me. When that didn’t back her up she again changed her approach, this time writing me up for Saturday detention for “not bringing my book to class”. I went to the Vice Principal to contest the entire issue, but he just told me to go to the detention anyway. I ended up spending an hour cleaning marker off of the walls.

Okay, but a ‘surgical strike’ was still uncalled for and illegal, and any amount of deaths is too many.

The Russian shadow fleet bypassing oil sanctions and performing sabotage has been an open secret for a long time, it just saddens me that the legal systems at play have been so slow to do anything about it until now.

Let’s do the Chinese shadow fishing fleet next.

A lot of the time they are flying a flag of convenience and not claiming to be Russian

Etching runes onto stone by blasting little bits of metal into miniature suns.

Okay, hear me out. Start with frozen mini burritos - heat them up about halfway and cut them in half lengthwise. Then get your frozen pizza of choice and lay the burrito halves on it radially and cover with liberal amounts of shredded cheese. Then bake as per pizza instructions, adding maybe 3 minutes. Cut into slices and serve it forth.

For all practical matters, the rule of law in the US has been suspended in favor of the rule of force.

Just wait until they learn about EUV photolithography

There’s even a song about this

The vampires layer

Operating the vessel under a false flag is illegal, making the ship count as stateless and able to be boarded by anyone. The US allegation is that the Guyana flag was a false flag and the transfer of registration to Russia was illegal/null, therefore the ship can be boarded without permission in international waters.

Regardless of this case, there is the larger trend of these “shadow fleets” operating outside of international laws under the direction of their true home countries. They use international waters as a safe zone to avoid enforcement, along with tricks like flag-hopping, deactivating or spoofing their transponders, and moving cargo ship-to-ship in international waters to avoid entering a national territory. These shadow fleets are also implicated in deliberately damaging underwater cables, and in China’s case are used for illegal fishing which damages fisheries across the globe.

What I’m saying is that if the country of registry fails to enforce maritime law on the ships under their flag, or if they in fact encourage/direct the vessels to break these laws, then there are gaps in maritime law and enforcement of it. Nowhere did I say that the US is justified in breaking laws to enforce other laws, but I think it’s understandable why vigilante justice gains the support that it does.

The truth is most likely that the ship is part of the Russian shadow fleet. It may have been pretending to be registered in Guyana, then changed to Russia when they were caught out.

To my mind, the question is “does an enforcement gap exist in maritime law regarding these ships, and should the US be filling that gap?”

The aging, rusting tanker, originally called the Bella 1, was sanctioned by the US in 2024 for operating within a “shadow fleet” of tankers transporting illicit Iranian oil.

Last month the US Coast Guard attempted to seize the vessel while it was heading to Venezuela to pick up oil, then operating under the flag of Guyana. But the ship’s crew refused to be boarded and made an abrupt turn into the Atlantic.

The Bella 1’s crew later painted a Russian flag on its side, and it appeared in a Russian shipping register under a new name, the Marinera.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/08/us/russia-oil-tanker-seizure-what-we-know-intl-hnk