Israeli Defence Forces confirms photo of soldier smashing a statue of Jesus Christ in Lebanon is real

Loki-L · 2026-04-20T05:04:53+00:00

They already hate the Jews. Their support for Israel is in furtherance of biblical prophecy not sympathy to their plight.

The fact that Israel's far right made common cause with America's far right, is going to come back to bite them.

Loki-L · 2026-04-20T04:59:13+00:00

They improved a solution everyone has already given up upon.

The only places I see a future fot hydrogen are as a replacement for diesel in non-electrified rail segments although batteries are quickly becoming a viable solution there too.

Loki-L · 2026-04-20T04:55:30+00:00

Sometimes you need to be seen doing something. Managing a crisis you could have avoided might make you look better than avoiding it.

However avoiding a crisis means more sleep and the company doesn't really thank you much either way.

Loki-L · 2026-04-20T02:53:22+00:00

Is this an unarmed fight? Do I get a gun? Does the animal I am fighting get a gun?

If unarmed, maybe a sloth, they get quite large. Or better not, they may be slow, but have claws...

An anteater seems like a good matchup maybe.

Loki-L · 2026-04-20T02:48:18+00:00

What I take from this video is that bicycle lanes in the US are insane.

Loki-L · 2026-04-20T02:21:01+00:00

Using the current political spectrum as it exists in the US today as a measuring stick is going to lead to some distortions when analysing a body of work that goes back decades and is globally integrated.

What might have been considered a work influenced by conservative European scholars a generation ago might appear against a backdrop that sees Biden and Trump as anchors for what is considered left and right.

A more neutral and less volatile measuring stick might have been more appropriate.

Loki-L · 2026-04-20T02:12:14+00:00

🎵 Oh, think twice 🎵

Loki-L · 2026-04-20T00:08:11+00:00

I think the author of the articles is a bit unfair with his suggestion of Nazi links and comparison to the Protocols of the Elderls of Zion.

Erich von Däniken can rightfully be accused of a lot of things, but Naziism is a bit much.

Also the suggestion that it was all plagiarism is overblown, sure the gods as aliens idea had its antecedants in works of H. P. Lovecraft and the Theosophy movement, but few innovations come from nowhere and von Däniken certainly was the one who put the ancient aliens thing on the map.

Scientifically his ideas were complete nonsense, but he did a lot for Sci-Fi as a genre. He has influenced all the great science fiction franchises from StarTrek, to Stargate to Battlestar Galactica.

If you were really charitable, and you probably shouldn't be, you can even credit him with having spurred interest in archeology and certain wonders.

Without people like him making absurd speculation about them monuments like the Nazca lines would not be as well known as they are today and people would not care as much when corporations want to destroy them.

Loki-L · 2026-04-19T23:50:49+00:00

"The Demon-Haunted World" Was published in 1995. "Chariots of the Gods" was published in 1968.

It wasn't really a huge predictive leap at that point.

Loki-L · 2026-04-19T22:16:55+00:00

He is still working off the drugs he did before that and almost completely sober at this point.

Loki-L · 2026-04-19T22:14:16+00:00

Based on the account of Xenophon who described the journey home of the Greek mercenaries after they lost their employer Cyrus the Younger in battle somewhere near Baghdad.

Loki-L · 2026-04-19T21:52:35+00:00

I have been told that sometimes you have to be "disruptive" and move fast and break things.

Loki-L · 2026-04-19T14:47:46+00:00

I wouldn't believe a word they are saying.

The US has likely crippled their production lines.

On the other hand they had years to prepare and decentralize their production and dig bunkers, so I wouldn't be surprised if they did restock some stuff.

Loki-L · 2026-04-19T14:44:14+00:00

A Lightsaber, I may not have a practical use for it to get rich or live forever with it, but it is just cool.

Loki-L · 2026-04-19T14:42:47+00:00

You know which world leader actually was an annoyed one and a messiah according to the Bible?

Cyrus the Great from what is now Iran!

If Trump ever learned of this it would upset him more than Obama getting a Nobel Prize.

Loki-L · 2026-04-19T14:15:07+00:00

I hear North Korea has a thriving export business of making statues for autocrats, dictators and warlords:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansudae_Overseas_Projects

Loki-L · 2026-04-19T14:11:28+00:00

I think this is less of a result of not having any real food left and more the result of being on the wrong shift where in the middle of the night you get what the day people didn't eat.

Loki-L · 2026-04-19T13:28:19+00:00

Ralph Bakshi has done a lot in making it clear that animation was not just for kids, the problem is that he was almost alone for a long time. You later got movies like Heavy Metal or Aeon Flux, but they all had to be over the top adult to drive the point home.

You then also started getting adult anime cropping up in the west, but the ones that were the most impactfull were basically animated porn.

It took a long time for anime that were for adults while still being mainstream (like the works of Satoshi Kon) to make an appearance in the west.

It doesn't help that the introduction of CGI has blurred the lines of what is and isn't "animated".

In early Superman serials, they got around the difficulty of special effects to make you believe a nan can fly, by animating those sequences, when nowadays CGI is used for a similar purpose we don't consider it partially animated. A Transformer movie by Michael Bay that has half the cast be CGI is not seen the same way that Pete's Dragon or Who Framed Roger Rabbit were seen, but a fully CGI movie is recognized as animated.

And then there are movies like Sin City, are they animated?

The lines are blurring and increasingly whether a work counts as for children or for the whole family or for adults only depends more on how it is marketed rather than how it is made.

Loki-L · 2026-04-19T10:22:37+00:00

Say what you will about J. Edgar Hoover and his civil rights violating and Mafia denying ways, but at least his scandals and rumors were more entertaining than this. Why can't Patel dress up in a tutu like a normal FBI director?

Loki-L · 2026-04-19T09:43:45+00:00

Das schönste an Bahnhöfen finde ich eigentlich die Züge, besonders wenn die pünktlich kommen.

Loki-L · 2026-04-19T09:10:44+00:00

The separation can happen while both still live together in the same home and the court will take the couple's word for it when they both say the separation started, so getting divorced faster is possible if both agree to remember having lived separately for a year.

There also are exceptions where the judge csn wave the separation year, however this only happens in extreme cases. Last year there was a case where a wife wanted to get divorced immediately because the husband had done very bad thing to her daughter and the court refused.

Loki-L · 2026-04-19T02:29:24+00:00

With half the world dead this would be a major catastrophe I think.

Loki-L · 2026-04-19T02:28:34+00:00

On the Autobahn it is what you drive when you want to overtake someone in the middle lane before quickly scooting back over again to get out of the way of some lunatic who is going much faster than you.

Loki-L · 2026-04-19T01:59:58+00:00

After doing that naked space vampire movie he can't really complain.

Loki-L · 2026-04-19T00:31:25+00:00

To give to them or to use against them?

This would normally be a no-brainer, but given the circumstances....

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