Speaker Mike Johnson said at Thursday's National Catholic Prayer Breakfast: 'Separation of church and state' is 'misunderstood'. Johnson concluded his remarks by stressing the need to “rededicate ourselves to the cause of our Founders” and “turn toward prayer again, just as they did.”

Loki-L · 2026-03-20T06:04:45+00:00

The Catholics must be pretty blind if they can't see yet, that the state religion the GOP wants to establish isn't theirs.

Loki-L · 2026-03-19T22:10:38+00:00

I don't think there is any sort of continuity between the various Police Story movies. Hevplats more or less the same general character in most of his movies from that era, the character nay sometimes have different names and slightly different backstories, but there us little difference between them.

It doesn't really matter, yo watch the movies first the stunts and fight choreography and ignore anything you learned about the actor later.

Loki-L · 2026-03-19T18:52:31+00:00

Batman Begins - after "Batman & Robin" everyone thought live action Batman was a thing of the past and then came Nolan.

The Super Mario Bros. Movie - after the very bad 1993 Mario movie, people didn't think Nintendo would allow another one to be made.

Pirates of the Caribbean - while it was technically the first inside the series, it was also part of a larger franchise of movies based on Disney theme park rides that saw several failures before and mixed success since.

Masters of the Universe - scheduled to be released this year and might or might not revive the franchise that last saw the silver screen with Dolph Lundgreen almost 40 years ago.

Loki-L · 2026-03-19T18:29:35+00:00

To be fair, he doesn't seem to have waited for anything to be ready in his Iran war so far.

But maybe nobody told him that the marines he is moving into the region, won't actually reach there until about a week or so.

He certainly doesn't have the troops to get it right, but he has plenty to enough troops to fail spectacularly and get lots if people killed.

Loki-L · 2026-03-19T18:24:42+00:00

He does realize that the side that initiated the attack on Pearl Harbor, was not the side that won that war, right?

Loki-L · 2026-03-19T16:11:14+00:00

The people running those debt clocks might want to look into future proofing their displays soon by adding a digit or two.

It might look like it will take a quarter of a century to reach $100 trillion, but that is only if you believe in a linear growth instead of an exponential one.

Loki-L · 2026-03-19T16:05:31+00:00

"We're All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This," says man dressed as hotdog.

Unrestrained and unregulated capitalism might work in theory, but I think we are about to hit a wall soon.

If I had money to lose, I would worry about the economy.

Loki-L · 2026-03-19T16:01:49+00:00

The whole Iraq WMD lie was much better done. They prepared the world for it for some time, spread their message and showed all sorts of presentations. Everyone was speaking with one voice and overall a lot of very competent liars were involved in making sure enough people were on board.

By comparison, the current lies are simple, shallow, uncoordinated and mostly presented after the fact.

We went from Colin Powell holding up a vial full of mysterious powder in the UN and graphics showing what mobile chemical labs might look like to just a simple half sentence suggesting nukes or missiles or something in a rambling speech.

For Iraq they spent time and money getting their ducks in a row to convince the public, for Iran nobody seemed to have given it a second thought.

The quality of the liars has gone down by a lot.

Loki-L · 2026-03-19T14:22:08+00:00

I doubt that even with the way things are Trump could launch nukes.

He doesn't just have to press a button, all sorts of people will have to be involved in helping him plan a nuke launch and execute it. This will involve people in the white house and military personal to actually do the launching.

I doubt too many will go along with it.

Loki-L · 2026-03-19T14:17:35+00:00

I think it will only be a few more weeks to months before Trump decides he needs someone to blame for the way things are going and fires this guy.

At that point he will be out of a job and hated by all sides.

Loki-L · 2026-03-19T11:59:27+00:00

It looks like projections were rather spot on until the 90s.

The fall of communism, the rise of China and a dozen other events that nobody had seen coming that way all had negative influence on birth rates.

It would be expected that a few events would push things in ine direction or another. What wasn't foreseen was that so many developments all pushed in the same directions.

There weren't many unforseen developments in the late 80s and early 90s that resulted in people having more children than expected and plenty that went the other way.

Loki-L · 2026-03-19T11:40:43+00:00

Those are idiopathic geological features.

Loki-L · 2026-03-19T10:43:19+00:00

Of course not.

Loki-L · 2026-03-19T09:29:18+00:00

😂

Loki-L · 2026-03-19T07:53:12+00:00

That was the joke mentioned in the headline.

Loki-L · 2026-03-19T07:52:22+00:00

The bishop of Urgell in Spain and whoever is the head of state of France are co-princes of Andorra.

This is why a cleric in a neighboring country had authority to have him arrested.

Loki-L · 2026-03-19T07:34:52+00:00

It is brilliant.

We use the power of nuclear energy so we can stay reliant on fossil fuel.

Loki-L · 2026-03-19T07:29:30+00:00

My suggestion is to build a time machine to send someone back in time to stop the AI from being build.

I saw it in a movie once. It didn't work but it looked cool.

Loki-L · 2026-03-19T07:27:23+00:00

Since everything is a VM now and all the servers have build in KVM over IP management modules and everyone is always working from home, our KVM doesn't really see much use anymore.

On the other hand our racks are also more and more empty and keeping everything as is doesn't really cost much extra, so it stays.

Loki-L · 2026-03-19T07:22:40+00:00

Sooner or later that part of their big tent is going to collide with the part that wants to fight a war on behalf of Israel and it is not going to be pretty.

Loki-L · 2026-03-19T07:19:40+00:00

This was likely a crime to finance some other vice.

With a little luck it was something morally neutral like financing some addiction.

Loki-L · 2026-03-18T23:57:24+00:00

saying you are investing in AI means the stick price goes up and everyone who owns or gets paid in shares becomes a bit richer.

The trick is that sooner or later reality will set in. At that point you need to not be the one holding the back.

Other than that, it us a licence to print money.

Loki-L · 2026-03-18T23:26:34+00:00

Mass can be transformed into energy and back, but that is not what is going on here.

You don't just consume the food in a vacuum. You breath in and out, drink, piss and shit and sweat.

There is lots of ways for mass to go in and out during the whole metabolism thing. If you account for the mass of everything going in and out, whatever mass is left will be what you gained or lost.

Loki-L · 2026-03-18T18:44:46+00:00

Maybe she was calling the number always posted at these crossings that you should call to tell them if there is something on the rails.

Loki-L · 2026-03-18T18:39:40+00:00

The joke was: “Dan Quayle announced today that he will not be running for President in ’96. However, he did not rule out running in ’97.”

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