Le Pen is reportedly accused of wrongfully diverting $5 million in funds earmarked for the European Parliament to staffers of her nationalist, xenophobic party, the National Rally, over a 12-year period.

I hate soft worded journalism. She isn’t reportedly accused of shit. She was found guilty.

I was thinking the exact same thing. If you pay a bunch of people to have a political opinion, it must be natural to think that everyone who has a political opinion is being paid.

I… I didn’t know you could do that.

Honestly not the best alibi, seeing that it’s completely plausible to go out and commit arson in the time it takes between late game Civ turns.

It depends on the version of Lemmy that your instance is running. My account is on sh.itjust.works which upgraded Lemmy versions a few months ago. Apparently it changed a parameter name that keeps track if a post has been read or not.

So on Sync, you can click on posts, but they never show as read. It’s super annoying, so I went back to Voyager.

I used to use RiF and loved Sync for Lemmy too. I just wish the developer would fix the bug for posts showing unread! It’s completely stopped me from using the app for something like 6 months now.

There are a few minor cultural differences to be aware of. But as long as you avoid saying anything negative about Star Trek or Linux, you should be just fine.

Someone just told me they’re trying to spin it as not being as incompetent as the Afghanistan pullout.

I swear to God, Republicans are incapable of going “my bad, that was my mistake.” Instead they just spin spin spin and attack attack attack.

The Daily Show did a pretty good segment yesterday highlighting the absurdity of their response about how this data didn’t count as being “war plans”:

https://youtu.be/dkK_F9wxyr8

It’s absolute insanity that they’re trying to spin this as not being classified or even sensitive info.

This has me dying - nice job!

Yeah, this would make the story exponentially worse. It’d be like if you got caught cheating on your wife and went "whoa calm down! I didn’t know that woman, she just showed up to my Friday night gang bang unannounced!”

Just goes to show you can never trust a person with “balls” in their name.

MAGA is like a real-time massive Dunning Kruger demonstration playing out in real time. These people don’t even have a basic understanding of what a government actually does. They just assume “it can’t be that hard, let’s just fire everyone and figure it out later.”

Definitely some of The Narcissist’s Prayer going on:

That didn’t happen. (Hegseth lead with this yesterday calling the journalist a liar)

And if it did, it wasn’t that bad. (Trump was here last night saying it was a small glitch)

And if it was, that’s not a big deal. (Now they’re saying “whoopsie” about adding the journalist but not addressing the use of Signal at all)

And if it is, that’s not my fault. (stay tuned)

And if it was, I didn’t mean it.

And if I did, you deserved it.

https://youtu.be/zK1Mpx9h-I8

Highly recommend this recent Extra History video about the domestication of cats

Tesla better hope the vandals behind recent attacks on its cars and showrooms don’t watch the news, because hundreds of Model 3s and Model Ys parked up together sounds like a dream come true for protestors. We’ve asked Tesla—who famously disbanded its press team in the US—about the lots full of cars, but so far, we haven’t received a response.

Lol at the author basically saying “anyone wanna burn this shit down?”

Holy shit, I get that polls don’t always tell a complete picture, but this dude lost 10 points of approval ratings with boomers in a single week.

https://sh.itjust.works/post/35017670

The White House has denied war plans were texted to the group, and Hegseth on Monday denied the reporting as well, calling Goldberg “a deceitful and highly discredited, so-called journalist who’s made a profession of peddling hoaxes time and time again.”

Fuck it, I say call their bluff and release it.