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… 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.

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.

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.

Thanks! Q4 numbers are a little down. I guess it’ll be the Q1 numbers that should be the most interesting.

I was referring to Tesla sales in the US, not just the stock price. I keep seeing how sales are down X% in Germany or Y% in the UK, but even during their last quarterly meeting, I don’t recall hearing anything about their US numbers.

I keep seeing these numbers from Europe, but have yet to see North America numbers. I’m curious to see if sales are tanking in the US even harder.

I don’t want to come across as if I’m defending this, because I absolutely don’t agree with anything these shit heads are doing. But to answer your question, getting rid of the Department of Education doesn’t mean getting rid of public schools (at least not immediately).

Most of those are funded and run by local governments. So they won’t just be closing because there’s no Dept of Education.

However, this move will ultimately heavily affect public schools in the long run. Conservatives seem to hate the idea of separation of church and state - so they’ve been pushing forever to allow religion in schools. The only way they can do this right now is through private religious schools. Their problem is that private schools are privately funded.

Their ultimate goal is to be able to take taxpayer money away from public schools and move it to private schools. Ultimately, this will decimate many public schools.

“I think he says at the end of ’26, he’s gonna start making tons of robots, ’27 and ’28, he thinks 2028 you and I are each gonna have five robots each. They’re gonna mow our lawn and they’re gonna make us coffee and they’re gonna make our bed…and they’re gonna fix our bathroom and renovate our bathrooms — I’m telling you we are gonna have very nice bathrooms!”

Wtf is this man smoking?