“An adjournment of sentencing would allow Mr. Santos to continue contributing to the podcast’s operations during this critical growth period,” wrote Santos’s attorneys in their motion. “This ensures the project can meet its contractual and financial obligations, which includes paying Mr. Santos his due compensation.”

Meta has appointed three new members to its board of directors, including Dana White, the president and CEO of Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and a familiar figure in the orbit of the incoming president, Donald Trump.

The social media company, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, is also adding the auto tycoon John Elkann and the tech investor Charlie Songhurst, Meta’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, said in a Facebook post late on Monday.

Tapping White to join the board is Zuckerberg’s latest maneuver to improve ties with Trump, who was once banned from Facebook. After Trump won re-election in November, Zuckerberg dined at the president-elect’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, gifting him a pair of Meta Ray-Bans smart glasses, and Meta donated $1m to Trump’s inauguration fund. Other big tech companies such as Amazon have donated similar amounts. Meta has also promoted its most prominent conservative, Joel Kaplan, to the company’s top policy job in another move meant to strengthen connections to conservatives.

designs your cities so you can't be farther than 2 ft away from a road at any given time and then complains that car attacks only happened because of woke

cross-posted from: https://thelemmy.club/post/20309904

cross-posted from: https://thelemmy.club/post/20309903

“We knew we had something special, but we didn’t know that it was going to explode like that,” said American Rounds CEO Grant Magers.

A family in Los Angeles says they're feeling misunderstood after facing scrutiny over a custom license plate that was supposed to be an endearing nod to their grandfather.

The license plate which reads LOLOCT7, is divided into three parts: "LOLO" in Tagalog means grandfather, "CT" for Cyber Truck and "7" references the number of grandchildren.

moving this post from the .world community because I am already getting annoying comments

For true stories that are so ridiculous, that you could have sworn it was an !theonion worthy story.

this story is ridiculous and onion-like because they spent millions of dollars and years fear mongering about this, only for the president to go nvm it's actually not that big of a deal

Israel’s population is projected to grow to 11.1 million by 2030, 13.2 million by 2040, and 15.2 million by 2048. That’s why hanging on to the West Bank is such a contentious issue…’lebensraum.’

These people need places to live in a nation short of land mass. Compare Israel to its neighbor Jordan, which has a smaller population, yet about five times the land area. If Israel is to maintain its agricultrural industry its exploding population will to grow up, in high rise apartment complexes, as well as out, possibly into Judea and Samaria.

Not The Onion, but yes...The Onion.

Four individuals were arrested Wednesday for allegedly attempting to defraud their insurance companies by claiming a bear had damaged their vehicles -- when in fact it was a person in a bear costume attacking the cars.

The suspects were all Los Angeles-area residents, according to a statement released Wednesday afternoon by the California Department of Insurance.

The suspects varying in age, were Ararat Chirkinian, 39, of Glendale; Vahe Muradkhanyan, 32, of Glendale; Ruben Tamrazian, 26, of Glendale; and Alfiya Zuckerman, 39, of Valley Village.

The statement said that all four were charged with conspiracy and insurance fraud.