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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/60924719

Caught the little guy resting last August.

 

Bank of America has ‌settled a civil lawsuit brought by women who accused the bank of facilitating their sexual abuse by Jeffrey Epstein, court records showed on Monday.

Lawyers for the bank and the women told Manhattan-based U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in a March 12 telephone call that they had reached a "settlement in principle," a court filing said. The terms of the settlement were not immediately clear.

[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Would I be asking if it's normal if I had?

[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 74 points 2 days ago

Fuck philanthropy, TAX THEM!

[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Three years?!?! Is that normal? I'd be ready to strike after 3 months!

[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Everyone would use it if that's just the only way it worked. I don't need to turn e2ee in Signal on. It's always on. There's no way to turn it off. So, everyone uses it. The only reason to make people jump through hoops to turn it on is if you don't actually want people using it.

[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Updated:

Officials continue to monitor conditions at Wahiawa Dam but had some good news to share late Friday night: water levels are trending down.

Heavy rains are still forecast for the next couple of hours, so the evacuation warning remains in effect.

That was at 10 pm in Hawaii, or about 3 hours ago by my rough math.

[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

In late July 2025, posts claimed an ex-CIA whistleblower alleged that the National Security Agency audited the 2024 presidential election and found that former Vice President Kamala Harris actually won.

The claims stem from an article published by a Substack account called This Will Hold on July 31, 2025. However, Snopes did not find any documentation or other evidence proving that such an audit occurred. No credible news outlet had reported on it, and the Substack article did not offer proof that it took place.

Snopes reached out to the NSA for comment on the veracity of the Substack article's claims and did not receive a response. This Will Hold also did not respond to our questions about its report and the alleged audit.

The Substack article identified a person by the name of Adam Zarnowski as the ex-CIA agent who was involved in the audit. However, Snopes could not independently verify Zarnowski's employment with the CIA or his alleged involvement in such an NSA audit.

In other words, this particular sibstack account has a documented history of spreading misinformation.

[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Sure, but the source of the problem is people with Main Character Syndrome that don't think twice about setting up camp right in the flow of traffic, all for those sweet, sweet fake internet points, or to park their shopping cart across the middle of the aisle while they ponder exactly what flavor of free range organic ketchup they want this week.

[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 37 points 6 days ago (6 children)

what’s behind Japan’s ‘bumping’ trend?

The author is constantly trying to make this a "gender dynamics" thing, but I knew the cause before reading the article. It's sprinkled throughout..

while some wondered if it was wise to take photographs in the middle of a packed intersection.

as hordes of visitors hoping to capture a perfect Instagram moment descend on busy locations in Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka to pause and film.

warned its citizens to keep a safe distance from others in crowded places and to avoid using their smartphones while walking

At the very end of the article, the author finally cones around to the simple answer.

She said she had been criticised and insulted online for taking photos of her daughter, who was uninjured, on a pedestrian crossing.

“I admit I may have been careless about the flow of people. But it wasn’t like I was ignoring traffic rules,” she said, adding that she had been following Chinese-language advice provided on Go Tokyo, a website run by the Tokyo Convention and Visitors Bureau, which tells visitors they “can even stand at the intersection and take a picture”.

I feel like this is a recent problem in a lot of places, and it's not just tourists taking pictures. It seems like it's much more common these days for people to be blocking the aisle in the grocery store with zero awareness of those around them, as just one example I've witnessed repeatedly. It's almost as if COVID taught people to be self absorbed assholes and not give a shit about others.

[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

I'm not the person you're responding to, but I'm running SmartTube on an Nvidia Shield here. Works amazing.

 

Investigators in New Mexico began searching on Monday the former high-plains ranch of Jeffrey Epstein where the late financier and his acquaintances are accused of sexually abusing women and girls, state authorities said.

Democratic-run New ‌Mexico is acting on new information in documents released in January by the U.S. Department of Justice, including an accusation that Epstein ordered the bodies of two foreign girls buried in hills near the secluded property.

The search follows New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez's decision last month ​to reopen the investigation into the late sex offender's alleged criminal activities at ⁠the ranch 30 miles (48 km) south of the state's capital of Santa Fe.

"The New ​Mexico Department of Justice will continue to keep the public appropriately informed, support the survivors, ​and follow the facts wherever they lead," it said in a statement.

On Monday, a Reuters witness heard dogs barking and saw a government vehicle bearing a paw-print symbol, suggesting it was carrying animals, ​leave the ranch. State police and a county fire and rescue vehicle were also ​spotted.

New Mexico closed its previous Epstein ‌investigation ⁠in 2019 at the request of federal authorities. There has never been a full investigation of the alleged assaults by Epstein, his partner Ghislaine Maxwell and ranch visitors.

Last month, New Mexico became the first U.S. state to launch a legislative "truth commission" to uncover possible ​public corruption that allowed ​Epstein to operate ⁠in secrecy at the ranch for 26 years before his death in 2019.

 

While global stocks have largely sustained ‌the relief rally that followed Monday's wild swings, fear is again resurfacing as Iran vowed to step up its missile strikes.

President Donald Trump's assurance that the war with Iran was "very complete" and could be "over soon" initially injected optimism into markets, even as Iranian hardliners rallied behind new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei and said their blockade of oil would continue.

Within hours of Trump's statements, Iran's military dashed ⁠markets' hopes. "We are the ones who will determine the end of the war," Iran's Revolutionary Guards said.

Such comments brought the exchange back to a familiar tempo with Trump then threatening to hit Iran "TWENTY TIMES HARDER than they have been hit thus far."

 

Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Tuesday they would not let any oil be shipped from the Middle East ​if U.S. and Israeli attacks continue, prompting President Donald Trump to say the U.S. would hit Iran much harder if it blocked exports.

The rhetoric did little to quell a fall ‌in crude prices and a rally in global shares that followed Trump expressing confidence in a swift end to hostilities, even after Iran showed defiance by naming Mojtaba Khamenei as its new supreme leader.

[–] nulluser@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I stand corrected.

Although, if I may point out, you just posted an unattributed screenshot with some text. From where? You don't say. A link is always better. Cite your sources.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/nikola-tesla-and-albert-einstein

[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (4 children)

But this isn't based on a silly image. This is just facts overlayed on a slop image that doesn't add anything meaningful. You can't just throw random ingredients together and make something good. This whole "meme" is low effort slop.

[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

Yes. I really didn't think I needed to point that out.

 

The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has said it has released all of the files required by the Epstein Files Transparency Act, but lawmakers have argued the release is insufficient

 

Progressive Analilia Mejia has pulled off a long-shot win in a special election primary for New Jersey’s 11th congressional district, defeating favorite Tom Malinowski thanks to AIPAC’s intervention in the race.

Malinowski conceded Tuesday morning, saying in a post on X that Mejia “deserves unequivocal praise and credit for running a positive campaign and for inspiring so many voters on Election Day.”

“But the outcome of this race cannot be understood without also taking into account the massive flood of dark money that AIPAC spent on dishonest ads during the last three weeks,” Malinowski’s post said.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42859733

Murdoch tabloid leads charge as big freeze persists – could the mayor please do something about the weather?

It snowed two weeks ago in New York. Since then, the temperature has barely risen above freezing – a temperature science naturally dictates is necessary to melt snow and ice.

But science isn’t enough for some US political critics, however, who have instead blamed Zohran Mamdani, New York’s new socialist mayor, for the snow not having melted and still clogging up some of the city’s streets.

The New York Post, the rightwing tabloid and a frequent Mamdani critic, has led the charge. This week the newspaper claimed that “slushy streets” were “ruining travel for everyone”.

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