As far as I’m aware there is no rule he can’t pick his own name as his pope name, should he want to be cool.

Wouldn’t it be so wonderful if we could somehow get these people to understand that their ideas are bad without having to directly experience the consequences of them?

It’s been pretty nice. I’ve been catching up on new (to me) music releases.

Wealth inequality is as great as it has ever been. If putting money into the hands of the wealthy so they can distribute it to charities as they see fit solved anything, we’d be living in utopia by now.

It is.

China is walking this dumbass like a dog. How about we don’t tie ourselves to this sinking ship.

Experiencing the outcomes of their policy positions. That’s the thing about having bad ideas. Even when you win, you lose.

You can pause the tariffs but you can’t pause the uncertainty you’ve introduced into the system, Don.

Canada’s 2004 federal election. I voted NDP.

Gamers using their powers of cyberbullying for good.

Not banned. I’m being the change I want to see.

You’ll be happy to know that lemmy’s monthly active user count has grown ~20% in the last month.

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storming_of_the_Bastille

Any French commenters able to contextualize this news for the rest of us? Le Pen’s party has been gaining popularity in recent years, if I recall correctly. How is this likely to impact them? Are they organized enough to continue on without her, or is this likely to seriously hurt their electoral chances?

It’s always good to see a fascist lose but I’m not tuned in enough to French politics to know the full significance of this.

Is the fight you picked not going as well as you had hoped, Donald?

Reuters gives a certain number of free articles per month(?) before the paywall.

They gambled that the additional ad revenue they’d be able to bring in with a sanitized web site would be greater than the revenue lost from some of their userbase leaving the site. It was a bad gamble.

Countries don’t have brothers, they have interests.

Why is a 50+ year old man surrounding himself with near children?

On Microsoft’s part, I guess. The support this article is talking about is supporting the ability to map the ‘Copilot’ key to whatever you want.