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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.

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 substack account has a documented history of spreading misinformation.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Slop

Tangent: I would love to see a Lemmy feature that allows community mods to unilaterally block links to specific domains within their community. So, in this case, the poster would get an immediate notification that their post was not allowed due to the link being to a low quality source, and a suggestion to find the same story on a more reputable site.

even sold their homes.

LOL!!! 'Cause they’re gonna need that money in heaven. These people have absolute shit for brains.

The Qatari government said two Iranian drones hit a QatarEnergy facility and that authorities are assessing the scale of damage. The country’s LNG production accounts for roughly 20% of global supply.

So, for two drones to “halt 20% of global LNG production”, as the headline claims, they would have had to disable the entire production capacity of the entire country of Qatar, not just part of one facility.

I assume Bibi ordered them to intentionally let that one through to drum up support for continued strikes against Iran.

He started a war with Iran because people won’t stop talking about Epstein.

Hypocrisy 101

The only thing holding a lot of Americans back from violence is the knowledge that that’s exactly the excuse the regime wants to declare martial law and suspend elections. If they just jump to suspending fair elections anyway, then there will be nothing to stop the gloves from coming off. The billionaires and Congress creatures better run for their bunkers. Anybody that the people perceive as having a hand in getting us to this point, either through direct action or failure to react, won’t be safe.

Can we maybe stop linking to news outlets that are falling over themselves to pander to trump?

If the story doesn’t show up anywhere other than Fox, CBS, OAN etc, then it’s probably just propaganda. If it does show up elsewhere, then link to elsewhere.

I mean, a really easy way to not post links to CBS is to not go to CBS for news in the first place.

It drove me nuts in the early days of the COVID vaccine and some study came out showing that a lot of the people against the vaccine were really just afraid of needles, but had a good chance to get their courage up if the news media would just stop plastering pictures of needles in every story about the vaccine. So, what did the news media do? They just kept right on throwing pictures of needles on every story.

Breaking News! Scientists confirm gravity still works.

If you go this route, you’ll be suspect #1 if anyone else ever takes more aggressive defensive measures against the cameras.