Other made up offenses include having a knife and having nothing but walking toward them

Or having a seizure on your kitchen floor.

Or having dementia and ending up at the wrong house because you think you live there.

Were you standing inside something when you took this, or is the black frame something that was added later?

I checked just now and it’s normal for me. I don’t know if the instance matters, but I’m on mastodon.social.

Now, more than a decade after Sylvia’s death, their efforts have landed the Wildensteins before France’s highest court. The evidence she and Dumont Beghi brought forth has persuaded prosecutors that the Wildensteins are a criminal enterprise, responsible for operating, as a prosecutor for the state once put it, “the longest and the most sophisticated tax fraud” in modern French history.

A trial this September will determine if the family and their associates owe a gargantuan tax bill. The last time prosecutors went after the Wildensteins, several years ago, they sought €866 million — €616 million in back taxes and a €250 million fine, as well as jail time for Guy. The consequences could do more than topple the family’s art empire. The case has provided an unusual view of how the ultrawealthy use the art market to evade taxes, and sometimes worse. Agents raiding Wildenstein vaults have turned up artworks long reported as missing, which fueled speculation that the family may have owned Nazi-looted or otherwise stolen art, and spurred a number of other lawsuits against the family in recent years. Financial distortions have saved the family hundreds of millions of dollars, prosecutors allege, but their treatment of Sylvia could cost them far more — and perhaps lead to the unraveling of their dynasty.

What a story. It’s a long read, but fascinating.

Sure does! !standardissuecat@lemmy.world

Does music count? I don’t have much trouble with languages, but music theory has always been Greek to me.

Arabic would be interesting. Or Italian. Finnish is pretty. It has a nice rhythm.

I’m in the US and speak German and Spanish. I can understand a little Romanian.

Are they soft? Do they make cute noises? Would love to pet one if I could. Looks like this guy really liked the attention.

Oh yeah, that would be good. This is making me hungry.

That’s going straight on my list of things to try. I love the idea of crunchy potatoes with the soft meat.

Looks like you used whole cloves of garlic, too. And maybe roasted some of it? I’ll be stealing that idea too.

Looks like Shiro, aka basketcat.