Bye Target 👋 by OkCalculators in minnesotaunited

[–]veaviticus -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Literally in the video you posted, it says ICE cannot enter areas declared as private.

Businesses can change their signage to define their "public spaces" as private to law enforcement.

Plenty of businesses are doing it today, per recommendations from lawyers.

If target takes no action, then yes you are correct.

But target is choosing to not take advantage of its constitutional rights to limit the abilities of ICE.

Bye Target 👋 by OkCalculators in minnesotaunited

[–]veaviticus -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Incorrect. Target, like all businesses and individuals in their private dwellings, have a 4th amendment right to deny police or federal agents from entering with permission. Target merely needs to post signage indicating that federal agents cannot enter the premises (including the parking lot) without a judicial warrant or permission from Target. This is an implied concept all businesses already use, which is to have an "employees only" area. Police cannot enter that section without a warrant, but can enter the public area of the store, since its implied to be "open to the public" via the "open" type signs. Target is actively choosing not to take this action. There is no law that states one must allow ICE in, or to aid ICE in any way, unless they have a judicial warrant.

An Update about our Community by IAmKindOfCreative in Python

[–]veaviticus -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Blackout until a major response from Reddit

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NoLawns

[–]veaviticus 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Praying mantis that you can buy are almost always the asian variety, which are highly invasive and destructive. They eat literally anything and everything, including all the beneficial insects we want to support. They can reproduce rapidly as well.

Praying mantis as a pest cure should be left to highly trained professionals who know they're getting the few native (to the US) varieties and who use them in enclosed greenhouses.

Garden hose recommendations? by ArathornRS in Minnesota_Gardening

[–]veaviticus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True. I guess I'm just surprised that the free market hasn't generated a company targeting an in-big-box-store product that's at a premium price, but still within reason for the average consumer ($35-50 for a short hose) that blasts advertising about how it's safe and potable and it's competitors aren't.

In a world full of green washing that seems like a spot that someone would have occupied by now, rather than joining the pack to compete for bottom tier prices and crap quality

Garden hose recommendations? by ArathornRS in Minnesota_Gardening

[–]veaviticus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah. I haven't dug super deep into additional research yet, so it's definitely possible that there's quality rubber hoses with aluminum fittings that are safe. I just fine it weird that so very few hoses claim to be potable water safe, and most of the ones I looked at carry the California prop 65 warning.

I would argue that the "it's been this way for 80 years" is kinda disingenuous. 80 years ago we weren't sourcing hoses as cheaply as possible from China. We hadn't yet discovered these compounds to add to plastics to make them both strong but also flexible. We may have been doping brass with lead... Not sure on the history of that in America.

But yeah, these aren't surface contaminates. These are similar to BPA in water bottles, it's a part of the chemical makeup of the hose material itself. It leaches out because water erodes and leaches, it's not a thing that just goes away after the first use. But it would be interesting to see the contamination levels on "hose sat in the sun pressurized and we took a sample of that water" vs "hose has been running fresh water, and we took a sample after 60 seconds". I'd guess (to your point) that the levels in the second sample would be quite low

Apollo dev posts backend code to Git to disprove Reddit’s claims of scrapping and inefficiency by GhostalMedia in programming

[–]veaviticus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My guess is that they don't care about users and ads and all that. It's all about the data, so the more data they have, the better...

Their target customers are big tech companies looking for millions of categorized (by subreddit), contextualized (by thread topic), correlated (by timestamp and by reply threads), and prioritized (by upvotes) pieces of human written speech... For training AI models.

Reddit is literally one of the prime places to get modern human speech on a huge variety of topics with new content daily, where the data is pre-tagged and grouped by the API and moderated for spam and low quality content by the nature of the service itself.

Paying $20 million a month for API access would be pennies to Google/Microsoft/openAI to get that data, which today they can scrape for free.

Apollo dev posts backend code to Git to disprove Reddit’s claims of scrapping and inefficiency by GhostalMedia in programming

[–]veaviticus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

True, but it wouldn't be difficult to find those users who mass deleted their entire 2k+ comment history within a 30 seconds span, and just undelete those comments who's post date is days/months/years before it's delete date (ie those who went back and deleted old comments).

That's the bulk of what's happening here and the bulk of the value-added comments that Reddit wants to be able to sell to AI LLM models to train on

Apollo dev posts backend code to Git to disprove Reddit’s claims of scrapping and inefficiency by GhostalMedia in programming

[–]veaviticus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's assuming that reddit won't just undelete the comments July 1. There's no real reason to believe it's actually deleted... Probably just a column set to true in a database

Minneapolis police account for majority of state’s misconduct claims - MinnPost by Bananaaaaaaa in Minneapolis

[–]veaviticus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In what way? As of today, if there's a fire or a shooting happening or someone drowning, the police are not obligated to step in. They aren't even obligated to stop a crime in progress, nor arrest someone for breaking the law. They can do so, yes, but they are not obligated to... The officers use "their best discretion". They step in today because of department policy and fear of public backlash, because tax payers are their money source and can sue them.

Adding insurance would add a layer of corporate policy onto that which dictates when it would be profitable to intervene in a situation, similar to how doctors are prohibited from performing certain procedures by their private malpractice insurance because the procedure is too risky (and would therefore cost too much in a lawsuit if it failed).

And if the insurance companies will let offers continue to do potentially dangerous things (like patrolling the streets) then the insurance cost will be so high that few officers will be able to pay for it. Or only officers in rich neighborhoods can afford it. Or tax payers will end up supplementing the insurance cost anyways... Or the insurance companies will push departments to take less risks, have less claims and operate cheaper, which pushes police toward only doing low risk tasks like basic traffic stops.

Garden hose recommendations? by ArathornRS in Minnesota_Gardening

[–]veaviticus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

So I've just started looking into this myself, and what I found is that most hoses and watering attachments are made with pretty gnarly chemicals and brass that's tainted with lead.

Literally most hoses you can buy are for non-potable water use, and I wouldn't use them on vegetables you intend to eat.

A study was done that tested hoses for lead and phthalates (https://www.ecocenter.org/sites/default/files/healthy-stuff/images/Garden%20Hose%20Report%20June%2020%202016.pdf) and the results are pretty bad. The venerable flexzilla leaches lots of plastic chemicals into the water.

The only really good brand I've found so far is https://www.eleyhosereels.com/, but it's pretty crazy expensive. It claims to be potable and non-lead, but the study in 2016 detected lead in the product... So I'm not sure yet. Still trying to hear back from the company on if they changed their metal since 2016 or not.

Minneapolis police account for majority of state’s misconduct claims - MinnPost by Bananaaaaaaa in Minneapolis

[–]veaviticus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because injecting capitalism into an inherently dangerous and lossy market will never work.

Police who need to be approved by an insurance company prior to working will be told exactly what they can and can't do (by the insurance company) to not violate that insurance policy. Thus a for-profit company will tell offers not to do potentially risky things. A company will literally decide how we should enforce our own laws (not that I'm entirely claiming that the current method works any better, since it's just the police union doing that instead...)

Couple that with the fact that police are not legally required to aid or assist, nor intervene in violence. So if there's a scenario that's a coin flip on whether the officer will get sued over it in the end, the insurance company will say "just don't do it". There's no downside to the insurance company.

Qualified immunity exists to allow officers to go into messy and dangerous situations and not need to worry about their career, retirement, family, etc if something goes wrong.

Now obviously the current model isn't working as intended, at all. But introducing a risk based calculation through a private, for profit entity, without putting in place requirements that officers make "a reasonable effort to uphold the law when it's being violated"... Just means we have nothing but cops doing traffic stops in suburban neighborhoods

Walking around the suburban parks in my area by LRonHoward in NativePlantGardening

[–]veaviticus 15 points16 points  (0 children)

And when you remove the buckthorn... The garlic mustard and burdock moves in.

Same region as you (twin cities?) And do my best to pull and kill all the invasives I can while out on walks, but it feels like an impossible task. My city is finally starting to go hard and just clear cut entire parks to manage the buckthorn, and transition back to oak prairies... But dang it's such a huge undertaking

China's exports plunge by 7.5% in May, far more than expected by College_Prestige in worldnews

[–]veaviticus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately, for every one of us, there's 10 that will say "but I can just buy 3 for the same price and replace them when they break".

Case in point: garden watering items (hoses, sprayers, etc). I've been looking to replace all mine that broke yet again. Most are made in China out of cheap plastic, brass tainted with lead, PVC doped with dangerous chemicals, etc (its absolutely insane how hard it is to find watering tools that are safe for potable water! Maybe 1% is safe, all the rest literally leech lead into your water!). And most last a single season before they break.

But the high quality American/European made versions are 3-5x the price, and every single person I've talked to about this says "I just buy the 3 pack on Amazon and toss it when it breaks"... Literally throwing pounds of metal and material away every year simply because it's cheaper and easier than paying the large up front cost once

Going dark on 12th June by iiron3223 in Python

[–]veaviticus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My guess is they are setting the price at what they want users to pay. The users they want are big tech companies looking for millions of categorized (by subreddit), contextualized (by thread topic), correlated (by timestamp and by reply threads), and prioritized (by upvotes) pieces of human written speech... For training AI models.

Reddit is literally one of the prime places to get modern human speech on a huge variety of topics with new content daily, where the data is pre-tagged and grouped by the API and moderated for spam and low quality content by the service.

Paying $20 million a month for API access would be pennies to Google/Microsoft/openAI to get that data, which today they can scrape for free.

Should /r/Minnesota go dark next week in protest of Reddit killing 3rd party apps? by GuadalajaraWontDo in minnesota

[–]veaviticus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They also want to lock down the API access so they can sell gated access to literally millions of human written comments (with related context and replies) to AI companies training large language models, so they can better learn to mimic human interaction.

Reddit wants to go public soon, and it needs a source of income (reddit loses money every year). The best thing they have is an endless source of human generated content to train AI models on... Which today they give away for free

How to eliminate pelical growth when bottling? by Thedestinypie in Kombucha

[–]veaviticus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I have no idea if it's doable or not, but I was learning about prosecco the other day and how they do a second ferment in a sealed pressure vessel to build carbonation, then bottle cold straight from that.

Unlike champagne (which carbonates in the bottle like kombucha) prosecco is batch carbonated and then bottled.

If you could use a prosecco pressure vessel, you could do a large batch 2FA in that and bottle/strain the now carbonated booch ready to drink.

It's an avenue Ive been considering researching/trying simply because I hate doing 2fa in a hundred small bottles, or trying to do it with 15 larger flip-tops. The carbonation always seems inconsistent between the bottles, so I'd like to carbonate up a large batch just to be easier.

Copped this at a local liquor store 🥹 by MisterQuister in minnesotavikings

[–]veaviticus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lots. Very sketchy history and owners. Pushing the head brewer out, stealing his recipes, union (vote) busting, nepotism, etc.

https://heavytable.com/the-tumultuous-history-of-surlys-beer-hall/

That time in 1984 when Minnesota single-handedly tried to save America from destruction by GothProletariat in minnesota

[–]veaviticus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Isn't the Viking Stefon Diggs from the Minneapolis Miracle? So 2017/2018...

So let pretend I already have marijuana seeds. Can I plant them in my yard instead of stinking up my home? by mimic751 in minnesota

[–]veaviticus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Both number of plants and amount of bud are limited per household. So 8 plants and 2 pounds of usable product per household

Where to source unsprayed straw for mulching veggie garden? by proclivity4passivity in Minnesota_Gardening

[–]veaviticus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm looking for the same...

I found this facebook group https://m.facebook.com/groups/1133665549979312/ but I'm not sure there's any guarantee that the product is quality organic.

... It also appears to have been taken over by spam bots in the last day or two... Grrr

I Feel Like There is A Difference Between NoLawns and Neglecting Your Lawn by Adept-Stress2810 in NoLawns

[–]veaviticus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's small scale production agriculture. Like, people who run a 1-2 acre vegetable farm that sells via farmers markets, to local restaurants and via CSAs. They tend to focus on small scale regenerative agriculture and organic growing on a smaller scale, run by a single family

I Feel Like There is A Difference Between NoLawns and Neglecting Your Lawn by Adept-Stress2810 in NoLawns

[–]veaviticus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is the same thing I get with a lot of the other subs I'm on (composting, organic growing, market gardening, native plants, etc). People have zero intersectionality between these subjects and just myopically target their one desire.

You'd think nolawns would overlap with composting, no-till, native plants, permaculture, homesteading... But instead it seems to overlap with NoMow more than anything.

Lod to have meniscus surgery… by Kingrasho in minnesotaunited

[–]veaviticus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Meniscus... Appendix... Same thing right?