Beske was pulled over in May in Polk County in the northwest part of the state. Upon searching her car, sheriff’s deputies reported they found drug paraphernalia and methamphetamine residue, as well as a glass bong containing 8 ounces of water.

Because of a longstanding loophole in state law, the county attorney’s office was able to treat the bong water as if it were 8 ounces of pure methamphetamine, warranting a first-degree drug charge carrying up to 30 years in prison.

That’s just stupid 🤦

thinks the Strib is run by communists

If only they were this cool

Thought you were talking about this Pete the Cat at first and was very surprised:

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

Neat, thanks!

It would be nice if communities that are similar enough could “share” a comment thread, so you don’t end up with comments scattered over many different communities for the same link. The mods could toggle something in the settings and say “This other community is good and we’ll be OK sharing posts with them”. You also wouldn’t have to explicitly crosspost.

Some apps will collapse those into a single post, but not all of them, and not all the time. It would be nice if that were better.

It would be nice if there was a way to handle instance/user migrations. If an instance gets their domain name taken away, there’s no way AFAIK for the admin to say “Here’s our new location, with a verifiable signature”. Likewise there’s no way for a user AFAIK to move their account with a verifiable signature that the new one is still them. Ideally this could all happen automatically with signatures getting synced automatically and all that.

I’m sure it would be a lot of work and no idea if ActivityPub would get in the way, but it would give people a lot more assurance that they didn’t pick a server that will screw them over by going down.

Maybe a good speaker helps. I’ve tried them before and they’re good background noise for flights, but that’s about all I’ve gotten out of them.

IMO it should be turned into a memorial of police brutality

I have 0 interest in watching the film, so thankfully Minnesota Reformer watched it so we don’t have to:

https://minnesotareformer.com/2024/01/11/i-watched-the-fall-of-minneapolis-so-you-dont-have-to/

This sort of thing just needs to be banned. TBH I’m surprised we just capped interest rates at 33%, that’s absurd.

This is always a fun time:

Anime Fusion

Crowne Plaza Minneapolis West

While it’s not explicitly billed as a spooktacular event, the “This Is Halloween” framing of Anime Fusion—a nonprofit volunteer-run con that celebrates all things anime—suggests as much. “Whether you’re a newcomer to the genre, or a die-hard fan of the classics, Anime Fusion is the place to celebrate what you love!” organizers promise. The three-day blowout will feature cosplay contests, special guests, drag shows from House of Hades, cosplay-centric burlesque from Midnight Minxes, and performances from Japanese drumming crew Taiko Troupe. And, of course, there’s a vast and deep itinerary of geeky goings-on over the inclusively geared weekend, including board games, video games, boffer rooms, dancing, karaoke, and a whole lot more. $25-$60. Friday through Sunday. 3131 Campus Dr., Plymouth; find more info here.Through Sunday—Jay Boller

FYI the link requires login because it’s for edit mode. Might be good to also have a “What is Ibis?” bit here, instead of requiring people to follow the link.

At any rate, looks neat! Has there been any thought given to what happens if the Conservapedia or similar people want to get onto the network? Is it instance blocking like Lemmy?

I’ve heard the phrase as meaning “able to analyze veracity of media source”. I’ve never heard it used in a sense like “smart enough to come to the correct interpretation”, other than being able to say “Yeah, this is probably propaganda”.

Forfeiture laws allow police to take and keep cash, vehicles and other property from suspected criminals. They can do so without obtaining a conviction or an arrest, and in many cases are able to keep the property after the person has been cleared of wrongdoing.

The potential for abuse in forfeiture cases led the Minnesota Legislature to limit the circumstances in which property can be seized in 2021. The auditor credits that reform with the declines seen last year.

That’s a big “no duh” moment right there. Hopefully we can keep going on this

Yeah, I misread the argument and thought it was saying something more interesting 🤦 It’s actually a silly argument and now I regret posting the article, but at least there was some good discussion of how bad it is.

I don’t agree with it but it’s worth reading. The crux of the argument is this:

Consider this: In 2016, Hillary Clinton famously won the nationwide popular vote by nearly 3 million votes, but lost the election to Donald Trump in the Electoral College, doing much to enflame American progressives’ distaste for the college. What’s worth noting is that Clinton’s popular vote margin that year within the borders of California was well over 4 million votes. In short, outside California, Trump won the popular vote across 49 states.

Heh, you can see my opinion on Gary Marcus in another comment of mine: https://midwest.social/post/17934593/12838629

Even as statistical parrots and all that, they’re fairly useful for learning, you just have to know their limitations. They’re very useful for questions that are hard to search for but easy to verify, like “What is this funny math symbol?”. Especially when the symbol has different meanings in different contexts, and you can explain the context to the LLM.

It really couldn’t decide on pixelated vs line art

Nice! Were you able to see any color with the naked eye, or was that only in your camera?