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Teever commented on NIMBYs aren't just shutting down housing inpractice.yimbyaction.or... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo

pandaman · a day ago

I lived next to a mom and pop store, not grocery, selling crystals and such. The owner of the store allowed a homeless camp on the store's lot. City could not clean it out because it's on a private property. The closest tent was less than 50' from my bedroom. The homeless fought, burned stuff, blasted music and hopped over 8' fence into my backyard to help themselves with anything they found there. Store owner was not bothered perhaps because during the day the homeless wondered off, perhaps he just liked them. The police did not do anything, would not even come over noise complaints. Would you like to live like this?

Teever · a day ago

It's unfortunate that you have had that terrible experience and that the legal system in your location failed you.

I'm not sure however that there's anything to indicate that mom and pop stores are especially susceptible to these kinds of outcomes. It sounds more like you got a case of shitty neighbour which is possible whether or not the neighbour is a commercial lot or a small home.

If your negative experience had been with a neighbour living in a private home instead of a neighbour who owned a small business would that change your view around the matter of zoning for small businesses in residential neighbourhoods?

Teever commented on The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein scottaaronson.blog/?p=953... · Posted by u/pfdietz

jimbohn · 2 days ago

As a European, I find it very funny to see how nobody in the US is willing to address the elephant in the room called Mossad. This looks more likely an israeli operation which sourced girls from russia and likely had the FSB as a customer/scratch my back I scratch yours/collab thing. I mean, most US politicians and the president seem to be on an "israel first" agenda.

Teever · a day ago

This was mentioned on The Daily Show this past monday.[0]

You're right that people on social media aren't talking about it very much for some reason but that doesn't mean that it isn't being talked about in American media.

[0] https://youtu.be/cwXIq81eE24?t=881

Teever commented on The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein scottaaronson.blog/?p=953... · Posted by u/pfdietz

tokioyoyo · 2 days ago

A few years ago there was some news articles about “group chats that rule the world”, and for some reason people didn’t take it seriously enough. Closer to the top, it feels like it’s “everyone knows everyone” game. Playing against those groups just leads to a perma-loss, so you’re incentivized to partake.

This is/was one of such groups.

Teever · a day ago

Some people would love to play against those groups with the goal of not winning but costing their opponents dearly.

They never get the opportunity though because those groups are intentionally protected from those kinds of players.

Teever commented on Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization” (2025) [video] youtube.com/watch?v=l-kZG... · Posted by u/cdrnsf

try_the_bass · 2 days ago

What if I run my own cameras, my own local models, and my own analysis? All from the privacy of my own home... Is that okay?

What if I recruit a few friends around my town to do the same, and we share data and findings? Is that also fine?

What if I pay a bunch of people I don't know to collect this data for me, but do all the analysis myself?

Where do you draw the line? Being able to concretely define a line here is something I've seen privacy proponents be utterly incapable of doing. Yet it's important to do so, because on one end of the spectrum is a set of protected liberties, and on the other is authoritarian dystopia. If you can't define some point at which freedom stops being freedom, you leave the door wide open to the kind of bullshit arguments we see any time "privacy in public" comes up: 100% feels, and 0% logic.

Teever · 2 days ago

Yeah, it's an interesting question to me too.

Because it seems clear to me that if an individual was to surveil and build up a dossier on any random stranger as much as an entity like Facebook or Google does that this would be considered stalking.

I've never been able to quite figure out why incorporating and doing it to basically everyone some how makes it legal. I think the secret ingredient is money but I'm not exactly sure how that works.

Teever commented on European Commission Trials Matrix to Replace Teams euractiv.com/news/commiss... · Posted by u/Arathorn

yabones · 2 days ago

My team started using Matrix/Element after years of frustration with Teams and Slack. It's far from perfect, but using a simple application with no built-in ads, AI, bloat, crap, etc is wonderful.

I really hope the EU throws some serious money at them to get the bugs worked out, add some minor features, and clean up the UX enough that an "office normie" can onboard as easily as MS.

My dream is that Matrix can do for intra-org comms what Signal did for SMS.

Teever · 2 days ago

The key is the money.

I’ve used matrix for years, ran my own federated server for a while.

I’ve been critical of the user experience and issues with how it’s handled by the matrix team before but I acknowledge that by and large these problems can be fixed with money.

Big players need to put their big boy pants on and throw a couple coins from their farcically large coin purse and they can drive a stake through the wretched heart that is Teams.

Teever commented on X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok bbc.com/news/articles/ce3... · Posted by u/vikaveri

mothballed · 3 days ago

No, a search warrant isn't intended to [directly] apprehend criminals, though an arrest warrant may come later to do that.

Teever · 3 days ago

But one could reasonably assume that a location that is known to be used for criminal activity and that likely has evidence of such criminal activity likely also has people commiting crimes.

When police raid a grow-op they often may only have a search warrant but they end up making several arrests because they find people actively commiting crimes when they execute the warrant.

Teever commented on X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok bbc.com/news/articles/ce3... · Posted by u/vikaveri

mothballed · 4 days ago

It's a show of force. "Look we have big strong men with le guns and the neat jack boots, we can send 12 of them in for every one of you." Whether it is actually needed for evidence is immaterial to that.

Teever · 3 days ago

If law enforcement credibily believes that criminals are conspiring to commit a crime and are actively doing so in a particular location what is wrong with sending armed people to stop those criminal acivities as well as apprehend the criminals and what ever evidence of their crimes may exist?

If this isn't the entire purpose of law enforcement then what is exactly?

Teever commented on France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US apnews.com/article/europe... · Posted by u/AareyBaba

cianmm · 4 days ago

Why would a private company deciding to release a Linux version of their product signal a government's follow-through? As far as I can tell, there is no current connection between Solidworks and the French government.

Teever · 4 days ago

Solidworks is produced by a company that is owned by the Dassault Group.

There is always a connection between the military industrial complex of a nation and the state.

If France feels that it is an existential threat they will not let the design and maintence of their weapons be dependent on an operating system produced by a company based out of a country that has threatened them.

I'm not saying that this will happen. I'm saying that should this happen you know France is serious about eliminating dependencies on unreliable and threatening countries.