Is Uber saying no? Or are drivers cancelling rides when they realize there’s an animal that wasn’t disclosed previously, and they aren’t part of Uber Pets?

Because there’s a distinct difference there.

But it’s up to the driver whether to allow an animal in their personal vehicle.

It’s not about training. People lie, and there is no way to verify service animals. Lying about pets and claiming they are service animals is already an issue for places like restaurants and hotels.

if Uber requires all drivers to allow pets, then so be it. But that’s the only way to ensure consistency.

That does happen, usually that’s more how traditional cabs operate, and even then in many places they own the cab and contract to a company for fares.

The vast majority of rideshare drivers in the US use their own vehicle.

First off, FUCK UBER… but I don’t see Uber being at any sort of fault here unless their policy is no animals, which it obviously isn’t because Uber Pet exists. Only possibly by not routing service animal rides through Uber Pet exclusively since those drivers are already expecting animals.

Do we really want to say that in order to participate in rideshare driving at all that you must allow animals in your private vehicle?

Uber drivers use their own vehicles, they are not Uber’s property or responsibility. If an owner doesn’t want animals in their vehicle, they cannot and should not be forced to. A lot of people don’t want animals in their vehicles, trained or not. They may be worried about damage from things like claws to the fabrics, etc. and don’t want to deal with that possibility, whereas the Uber Pet drivers are prepared for that.

And this doesn’t even get into the bastards that lie about their pets and “emotional support” animals being service animals causing problems for those that actually do need the assistance. There’s no penalty for lying about it, and no verification system to filter those out.

Or you know, you can work to fix the source of some of the existing issues. Like limit the number of single family dwellings a company or corporation can own. Hedge funds and banks shouldn’t be able to hoard houses as real estate. Tax unoccupied housing at a higher rate, increasing based on vacancy time to incentivize usage instead of leaving them empty. Use that increased tax revenue to fund building public housing.

It’s not genius, that’s how political dynasties work. It’s why having entire families in politics usually leads to terrible outcomes.

Evidence shows brain damage tends to make people even LESS empathetic and thus MORE fascist.

He was going to either way. The faster he does it the more people that currently follow him but have a bit of waivering faith will realize his lies. Everyone has a different threshold, but the faster he tightens the grip the faster some will realize the reality.

They haven’t faced any consequences for their calls of violence, so why would they stop?

Political violence is of course bad… but as soon as you call for it, especially indirectly, you deserve whatever comes to you. Stochastic terrorism is still terrorism, and there’s not a lot more American than the fact we don’t negotiate with terrorists.

Encrypted mail is 100% a thing. And it is definitely used by medical personnel to send information securely.

But email is not encrypted by default, and isn’t as simple as checking a box in Yahoo or Gmail to do so.

The same bullshit as telling people to limit their showers to save water during a drought instead of having agriculture switch to crops that need less water. Because the people using 15% of the water are definitely going to make a dent when the other 85% don’t give a shit.

And this thing will either need extremely heavy batteries, or carefully protected tanks of fuel onboard - or both. So that’s going to massively add to the weight.

This is the sole reason we can’t have mechs until we develop high energy portable nuclear power, or discover something equally as capable.

A rocket launching satellites is like 90% fuel, the structure is remarkably similar to the thickness of a tin can, and it only carriers a few thousand pounds of payload, all while only running for a minute or so before being empty. We simply don’t have the power capability for anything approaching a large mech without it having to be wired to a power grid.

That’s honestly much lower than I thought. That’s probably just the people that they haven’t been able to hide because of actual inquiries from family, friends, and news, leaving out the individuals without anyone actively searching for them.

A reminder that Grand Juries indict 99.99999% of the time. To the point where the multiple grand Juries that refused to indict the guy that threw the sandwich at ICE officers was actually newsworthy.

They aren’t there to determine whether it is likely someone did something, just whether the charges are even minimally plausible.

That’s going to get thrown right the fuck out of court, not even the fascist judges will bother with that shit.

But he’ll be stuck in the jail system until that point, which is the real intent.

He doesn’t have the cult of personality behind him.

I just order online ahead of time, at my leisure, or on my way home, and pick it up quicker than it would have taken to place the order and pay in person. Almost all the places that have shot like this also have online ordering.

You’re surprised that a fast food manager could be cutting corners even more than corporate requires? Or even just that fast food staffing is a clusterfuck of excessive call outs to the point where the location doesn’t actually have enough staff?