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Eh, there was "evidence" (a third-party tweet) that Kirk was worried about being killed by Israel shortly before his death.

It's not like this came out of nowhere.

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.

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.

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

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.

The LLM isn't limited to just what it does. It can interact with other programs.

There are a ton of audio recognition systems available, almost all of them predate this LLM bubble. There's already an API for interacting with the ordering system. So it's just down to having the LLM pull what is then do that corresponding action for the order.

This is so simple it doesn't require anything nearly as complicated as an LLM. The old phone assistants like Siri and Alexa could do this type of thing. It's literally the same as telling Alexa to place an order for something, and that's been an ability for years.

That's not unexpected. Variable refresh rate (GSYNC and Freesync) has always needed the display to support it first.