halcyoncmdr
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- Comment on Justice Department Sues Uber for Denying Rides to Passengers with Service Dogs, Wheelchairs 18 hours ago:
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.
- Comment on Justice Department Sues Uber for Denying Rides to Passengers with Service Dogs, Wheelchairs 18 hours ago:
But it’s up to the driver whether to allow an animal in their personal vehicle.
- Comment on Justice Department Sues Uber for Denying Rides to Passengers with Service Dogs, Wheelchairs 21 hours ago:
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.
- Comment on Justice Department Sues Uber for Denying Rides to Passengers with Service Dogs, Wheelchairs 21 hours ago:
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.
- Comment on Justice Department Sues Uber for Denying Rides to Passengers with Service Dogs, Wheelchairs 22 hours ago:
So this is obviously complicated, 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.
- Comment on Exclusive: Fed Governor Cook declared her Atlanta property as “vacation home,” documents show 1 day ago:
The article mentions other documentation about primary residence, but doesn’t link to it as far as I can tell.
To play devil’s advocate a bit, plans and decisions change. At one point in time you can have one property a primary residence and later decide that you would rather use a different one as a primary.
Were these around the same time? Were they years apart? What are the legal requirements if you want to change your primary residence? None of that seems to be covered here as far as I can tell but is directly related to the topic and legality.
The fact she has 3-4 homes all over the place is excessive honestly, but neither here nor there about the legality here.
- Comment on Poor pugs 2 days ago:
- Comment on 3 days ago:
You seem to misunderstand. We don’t negotiate. We supply them because they’re killing people we want killed, or we blow them up.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
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.
- Comment on Behind bars and erased, Banksy's art speaks louder than ever 3 days ago:
The initial attempt to scrub away the Banksy left behind a clear outline of the original that still made the original intent perfectly clear
It is very likely that was intentional and a planned part of the art in the first place given we’re talking about Banksy here. Knowing how they would try to remove it, and planning for that to further the art would totally be part of a Banksy piece.
- Comment on Just had a hospital group employee tell me to simply email medical information 4 days ago:
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.
- Comment on Google quietly removes net-zero carbon goal from website amid rapid power-hungry AI data center buildout — industry-first sustainability pledge moved to background amidst AI energy crisis 1 week ago:
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.
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 1 week ago:
And that includes the firmware required for you to load your software.
- Comment on Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters 2 weeks ago:
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.
- Comment on The second amendment referred to militias, not individuals 2 weeks ago:
It’s literally the first half of the sentence the 2A people always leave off.
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
- Comment on 2hot2handle 2 weeks ago:
Except that 9 months took place on a space station. There were regular cargo missions to the station. And they could have been brought back at any nearly any point if necessary. Other astronauts literally went up and came back from the Station in that 9 months.
The timeframe being so long was almost entirely about the Starliner itself and what they were going to do with a known defective and potentially unusable spacecraft, where the only trained pilots were those astronauts, not anything with the astronauts themselves.
If the station wasn’t an option for whatever reason (despite it literally being part of the planned mission), then other contingencies would have been available or at least planned already. This wasn’t an Apollo 13 situation where not making it back was a serious concern.
- Comment on ICE Targets App Delivery Drivers — and the Tech Giants They Work for Stay Silent 2 weeks ago:
The difference is that these companies and their delivery workers aren’t necessary for the economy at all.
Farmers are actually necessary as a fundamental foundation. Regardless of the MAGA delusion machine, reality does actually matter sometimes.
- Comment on ICE Targets App Delivery Drivers — and the Tech Giants They Work for Stay Silent 2 weeks ago:
Their labor costs are whatever the fuck they want to pay precisely because they work extremely hard to keep their misidentified worker pool, and all of the gig jobs pay similar amounts. What you’re delivering or transporting may be different, but it’s basically the same everywhere.
- Comment on Framework unveils a second-generation Framework Laptop 16 with a swappable Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU, an industry first, shipping in November 2025 2 weeks ago:
That’s not unexpected. Variable refresh rate (GSYNC and Freesync) has always needed the display to support it first.
- Comment on U.S. takes 10% stake in Intel as Trump flexes more power over big business 3 weeks ago:
The writing is on the wall for Intel currently anyway. They’re not doing well, and several recent decisions seem to be the opposite of taking advantage of their capabilities to stabilize and turn around, just the crappy management choices to shrink and sell.
- Comment on Major password managers can leak logins in clickjacking attacks 3 weeks ago:
They tested 11 popular password managers, Keepass wasn’t one of them.
So if it wasn’t even tested for attacks that nearly every other manager fails at least 1 aspect of, then you should assume it’s not safe either.
- Comment on Parents in England skipping meals to afford school uniforms, survey finds 3 weeks ago:
Mandatory school advertising on your children. And people say advertising in the US is out of control…
- Comment on SpaceX Gets Billions From the Government. It Gives Little to Nothing Back in Taxes 4 weeks ago:
As designed for large companies, government contracts or not. Look at the tax payments for any large company and you’ll see minimal tax liabilities.
- Comment on China is about to launch SSDs so small you insert them like a SIM card 4 weeks ago:
I mean, we already have memory cards like microSD. And SSDs have been shrinking for a while now. Not surprising someone is getting to the point where the line blurs.
- Comment on Blackbird Interactive acquires full ownership of Hardspace: Shipbreaker IP 4 weeks ago:
This is one of the few games I keep installed and jump back to just as a chill game that requires no intense planning or strategy. The mechanics are simple, well executed, and easy to pick back up after not playing for a while. So many games have tons of complex mechanics that are fine when you’re playing it, but hard to remember if you haven’t touched it in a while.
- Comment on I may or may not have gotten way too in the trees@sh.itjust.works and eaten an entire block of cream cheese 4 weeks ago:
More like 2 with the proper amount of cream cheese.
- Comment on Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates 4 weeks ago:
They never say what the “natural flavor” is.
A reminder that “natural flavor” doesn’t mean healthier or even something you might want over the artificially created flavors. It just means it comes from a natural source and is not lab created.
Castoreum, sometimes used for vanilla and raspberry flavoring, comes from beaver anal secretions. That would be labelled under a “natural flavor” and you’d never be told more than that.
I’ll take the artificial stuff any day just on principle there.
- Comment on Fortnite developer Epic Games wins Australian court battle against Apple and Google 4 weeks ago:
hardly anyone plays anymore
Millions of people still play Fortnite daily. Over a million concurrent on some days.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
No, they reverted a lot of that. Bulk restoring even “overwritten” post data several weeks and months after the fact, after most people stopped checking.
- Comment on AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified 5 weeks ago:
As Anthropic argued, it now “faces hundreds of billions of dollars in potential damages liability at trial in four months” based on a class certification rushed at “warp speed” that involves “up to seven million potential claimants, whose works span a century of publishing history,” each possibly triggering a $150,000 fine.
So you knew what stealing the copyrighted works could result in, and your defense is that you stole too much? That’s not how that works.
