Oh it 100% was worse and probably wouldn’t have been a big issue with anyone other than Trump.

The Obama admin CDC had literally created a pandemic guide because they were worried something like COVID could happen. The Trump admin threw it out solely because it was created under Obama.

The “charitable donations” are the community’s socially required tithes to the Mormon church.

Not exactly the same as everywhere else.

He definitely says “one of us”.

https://youtube.com/shorts/qOuavWu9a1E

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.

“Dragged” by holding onto the door handle.

How do we know that officer’s definition of reckless driving actually matches the State’s definition. There are 50 different States with varying traffic laws, ICE is federal and traffic law has nothing to do with their jurisdiction.

Unless they had an immigration-related reason for attempting to detain him, everything should be ignored. They had no reason to even accost the man.

Measles is particularly dangerous and much more malignant than other diseases. Those that cannot be vaccinated rely on herd immunity for indirect protection. Measles requires a threshold of about 95% for effective herd immunity, and 90% is the critical threshold for it to be basically totally ineffective.

Measles is one of the most contagious diseases on the planet. It is airborns, lasts for hours on surfaces, has a 90% infection rate among those unvaccinated, and is contagious for 4-5 days both before and after physical symptoms develop.

The US is now down to about a 91% vaccination rate average thanks to anti-vaxxers. Meaning there are many places under that critical threshold where herd immunity effectively no longer exists. With anyone that cannot be vaccinated for whatever reason forced to roll the dice thanks to the idiots in society.

That was posted back on August 15th.

It’s not a response to the recent event.

I will always celebrate the death of terrorists that target civilians. Stochastic terrorism is still terrorism.

They’re just going to move up a timetable on existing plans. Fascism requires them to disarm the populace at some point. An armed populace is a threat to any regime’s existence. In a democracy that’s not a problem, but it is for totalitarians.

A faster timeline means more people realizing they’re fucked and the fascist regime will eventually get to them.

US citizen and (theoretically) wouldn’t need to fear being deported

I’ve literally seen border control agents in the airport not know that PR means US Citizen right in front of me. And ICE actively boasts about deporting people to random countries completely unrelated to the person being deported. Reality isn’t going to stop them.

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.

Hopefully it’s not reduced on appeal.

It’s a settlement, not a judgement. Both sides agreed to this amount to end the lawsuit. Means there is no legal precedent set either.

The US military directly has been careful. It’s usually the military contractors that do that shit. They don’t have the same training requirements, and will often hire veterans that were dishonorably discharged from the military. They hide under things like plausible deniability and the fact they aren’t actually military so they aren’t subject to the same UCMJ standards which actually are fairly effectively enforced (nothing is perfect unfortunately but on average it is enforced widely). So the contractors think they can ignore things, and the military sometimes take advantage of that to do things they know they can’t and throw the contractors under the bus if they’re caught.

You just know 100% that Trump believes the TV propaganda 100%. We already know he doesn’t listen to his intelligence briefings, that’s been reported numerous times going all the way back to his first day in office. So the AIPAC propaganda they’re spreading in the media is what he actually believes in the truth. And if that’s the case, then he can just do the same thing clearly.