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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • What I really want out of Google Maps is a way to ask about particular alternate routes. I know it will suggest alternates if it thinks those will save time. But I want to be able to ask it “Should I take the Whitestone or the Throgs Neck”, evaluate both routes, and tell me which one is better (and by how much). It already knows where I am going after all.

    Bonus points if I can teach it what I prefer. So, I want to be able to tell it how much I hate the Cross Bronx, and that it’s OK to send me on a different route if it’s 15 minutes longer, if it means I am not stuck on that.







  • I got banned years ago from r/funny because I was browsing on “new” (like I do here), responded to a post with a lame joke within minutes after it posted, then the powers that be decided the poster was a spammer, and banned me too. I asked them why they banned me, but got absolutely nothing in response. It turns out, though, that being banned from there made absolutely no difference to my Reddit experience.

    Now that Reddit is a public company, and courting income from paid official subreddits, it’s only a matter of time before there is a huge class-action lawsuit over their uneven moderation policies. Especially if companies start steering a good portion of their customer interaction there. It is super unfair to be cut off from legitimate customer service because of a power-tripping mod in a totally different part of Reddit.

    Besides, I hit on the best way to ensure I never get banned from Reddit: I don’t go there anymore.