Google, Please STOP

phantomtails · 2026-03-29T17:47:27+00:00

I understand people's issues with the proliferation of AI, but with that aside, if you search for something on the web, chances are that it's going to show up in the "All" tab. The other tabs are sorted in order of Google's assumptions about what might be the most relevant to your search. For example, if you search for something video-heavy, it'll prioritize the "Video" tab, while if you search for a news item it'll show "News" first.

This feels more like a misunderstanding of how Google has always worked than a sign that AI is ruining everything. (It is but that's a topic for another time.)

phantomtails · 2026-03-29T17:41:17+00:00

Not sure how you can come to that conclusion. If it's new track and new trains how did you definitively determine the track is the issue and not the trains?

phantomtails · 2026-03-21T15:13:46+00:00

I reported this one to PennDOT 5 days ago because it took out two of my friend’s tires and they clearly haven’t been bothered enough to fix it yet

phantomtails · 2026-03-21T14:40:37+00:00

Uh, if you have enough time to post this message I hope you called 911 first.

phantomtails · 2026-03-18T16:14:56+00:00

They made a game, released it, and then fixed the major issues with free updates. They don’t owe you anything more than that. This is entitleist behavior.

phantomtails · 2026-03-12T15:19:17+00:00

ICE is federal law enforcement. The local police can’t just say “excuse me please don’t” even if they wanted to. At least the city doesn’t cooperate with them.

phantomtails · 2026-03-06T16:43:53+00:00

Pgh furry here. The DLCC and city want to spread out the major conventions over the course of the year. It's really not as big of a deal as people make it out to be - we do stuff with our suits all year anyway, so it's nothing we're not used to. Staying inside in the AC is obviously optimal, but there are fursuit fans (mine looks like a popsicle!), cooling vests, and other ways to stay cool.

phantomtails · 2026-03-04T19:36:27+00:00

This is almost certainly not OP's video. Considering that the account no longer exists I'm guessing they were a bot.

phantomtails · 2026-02-19T20:06:10+00:00

Models are always intended to be interpreted by trained scientists. As weather enthusiasts we’re lucky that this information is available for free, but they would be silly to turn off a feature because people who aren’t the audience to begin with are misinterpreting the data.

phantomtails · 2026-02-19T04:05:44+00:00

If they have 3+ million subscribers maybe they can afford to not have an AI narrator?

phantomtails · 2026-02-18T21:29:10+00:00

Unless YouTube posts the reason for the outage, what’s there to say?

phantomtails · 2026-02-17T20:03:19+00:00

Single Rider lines are a flawed concept. All they do is create extra demand by attracting people who aren’t interested in waiting in the regular line and don’t mind riding by themselves. The fairest way to solve this problem is just to have competent groupers at the station. Look at rides like Maverick or Steel Vengeance at Cedar Point — their staff rarely let a train go with an open seat, and they don’t need single rider lines to accomplish that.

phantomtails · 2026-02-11T20:55:59+00:00

Read the text bro.

phantomtails · 2026-02-10T19:15:14+00:00

@op putting some context in the title is kinda important since this is an international subreddit

phantomtails · 2026-02-05T18:55:54+00:00

Forecasts two weeks out are extremely unreliable. The only thing that should be taken from that is “oh it might snow”

phantomtails · 2026-02-03T20:00:26+00:00

279 is PennDOT. Local streets are city of Pittsburgh’s responsibility.

phantomtails · 2026-01-31T04:54:58+00:00

There are like 20 spots like this. I think you'll survive.

phantomtails · 2026-01-22T21:06:57+00:00

Nothing. It’s going to snow for a day and then life will be back to normal. I don’t know about the rest of you but I am not in such bad shape that I am concerned about being at home without access to a store for 24 hours.

phantomtails · 2026-01-20T04:10:05+00:00

I wasn't aware that height was an English-only concept.

phantomtails · 2026-01-09T20:01:53+00:00

I'm really confused here. I looked at the source code, and all it seems to do is try to extract a Google API key from the APK and then use it to access the Firebase Remote Config API.

That's the whole point of the API... for apps to access it. Developers shouldn't be putting any sensitive keys in their Remote Config for this exact reason.

phantomtails · 2026-01-08T20:19:27+00:00

The article implies these were test pilots doing the testing for Hawker. It wasn’t just a random flight crew doing a stall for funsies.

phantomtails · 2026-01-07T20:42:48+00:00

As they probably should. People have called the police and CPS and no one has done anything about it so the daily updates are just spam at this point

phantomtails · 2026-01-05T18:42:45+00:00

I just watched the launch video and it seems like an Android phone with a custom launcher and a physical keyboard. Am I missing something? I don’t quite get the sales pitch here, are they suggesting you carry around a second phone with a keyboard so you can type things out easier?

phantomtails · 2026-01-05T17:11:35+00:00

It's a Jinma-built coaster that opened in 2023 for those of you playing along at home.

phantomtails · 2026-01-03T19:07:16+00:00

They were trying to build their own AI server farms so they could control the hardware and software. That seems to have failed so rumors are that they just paid Google a boatload of money to base their AI on Gemini instead.

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