# Here come rants, blah-blah (December mini-rants)

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [December 1, 2024, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-come-rants-blah-blah-december-mini-rants/1011012 "2024-12-01T05:38:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-come-rants-blah-blah-december-mini-rants/1011012/512 "2025-01-01T05:11:55Z")

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New year, new thread for complaining:

> [@Auld Lang Sighin' (January mini-rants)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auld-lang-sighin-january-mini-rants/1012421):
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> Continuing the discussion from [Here come rants, blah-blah (December mini-rants)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-come-rants-blah-blah-december-mini-rants/1011012/509): I’ll start off the year with a real mini-rant. I use Google Maps frequently. It does a great job of helping me avoid traffic and gives me an estimate of when I’ll arrive at my destination. And I get alerts about traffic incidents, like police activity or an accident. It also uses data from Waze since Google bought that app, and takes inputs from users. But here’s one gripe. For some reason people keep reporti…

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