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These cupcakes are making me hangry:
In what is probably the only example ever of tiny, frosted cakes sparking mass outrage, strong negative feedback has prompted Google to remove a cupcake calorie counter from its iOS Maps app, the company confirmed Tuesday.
Google recently added the cutesy — and possibly half-baked — feature as an experiment. With the new feature, users saw a pink cupcake icon that automatically showed them how many calories they would burn if they walked to their destination. The app also translated that calorie count into mini cupcakes, telling walkers how many of the tiny treats they would burn if they walked from point A to point B.
But complaints soon started raining down like sprinkles.
Critics accused the cartoon cupcake counter of being patronizing, promoting body-shaming, and possibly triggering unhealthy behavior in people who have struggled with eating disorders or over-exercise, BBC reports. There's no way to turn the feature off, critics pointed out.
"Do they realize how extremely triggering something like this is for ppl who have had eating disorders? Not to mention just generally shamey," a user named Taylor Lorenz tweeted. She added: "Also it looks like there's no way to turn this feature off what the hell."
Google Maps has instead added 12 "worlds" for users to explore, including Venus, Pluto, Europa, Ganymede, Rhea, and Mimas. Google Maps users would in fact weigh less if they were on these bodies.
Also at The Verge, SFGate, TechCrunch, and Buzzfeed.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by edIII on Wednesday October 18 2017, @06:41AM (19 children)
Something that is actually fucking useful is killed right away because feelings got hurt.
Fuck, choose a different damn icon then. I can't eviscerate Google over their choice of icon. What else represents calories so universally well that it triggered a million snowflakes?
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Nuke on Wednesday October 18 2017, @09:00AM (6 children)
I think the issue was that you could not turn it off. I'm sure someone will offer an app for it anyway, if they don't already.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @01:32PM (3 children)
No, the issue is we live in a world full of immensely stupid snowflakes.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @03:19PM (2 children)
Yes, and the worst of these stupid snowflakes currently lives at the White House.
You'd think money and power would give Trump a thicker skin but he can't handle a fraction of the criticism that he himself levelled at his predecessor without being triggered into an epic meltdown that would put a millennial to shame.
(Score: 1, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday October 18 2017, @10:54PM (1 child)
Things are not always fair. Things happen to you that you do not always deserve. Look at the way I've been treated lately, especially by the media. No politician in history, and I say this with great surety, has been treated worse or more unfairly. You can't let them get you down. You can't let the critics and the naysayers get in the way of your dreams. I guess that's why we WON. Adversity makes you stronger. Don't give in, don't back down and never stop doing what you know is right. Nothing worth doing ever, ever, ever came easy and the more righteous your fight, the more opposition that you will face. 🇺🇸
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 19 2017, @05:14AM
Who are the cunts that vote everything "Troll"?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by SomeGuy on Wednesday October 18 2017, @04:14PM
But, but, but it is 2017! Turning things off is so old fashioned! How else do you expect them to monetize your use of it?
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Thursday October 19 2017, @06:33PM
YES.
This is, IMO, one of the biggest problems in modern tech in general. You can't ever fucking turn things off. This is why I run Linux, and this is why I keep trying to use more and more of my own software and servers rather than using the utter garbage most companies are producing these days. I don't need 90% of the crap they're trying to push on me, and about 50% of that are "features" that I'm actively trying to avoid.
How fucking difficult is an "On/off" slider? And yet Google would rather yank the entire feature rather than giving their users any tiny sliver of control.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @09:52AM (1 child)
A small icon with just "Cal" would IMHO be fine as well. Personally, I didn't know about that feature, but for me it would have been handy as I walk relative a lot. Would be nice to know how many calories I would have burned.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @10:30AM
First Clippy and now Cuppy? What do you have against animated helpers who only want what's best for you?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @10:32AM (1 child)
What really would've been helpful would be to show me where all of the cupcake shops wear along my walking route.
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Thursday October 19 2017, @06:36PM
What would REALLY be helpful would be giving the users some ability to actually control their own devices. How fuckin hard is an 'on/off' button? Why does Google act like the only options are "everyone has the feature all the time" or "nobody ever gets the feature"? Certainly there are occasionally features which can't be separated so easily...but this surely is not one of them.
It's the same goddamn virus that is now infecting even Linux through crap like SystemD. From "Do one thing and do it well" to "Do everything our way or GTFO"
(Score: 5, Insightful) by driverless on Wednesday October 18 2017, @12:36PM (6 children)
Just look at the complaints: "Do they realize how extremely triggering something like this is". I can't even think of a response to something like this. Why would anyone actually take this seriously?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @01:35PM (4 children)
Ladies and gentlemen, the left in a nutshell. Smile politely, rev the helicopters.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @03:08PM (2 children)
How's the war on Christmas going? Happy Holidays bitch.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @06:04PM
According to the Right, the war on Xmas is going full bore! My God*! Think of the children! According to anyone else?, nobody cares.
But for FSM's sake, look at a calendar, Happy Halloween!
*White-Jesus
(Score: 4, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday October 18 2017, @11:05PM
We’re getting near that beautiful Christmas season that people don’t talk about any more. They don’t use the word Christmas because it’s not politically correct. When was the last time you saw "Merry Christmas"? You don’t see it any more. You go to department stores and they’ll say 'Happy New Year,' or they’ll say other things and it’ll be red, they’ll have it painted. But they don’t say "Merry Christmas." Well, guess what? We’re saying "Merry Christmas" again. Our religious liberty is enshrined in the very first amendment in the Bill of Rights. The American founders invoked our Creator four times in the Declaration of Independence. Benjamin Franklin reminded his colleague at the Constitutional Convention to begin by bowing their heads in prayer. I remind you that we’re going to start saying "Merry Christmas" again. You’ll be saying "Merry Christmas" again when you go shopping. Believe me. "Merry Christmas." They’ve been downplaying that little, beautiful phrase. You’re going to be saying "Merry Christmas" again, folks. MERRY GODDAMNED CHRISTMAS!
MERRY GODDAMNED CHRISTMAS!
(Score: 4, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday October 18 2017, @08:45PM
Ladies and gentlemen, the left in a nutshell. Smile politely, rev the helicopters.
If one random Twitter poster is enough to malign the entire "Left" then just imagine how much fun I'm gonna have with Ethanol Fueled!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @05:47PM
Cyber cupcake attacks have been on the rise ever since they started keeping records. Denying it is a problem is just another example of ostrich politics. Where's your chorus of "regulations are bad for business"? Do you think cyber cupcake attacks are good for businesses?
(Score: 2) by Nobuddy on Thursday October 19 2017, @04:26PM
Had it just showed calories burned, it would have been ignored. By converting to cupcakes, they crossed a line. It was meant to be cutesy, but comes across as "walk off those cupcakes, fatass!"
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @06:43AM
from the 'do no wrong' stage of corporate lifecycle, to the 'do no right' stage :)
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @07:09AM
Whoops, I mean that's a BBW rejection. Er.., I mean that's a curvy rejection.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @07:24AM (1 child)
Instead of calories burned they should just have stressed how many cupcakes you could eat buy the time you reached your destination. It would at least get people out the door before they triggered, just out the door with a bun in their face. Lets face it the bun was't going to last the day anyway.
(Score: 2) by Nuke on Wednesday October 18 2017, @08:56AM
Seemed to me that the cupcakes would indicate how many you could eat without feeling guilty about it.
(Score: 4, Funny) by cubancigar11 on Wednesday October 18 2017, @08:20AM (5 children)
Where the hell do these outrages happen? And how can I enrol for outraging against this removal?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @08:27AM
https://twitter.com/ [twitter.com]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by FatPhil on Wednesday October 18 2017, @09:11AM (2 children)
Real men(tm) don't want distances measured in cupcakes, they want them measured in big mac meals!
With an option to switch to Bud lights, depending on the time of day or destination.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @03:50PM (1 child)
Bud Lights?! Maybe if you're a metrosexual. Real men drink Guiness.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @06:20PM
with a shot of jamesons or bushmills dumped in.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @12:18PM
On social media.
You won't generally find them on SN; we're antisocial media.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by inertnet on Wednesday October 18 2017, @08:50AM
At least someone burned some calories while being triggered.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @09:12AM (2 children)
Google should be mapping fatsoo's with radar
(Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @09:15AM (1 child)
*Gravitational wave detectors
(Score: 2) by fritsd on Wednesday October 18 2017, @07:47PM
When I go out
to get my mail
it measures on
the Richter scale
(Weird Al Yankovic - Fat)
(Score: 3, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday October 18 2017, @10:12AM (1 child)
I'm a tremendous fan of fast food. Because at least you know what they are putting in it. I think the food is good. I think all of those places, Burger King, McDonald’s, I can live with it. The other night I had Kentucky Fried Chicken. It’s good stuff. Not the worst thing in the world. I think the food’s good and I eat it very carefully. I’m a very clean person. I like cleanliness, and I think you’re better off going there than maybe someplace that you have no idea where the food is coming from. It’s a certain standard. The one thing about the big franchises: one bad hamburger, you can destroy McDonald’s. One bad hamburger, you take Wendy’s and all these other places and they’re out of business. Calories are very overrated.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @12:22PM
I am fairly skinny.
On occasion, I have counted calories to make sure I get enough.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @10:22AM (6 children)
Alright, people, I can understand the eating disorder thing, sort of. It doesn't make a lot of sense, but in a warped kind of way, it does. Not every fatso is a true glutton, I suppose.
But, WTF is "over-exercise"? People have exercise disorders too? Seriously? It certainly isn't common in the west. If such a disorder were common, the US and UK wouldn't be the lard ass champions of the world, now would they?
Over exercise, to me, is what happens when the boss demands that the crew works twelve hours or more, to meet a deadline. And, no, that wouldn't include sedentary people sitting at desks - they may be tired, but they're not exercising.
(Score: 4, Informative) by takyon on Wednesday October 18 2017, @10:31AM
Here's a story that came out just yesterday:
White Men Who Exercise Too Much At Higher Risk Of Death According To Study [cbslocal.com]
Anorexia [wikipedia.org] is a disorder that can be associated with over exercise. It's more common among athletes, models, etc.
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(Score: 2) by looorg on Wednesday October 18 2017, @10:44AM (4 children)
Been to a gym lately or in the last say 2-3 decades? The over-exerceisers are mostly "dudes" who go to the gym to pump at least once or twice per day, preferably more. They tend to make sounds that could only come from the most hardcore of gay p0rn as they grunt and huff lifting their weights, while simultaneously checking themselves out in the giant mirror-wall. They body shape is as weird as the people that are so fat that they waddle around like penguins -- usually giant upper bodies and tiny little legs. They look more like Belgian Blues then humans. What they are doing is probably not considered as healthy exercise, not to mention all the diet- and training supplements they take so they can train even more. The muscles they build are clearly more for show then for usage. There are usually a few over-exercising ladies to but they are probably more into taking spinning classes or doing aerobic training way to much, then they cry about why they have the body shape of a small boy instead of a woman.
So there is room for being both the lardiest of lard ass champions and the, borderline, narcissistic over-exercisers.
That said regarding the actual story I find it amusing how someone can be fat triggered by seeing a cupcake. They clearly have issues. They should see someone about it, preferably not someone that serves them more cupcakes.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday October 18 2017, @07:58PM (3 children)
"They tend to make sounds that could only come from the most hardcore of gay p0rn as they grunt and huff lifting their weights"
And you would know that how?
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 3, Funny) by looorg on Wednesday October 18 2017, @08:08PM (2 children)
Research, for science. I know what normal people and barnyard animals sound like. This is so much worse.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday October 18 2017, @08:34PM (1 child)
Suuure, "research."
I'm messing with you.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Fluffeh on Wednesday October 18 2017, @09:08PM
David Attenborough Voice: Observe the Phoenix666 in its natural environment, casually unaware of the giant WHOOOOSH sound above its head. Perhaps one day in the future, it will look back and smirk at the joke it missed today.
(Score: 5, Funny) by crafoo on Wednesday October 18 2017, @12:53PM (2 children)
Shame is a useful tool. There are many people walking around that should feel it more often. With image recognition in the state that it is today, cell phone cameras should add a cupcake counter icon above each head of each obese person in a photo. You know, "Ah I see your wife is a 12-cupcake. Impressive. How did you have kids?"
(Score: 5, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday October 18 2017, @01:57PM (1 child)
You're pretty close to stealing one of my lines there. That stupid show, 'America's biggest losers' was one of my wife's favorites, when she still watched television. So, this huge, expansive creature was talking about her various problems, which included infertility. I laughed, and laughed. Wife looks at me, "What's wrong with you?" "Jesus, woman, LOOK AT HER!! I'd have to have 18 inches to penetrate far enough to deliver the goods! She needs a large pony, or a small horse!"
My wife actually PUNCHED ME! And, didn't have a nice thing to say for weeks. Women - no sense of humor.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @10:13PM
For some reason, I don't suspect that her behavior was that different from normal.
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Wednesday October 18 2017, @01:00PM
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @01:01PM (5 children)
I'm obese and consider myself as having an eating disorder. Those who do not rarely understand the struggle to not overeat, to not snack, and to not eat the worse food choices. Food is like a drug to me, and if I don't have it often I get fidgety. It reminds me of when I was a smoker. If there is food near me I end up eating it even if not hungry. Like a smoker this happens even while I am cursing myself inside for doing it. The struggle is real and I wish others would understand that. It is a disorder and an addiction. Lack of free time for exercise and cooking don't help. Stress and financial issues make it worse.
Now, consider that you would think I would be on the side of saying these cupcake counters are a trigger and are bad. But guess what, I think that is snowflake bullshit. People are way too whiny. Yes, your eating disorder is a disorder, but don't blame Google for that. They were trying to help you, even if you don't agree with the way how. In my experience my best weight loss came when I had a tool that kept me aware of just how much I was eating (calorie counting with My Fitness Pal). Seeing a total number of calories eaten or burned and being aware and accountable for it was the best thing for me and worked better than anything else I have ever tried. Maybe you should stop being sorry for yourself and realize they were just trying to do something good for you.
(Score: 2) by inertnet on Wednesday October 18 2017, @01:35PM (2 children)
First watch this professor's video (without thinking of it as an ad, just for the explanation itself): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IdzC6mJzLA [youtube.com].
Then lookup "intermittent fasting" and read about how and why it works and about all of its benefits.
Good luck.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @01:52PM (1 child)
Like I said, those who do not have eating disorders do not understand the struggle. Here is yet another example.
(Score: 2) by inertnet on Wednesday October 18 2017, @07:45PM
Ah, you didn't watch the video until the end. If an eating disorder comes from the mind, that video would have given you pointers how to start beating that instead of keep struggling with it.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday October 18 2017, @08:24PM (1 child)
I feel for you. Food addictions are hard to overcome because they're so fundamental and automatic. And if you're in America, there's nothing around you in the popular culture or in restaurants or supermarkets anywhere that helps you out. Everything pushes, pushes, pushes you to overeat, and choose the worst foods possible. And the blood sugar roller coaster sends you soaring and crashing over and over again several times a day. When you don't get your fix you get the shakes.
Then you get conflicting messages from scientific studies saying eat this, or do that. It's maddening and none of it seems to help. Meanwhile, your need for another fix creeps up on you and suddenly another day has gone by.
I've had a similar experience, though not to the degree it sounds like you have. I tried exercising like a fiend--four hours/day. Didn't make a difference. I tried calorie restriction to 1300 calories/day. Didn't help. I fasted for four weeks straight, with nothing but vitamins and it didn't help; my body went into starvation mode and would not shed weight. The latest tack is a ketogenic diet strictly kept for a year. I thought that was working, my waist bands were all getting loose, I had a lot more energy, etc, but nope, at the annual physical a couple weeks ago I weighed in 10lbs heavier.
Oh well.
One thing I can say about the ketogenic diet is that you don't suffer the blood sugar roller coaster anymore. You do stop craving sweets and bread and such. Emotionally you're on a more even keel. You start naturally craving foods high in nutrients and junk like potato chips seems pointless. That has to be a good thing, right?
It might be worth checking out for that reason, so you at least escape some of the more unpleasant effects of being too heavy.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @09:45PM
> I weighed in 10lbs heavier.
That's not necessarily bad. Maybe you became more muscular.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @01:32PM
I was expecting people to blacklist certain apps/programs from Google and refuse to download or work with them. I also expected for the firing of the team that implemented this feature. Also, there were no citations or research to back up this feature (maybe because someone stripped it out from the code before release? or didn't include comments in the compiled app?), therefore, the whole app is bigotry. Why wasn't the CEO immediately pulled in from other work to personally look into this?
This is the response I expected because this is how google sjw's responded. How does it feel, google?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @01:53PM (3 children)
The Compass was invented by evil Europeans who used it to enslave the rest of the world! I demand that Google Maps remove all references to compass directions. (/heavy, cupcake-sized sarcasm)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @02:21PM
I'm a lapsed catholic and your post about "cardinal" directions triggered me!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @07:30PM (1 child)
It was a mini-cupcake so your sarcasm is still too serious. Besides, you are conflating two different things. In this case the cupcake icon was pushed without consent and could not be changed. How would you like a dildo icon stuck on your home screen?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @09:59PM
Those who enjoy having a dildo stuck somewhere will make great customers for Android bundled with Google Play Services.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Wednesday October 18 2017, @04:58PM (2 children)
where do i go to 'stupid shame' these people.
Get lives people.
Grow up.
The whole world must stop turning and moving through space just so the snowflakes will have somewhere safe to land?
Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh.
"I am lame, and must be protected! Remove stuff that could make me feel bad inside. I know that in the past, people used to have it REAL hard and that they would go out into the wild and DISCOVER THE NEW WORLD after spending months on the Atlantic ocean with no safety nets at all, but i am a snowflake and so must be protected from EVERYTHING!.....Oh no.... i broke a NAIL!!!!!!"
Again: Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh!
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday October 18 2017, @08:25PM (1 child)
There used to be a great bumpersticker that read, "Too Bad Ignorance Isn't Painful."
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Wednesday October 18 2017, @09:53PM
I just usually say "Peoples is dumb".
Wouldn't the world be a better place if you were allowed to kill one person EVERY year, no consequences?
People would be nicer to each other AND you could get rid of the assholes and stupids.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @07:24PM (6 children)
So many people triggered because others did not like something. It may be too much to think any of you might actually understand the situation of others, but the sheer amount of bitching about someone else's complaint about something you don't even care about is unreal!! Is the situation a bit silly? Yes. Is it beyond reason? No. They could have made the icon customizable or even removable, that seems to be the point where people got upset.
I find complaints about a cupcake icon silly myself, but yet I can still let it go by realizing that my personal experience does not apply to every single person out there. Also, I am 100% against software that takes away control from users.
The world didn't stop and Google will push an update so people can change the icon or remove the functionality. Being offended by someone being offended is so meta, I guess it is actually a perfect state of being for the net.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday October 18 2017, @08:33PM (4 children)
You know, it's time for the pendulum to swing the other way. Enough universal acceptance of everything. We ought to be doing more judging. Stupidity should be called out for the what it is. Hypocrisy must be called out for what it is. Sloth should be called out for what it is. People who are racists must be held accountable for that. People who are cowards, moral or otherwise, should be called what they are. Let's have a period of truth-telling, and stop pretending that everything is equally valid and fine and acceptable. It is not.
The only caveat is that it has to be equal opportunity. Everyone needs to cowboy up and turn that lens on themselves, too. We all need to get better as humans, and fast, or civilization will fall.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Wednesday October 18 2017, @10:01PM
NICELY SAID!!!
I give you AAALLLL my internet's for the next year!
High five! I've found MY moving buddy (he said in a deep masculine, non-bo-peep, non-lispy voice).
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Thursday October 19 2017, @06:52PM (2 children)
But can we start by calling out the insanity of adding unremovable and totally irrelevant features to apps and forcing them on users?
I mean what the hell is a calorie counter even doing in a mapping application? Google Maps is not an exercise tracking utility, it's a navigation tool! This is something that ought to be in some "Labs" experimental features section if it exists at all. Not suddenly forced onto the entire userbase for no reason other than some management fuck thinking it was cute.
This kind of shit is why I don't use any Google services anymore...
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday October 19 2017, @07:45PM (1 child)
I like the feature. It would help me better measure my caloric energy budget.
It would be better as an option you could switch off, but goodness is it worth all the rage?
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Friday October 20 2017, @12:10AM
Yeah, some of the rage against it is pretty misguided as well...but I think it's about more than just the calorie count. I recall similar outrage back when I was on Facebook every single time they changed the interface. People don't tend to like having arbitrary changes forced upon them...
As for the actual utility of this feature...sounds like it's totally unconfigurable, so how accurate would it really be? Unless Google is getting way more creepy than I'm aware of, it's probably just the number of miles times the "average" calories per "average" mile walked by the "average" person. If you really care you could calculate that more accurately in your head. Looks like half your weight in pounds is pretty close to calories per mile:
https://www.verywell.com/walking-calories-burned-by-miles-3887154 [verywell.com]
...which is probably a better angle for criticism actually -- either you've gotta have Google asking for your weight just to try to get a goddamn map, or you've got Google giving false health information (even if it is just a calorie count) to a large portion of their users. If they want it to be remotely accurate, they need to get your weight at least. And if they don't want to piss off everyone who just wants a map, they need to make that question (and therefore the whole feature) optional.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @09:59PM
mocking != bitching