Well those are american companies. If the gov vhanges the name of.a.street we expect.them to change in the maps right? In this case they are following protocol
Yes, but:
Who the hell says the president can rename things via executive order? Surely that’s not iterated as a power of the office.
People toeing the line without question is how fascism works. Someone at the Board on Geographic Names bent over faster than a dippy bird.
Aug. 30, 2015 President Obama announced on Sunday that Mount McKinley was being renamed Denali, using his executive power to restore an Alaska Native name with deep cultural significance to the tallest mountain in North America.
You mean like that ?
Ok…
So the main difference here is Denali is fully contained within the borders of the country choosing to name it.
The Gulf of Mexico is International Waters, and the US doesn’t even have the majority of shoreline… Which is why we have an international standards body to name international waters, so people don’t get confused.
For example, an airline flight from Tampa to Cancun reports its flying over the Gulf of America to a Mexican air traffic controller… The controller has no idea what the hell he is talking about, because THE ENTIRE GLOBE calls it “Gulf of Mexico”.
Yeah, what the shit is that? Why can the president just make that call? Can he just rename Alabama to fucknutistan? Just because it’s accurate and historical?
Seems like overreach. It should be a board of representative people following standards. Not the whim of a false monarch
Oh wait. Was that supposed to be a “but Obama did it” gotcha? I’m bad at understanding social context online.
If it was, then all I can say is that it’s better to have standards by which we judge everyone fairly, instead of giving failures like trump a pass because he happens to be Republican this week.
Where can I find a sexy russian mommy to dump gallons of milk down my throat until my tummy explodes sending a creamy tsunami down the hillside killing everyone in its way.
Y’know it costs nothing to not post that right?
Was it worth nothing or priceless?
She looks like Emma Roberts
That singlehandedly caused me to begin actively moving away from Google starting yesterday. Gonna be a pain in the ass, but I’m working on it.
My interim e-mail solution is mailbox.org. Trying a 30-day free trial and annoyed at having to pay, but fuck it. It’s cheap. Like $1-$3/month. Will see.
I’m assuming OpenStreetMaps has an app and plan to check today.
I’ve started decluttering/backing up my Drive and Photos so that I can unsubscribe from their recently-changed shit subscription structure without losing essential files.
Organic Maps is the recommendation I’ve been seeing for OSM. I’ve been using it for a week or so and have been liking it so far.
I’m in a similar situation. Not to make the switch harder on you, but someone here posted a page with a bunch of reviews of email providers, calling out things like cost, privacy practices, and cooperation with the federal government. Here’s their entry on mailbox.org. You might want to read through some of them while you’re still in the free trial.
Of course. Ugh. Thank you for the resource.
No one asking where this template is from. sigh Where’s it from my good people?
Xmoron shared it and did it wrong. Ha!
Random Instagram post from one of the women. No sexuality in the original context. We all just see what we wanna see 🤷♂️
Uh huh. What’s the D/s version of “Sappho and her friend”?
No, don’t use the sexy meme template for this change. It’s just a dumb dick measuring move. It doesn’t deserve that honor.
The tuba meme would be appropriate.
Anyone know of a good alternative that works with Android Auto?
I upvote this meme format every time
Can’t wait for Apple+Google to change USA to „small penis land“ as per my decree wich changed the name to represent the population and acknowledges the fact that there not the only America, but also central and south as well as Canada and México
I was curious about Open Street Maps, since anyone can edit it.
Gulf of America comes up specifically as an official name for US, and there is also a note about how if you change the English name without agreement in the discussion then it will be reverted:
Discussion is here: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/gulf-of-america-gulf-of-mexico/124571
It seems the general consensus is that the US have that as an official name, but it’s not the common English name so name:en stays as the Gulf of Mexico.
I was very happy to open up organic maps and see it still listed as Mexico.
I’m still trying to get out of Google maps.
OSM ftw
Will prices start going down now?
Of course. The name written on the map is what was keeping that huge inflation there on the US at 2%/y.
In all seriousness, periods of marked deflation are generally not economically prosperous times. The economy deflated more than 20% between 1929 and 1936. But we don’t call that period in time “The Really Cool American Price Drop.” It goes by another name I can’t think of right now, and it’s making me feel greatly depressed.
We shouldn’t be fighting for lower prices. We should be fighting for better wages that track with prices over time.
No, we should also be fighting for lower prices.
It’s just that the way we achieve them is with price controls. Stop letting profiteers take as much as they want.
The more quickly the world decouples from the US, the better.
And for the citizens, the sooner we can decouple from billionaires the better.
They really are fucking everything up. Every billionaire in this country needs to be de-billionaired. It’s going to likely come down to the people doing this at this rate.
decouple them from life
China world love to come in and fill this gap. But who will keep the shipping lanes free of piracy? They have the world’s largest navy.
who will keep the shipping lanes free of piracy?
You know the US isn’t patrolling the shipping lanes they don’t use right?
Also, no, they never managed to keep the shipping lanes free of piracy.
eh, they aren’t that different
For now
Even the german language version does this now.
How long until the US pull a China and attack mexican fishing boats?
I was crucified when I compared the two on an authoritarian leftist instance I shall not name, but I think people here can agree that despite having very different colours and propaganda, they both are both converging with the facist side of the spectrum.
Doing my part.
Apple at least aren’t showing me that dumb shit in Australia that Google is doing with parentheses:
Rolling out world wide. I moved to organic maps.
Source? Only reason I’m using Apple Maps in the first place is because I need public transport directions and it’s not Google Maps. Organic Maps doesn’t have them, and I don’t want to use the app my state gov puts out because the way it calculates connections is garbage. Most international PT-only apps don’t have my city even though it’s the biggest in Australia.
Don’t forget Microsoft with Bing maps. At least Google made this just for US users, they made it for everyone.
They aren’t afraid of negative attention, at least it’s some attention and people will know they have maps too
From Thailand and Singapore it shows as “Gulf of America (Gulf of Mexico)”
UK here. It’s the reverse for me.
Same for France
Yes, I’m checking now and that’s true, old info from me, yesterday from Spain was still Gulf of Mexico, now Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)… Well, tomorrow it will probably be Gulf of America for everyone, they are doing this progressively.
