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[–] 116 points 2 years ago (1 child)

How’s that boot taste google

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  • [–] 65 points 2 years ago

    When they do it, We need to encourage people to report it as incorrect information. If everyone does it then it may be enough for show we don’t want this and don’t want to be seen as the fools the White House actually is.

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  • [–] 50 points 2 years ago

    Guess they'll do anything to appease the new self appointed co-dictators of North America...

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  • [–] 40 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Gulf of Performative Nonsense

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    [–] 39 points 2 years ago

    This has "freedom fries" energy all over it.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 years ago
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    No, see y'all've got it backwards. It's the Gulf of America, not the Gulf of the United States of America. He's making it more inclusive!

    /s

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Wow. I did not expect to see the current amount of boot licking by big tech and practically all of the tech-bros. This can't be good. They certainly expect to get something in return from the current administration. Likely some dystopian end-stage capitalism?!

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    just when you think this timeline can’t get any stupider.

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    [–] 29 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    someone needs to make a Firefox plugin that reverts the change.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Just change every "X of Y" to "X of America."

    Then we'll change the X, also to "America."

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    [–] 28 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    What till y'all find out they label Nihon as "Japan".

    Google's doing what they always do, following official government naming conventions. If, and when, the US officially changes the name, they will follow suit.

    Personally, I'd rather they get their back up and say "no", but at least they're being internally consistent.

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    [–] 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

    Some Alternatives:

    Open Street Map

    MapQuest

    Organic Maps (Mobile)

    EDIT: Added Organic Maps

    EDIT: Removed Apple Maps since they've made their change.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Anything that includes public transit routing? It doesn't look like OSM or MapQuest include public transit, and I'm not seeing an option to use Apple Maps via the web browser on Android.

    For destinations I go to regularly, I can easily pull up schedules without Google maps, but if I'm going somewhere new, Google maps greatly simplifies the process of figuring out which route(s) to take.

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    [–] 23 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Switch to the open source and private Organic Maps folks!

    !organicmaps@sopuli.xyz

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    They honestly feel a bit like a satirical version of North Korea by isolating themselves with certain policies, and making crazy threats to anyone they can.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Google a lil' bitch

    EDIT: little to lil'

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Well that's OK. It's not uncommon for different countries to name bits of land and water differently from everyone else. Take Germany for example. The locals call it Deutschland. The French call it Allemagne. Or there are the Falklands, known by the argybargies as Las Malvinas. If Donny McFart in North Mexico wants to call that bit of water the Freedom Gulf or whatever then good for him! As long as he realises it works both ways.

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    [–] 17 points 2 years ago
    [–] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I mean if you want to be really stupid, call it the Gulf of Texas.

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    [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    Send error reports for every body of water in the unites States.

    Label them all the gulf of mexico.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    Don't forget the other random renaming he did, Denali. It'll always be Denali to myself and the climbing community.

    1. It sounds snappier than McKinley
    2. It actually had that name before. It wasn't just pulled out of thin air to be PC.
    3. McKinley had nothing to do with the area, he was gov of Ohio. He never even visited it, it was just named after him to curry favor with him.
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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    It really sucks that Google dropped "Don't be evil" from their mission statement.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    Those companies always gravel, in China Taiwan is probably called “China’s island resort 🏝️”

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    You can change the maps to suck up to the Orange Idiot, but you can't make people actually call it that.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    /googles "boot licker"

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Freedom gulf

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  • I can’t believe I still have it but I’m going to start actively changing emails on all my old accounts on services I had registered with gmail before I switched.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    should have been 'gulf of muricunts'

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