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[–] 83 points 1 year ago (4 children)

TIL MapQuest is still around.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Kind of makes me want to go back to printing 6 page instructions to destinations that I hold in my right hand and read whilst driving with my left hand.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    I kind of did this with sticky notes on the dash during my last road trip. I was travelling through an area I knew would have poor reception at the time, so I made a bullet point list of the main road changes.

    It was kind of nice not having to check a screen for directions.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You might want to do that anyway. You know, in case everything does get shut down. I know people who can’t navigate their own city without GPS for the life of them.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I can draw a usefully realistic map of every city I've spent significant time in. I can also drive around a city as big as Los Angeles without GPS (though some of the fucking freeway exits in this town are fucking ass backwards).

    So when I'm in a taxi this weekend in a different city (not an Uber, an actual licensed cab) and he can't even figure out where you want to go when showing him the map with the location.... wow. He never actually did figure out where we wanted to go, we just held the phone for him so he could follow the GPS directions to one of the more popular neighborhoods in the town he drives in professionally.

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  • [–] 50 points 1 year ago
    [–] 26 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I’m still sold on Gulf Dukat.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Dukat would be proud that the humans in an alternate timeline, where he's fictional, went and named something after him for all his great deeds.

    And then he'd find out why we're really naming it after him and he'd try every underhanded trick in the book and a handful of new ones in order to find a way into our universe to show us how great he really is.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Fuckin gottem.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    Looks like his distraction is pretty effective.

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    [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It's really too bad that Mapquest still looks like it's from the 90s

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Based MapQuest.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    This is the type of content I need in my life at the moment.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    The real gulf of America is the gulf that Trump has ripped open between the US and its allies

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Not sure this falls flat or worse. It’s the Gulf of Mexico. That’s it. Nothing else. Not even a conversation. “It is what it is”

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I think it's just making the point that anyone can name anything whatever they want, but it doesn't change what people call it. Obviously Trump thinks he's God so he probably actually thinks something has happened as a result of his declaration.

    The stupid thing is every country and every language has always had different words for the same places.

    The French don't call it France.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The French don’t call it France.

    What does this mean?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    France is a pretty weird example because most French people do call it France. But technically the country is République français, or the French Republic.

    But a better example would be Germany; it's natively called Deutschland and dozens of languages call it Allemagne or variants of that. Both Germany and Allemagne are historical names we haven't moved on from, even though the actual country has.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Here Maps kept it as the Gulf of Mexico

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    That feature actually could be just a map overlay. Who did play with oruxmaps or qgis knows what it is...

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Fun! Thanks for sharing!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Gulf of... your mom! 😎😛

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    But don't tell the Great Tricktator, or you goto jail immediately.

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  • [+] -9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Can we get over this and focus on the real shit that Trump is fucking up?

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