• @SocialMediaRefugee
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    121 day 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.
  • @[email protected]
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    162 days ago

    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.

    • @SocialMediaRefugee
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      121 day ago

      Except no one in the US except for McTrumpy calls it the Gulf of America

    • @Siegfried
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      Argybargies? Is that a new racial slur i haven’t heard of?

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        As slurs go it’s pretty low tier. A bit like the French calling the English “rosbifs”, if they even still do that.

    • @SocialMediaRefugee
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      61 day ago

      If you see the Gulf of Mexico pop up on street map your car may be floating.

    • @QualifiedKitten
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      32 days ago

      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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          21 day ago

          Hmm. I did find it in the OsmAnd app, but I’m very confused. I think it’s just showing me trip durations, not actual schedules, and definitely not live bus data, nor any option to find routes based on a specific departure or arrival time. For the route I tested, it gave me 4 different options, all of which list a departure time of 0:00, even though it’s early afternoon here.

          Digging around the other apps I use, it looks like the live transit data that I’m used to is free to access. Is there something I need to do to get that linked up?

        • @QualifiedKitten
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          11 day ago

          I see the option for transit directions in the app, but I’ve tried a few different destinations that I’ve regularly visited via bus, and it only gave walking directions for all of them. I also tried the airport, which I usually get to via rail, and it says that subway navigation isn’t available in my region yet.

    • @BradleyUffner
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      11 day ago

      Hasn’t OSM also said that they will change it once it’s properly completed?

  • @irish_link
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    602 days 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.

  • @MrJameGumb
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    502 days ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      21 day ago

      not really an option for many ppl with useful features missing like satellite image, street view, public transport

  • @NOT_RICK
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    392 days ago

    Gulf of Performative Nonsense

  • @[email protected]
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    312 days ago

    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

  • @[email protected]
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    82 days ago

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

  • @shalafi
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    252 days ago

    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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      I wanna know how “Nihon” got turned into “Japan” in the first place. A lot of things are just from the foreigner mishearing; but how the hell did someone mishear “Nihon” as “Japan?” They don’t even sound close! Not even from a thick Japanese accent!

    • @SocialMediaRefugee
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      11 day ago

      Wait until folks find out Greeks call Greece “Hella” and Hungarians call Hungary “Magyarország” (Land of the Magyars)

    • @Lost_My_Mind
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      32 days ago

      Wait…are you saying if I go to Japan, and learn the language, they’ll refer to it as Nihon, and think I’m a stupid American for saying Japan instead?

  • @acosmichippo
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    292 days ago

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

    • Optional
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      11 hour ago

      Pace yourself, we got almost four years to go. At least.

  • hendrik
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    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?!

      • hendrik
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        62 days ago

        I don’t think it’s quite end stage yet. There is still some room left to become worse. Some freedoms left and some money in the pockets of regular people.

        • @[email protected]
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          22 days ago

          This is mid stage at best. We could be ultra taxed down to pennies as a civilization, and I don’t fully mean taxes just cost of living/food, cost of goods, medical, etc. Living like the movie Elysium.