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    The idea that these pieces of shit have so much hatred for brown people that they can’t even see the word “Mexico” on a map without having some kind of fit is fucking insane!

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    115 months ago

    Getting groups to go along with your stupid minor lies is the first step. That way when you start doing the bigger important lies they are already used to just going along with your lies.

    This is straight from the authoritarian play book and Trump is not doing this without purpose.

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    We just call it the Gulf Coast here.

    But if they really wanna get nitpicky, might as well rename it to the Gulf of Oil.

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    Yei, another service I’ll dump and self host. I’ll just get a nice big server, dump everything there, and then get rid of all my last Google crap

    The only thing I’ll miss is YouTube, not for the site, but for the content

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      By saying “common”, we mean to include names which are in widespread daily use, rather than giving immediate recognition to any arbitrary governmental re-naming

      That policy is surprisingly on point.

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      Eh, their policy currently is “make as much money as possible, nothing else matters”

      Making money now requiring stuffing their noses up Trumps ass, so here we go

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      “In other words, if a ruler announced that henceforth the Pacific Ocean would be named after her mother, we would not add that placemark unless and until the name came into common usage.”

      Uh-huh.

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    Do the Trump dipshits realize they’re just renaming it after the continent? The continent that Mexico is also on? There is no country named ‘America.’ There are the United States of America: a federation of semi autonomous states that are almost exclusively located on the North American continent.

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      They’re already living in a country that they think is named America. Much of the world follows suit too.

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    This is already going to cost taxpayers a fortune in governmental redrawn maps, of which there are a ridiculous number across federal and state departments, and that’s before you go into even more costly things like replacing all the road signs that mention the Gulf of Mexico.

    Which makes me wonder how much it is going to cost all these tech companies that reference it to do the same. Some of it is just changing a word in a database, but I have a feeling that’s only some of it.

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    So… I have no intention to use google maps as a result of this. Not like I used it much to begin with, but I’m going to do my part to not enable these ignorant cowardly pissfarts to cartographically troll an entire planet.

    No sir, not on my astrolabe!

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      25 months ago

      For trails I already use OSM, how is it for navigation?

      Apple maps? Other preferences?

      I wonder what the options are no buck Google Navigation on my EV’s infotainment console.

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        I’ve used Organic maps (which I think uses OSM navigation) exclusively and it hasn’t let me down yet. Especially when walking it knows a lot more routes than Google. One thing Google has going for it is it knows where there’s a lot of traffic and routes around it, OSM doesn’t have the data to do that.

        Organic Maps also has an Android Auto version, though I don’t have anything to try that.