• MissJinx@lemmy.world
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    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

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      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.

  • ivanafterall ☑️@lemmy.world
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    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.

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      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.

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      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.

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    No one asking where this template is from. sigh Where’s it from my good people?

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    You can leave a google review for ‘Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)’. Lets review bomb it.

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    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.

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    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

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      Of course. The name written on the map is what was keeping that huge inflation there on the US at 2%/y.

      • 𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆@lemmy.world
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        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.

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          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.

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    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:

    screen shot showing Open Street Map tags as described above, including the statement "Please see (link to discussion) before editing the name of this feature. Undiscussed changes 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.

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    Even the german language version does this now.

    How long until the US pull a China and attack mexican fishing boats?

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    Don’t forget Microsoft with Bing maps. At least Google made this just for US users, they made it for everyone.