What I want to call this administration is unfortunately against the site rules
1 hours ago [-]
joshstrange 2 hours ago [-]
The title of this article implies they changed it before being forced/asked. As stupid as the whole thing is, the executive order was signed. This article is just about how the government’s own maps aren’t updated yet.
This wasn’t a case of Google updating based on a mere suggestion or guessing at what our mad king wants. It’s still silly, it’s still petty, but this article reads (and is titled) like clickbait to me. Instead we should focus on the absurdity of the EO.
HarHarVeryFunny 1 hours ago [-]
Google isn't part of the government - they can put whatever names they like on Google Maps.
MapQuest has chosen to stick with "Lake Ontario", just as they did with "Gulf of Mexico", and are seeing app downloads surge as a result.
nixon_why69 2 hours ago [-]
Google isn't a branch of the government, they can call the lake whatever they want.
It's a decision to comply that quickly, presumably because Trump is vindictive, why die on this hill.
amiga386 1 hours ago [-]
> why die on this hill
Because when the orange one is gone, people will remember what a supremely supine bastard you were, and now you're no longer protected, will punish you hard.
westurner 54 minutes ago [-]
Is anyone else able to find "executive seal b ible" on YouTube? With similar queries?
The one with the modified executive seal on it?
It's unfathomable to me that there are no videos on YouTube that show their modified seal for private profit on b ibles and b eer pong sets.
3 hours ago [-]
beardyw 2 hours ago [-]
You can make too much of this. Countries regularly have different names for foreign or shared places. The "English Channel" is "La Manche", Cologne is Köln. Like the English language, it's pretty much down to "that's what I call it". If people continue to call it "Lake Ontario" that's what it will be.
amiga386 51 minutes ago [-]
It's a country's leader petulantly ordering their entire country to call a lake by a new name that wrongly implies it belongs to them, which it doesn't, in order to spite their main trading partner because they rejected a trade deal that would massively harm them.
This wasn’t a case of Google updating based on a mere suggestion or guessing at what our mad king wants. It’s still silly, it’s still petty, but this article reads (and is titled) like clickbait to me. Instead we should focus on the absurdity of the EO.
MapQuest has chosen to stick with "Lake Ontario", just as they did with "Gulf of Mexico", and are seeing app downloads surge as a result.
It's a decision to comply that quickly, presumably because Trump is vindictive, why die on this hill.
Because when the orange one is gone, people will remember what a supremely supine bastard you were, and now you're no longer protected, will punish you hard.
The one with the modified executive seal on it?
It's unfathomable to me that there are no videos on YouTube that show their modified seal for private profit on b ibles and b eer pong sets.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_politically_motivated_...