Trumps’s order affects the U.S. Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), which sets the standards for official U.S. maps.
Google Maps has changed the name of “Lake Ontario” to “Lake America” for U.S. users to reflect President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the lake, according to a Google statement.
Trump announced on Thursday that he was changing the name of the smallest of the five Great Lakes, part of an escalating trade feud with Canada that has prompted the two countries to impose reciprocal tariffs on billions of dollars in goods.
The president’s order affects the U.S. Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), which sets the standards for official U.S. maps. It does not have any impact on Canadian naming conventions or how the rest of the world refers to the lake.
How did we elect an octegenarian toddler to the president’s office?
Decades of unchecked racism.
Don’t forget gutting the public education system (a process that was made easier by leveraging unchecked racism).
That’s really the biggest one, destroying education.
Deciding education is only for those who can pay is definitely one of the biggest crumbled pillars that sent us down a slope.
Low IQ and morally devoid conservatives/regressives who treat politics like sports and their fellow Americans like enemies.
*again
It’s important to remember that Google was not required in any shape or form to make this change. They simply decided that they’d prefer to continue sucking Trump’s mushroom cock and make the change.
Stop using Google products. Also, remember this, if the fascists ever lose power. Remember that they were happy and excited to jump in bed with the fascist pedophiles, because they’ll likely try to bury their actions during this administration and try to appeal to whoever is in power afterwards.
The US tech giants are the IG Farben and Krupp of MAGA.
That reference is a little too “inside baseball” for me, but based on the context, I assume those were companies that operated in the so-called Third Reich?
And massively profited from it, yes. And still exist today in one way or another.
Really? I was under the impression that Trump had made it a law or something. If not, then what did that executive order actually do?
The EO changed the name on official government maps. Private companies don’t need to adopt those changes. At one point Google even stated its policy was to use the name in common usage rather than pushing updates based on arbitrary changes by a neighboring ruler.
Executive orders only apply to the executive branch of the federal government, which is why they’re called executive orders. They don’t (or rather, are not supposed to) apply to anything else, including citizens and private companies.
It’s been showing Lake America for me and my partner. We live in Canada.
G**gle has you pegged as the 51st state already…
do you and your partner adopt rescues? I’m house trained.
I’ve heard it’s better to adopt pairs so they’re not lonely. I just so happen to be excellent at fetching slippers myself.
Ass kissing Trump servants.
Don’tBe EvilMaybe it’s time to get rid of all my google apps.
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I thought I was being paranoid dropping Google like a hot dog turd around 2018, but everything they’ve done since then has made me glad I’m no customer of theirs for the most part.
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I’m glad I stopped buying their phones. It’s very easy not to since I like emulation and they don’t use Snapdragon SoCs anymore lol
“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four.”
Apple Maps still showing “Lake Ontario“… for now…
I’m sure google maps will be among the first to kiss his ass again. (or suck dick, whichever you prefer. verbally, I mean) Without any prodding.
Not that I was taking any risk predicting that.
Use Openstreetmap!
Also recommend CoMaps; like OSM it’s open source and privacy focused, no ads, very customizable. I prefer the cleaner interface of CoMaps but anything is better than Google.
It, too, uses OSM.
Practically any non-Google map app does.
Nice work. And thanks for the tip!
Also in Australia.
It’s showing this for me. Maybe they adjust the way it shows depending on personal data.
Oh, fuck me, it is real
Oh, fuck me, it is real
…Lewis said to Clark, in the cold dark of the deep forest, on yet another relentlessly lonely night… 😉
I mean, it wasn’t that lonely.
More intimate.
And for that you downvoted Ken Burns?
And while I admit that I totally made that poster (because I make a lot of show and movie posters), that is an absolutely legitimate Ken Burns documentary that very much exists.
I didn’t down vote anyone. At least, not here.
I love this
Dear America,
You are literally living in the western version of North Korea. So maybe do something.
- All your old friends that are new enemies
Fucking cowards.
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