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This caused me to delete Google Maps, but their removal of Black History month from Google Calendar is what's making me contemplate migrating everything else away from them...
OpenStreet maps 😎
I just downloaded it, and I have to say it's pretty rough compared with Google maps. There's no traffic data, and it struggles to even find basic things like sushi restaurants that are clearly labeled if you search for sushi. Let alone difficult things like doctor's offices.
Downloaded what though? OpenStreetMap is just a data source. There are a number of different maps that use it.
I haven't used it in awhile but I think Magic Earth has traffic data, I'm not sure where it's sourced from but the map data they use is from OSM.
Any coders want to instantly have one of the most popular extensions for firefox, chrome, etc? It seems this would be the type of thing that would be relatively easy for an extension/add-on to fix.
Where can I find a sexy russian mommy to dump gallons of milk down my throat until my tummy explodes sending a creamy tsunami down the hillside killing everyone in its way.
Y'know it costs nothing to not post that right?
Was it worth nothing or priceless?
My day was simultaneously both ruined and made far more exciting for the existence of that comment. So maybe net-0? I suppose in a roundabout way you could say you're solving climate change!
Less than nothing, it made the world a worse place.
I don't think it would kill everyone on the way down, I'm sure a large percentage of innocent gawkers would end up getting tsunami down their own throats until secondary tsunamis, ("two-namis") eject across the entire shire
Like a dreamy milky fission of burst tummies.
As all things should be
She looks like Emma Roberts
Oh goody, Republicans should rename a bunch of post offices too, so they can brag about how much they have made America great again -
keeps the mindless minion's minds off those grocery and egg prices.
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.
Same, really want to switch, and I think after finishing this project I'm done with windows and Google. Not gonna lie, I dread switching agenda, drive, mail, maps... A lot of fucking useful stuff that I use for everything, but I don't just want to think they are too big to fail. Fuck their behaviour.
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.
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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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
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.
Aug. 30, 2015 President Obama announced on Sunday that Mount McKinley was being renamed Denali, using his executive power to restore an Alaska Native name with deep cultural significance to the tallest mountain in North America.
You mean like that ?
Edit: I'm in no way endorsing what trump did, which I think was a petty vindictive move on his part, I'm just pointing out that he's far from the first to have used an executive order to rename geographical features. If anyone thinks I'm being pro trump, just take a look at my post history.
Ok...
So the main difference here is Denali is fully contained within the borders of the country choosing to name it.
The Gulf of Mexico is International Waters, and the US doesn't even have the majority of shoreline... Which is why we have an international standards body to name international waters, so people don't get confused.
For example, an airline flight from Tampa to Cancun reports its flying over the Gulf of America to a Mexican air traffic controller... The controller has no idea what the hell he is talking about, because THE ENTIRE GLOBE calls it "Gulf of Mexico".
Is the country between France and Poland called, Deutschland, Allemagne, or Germany?
It's completely outside of the borders of the US but the name used for that country is completely different from then name people from that area would call it.
Which name is right? Which name should be displayed on the map? It depends on a few things.
“… to restore an Alaska Native name…”
That’s taking the name back to Koyukon. It’s not remotely equivalent to making a name up; like they’ve tried with the Gulf of Mexico. Poor equivalence to conflate the two.
Yeah, what the shit is that? Why can the president just make that call? Can he just rename Alabama to fucknutistan? Just because it's accurate and historical?
Seems like overreach. It should be a board of representative people following standards. Not the whim of a false monarch
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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.
The tuba meme would be appropriate.
No one asking where this template is from. sigh Where's it from my good people?
Random Instagram post from one of the women. No sexuality in the original context. We all just see what we wanna see 🤷♂️
I question that because I remembered reading articles that had discussions with the photographer from the before times. Alas, the internet is dead and every search result for Eugeny Hramenkov is either copy/pasted AI mouth gargle or articles talking about how "Elon Musk used the meme!!" (fucking christ I wouldn't put it past the dude that all these sites are his own promotional shit). It's so completely sad to have had the internet information age for just a small hopeful glimpse before it all came completely crumbling down.
Uh huh. What's the D/s version of "Sappho and her friend"?
Anyone know of a good alternative that works with Android Auto?
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:
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.
I was very happy to open up organic maps and see it still listed as Mexico.
I'm still trying to get out of Google maps.
OSM ftw
Will prices start going down now?
Funnily enough at a macro scale the economy was in super good shape as trump took office with all economic indicators pointing upward. Wages grew by over 4% year over year while inflation was less than 3% meanwhile the price increases that were seen over 2021-2023ish were either rolled back or otherwise ceased being increased. Trump could literally do nothing, let the existing trends play out over 4 years and retire with an economy worth bragging about.
Obviously he's not going to and is enacting explicitly inflationary policies, so we're likely to see more hyperinflation within the next few years
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The more quickly the world decouples from the US, the better.
And for the citizens, the sooner we can decouple from billionaires the better.
They really are fucking everything up. Every billionaire in this country needs to be de-billionaired. It's going to likely come down to the people doing this at this rate.
decouple them from life
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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?
I was crucified when I compared the two on an authoritarian leftist instance I shall not name, but I think people here can agree that despite having very different colours and propaganda, they both are both converging with the facist side of the spectrum.
I upvote this meme format every time
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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