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Renaming this isn't going to make us forget you're a pedophile, racist, pant shitting, dementia patient Donnie.
Somewhat relevant
John Ternus takes over as Apple's CEO today. Real nice of Tim Cook to leave this for the new guy to deal with.
More likely trump is loyalty testing his new business boy. Bend the knee in public and change pointless names when I say or else you’re not stoking my ego enough to come to the inside scoop meetings where we conspire the entire economy around using all modern technologies to spy on innocent people, domestic and foreign.
I’ve already replaced my Apple Watch with UNA watch that is the first modular end user repairable watch. They’re also based out of Scotland and have a development environment so anyone can design an app. Not American.
My next thing will be to de-iPhone. I’m thinking graphene OS since it’s originally developed by a Torontonian. Again: Not American.
After that, it’ll be finding a decent laptop and deploying Linux on it. Not sure which distro. I’ve always loved Debian on the server side. If not they I might just consider finding a Linux I can install into of my M1 MacBook.
My search engine is now ecosia. Not American but still gives search results with Bing. Need to find something non U.S.
I’ve degoogled most things and have cancelled all my U.S. streaming services and have other ways to watch. Yaarg!
It’s a slow process to remove American based tech, but it’s doable. Some are rough around the edges, but I’m willing to give up convenience to make America feel pain. I know myself individually does nothing, but if Canada and the greater world dump US tech and develop our own, and or open source, it’ll hurt. Bad.
Also. FUCK DONALD TRUMP the rapist.
Would be cool for the rest of the world to start renaming places in the u.s. of a. Like renaming New York to New Amsterdam, as it was originally, names are regional, we can make some up ...
Any countries change the names of places that are not in their country?
Simple example.
Brussel (nl) Brussels (en) Bruxelles (fr)
This is just about language, but place names are regional. Drumphf can decide to rename Brussels to "shithole" if he likes, in Belgium it will still be Brussels.
Sure but that's just spelling for different languages. Not the same as one English speaking country lets say America changing something in another countries name.
I thought I'd look it up if this kind of thing happened more often. And oh my!
China is renaming a lot of foreign places, but other countries have done as well (e.g. Egypt, Philippins, Indonesia). Nothing compared with the onslaught China is waging at the moment though.
Deleted Google maps because of their bootlicking bullshit. Switched to OsmAnd.
Apple is holding the line.
They won't, and will eventually update it to whatever the GNIS says it is. Which, if I'm honest, is what mapping companies should do.
Don't get me wrong, it'd be pretty cool for Google/Apple/Microsoft to give a middle finger to Trump by specifically making exceptions in this case and the Gulf of Mexico. But at the end of the day I'm not too mad at companies for passing through exactly what the GNIS says. We need to attack the problem at the source, not the map itself.
Google made the change before GNIS.
No they are not. They just haven't changed it yet. Next time they pull the data it well change.

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