• SendMePhotos@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    This really is the dumbest timeline. I can’t even make up satire shit that is more wild than what is now.

    • ivanafterall ☑️@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      It’s like the shitpost version of blitzkrieg. Just overwhelming you with absolute diarrhea for the soul. And it’s working, even though we all know it’s happening.

      • Cataphract@lemmy.ml
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        7 days ago

        You know, I had the shitty thought that at least back before chat communication, a robber baron (or it’s equal kind) had to actually hire thugs and henchmen to cause local chaos. Now it’s just some tech oligarch with some bots or a paid anonymous service causing disruption.

        We really got fucked over on this one. I’m really not sure how America pulls itself out of this one with the state of education and political polarization. The federal part of our government definitely isn’t offering up any solutions.

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    6 days ago

    The speed at which these people are capitulating is alarming. I mean it took them decades to even begin to do any kind of rainbow capitalism and they all ditched it like a hot potato in a split second.

  • TheWilliamist@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Reported an issue with the name. I know I’m shouting into the void on this but a small poke in the eye makes me feel better.

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    7 days ago

    Well, yeah, because the United States Geographical Service is the source of truth for geographical names. No surprise Google and Apple follow it. There’s a little more breakdown than that, but that’s the gist of it.

    https://www.usgs.gov/us-board-on-geographic-names/domestic-names

    The change is fucking stupid, you know it, I know it, we all know it. Save your fucking ire for all the real shit going down. In comparison, this doesn’t rate a single breath.

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      7 days ago

      This is correct, given a new administration can simply change it back to keep it in line with the rest of the world. Won’t do us much good if there isn’t a next administration, though.

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    When you go to report an issue, and select “Name is wrong”, the send button never activates, whereas “something else” will.

    So this is a bit of capitulation that seems to be hard coded and they just don’t want to hear about it.

    • 0ndead@infosec.pub
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      6 days ago

      Correct it to Gulf of Mexico in the name field and then the send button activates

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    Why are Americans so riled up about this?

    Do you guys not realize that this reaction is literally one of the reasons they do this? To be a distraction and to show their base that they made the bad people™ cry about it.

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      Why are Americans so riled up about this?

      For me, it’s the blatant racism with some fascist nationalism thrown in.

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        I think you’re under thinking this.

        The primary focus of Trump since coming to office has been securing natural resources. Greenland, Canada, Ukraine all have rich mineral deposits. Even the Panama shit is about controlling a geographic “resource”…the canal.

        This rename is about making it sound like it belongs to the US. What’s there a lot of here? Oil. And it sits under international waters.

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          The US already has a lot of rights to the oil there. but the rigs aren’t pumping because despite the drill, baby, drill crap US oil companies already have too much supply. He wants them to drill just to look like they’re doing more shit.

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        Come on man if we are crying racism over this is nonsense no-one will actually listen to us when we are actually facing real racism.

        This is exactly what they want.

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        They don’t have to take it away, they can just set up the backend to blackhole those requests. So presence of the report issue facility does not imply they actually will ever even see the issue.