The point is that people severely exaggerate how “unusable” a degoogled phone is. There are FOSS alternatives to most things, and anything there isn’t an alternative to is probably a shitty service that you’d be better off without (see: burger apps)

MicroG might be installed, but I don’t use anything that uses it. Since Aurora lets you search for apps that don’t require it, I always go for one that doesn’t.

Before, political cartoons were shown primarily in a local context (or in international papers to an audience that was more aware of political things) so labels weren’t needed. These days, political memes are disseminated online to an international audience who don’t necessarily know what every single US politician looks like. I have no idea who the person on the left is without a label, for example, besides “that person who said ‘we’re all going to die.’”

This doesn’t strike me as an example of over-labelling, the way that gets satirized in Kelly comics.

Your tone

It’s text, and half the people on here have autism. Can we not?

I don’t even have the sandboxed Play store and everything works. I use Aurora to download APKs for anything that isn’t FOSS (which is like, two things)

nose ring!! or eyebrow ring

I didn’t even know religion existed until some new people moved in next door and their kid was super into Jesus.

Everyone at my work has been cyclically ill for years. Some of them have been continuously ill with a horrible cough for months at this point. I have not been sick. They all wonder how.

Hmm. I wonder how that could be?

I love the episode of DS9 where the Fedseration are like “let’s mine the wormhole!” and everyone thinks it’s a great idea. I was like “wait, isn’t that a war crime?” when I watched it.

Their monstous, civilian-killing weapons of fascism; our glorious, freedom-defending defensive grid.

I don’t even have one GB of data…

I don’t know if any general-use tilesets show EN_US. I think you’d have to make a custom thing, which I don’t know if you can even do with MapBox. Sounds like more work than a grift would want to put in.

If you look at the source OpenStreetMap data, the name for English is “Gulf of Mexico”. If he wanted it to say “Gulf of America”, they’d have to do some futzing with it to display EN_US first, when it exists.