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jordanb 2 days ago [-]
> Google (and its defenders) initially tried to pretend that they were just helplessly and clinically adhering to US Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) data. Something journalists later found out was a lie, because Google adopted the name change before the government could get its act together and implement it
This is interesting I must have missed it in the whole saga. GNIS was the HN consensus, now debunked.
jaybrendansmith 10 hours ago [-]
A breakdown of modern American society lies on our failure to maintain old fashioned ideals such as honor, integrity, bravery. These ideals used to matter more than money, and were based on the idea that we would be measured by the supreme being someday and found wanting, versus measured simply by our fellow humans on the earth. These ideas remain essential to democracy in a way that is not clearly understood.
bulbar 2 days ago [-]
> But then they'd have to stand for something.
Public companies stand for making (more) money, that's always been the case. In a democracy, the foundation of the power in a society is what people vote for and who they vote for. Companies adhere to what the administration decide, can't blame them to show no resistance to such a stupid thing. Out of all crazy things that orange grandpa does, this is really only minor.
And by the way, for most of the world the map looks different, even on Google maps. For me, it correctly shows "Lake Ontario" first and below it shows the crazy man's fantasy.
scrubs 1 days ago [-]
Pathetic. The most maddening words in corporate america are "ohhhh, mmmeeee tooo".
If it's minor then why comply? If it's major then it's a major error to comply.
Stop being an apologist for the stupidity of corporate America. And yah, I can and I do blame them.
A final point: the more political things get, the more things become about cheap symbolism and shadow boxing BS the more things get untied to reality which pre-sages failure.
k310 1 days ago [-]
Money changes everything.
So here’s to the crazy ones.
The misfits.
The rebels.
The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently.
Here’s to you.
I can't speak from experience. I never had enough money to corrupt myself.
Stay poor, my friends.
josefritzishere 1 days ago [-]
It's hard to ignore.
Henchman21 2 days ago [-]
Hear, hear
nxc18 2 days ago [-]
Americans don’t like this, isn’t rubbing their face in the stupidity they elected the opposite of coddling fascism?
Noting that they actually do also coddle fascism, but in this case I’m not sure they’re doing Trump any favors.
If they wanted to do him a favor, they’d come up with a reason to wait until after the midterms to update.
Please don’t forget the American people voted (either actively or by default) for this.
treetalker 1 days ago [-]
Just bear in mind that fewer than half of American voters voted for Trump, meaning more than half did not; and all are essentially locked into an electoral college system that they never agreed to and whose alteration presents a nearly insurmountable coordination problem.
bjornnn 2 days ago [-]
the disingenuous paternalistic altruism of the intellectual and financial and political elite has a way of rapidly metastatizing into unabashed nihilistic egocentrism when their wealth and power surge far past their points of diminishing returns. eventually it's not enough to be the billionaire who smoked a joint on tv and marketed the electric car, you have to be the trillionaire who abolished human empathy and created a genetically-engineered aryan master race.
This is interesting I must have missed it in the whole saga. GNIS was the HN consensus, now debunked.
Public companies stand for making (more) money, that's always been the case. In a democracy, the foundation of the power in a society is what people vote for and who they vote for. Companies adhere to what the administration decide, can't blame them to show no resistance to such a stupid thing. Out of all crazy things that orange grandpa does, this is really only minor.
And by the way, for most of the world the map looks different, even on Google maps. For me, it correctly shows "Lake Ontario" first and below it shows the crazy man's fantasy.
If it's minor then why comply? If it's major then it's a major error to comply.
Stop being an apologist for the stupidity of corporate America. And yah, I can and I do blame them.
A final point: the more political things get, the more things become about cheap symbolism and shadow boxing BS the more things get untied to reality which pre-sages failure.
Stay poor, my friends.
Noting that they actually do also coddle fascism, but in this case I’m not sure they’re doing Trump any favors.
If they wanted to do him a favor, they’d come up with a reason to wait until after the midterms to update.
Please don’t forget the American people voted (either actively or by default) for this.