Trumps’s order affects the U.S. Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), which sets the standards for official U.S. maps.
Google Maps has changed the name of “Lake Ontario” to “Lake America” for U.S. users to reflect President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the lake, according to a Google statement.
Trump announced on Thursday that he was changing the name of the smallest of the five Great Lakes, part of an escalating trade feud with Canada that has prompted the two countries to impose reciprocal tariffs on billions of dollars in goods.
The president’s order affects the U.S. Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), which sets the standards for official U.S. maps. It does not have any impact on Canadian naming conventions or how the rest of the world refers to the lake.
It’s important to remember that Google was not required in any shape or form to make this change. They simply decided that they’d prefer to continue sucking Trump’s mushroom cock and make the change.
Stop using Google products. Also, remember this, if the fascists ever lose power. Remember that they were happy and excited to jump in bed with the fascist pedophiles, because they’ll likely try to bury their actions during this administration and try to appeal to whoever is in power afterwards.
The US tech giants are the IG Farben and Krupp of MAGA.
That reference is a little too “inside baseball” for me, but based on the context, I assume those were companies that operated in the so-called Third Reich?
And massively profited from it, yes. And still exist today in one way or another.
Really? I was under the impression that Trump had made it a law or something. If not, then what did that executive order actually do?
Executive orders only apply to the executive branch of the federal government, which is why they’re called executive orders. They don’t (or rather, are not supposed to) apply to anything else, including citizens and private companies.
(or rather, are not supposed to)
That’s the big problem here.
People acting on Trump’s demands who aren’t supposed to.
The EO changed the name on official government maps. Private companies don’t need to adopt those changes. At one point Google even stated its policy was to use the name in common usage rather than pushing updates based on arbitrary changes by a neighboring ruler.
How did we elect an octegenarian toddler to the president’s office?
Decades of unchecked racism.
Don’t forget gutting the public education system (a process that was made easier by leveraging unchecked racism).
That’s really the biggest one, destroying education.
Deciding education is only for those who can pay is definitely one of the biggest crumbled pillars that sent us down a slope.
*again
Low IQ and morally devoid conservatives/regressives who treat politics like sports and their fellow Americans like enemies.
I’m sure google maps will be among the first to kiss his ass again. (or suck dick, whichever you prefer. verbally, I mean) Without any prodding.
Not that I was taking any risk predicting that.
Use Openstreetmap! (edit: any OSM-based app/site).
Also recommend CoMaps; like OSM it’s open source and privacy focused, no ads, very customizable. I prefer the cleaner interface of CoMaps but anything is better than Google.
It, too, uses OSM.
Practically any non-Google map app does.
Nice work. And thanks for the tip!
Well now the “HOMES” nmemonic doesn’t work anymore… Gotta switch that O out for an A… I guess we could go with “SHAME:”
- Superior
- Huron
- America
- Michigan
- Eerie
If Canada doesn’t shape up its act and capitulate everything, Trump is going to order Lake Erie be called Lake America 2. The acronym then becomes HAMAS
Still SHOME in Canada.
Maybe it’s time to get rid of all my google apps.
you mean it wasn’t before?
I thought I was being paranoid dropping Google like a hot dog turd around 2018, but everything they’ve done since then has made me glad I’m no customer of theirs for the most part.
Yup. I was a massive Google fan. I dropped them over a decade ago.
I’m glad I stopped buying their phones. It’s very easy not to since I like emulation and they don’t use Snapdragon SoCs anymore lol
Don’tBe EvilFucking cowards.
nah, sergei brin and the other one whom i can’t remember MUST make another billion dollars. How do you expect them to do that if they piss off the orange toddler?
I wonder what it feels like to wield enough power to force a 4.22 trillion dollar company to bend the knee?
Keep sucking that orange shriveled pecker, Pichai. We see you.
Makes you really wonder exactly how many Alphabet, Inc. executives are in the files.
Makes me assume every last one is.
Some were probably too lame, like Musk, to warrant inclusion in the pervert gatherings.
Dear America,
You are literally living in the western version of North Korea. So maybe do something.
- All your old friends that are new enemies
OpenStreetMap still showing Lake Ontario.
So uhh, can we rename the country to ‘pedophile states of America’ for Canadian users then?
It’s been showing Lake America for me and my partner. We live in Canada.
do you and your partner adopt rescues? I’m house trained.
I’ve heard it’s better to adopt pairs so they’re not lonely. I just so happen to be excellent at fetching slippers myself.
G**gle has you pegged as the 51st state already…
Whatever… what about the epstein files?
They’re now renamed to America files.
Okay so about the contents of those America files…
Reminder that a lot of German businesses were happy to bend the knee to the Nazis.
Fuck google forever.
