How's the Ass of Trump looking, Google?
this post was submitted on 30 Aug 2026
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I wish Trump decides to rename something in Europe and Google complies so another jump in degooglelization takes place there..
"NATO is a bunch of pussies! From this day forward I proclaim that the water between France and England be known as the "Strait of Ben Dover". Get it? I'm so clever..."
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Canada should announce that they've changed the names of all the Great Lakes to Canadian names, like Lake Toronto, and Lake Ottawa. Make sure there's a Lake Saskatchewan, because there is no way Trump can read or pronounce it, so that will really piss him off. Maybe he'll painfully stroke out and croak, and we can all read about it the Big Beautiful Obituary.
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I thought Google's policy was that they deferred to the international cartographic societies decision on place names, i.e leave it alone, but apparently they'll just give in to an international skid mark when the opportunity presents itself.
I just assumed they followed the nomenclature of whatever country they operate in.
Edit: Ah, I get it. This change is just change within the US's Executive Branch and therefore Google doesn't need to follow it at all. They're just sucking MAGA penis.
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it would be funny if Canadians started referring to South Canada instead of America
Nah, that'd be an insult to our country. We need not be associated with the dumpster fire south of us.
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I'm not sure that Google could sink any lower.
Makes sense as they once championed “alternative facts”. May as well live in an alternative reality.
Osmand ❤️
Except it shows up as Lake Americas in my google maps and I'm in Europe...
Mine has it in brackets. They can honestly fuck off with that.
Like I specifically searched lake Ontario.
Edit: if I go out of search there's no mention of the wrong name however.
That's how it is for me now. The actual lake was labeled as Lake Americas yesterday however, today it's back to Ontario.
Welp, how is MapQuest these days?
Edit: Actually, looks pretty good. I didn't know why OpenStreetMap can't autocomplete an address to save its life, but MapQuest does fine. Also, Yelp review integration and I didn't see obviously sponsored chains.
No public transit directions apparently? Which would be a problem if it weren't always faster to bike than take transit in Boston.
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Good they make themselves even more untrustworthy, loss of value
Petition to rename Washington into Turdington.
At least none of these tech and finance bros and their companies who can't seem to have enough of gagging on fascist dick can ever pretend to have the slightest interest in not being the biggest scum they can.
This is so unanimous to all of them next time one of those barely sentient piles off shit escapes from the likes of stanford to make a company with a slogan of "don't be evil" or whatever not even a brain dead oyster can pretend not to know they're waiting for the first nazi boot they find to start licking.
They should have made it an opt-in feature that only kicks in if you check a MAGA box on your profile.
I hope they dont choke on maga’s dick
The HOMES mnemonic is now SHAME.
(I'm sure some lib on bluesky figured this out before me)
Alec from TechConnections beat you lol
Love that guy.
Also for Australian users.
Edit: Hmm, it's the search results for "Lake Ontario" that return "Lake America" spam, the underlying map currently shows "Lake Ontario" here in Australia.
RIP HOMES mnemonic
HAMES just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
Aptly, the next word I can think of for a memory aid is SHAME.