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- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 1 week ago:
Are you seriously suggesting nothing whatsoever would happen if Google just didn’t update their maps to the new name?
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 1 week ago:
Are you going to chip in for my air fare?
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 1 week ago:
That shows where you are, not who you are.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 1 week ago:
Tianamen square shows up just fine on Google maps, who is supposedly censoring them?
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 1 week ago:
to allow citizens to call things whatever they want.
I very much doubt that privilege extends to a mapmaker
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 1 week ago:
I’m just the messenger, kid. I’m not even in the USA, I’m in a different hemisphere watching with popcorn.
Good luck over there 🫡
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 1 week ago:
Homie, I was never hiding it.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 1 week ago:
You’re thinking of fascism.
I have some bad news for you.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 1 week ago:
He’s the part of the government that has the power to unilaterally change the name of a location.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 1 week ago:
That is essentially what they’ve done by putting Gulf of America in brackets behind the original name.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 1 week ago:
The president is part of the government, they’re not two separate entities.
And once again, there is nothing to be gained by arguing with me about this.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 1 week ago:
Because Google is a US company, and not in a position to tell the US government to take a walk, that’s why.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 1 week ago:
You can argue with strangers on the Internet as much as you like, but the fact is, the US president can and has changed the name of multiple geographic features, and arguing with me won’t change that.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 1 week ago:
This is stupid and cowardly of them,
What else did you expect?
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 1 week ago:
If you want to know more about how the US government works, I’m not the person to educate you.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 1 week ago:
That’s a valid point, but why do you expect Google to take a principled stand on this? Take it up with your government.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 1 week ago:
OK, but how is Google supposed to know what nationality you are?
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 1 week ago:
It was changed by executive order, which the president has the authority to do. Google doesn’t get to go “nuh-uh” and keep it the same.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 1 week ago:
Google are an American company, and the government of the USA has changed the name. What else do people expect them to do?
Besides, it still say Gulf of Mexico if you’re outside the USA.
- Comment on I would do this for just 1.99 1 week ago:
Half the userbase is on the spectrum, and cannot discern satire from a serious post.
- Comment on BuzzFeed is taking on Instagram, TikTok, X with a new social platform designed to spread ‘joy’ 1 week ago:
However, Peretti says BuzzFeed’s new social media platform will use AI “to give users agency instead of stealing their agency.” (It’s unclear what that means.)
Woo. More AI.
- Comment on Okay, this is getting out of hand 1 week ago:
The Gulf gulf would be a brilliant name actually.
- Comment on Man who lost $780 million in Bitcoin in a landfill now wants to buy the entire dump before city closes the site 1 week ago:
Yeah, but if those Bitcoin were “out there somewhere”, and you’d never have to think about money ever again if you found them…
- Comment on YouTube TV Viewing Overtakes Mobile Viewing [in the US], CEO Neal Mohan Says 1 week ago:
That doesn’t surprise me at all, there are a number of platforms for short form, portrait mode content, but a platform where absolutely anyone can upload a 4k or higher resolution video, up to 12 hours long, at no cost to either them or the viewer?
There’s not really a competitor to that, at least not one with anything like the viewer base of YouTube.
- Comment on no words, much feelings 1 week ago:
Nah, you’d notice if the water wasn’t chilled.
- Comment on MIT builds swarms of tiny robotic insect drones that can fly 100 times longer than previous designs 1 week ago:
The new technology could increase crop yields dramatically without harming the environment.
That’s a surprisingly benign use case, I was expecting far worse.
- Comment on Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion 1 week ago:
I really hope he tanks Open AI.
- Comment on Chinese EV leader BYD to offer ‘God’s Eye’ self-driving system on all models 1 week ago:
No, the name is a lie.
- Comment on Chinese EV leader BYD to offer ‘God’s Eye’ self-driving system on all models 1 week ago:
It’s not self driving in the sense that the car needs no driver input, but it seems to be as good or better as any other enhanced cruise control system.
- Comment on Chinese EV leader BYD to offer ‘God’s Eye’ self-driving system on all models 1 week ago:
Tesla full self driving is a $8,000 option, and BYD aim to sell a whole car for that?
They really have rested on their laurels, haven’t they?