you mean evil
this post was submitted on 30 Aug 2026
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It's gonna take me a long time to call it that.
I still call them the Edmonton Eskimos
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not yet for me
So many cowards
I do want to stop using google maps in its entirety, but there are problems with all the other map and navigation apps that haven't been solved that google has working just fine.
Say I want directions to a store or restaurant 20-30 minutes away. I know what its called, not its exact location, so I type its name in and google can give me a list of all places with that name no issue.
I try that in magic earth, organic maps, co maps, its a toss up if it knows the place I am trying to find. So I try typing in the exact address if I have time and can find it online. 90% of the time that just doesn't find the place, and givss me an entire street to look down.
Lastly, often I want to call these places ahead of time, or look at a menu, get a vague idea how much it costs. Google maps just... has that information right there. Hours, images of food, menus, everything. No one else has that, and complications arise, especially when Duck Duck Go give me the wrong number and I place a pick up order from a place on the wrong side of town.
I want to replace google, but damn it if right now its just the best option and doesn't screw anything up. There are times when I cannot afford being late or lost and I can't risk using the other ones.
If all the services suck, you could just not use any of them, like everyone did for literally millions of years. I don't understand why supporting corporate neofascism is OK if their services are convenient.
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All that stuff is a lot of expensive data entry and purchasing of live data feeds.
I have no interest in paying for a search engine, but if someone like Kagi did a legit google maps replacement, I would pay.
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That's cause them dudes in the Epstein Files. It's always Tit for Tat.
Cringe
I'd love to be a fly on the wall in the room at Google where the discussions are being had as to what to label the lake. If I'm to be charitable, I'd assume they've renamed it because they're consistently following an internal rule which says they use geographic names from the GNIS, which was updated by the executive order, and they haven't yet decided whether they should make an exception in this case. Every nonsensical rename in the GNIS weakens its credibility as an accurate database. I'm sure the debates are interesting. We don't actually know if this is Google "bending the knee" or sticking with the rename for some other more technical reason.
Google has no decision to make here. They have a policy and system that aligns geographical names based on country records. The rest of the world will continue to see Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario. Those are not the only two conflicted names across the world, there are far more.
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Getting in a tiff about this lake shmake nonsense lends to its legitimacy.
Let's talk turkey. How about them heretofore Epstein files, now known as the trump files.
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