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ardi60@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago

The 'OG' online map platform, MapQuest, says it won't change the name of Lake Ontario

www.businessinsider.com

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The 'OG' online map platform, MapQuest, says it won't change the name of Lake Ontario

www.businessinsider.com

ardi60@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago
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MapQuest shared a tool for users to generate joke screenshots with their own names for Lake Ontario, writing: "Lake Are We Doing This Again?"
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    9 hours ago

    The king is mad

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    17 hours ago

    Lakema…

    What’s lakema?

    Lake Ma Ballz

    LMAO

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    “Lake eh”

    Haha.

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    Great way to get people talking about Mapquest. Do they still give you printable instructions?

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      Yarp. Verified a moment ago. It’s still easy as pasta too.

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    Is mapquest any good these days.

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      I see it used somewhat frequently on other companies maps for things like “here’s where to find us” or things of that nature.

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    18 hours ago

    Is Trump really so uncreative that every name change he orders is just “replace x with America”?

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      Well, it shows he doesn’t think he could get away with renaming them after himself.

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      18 hours ago

      Is this a real question?

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        Nah, not really

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      18 hours ago

      His professor at Wharton,

      "Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had!”

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    Lake Epstein is a option

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    Mapquest making Google and Apple maps look like simps.

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    I wish more people took this shit as seriously as it deserves rather than making snarky jokes about it. This shit ain’t funny.

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      100% I’m sick and tired of these news outlets immediately bending over for the cheato to say the name is officially changed. The office of the president of the united states does not grant the power to rename international bodies of water or the fucking kennedy center.

      Can we PLEASE stop treating this fat fucking loser like a 5 year old pretending to be a dinosaur or superman and treat him like the 80 year old grifter, chomo, felon, national embarrassment he actually fucking is.

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      ¿Por qué no los dos?

      Take it seriously but also ridicule it.

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    AND WHY WOULD THEY

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    so annoying the local news mentions. this only applies in within the boarders of amerca. no. no it doesn’t. executive orders are directions to the federal government. Its basicaly a memo to the agencies that they have to do that but no state or local government or private individual need follow it and I imagine most federal workers just avoid dealing with something now with the name of the lake. Once again I can’t wait for the next president to make an executive order changing the name of donald trump.

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      You assume we will ever have another president.

      But if we are allowed an election I’d vote for someone who made that part of their platform.

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        You’re waiting to be “allowed”?

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    You know, I never really considered the anti-vandalism mechanisms we have in place on OpenStreetMap, but they surely exist.

    All that to say I think we’re good on OSM too. lol

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    Just wanted to check…

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      But does Dave make it to Jack’s BBQ?

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      Nice 🙂

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      Thanks, was wondering the same

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      I’d be ok if they did this.

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        I’m partial to “Child Lakist”

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    Please change it. I have more information than the public does on the Epstein files. Change it to the lake that divides the child rapist protection agencies from the child rapist enabling agencies. Canadian conservatives are just as involved.

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