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[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 310 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Good. Get punished. Don't go along with it. If you start bowing and scraping so you won't get ejected from the oval office, then that will enable that much more the gradual evolution that will lead you along with many other people to get "punished" in ways that are far more severe. Like, barges floating off of Gitmo or working in the fields on a prison labor system severe. It is insane to me that people are taking all of this so lightly and going along with it.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 159 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Even from the ideal pro-capitalist hat on; AP benefits from this. It might seem that short term they lose money by not having hot off the press news to sell, but long term they keep their credibility, which is ultimately the product they sell.

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[–] imposedsensation@lemmynsfw.com 30 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Any thoughts on how can I punish Google for renaming stuff in Google Maps? My company is already removing Google Analytics and Google Maps from our web site and has halted a planned migration to Google Workspace. And I have personally stopped using Chrome and Google Search which is just a cesspool of AI generated from garbage anymore anyway. But surely there must be more I can do...

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 15 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Absolutely. That's a good start. Mouseflow or one of its competitors honestly was always more useful to me than Google Analytics. Honestly, as far as I know, a huge share of their income still comes from search ads and YouTube. I think if you just avoid those things, you're already doing more or less as much as you can.

Oh, also, publicize duckduckgo and friends over Google. Google search has become far less useful than it used to be, anyway.

[–] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Yeah been using Firefox for over a decade now. I just switched to duckduckgo about a year ago. It took about a month to get used to, but now I love it. Especially since I keep hearing how Google searches are getting worse and worse anyway. I still use youtube, but I don't use the app and block all ads at least. I put blocks on my network for Google analytics and going to try and give up my Google email address... somehow? I am realizing quick how hard it is to completely cut yourself off from this one company.

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[–] hmonkey@lemy.lol 161 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Confirmed, the US is a sensitive country

[–] kungen@feddit.nu 97 points 5 months ago (2 children)

What happened to "snowflakes"? I guess that just like everything else, it was projection.

[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

Thanks to climate change the snowflakes melted. /hj

[–] HowAbt2morrow@futurology.today 8 points 5 months ago

Yellow snow “flakes”

[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 101 points 5 months ago

But I thought dead naming was cool? Now you want to use preferred names.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 94 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So Trump is offended that the AP deadnamed his gulf? Imagine that…

[–] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 24 points 5 months ago

Not even deadnamed. The "name change" only impacts like a specific section of it, not the whole thing.

[–] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 61 points 5 months ago

Child Throws Temper Tantrum Because He Didn’t Get His Way

FTFY.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 50 points 5 months ago (5 children)

I too, am not allowed into the Oval Office.

[–] CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago

We should make our own Oval Office with blackjack and hookers!

Wait…the official one probably has those too. Blackjack, hookers, AND the Gulf of Mexico!

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago

Better that I'm not allowed in it, I think.

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[–] unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 46 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Blocking the press is how the Trump admin can they make this absurd distraction a much bigger deal with no repercussions. The power of names is much diminished in these times. We need a better name vibe. call it Gulf of Slow The Fuck Down

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 6 points 5 months ago

Gulf of Punch Nazis

[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 38 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So dumb. What a sniveling child.

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 10 points 5 months ago

Classic fashy behavior.

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 37 points 5 months ago

Any press still allowed in is just bootlicking government mouthpieces anyway.

[–] QualifiedKitten@lemmy.world 32 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I know of at least one US government web page that still references "Gulf of Mexico", but I don't want to link it, because I'm very curious to see how long it can fly under the radar. I have a thing set up that checks the page regularly and will alert me whenever it changes.

Is there a way to set up archive.org or something like that to save regular snapshots without risking drawing more attention to it?

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[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 31 points 5 months ago

toss another lawsuit on the fire in 4... 3... 2... 1...

[–] miscellanii@lemm.ee 21 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Interesting to note that they’re standing firm on Gulf of Mexico but not Denali.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 31 points 5 months ago

one is an international body of water, the other is wholly contained within the borders of the u.s. that's why they went that route.

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 18 points 5 months ago

That's actually pretty pathetic

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 18 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I hate news articles so much. "The (underlined) Associated Press said" ahh, this must be a link to the actual quote, I'll read that. Nope! Just a link to their website. At least it's not as bad as other sites that link to other random articles.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Better than "Download the app to read the article"

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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 16 points 5 months ago

The Fourth Estate has been dead a long time now. Every once in a while you get someone that pushes back , but then they seem to get quietened.

[–] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 13 points 5 months ago

Seems like the AP isn't counting the lights in the official manner. There's five lights. It's official. It's not something there's any need to stubbornly disagree about, Picard.

[–] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 5 months ago
[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 5 months ago

Sure seems like he's filled that swamp back up

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

This is a pretty open and shut first amendment violation, no?

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Can't see why. The government isn't telling them what they can't say, only barring them from listening to the administration first hand.

But no worries! The blatant 1st violations will be along soon enough. The notion of free speech is too sacred to us Americans to trash right up from, takes some time.

[–] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

It's not a free speech issue it's a free press issue:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

The press is called out separately on purpose.

Of course, actually it states congress, but the supreme Court has ruled that it applies to all members of the government, and so thanks to common law, it would apply here.

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They are effectively telling them what they can and cannot say by punishing them for not saying the thing the admin wants them to say.

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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 8 points 5 months ago

Tell is Donald Trump is a whiny piss baby without telling us he's a whiny piss baby.

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

Repubs were always the cuckflake bitches.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Good for them

[–] Winterfrost@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Gulf of America (Gulf of Mexico)

[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 6 points 5 months ago (5 children)

that's backwards..

Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of ~what used to be~ America)

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