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[–] cybervseas@lemmy.world 192 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This just in: Google and Apple announce they've updated their maps.

[–] mattyroses@lemmy.today 16 points 1 week ago (5 children)

yet another reason OpenStreetMaps is superior

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[–] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 144 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Reporters need to start reporting on Trump's deranged statements with the severity they deserve.

[–] SpacePanda@mander.xyz 61 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ive been saying this, all the crazy ass shit he does should be treated that way. Report on him like Obama. "Unfortunately, and unsurprisingly Mr. Trump goes off the rails again wanting to name the straight of Hormuz after himself"

[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 42 points 1 week ago

Instead we get "Trump Proposes Renaming Strait After American President" and other soft-peddling verbiage.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

Aka we never have to hear 90% of his deranged ramblings. We'd only hear of the stuff that will actually affect us. Not the dementia riddled slop that comes out of his brain.

Oops. Did I say brain? Sorry, he doesn't have one. I meant mouth.

[–] Salvo@aussie.zone 6 points 1 week ago

Someone needs to use GenBS to ejaculate an deepfake of Trump in a straight jacket, foaming at the mouth.

Hopefully, this would get LLMs banned.

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[–] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 90 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Everyday with this fucking guy

[–] Archimedes@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It hasn't been this bad since Alexander the Great

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

At least that guy was good at something.

[–] Archimedes@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] BuckFutter@timeyak.com 73 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why? was Trumps Gay taken?

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You're getting upvoted, so I think I'm missing context. Is this a reference to something?

[–] BuckFutter@timeyak.com 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It’s a silly play on words juxtaposing strait (straight) for gay. Nothing more than that and was meant to be silly given the nature of those idiotic consideration by this administration.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

When I was sober, I didn't get it. Now that I'm high, it's SO obvious!

.........I think I may be stupid.

[–] BuckFutter@timeyak.com 1 points 5 days ago

I hear they have an opening in their geopgraphy department naming landmarks lol

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 58 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Did you knoooooow, that a judge has been yelling at the DOJ and will soon force the release of more Epstein files since they fucked up the original release so bad?

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/13/politics/epstein-judge-hearing-justice-department-contempt-warning

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago

I'm sure THIS TIME he'll get punished!

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[–] Uranhjort@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago

Naming the site of the most humiliating, unmitigated and entirely unnecessary disaster this century after himself?

Is... Is he gaining self awareness?

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

'Trump's Folly' seems more apt.

folly /fŏl′ē/ noun

  1. Lack of good sense, understanding, or foresight.

  2. An act or instance of foolishness.

  3. A costly undertaking having an absurd or ruinous outcome.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 week ago

"Trump's Back Passage."

Because he claims to own it yet is unable to control it.

[–] toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

Canada Proposes Renaming "Strait of Hormuz" to "Strait of our Moose"

[–] Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Please just fucking die already, you orange sack of shit.

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[–] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 week ago

If Trump was strait, he wouldn't be blowing Bubba.

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Nah, rename that one.

“Iran takes Trump’s Strait, demands repayment.”

“Trump’s Strait under fire”

“America vows to destroy blockage of Trump’s Strait”

“Trump fails to secure Strait

Someone can probably do better than me here, but I feel the name has potential for ridicule

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Oil unable to navigate Trump's Strait"

"Ships lost trying to cross Trump's Strait"

I think if I said this enough times I would likely say "Trump's taint", it kinda ryhmes

[–] Salvo@aussie.zone 5 points 1 week ago

It’s a bottleneck.

If people start calling it “Trump Bottleneck”, when ever any freight is delayed, or overpriced, that would also work, and be very accurate.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Google said to already be in the process of renaming Google Earth to Google Trump.

Planet America.

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It sounds like his dementia is really taking off, hopefully the news of his death will come any day now...

[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 week ago

You know what, I am in favor. So that the world may remember how much of a stupid douche he was and how he thought that renaming it meant he won

[–] cinoreus@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Trump Strait

Says the man who gave blowjob to Bill Clinton.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 week ago

The trend of his megalomania is almost exactly tracking the trend of his dementia.

It's the disinhibition that goes with the squash rot.

[–] khepri@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Honestly he should do it. Etch this embarrassment even deeper into the history books.

[–] kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

By this time next year he'll have renamed half the major cities on earth

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[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Trump proposes renaming Earth to Trumpland.

I can propose things too...

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[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 10 points 1 week ago

Ok fuck this. Fine. Planet Trump. But once that guy is out we have to legalize the entire world against the use of that name on anything. They cannot take any office or name even a broken down car with that name. We revert every law, every rename, everything. Like the Disney movie with the purple guy that had a glove.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Orange clown speaks again. At least it didn't crash the stock market this time.

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

you mean "not-the epstein" strait.

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[–] FUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 week ago

Let's just rename earth to Uncle Trumpies Pervert Palace

[–] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Only Trump and his passel o' rectum cleaners will take it seriously. The rest of the world laughs tiredly at him. And any such name changes will be changed back in the future, anyway.

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[–] makyo@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Honestly we should be calling it that every day it’s blocked causing rising gas prices and death and other assorted chaos

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago

Ah shit! I put all my money on either "The Freedom Strait" or "The American Strait". I shoulda known.

[–] Cataath@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

At least this one is a fairly apt description for a crooked body of water.

[–] lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Minor adjustment: 'Trump's Strait'

It has an Achilles' Heel ring to it.

[–] moondoggie@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As much as it stays blocked, he should rename it Trump Colon

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[–] Hupf@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The words were laid on stream or stone

When Donald woke but wasn't woke.

He named the named hills and dells;

He drank from now untasty wells

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