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just absolute fucking cowards everywhere you look in U.S. tech leadership

It’s not just market differentiation. Apple has tens (hundreds?) of $billions of tariff exemptions given out by the corrupt dictator, and making him angry could lose them. It’s asking a lot for them to resist, and one could argue it’s against their fiduciary responsibility.

fuck that, it's fascism what's their fiduciary responsibility to the continued existence of functional democracy and actual working markets?

It is fascism, but the name of a lake, which will revert Day 1 of a Dem administration, is trivial in the face of everything else going on. It’s an unpopular, impotent flail that spotlights Trump’s weakness.

we have absolutely no ethical center or backbone whatsoever, how high can we jump for you, sir

tech companies tried to pretend they were just adhering to automated GNIS data standards, but that appears to be incorrect they were just pre-emptively feckless because U.S. tech leadership has absolutely zero ethical or moral center of any kind

The "base map" is what you see when you explore the map on the website. Nobody doing bulk data import is looking at that. I don't know what exactly they use, but it's more likely these files, so the question is when were they updated? www.usgs.gov/us-board-on-...

Google is a massively powerful corporation that has been at the forefront of the development of web-based information systems for almost 3 decades. The notion that it doesn’t have the technical expertise to disregard US GNIS mapping protocol is preposterous.