I believe doomemacs.com has nothing to do with the developers either. Just more SEO spam or something.

I had been waiting to see when Google and Apple maps will make this change. I believe both now do this "Gulf of Mexico -> America" rename, however I found that Comaps (which I learned about from someone on HN, shoutout to whoever that was) never did. I'm not sure how they decide on names, but it seems better than leaving it up to whatever the POTUS feels like at the moment.

If Trump renamed the state of NY to New Trumpland, would Google and Apple go along with it? Seems like they would. It's just embarrassing.

In Google Maps app (non-American version) it is already visible as “Lake Ontario (Lake America)”. Also Mapy.com has dual names.

Canadian-American border cuts the lake so dual name is obvious as Canada doesn’t have any intention to rename it.

Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America) is the same situation. USA is the only country who changed the name so…

The other situation could be with cities or counties that are inside US territory.

Or take an example with Dept of War. Nobody abroad isn’t using Dept of Defense in their texts of anymore… (Btw Dept of War was since 1789 til 1949 then renamed to Dept of Defense.)

Different situation is with X. As the X is confusing for a lot of people, Twitter is added after slash to explain the situation (X/Twitter).

It should be noted that the name change in 1949 was done by an act of Congress, whereas the recent name was just an executive order, which has the same legal force as me scribbling on a piece of paper. The official legal name remains the Department of Defense and that’s what everyone ought to continue calling until and unless Congress passes a law to rename it.

> In Google Maps app (non-American version) it is already visible as “Lake Ontario (Lake America)”. Also Mapy.com has dual names.

In Canada I'm seeing simply "Lake Ontario" still.

That's what I see from Denmark.

Same for central Europe: Lake Ontario

The Department of War was split into the Department of the Army and the Department of the Air Force in 1947. The Department of War didn't include the Navy.

He might be limited to geological features under federal or split jurisdiction. So maybe the Cascades will become the Mountains of America and DC will become DT.

Agreed, and I've gotten into arguments at work when bringing this up.

I don't think I used the word fraud, to me its plagiarism, but I suppose that's basically a subset of fraud.

The worst part is that the biggest offenders are often management.

I expect X units of information in Y words. Human writing delivers consistent amount of information per unit. I can bail out early. LLM writing ranges between X and 0. Typical addictive variable reward scheme.

Would you not consider this fraudulent?

I suppose I would, which is why I mentioned that while I had called it plagiarism, plagiarism (to me) seems like a subset of fraud. I wasn't trying to get in a discussion whether its fraud or not - either way I don't like it.

I believe that's an income requirement, not a fee.

Well, I hate to be the one to break it to you but they're not releasing digital versions, they're just destroying them.

I don't think I could find a faster way to make an expensive car feel cheap than to bundle ads with it.

Some people always try to push the blame onto someone else...

Bringing out the classics huh?

> Someone in the Middle East gets hit.

Wow so no big deal then right?

Jesus Christ dude

> so no big deal then right?

Are you arguing it would be in this White House?

Assuming I get your point, I would nevertheless say I think most White House admins would care: would not one of those someones in the Middle East who gets hit perhaps include Israel?

I have no idea what strategic value the nation of Israel has for the nation of the USA, but there is clearly strong cultural and political relevant of the former to the latter.

Obesity is a legitimate health issue.

I would rephrase it as "lacking high sense of self-control leads to legitimate health issues".