Quote from: bandit957 on Today at 02:38:46 PMRadio and TV stations referring to sports venues by their corporate names is the sort of thing that would have gotten them in trouble with the FCC of 50 years ago, under rules on sponsorships and commercial announcements. It should really be like that still with stations that have a noncommercial license.
Quote from: adventurernumber1 on Today at 03:43:41 AMI despise Google for this. For all the lousy updates over the years, now this thread title is truly 100.00% true. Google Maps fucking sucks now.
I honestly didn't think they were actually going to do this. I was actually proud of Google (before today) because I (ignorantly and mistakenly, apparently) thought they were not going to participate in this bullshit. That they were going to continue putting out objective mapping that does not bow to the whims of political nonsense, especially that of the most unhinged kind. I naively thought they wouldn't do this, simply because they hadn't yet done it for the past couple of weeks. However deep down I did worry, that there was the slimmest of chances (apparently not so slim) that they would cave in to this bullshit (for whatever godforsaken reason). As such, for the past couple of weeks, each day I would go on Google Maps and start to zoom out (while feeling like someone in a horror movie about to turn the corner of a hallway), then breathe a sigh of relief when I saw it still (correctly) said 'Gulf of Mexico.' Apparently today was the day that my sigh of relief had to be replaced with heart palpitations, shortness of breath, and tremors (which I am currently experiencing as I type this, since I only found out about this 10 or 20 minutes ago). For most Americans, this is probably deemed a comparatively trivial matter, but for me, as a roadgeek and mapgeek, this is a huge deal. And of course it just adds to the dozens of even worse things all happening at the same time right now (and showing no signs of getting better).
I thought Google Maps was one of the few places I could go to escape the political bullshit, and to pretend like I was in a better time and a better place. To just enjoy the roads and see the beauty of an America that had not been swallowed into a nightmare. To see the whole world, anything, provided by this objective mapping service that had integrity. Google Maps has been such a huge part of my immersion in roadgeekery for so many years ever since I first found it back in 2009 or so. And now, it too, has been contaminated by the toxic and repulsive current political abyss. If something like Google Maps Street View didn't have such irreplaceable utility (and if there was another site that actually had an equally reliable and comprehensive alternative), I think I would be inclined to boycott Google Maps after this. But unfortunately, given that, it is simply unrealistic, and with that I am in for quite some cognitive dissonance to somehow try to stomach continuing to use a "mapping" service that has so quickly thrown away all its integrity. It just pisses me off so much that in these tumultuous times, Google Maps has always been such a reliable "escape," but now it has been infected too. I apologize for how frenzied this post is, but I am very caught up in the emotions right now. Once again, the severity of this still pales in comparison to the severity of the dozens of other horrible things that are happening right now, but this hits a unique nerve, because this is somewhere that I (and other roadgeeks) were supposed to be able to go to escape these problems, escape these worries (if only very temporarily), to be able to look at roads and maps and street view and satellite and not have to worry about seeing even a shred of political filth. But now there's going to be a constant reminder (when zoomed out sufficiently) that Google, too, has now thrown away its soul, and thrown away any shred of integrity it still had, and been sucked into the current political abyss that just has to try to ruin everything imaginable.
I will be calling it the Gulf of Mexico for the rest of my life. Any map that says otherwise is not a legitimate map. Unfortunately Google Maps now falls into that category. Fuck Google.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on Today at 02:30:56 PMQuote from: 1995hoo on Today at 02:14:08 PMI do find it amusing that some of the people who are dead-set against these name changes (and I agree that they're stupid and that I will ignore them) are the same people who demand that you use the current corporate name for any sports venue or the like versus continuing to use whatever the old name was.Hell nah. It's still the Staples Center, it's still the Sears Tower...
Quote from: 1995hoo on Today at 02:14:08 PMI do find it amusing that some of the people who are dead-set against these name changes (and I agree that they're stupid and that I will ignore them) are the same people who demand that you use the current corporate name for any sports venue or the like versus continuing to use whatever the old name was.Hell nah. It's still the Staples Center, it's still the Sears Tower...
Quote from: freebrickproductions on Today at 02:04:32 PMQuote from: 1995hoo on Today at 12:46:21 PMUnless you work for the Executive Branch of the US government, there's nothing requiring you to call them by the names the president prefers.
Not to get too political here, but Trump is certainly trying to force it on other people/organizations:
https://www.ap.org/the-definitive-source/announcements/ap-statement-on-oval-office-access/
Quote from: freebrickproductions on Today at 02:04:32 PMTrump is certainly trying to force it on other people/organizations:
https://www.ap.org/the-definitive-source/announcements/ap-statement-on-oval-office-access/
Quote from: 1995hoo on Today at 12:46:21 PMUnless you work for the Executive Branch of the US government, there's nothing requiring you to call them by the names the president prefers.