Quebec updates government websites to remove ‘Lake America’ from some maps

https://montrealgazette.com/news/provincial-news/lake-ontario-renamed-lake-america-on-quebec-government-maps/

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schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works · 139 pts · 11d (11 replies)

Just one more example of why the world has to disassociate from American tech as rapidly as possible.

hash@slrpnk.net · 70 pts · 11d (9 replies)

Minor asterisk: we need to move away from abusive tech business practices altogether. It's distressing how people can see the problem and recreate it like with Bluesky. I hope we can build better systems now rather than doing this all over again with european monopolists in 10 years.

schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works · 40 pts · 11d (2 replies)

I love Lemmy because I get so casually outlefted I feel like an elected Democrat in the US.

Awooooooga@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 11d

It's good to be reminded there are morons involved with every political philosophy out there

JollyBrancher@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 11d

Even with that wildly, non-extreme sounding candor, a democratic-socialist at worst. I used to consider my self a "classic" centrist. Now? I couldn't tell you tf it meant then.

DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 11d (3 replies)

Capitalism needs to go if you want this to happen.

gedaliyah@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 11d (2 replies)

Ah, yes. Anti-capitalist software like Yandex and Baidu are so much better...

What the world needs are federated, distributed systems like www, email, and the fediverse

goodguys9@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 11d

Just because they operate out of China, that doesn't make them anti-capitalist. Frankly, despite its name, China has a capitalist economy, just with much stronger authoritarianism than most.

DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 11d

Doesn’t matter about the software. You want them to stop being pieces of shits with malicious practices yet capitalism encourages the greater shits to a fight to be the biggest piece of shit on the planet. Case study: The Oil and gas industry might as well call it the parasite thats in everything including you right now.

pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 10d

the EU actually regulates...

Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -1 pts · 11d

Bluesky is still american. What you're lloking for is W Social

Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 10d

Disassociate from the United States period.

FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 25 pts · 11d (5 replies)

Hey now that I think about it isn't that the lake that an informant told the FBI trump dumped a dead infant in?

EDIT: Nope, that was Lake Michigan, file no. EFTA00025010

db2@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 11d (4 replies)

One of the things in the files is about them eating an infant.

FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 8 pts · 11d (2 replies)

Sounds less credible than the one I mentioned, file no. EFTA00025010

db2@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 11d (1 reply)

"there are millions of babies, very little good vegatble [vegetable] cream cheese.”

And

“Lol, I don't know if cream cheese and baby are on the same level."

But tell me more about how it isn't credible.

isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 6d

Don't forget about "jerky"

tired_n_bored@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 11d

Coincidentally what they blamed Democrats for. They think everyone is like them

minorkeys@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 11d

This situation shows one very good reason why diversity is a strength and monopoly is a threat.