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[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

The distinction is that before Trump decided to hijack it for political purposes, the US government put a lot of thought and work into official names.

For big things like the gulf of Mexico, or lake Ontario, there shouldn't be a lot of confusion. But what about the little creek by your house? A series of inlets on a coastline? What if you have dozens of places with the same name; how do you differentiate? What if you have regional local names that differ from the name that outsiders use? What if you have competing names in general parlance? When you type it into a gps, where will it send you?

The U.S. Board of Geographical Names handled all these issues and more, and had been a trusted authority on place names, that mapmakers, businesses, and other governments all trusted to do a good job.

Still today, you can check out the GNIS and find out all kinds of cool stuff. Try searching for "Sugarloaf" to find all the mountains people named after a common thing, or "Denali" or "Washington"; you can find a lot of cool stuff on here, including alternate names for places.

It is disgusting that the republicans are destroying years and years of slowly building trust and doing good work that helps all Americans because (check notes) it would be funny if he decreed the name were stupider?

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Thank you for taking the time to explain this -- I'm learning there is a lot more to it than i thought.

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Yeah, obviously not. It's all just statistical auto correct.

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 17 hours ago

That's awesome! Do you have any videos you'd recommend for someone getting into it?

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

Good to know. I heard it was :/ i guess a lot of it must be, or it has a history of racism or something

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Do you have to see if the application you want to host is supported, or is it pretty compatible?

There are some windows softwares i want to run, but they don't work in wine.

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That the ai could produce text claiming that it has elected a ceo. I don't know how else to restate it. Throw me a rope here.

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Which part is confusing?

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago (6 children)
[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago

That's almost surely configurable

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (8 children)

But the ai could generate text to that effect, if it was statistically likely.

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