Agency says its reporter wasn’t allowed into event in effort to ‘punish’ style guide on upholding use of Gulf of Mexico
  • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    26 days ago

    Blocking the press is how the Trump admin can they make this absurd distraction a much bigger deal with no repercussions. The power of names is much diminished in these times. We need a better name vibe. call it Gulf of Slow The Fuck Down

    • CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      26 days ago

      We should make our own Oval Office with blackjack and hookers!

      Wait…the official one probably has those too. Blackjack, hookers, AND the Gulf of Mexico!

  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catEnglish
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    26 days ago

    Good. Get punished. Don’t go along with it. If you start bowing and scraping so you won’t get ejected from the oval office, then that will enable that much more the gradual evolution that will lead you along with many other people to get “punished” in ways that are far more severe. Like, barges floating off of Gitmo or working in the fields on a prison labor system severe. It is insane to me that people are taking all of this so lightly and going along with it.

    • imposedsensation@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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      26 days ago

      Any thoughts on how can I punish Google for renaming stuff in Google Maps? My company is already removing Google Analytics and Google Maps from our web site and has halted a planned migration to Google Workspace. And I have personally stopped using Chrome and Google Search which is just a cesspool of AI generated from garbage anymore anyway. But surely there must be more I can do…

      • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catEnglish
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        26 days ago

        Absolutely. That’s a good start. Mouseflow or one of its competitors honestly was always more useful to me than Google Analytics. Honestly, as far as I know, a huge share of their income still comes from search ads and YouTube. I think if you just avoid those things, you’re already doing more or less as much as you can.

        Oh, also, publicize duckduckgo and friends over Google. Google search has become far less useful than it used to be, anyway.

        • VubDapple@real.lemmy.fanEnglish
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          26 days ago

          Honestly, web analytics are just stupid unless your business is selling ads. Its just vanity outside of that business case