r/comics • u/Acrobatic-Status-538 • 21h ago

What's in a name? [OC]

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Google changes the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America in Google Maps.

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u/Toonwatcher 19h ago

The acronym for remembering the names of the Great Lakes was H.O.M.E.S. (Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior). Now it's S.H.A.M.E.

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u/Banjo-Elritze Nazi Liquifier 13h ago

Hijacking this top comment to say stop using anything google. Everything has alternatives.

https://www.reddit.com/r/degoogle/wiki/index/

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u/FlintKidd 6h ago

Yeah... The invasive AI tools and blocking the ad blockers finally managed to chase me off Chrome... I'm now just using basic Brave... Google embraced Enshitification with both hands.