I can’t understand would it even have the part in parentheses in Europe. Think how silly it would look if every location had the regional name for every nearby country added in parentheses after the primary global name. It would be a mess.

Eg:

Germany (Deutschland, Allemagne, Niemcy, Germania, Saksa, <etc>)

Feels to me like special rules Apple has to stroke special fascist egos.

But maybe its not Apple and this is a name set by your local governance. You mind if I ask what country Apple maps you’re looking at?

I agree with the sentiment that Trump is incapable of self-reflection. But I doubt that the writer of the article wrote the headline - that’s usually the editor’s job I think.

The writer didn’t mention him regretting or reflecting on anything once in the article. So the anger in your comment seems a bit misplaced.

The writer is one of those people standing up for what’s right - she’s pointing out some of the lasting damage being done behind the scenes and out of the scope of the average person’s awareness.

You’re probably right, but I hope you’re wrong.

If you’re wrong it’ll mean a lot more people moving to OSS and Fediverse networks, which would be a very positive outcome

Good to have the gutless kowtowing reported on.

I’m honestly a little surprised at how quickly the big tech corps have not just cosied-up to Trump and Elon, but really done their best to pledge fealty and become part of the inner circle. When the winds change in the future I very much doubt liberals and leftists will ever forget that these big ‘Silicon valley liberals’ largely turned out to be a deception. The trust will be gone forever.

Intentionally killing civilians is also a war crime. One of the many, many war crimes that I doubt the Israeli commanders issuing these orders, nor the troops committing the acts will ever be held accountable for.

Agree on all points. Pretty much the same arc as Reagan - he was an idiot, but people knew who he was from his acting days, and he knew how to talk to a crowd - and his simple demeanor played well with blue collar workers and rural America. Naturally his neocon shit took the world on an awful turn for the worse, opening the door to Trump.

P.s. sorry, it’s my turn to be the ‘Reagans fault’ person. Someone else’s turn next thread

And yet they apparently still can’t get an accurate result with such a basic query.

Meanwhile… https://futurism.com/openai-signs-deal-us-government-nuclear-weapon-security

Wow. There’s a whole lot of people here reacting to the headline, and not actually reading the story. That’s important, because the journalist’s headline is (shocker) a huge overstatement.

I was concerned as I’m a Proton user and have been for years, and hard left politically, and despise Trump. But maybe lets just read it before reacting?

Here’s what the CEO posted on Xitter:

10 years ago, Republicans were the party of big business and Dems stood for the little guys, but today the tables have completely turned.

Yep. That’s a bad look. Doesn’t make a lot of sense either because the Republicans are very much the party of big business and corporate handouts and deregulation in oil, gas, energy, mining, manufacture, industrial farming etc.

Then here’s what Proton’s team said on Reddit as an explanation and expansion of the CEO’s post (and then later deleted):

Here is our official response, also available on the Mastodon post in the screenshot:

Corporate capture of Dems is real. In 2022, we campaigned extensively in the US for anti-trust legislation.

Two bills were ready, with bipartisan support. Chuck Schumer (who coincidentally has two daughters working as big tech lobbyists) refused to bring the bills for a vote.

At a 2024 event covering antitrust remedies, out of all the invited senators, just a single one showed up - JD Vance.

By working on the front lines of many policy issues, we have seen the shift between Dems and Republicans over the past decade first hand.

Dems had a choice between the progressive wing (Bernie Sanders, etc), versus corporate Dems, but in the end money won and constituents lost.

Until corporate Dems are thrown out, the reality is that Republicans remain more likely to tackle Big Tech abuses.

First off, I feel like I’ve read from hundreds of Lemmy users total agreement that the Democratic party is captured by corporate interests, so I really doubt any disagreement with that section of Proton’s post. My reaction to the remainder is that it’s not at all praise for the Republican party, just the factual statement of the sad reality that Republicans with their very hard-on-Silicon-Valley rhetoric are more likely to actually reign in the big tech companies than the Democratic party - and Proton is in a good position to have seen this first hand. Zero of the statement praises Trump or praises Republicans, and there is in fact lament that the Democrats didn’t stick harder with their left-wing candidates, even highlighting Bernie. I can see why they deleted it though, it’s office chatter than never should have left the cubicle.

TL;DR: storm in a teacup, I’ll be keeping my Proton mail account.

p.s. yes this is my first Lemmy post. I’m a longtime lurker though. I felt strongly enough about this to make an account to post, as nobody seemed to be actually posting the content of the article - just reacting. Edit: typos & formatting of the quote.