so, what are the odds of getting rid of this pustule in April’s elections?

as I said, it is clear these are not true options…

Ok, so for the vast majority of people, not an option… this has been a productive discussion

I’m not USian… do you actually get the possibility of choosing something NOT republican or democrat?

There are literally 2 parties on the ballots.

Your solution is to vote for a third party that does not exist?.. if so, your solution is less than useless

What have Americans done during this time?

To me, this is the problem… it’s not “time”… it’s that Americans seem to expect someone else will take the risk, pay the cost and do the hard work for them

Currently every excuse Americans seem to put up revolves around the idea they will not act unless someone else provides them with a solution that is:

• risk free

• cost nothing

• immediately effective

• permanent

• solved ALL problems and corollaries

• will give them 100% of the credit

Anything not marking ALL those boxes, they are not willing to do and would rather continue their (not-so) slow decline forever

so what’s the solution?

The incentive simply isn’t their for anyone when there is already a perfectly working solution—as much as I hate to say—from Google

So you enjoy corporate oversight and ads? or at least they don’t bother you enough to seek alternatives?. It’s not political, I am spelling out what you seem to be trying to avoid saying.

I wish OSM and the maps & navigation apps using it were more popular and better but they aren’t simply because they don’t have dedicated teams.

But you don’t wish it enough to contribute in any way…

Google Maps also get contributions from the community (which is much larger than OSM). So google benefits from volunteer contributions as well as their own teams mapping stuff around the world which OSM can never match. It isn’t something like Search, Drive or Photos that can be replaced by a community driven FOSS alternative. It requires huge funding.

I think you are just doubling down on this to convince yourself that it is not that you are being selfish here, you are just being smart by not choosing a losing battle you made up in your head.

Ooops, thanks for pointing it out. I have corrected the post

I have observed no issues. Every once in a while, when choosing large targets like an airport, it’s hard to chose the right “destination” from the many available as the labels don’t always have all details.

Other than that, no issues whatsoever.

PS: to put it in context, I am a casual user who basically never remembers street names or directions so I use it often but it’s not like I am an Uber driver

Sure… but after decades of apathy, those are the only choices Americans have left. So they either die with the republicans or buy a bit of time with the democrats while they get out of this emergency

As I said, they are likely to do nothing so America is basically over

I throw a lot of shit at Google but Google Maps is the best piece of software they have ever created

Agreed but that is not really saying much considering Google’s resources and how often the fuck everything up

because there ain’t no way I am going out to volunteer for free to map out my neighbourhood accurately.

because you enjoy corporate oversight and ads? or because you don’t see the benefit to you personally?

and a shitty one at that… DDG was good, now it’s just Bing + Apple maps which is bad on both fronts

www.openstreetmap.org

Stop using Apple

America is a house on fire… the Republican party is throwing gas and fireworks at it, the Democrats have no idea how to fight a fire and are not sure if it’s their job to put out the fire.

You still should vote Democrat but immediately after continue to fight for complete reform

Having said that and witnessing American’s reaction to their house being set on fire was basically nothing, I am not holding my breath they won’t re-elect republicans and give them a bigger gas canister to finish the job

they are… 59% of energy production comes from renewables in Germany

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_Germany?wprov=sfla1

almost tripling the USA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_the_United_States?wprov=sfla1

what the hell are you talking about?

I think you guy are forgetting Occam Razor… the most likely scenario (least assumptions) here is that some inept appointee from the orange pedo thought this would be a good idea and pushed it with the research, planning and preparation we all put at farting after eating Taco Bell

What should the rest of the world make of US consumer routers?

I’ll let you know when they actually make one

It is oversimplified, but what is not accurate there?

Not that I doubt, this is what I assumed was happening when the orange pedophile says anything (i.e. if he says X then it must be Y)

But best to post links to sources