Google Maps is worse than useless - actively harmful

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Hard to overstate how enshittified and botshitted Google Maps has become. Went looking for my local locksmith on Gmaps. Maps shows 20+ fake locksmith referral scam outlets and doesn't even register the real locksmith, despite it being fully visible in Street View.

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Instead, a red pin on the shop identifies it as a fake locksmith scammer. The real locksmith - which has been there SINCE 1942 (!!) and is a verified merchant - doesn't even show up.

Google has been promising to clean up locksmith scams since the early 2010s, and has completely failed. A company that can't figure this out - but still has $80b for a stock buyback! - does not deserve the 90% market share in search it spends $26b/year to maintain.

A tip that’s been helpful to me: Practice your coping skills when you aren’t actively in crisis to make them easier to remember and do when you’re in crisis.

This might mean practicing some grounding exercises when you don’t need them. Maybe even writing down step by step instructions for you to follow when you feel overwhelmed and can’t think.

ah ... I see you've caught me balancing on my baul!

Apple Computer

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28/04/24 • catullus 51 translated via the international code of signals

BC 1 Can you communicate with the aircraft?
NE 5 You should proceed with great caution; hostile vessel sighted
NH 1 Are you clear of all danger?
EA Have you sighted or heard of a vessel in distress? 

ZL Your signal has been received but not understood.
QF I cannot go ahead MBP Onset was sudden. 
PG 2 I am dazzled by your searchlight. Extinguish it or lift it.
[IB 4 The extent of the damage is still unknown.] 

MHB Tongue is dry. YS I am unable to communicate… DV 1 I am adrift.
MBE The whole body is affected. IX Fire is gaining. 
FD 1 My position is indicated by rockets or flares.
PG I do not see any light. EP I have lost sight of you.

MY 2 It is dangerous to proceed on present course.
AE 1 I wish to abandon my vessel, but have not the means.
GC 2 I have searched area of accident but have found no trace of derelict or survivors

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