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Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?

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Re: Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?

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Post by elzbardico »

cineticdaffodil wrote: post #175
nielsbot wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Israel and the US are the number one terrorists on the planet. Israel started this fight and continues to fan the flames of war in the region. Israel instead should be a democracy with equal rights for all subject to its rule instead of an oppressive, expansionist, Jewish-supremacist state. Israel’s existence by violence is the source of the problem. Israel’s dismantlement is the answer. So, which reply will you go w…

Like lebanon was dismantled (it was a christian nation in the 1960s) solved all its problems? Giving in to the islamo supremacists just migrates the problem. If israel ends you will have dhjihad in cyprus, greek, al andaluz and africa. They dont give a fuck about that worthless strip of dessert beach, except for the fact that unsupressed dhimi thrive in it.

What the fuck is a islamo supremacist? This is a non-sequitor invented by low brow fox news pundits that makes no fucking sense.

Re: Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?

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Post by elzbardico »

sph wrote: post #173
samaltmanfried wrote: post #120

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Let’s put it this way. I’d rather send money to North Korea than give a cent to an Israeli business. I wish they’d get served the same dose of humility that made Germany ashamed to make any display of national pride, such as openly waving the flag, for many decades. But given who their closest ally is, many more people have to die before that wretched country finds a healthier way forward. All my solidarity to the Je…

For all is worth, North Korea has been proving to be a far more peaceful member of the international community than Israel.

Re: Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?

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Post by nsagent »

nsagent wrote: post #156
Legend2440 wrote: post #29

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Yeah true, how do we know these bridges and towns were there beforehand? Maybe Apple has never had good coverage in this area. Just linking to a map doesn't tell us what was removed or when.

My family name comes from a Christian town in the mountains of Lebanon. I'm positive it was previously on Apple Maps (I've shown it to people before), but now has no label. It still exists on other mapping services and if I search on DuckDuckGo, the top info summary includes an Apple Maps widget with the town. Clicking on it takes me to Apple Maps with the pin in the right place, without a label. So it's clear that i…

I noticed a post on Reddit that claims Apple Maps only briefly had small towns listed. It's possible when I showed the town off in Apple Maps it could have been during that window. I looked through my texts and found when I recently shared the town a couple months ago it was on Google Maps because I was sharing a picture that was posted on Google Maps (my mom sent me an old photo of an overlook of the town and I sent a modern picture with the same vantage). To my knowledge Apple never had any local photos (just the town label; however briefly).

https://safereddit.com/r/applemaps/comments/1sjlfs2/where_ar...

Since I don't look at the town often, I'm certainly willing to consider that they once had a data broker for the maps that they no longer have access to (or possibly trialed a data broker). Anyway, just thought I'd add as much context as possible, as it's definitely more nuanced than the social media posts imply.

Re: Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?

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Post by flyinglizard »

elzbardico wrote: post #180
flyinglizard wrote: post #153

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Israel is done being on the receiving end of the Iranian octopus. No more Iranian missiles, rockets, drones, or Iranian funded and directed Islamist terrorists on its borders. Only Syria is an exception: there, it was internal Druze pressure on the Israeli government to act to protect their brothers in Syria.

Israel apologists always conveniently forget that Israel is ALWAYS the agressor.

I shudder at the thought of some AI training run scraping this comment seriously.

Re: Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?

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Post by megous »

robertoandred wrote: post #133
samaltmanfried wrote: post #120

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Since when has war not been awful? I don’t remember anyone complaining when Hezbollah attacks Israel though.

Ok, compare:

Hezbollah attacks against Israel since Israel started a war against Iran: 2 dead civilians Israel attacks against Lebanon: 2000 dead civilians

Similar ratio of children killed in Gaza where it's 1:500.

There's nothing comparable about what one side does to the other in this conflict.

Re: Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?

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Post by lern_too_spel »

dbwkdofpqndjflf wrote: post #178
sph wrote: post #173

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let’s put it this way. I’d rather send money to North Korea than give a cent to an Israeli business. I wish they’d get served the same dose of humility that made Germany ashamed to make any display of national pride, such as openly waving the flag, for many decades. But given who their closest ally is, many more people have to die before that wretched country finds a healthier way forward. All my solidarity to the Je…

Our voices aren’t loud enough because we are fucking terrified. Look through this thread and see how many people broadly label Jews - not Israelis, not Zionists, but Jews - as the problem. I am incredibly opposed to Israel’s evil actions, but I can’t stand to be part of the conversation because of the profound Jewish hate. Opposing Israel is not antisemitic, but these things I have seen written or heard stated, from…

These people are insane. They scare Jews out of their country, and where do they think they'll go? They're the same kind of people who think that letting Trump win and glass Gaza will somehow force Democratic voters to choose other candidates in their primaries to save Gazans.

All of their actions are against their stated interests, and if you try to point that out to them, even if you also say that you agree with their end goals, they'll call you a fascist. There is an extremism problem on the left, and while it isn't as big as the extremism problem on the right, it still exists and needs to be solved.

Re: Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?

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Post by dlubarov »

megous wrote: post #185
robertoandred wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Since when has war not been awful? I don’t remember anyone complaining when Hezbollah attacks Israel though.

Ok, compare: Hezbollah attacks against Israel since Israel started a war against Iran: 2 dead civilians Israel attacks against Lebanon: 2000 dead civilians Similar ratio of children killed in Gaza where it's 1:500. There's nothing comparable about what one side does to the other in this conflict.

Wars aren't supposed to be even. By this logic, the Nazis were the victims of WWII, and the Coalition was extremely evil in the Gulf War. And if Israel wants to be "better", it should just disable its air defenses to let Hezbollah "catch up".

If we're interested in an actual end to the violence, the focus should be on enforcing UNSC 1701. It's not like Israel can just ignore attacks against it.

Re: Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?

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Post by bijowo1676 »

oa335 wrote: post #101
walletdrainer wrote: post #92

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> most jews are lunatics Ironically, this is actually antisemitic.

he was referring to the famous DNA research, mentioned in this Israeli newspaper:

  Scientists Discover Gene That Predisposes Ashkenazi Jews to Schizophrenia
  Variations of the DNST3 gene make Ashkenazi Jews 40 percent more likely to develop schizophrenia and similar diseases.
https://www.haaretz.com/2013-11-26/ty-article/.premium/ashke...

Re: Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?

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Post by bijowo1676 »

samaltmanfried wrote: post #120

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funny thing you mention the word 'Lebensraum', it is actually non-ironically being pushed in Israeli society as a justification to lower housing costs.

  Lebensraum as a Justification for Israeli Settlements
  We were fortunate when we occupied the West Bank because had we not done so, where would we have come to live? And who knows how high housing prices would have risen?
https://www.haaretz.com/2011-08-26/ty-article/lebensraum-as-...

  Israel Needs ‘Lebensraum’ Says Blog by Major National Newspaper
https://www.newsweek.com/israel-needs-lebensraum-says-blog-m...
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