• @shalafi@lemmy.world
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    282 months ago

    What till y’all find out they label Nihon as “Japan”.

    Google’s doing what they always do, following official government naming conventions. If, and when, the US officially changes the name, they will follow suit.

    Personally, I’d rather they get their back up and say “no”, but at least they’re being internally consistent.

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      12 months ago

      Pace yourself, we got almost four years to go. At least.

  • @BumpingFuglies@lemmy.zip
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    322 months ago

    No, see y’all’ve got it backwards. It’s the Gulf of America, not the Gulf of the United States of America. He’s making it more inclusive!

    /s

  • @irish_link@lemmy.world
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    652 months ago

    When they do it, We need to encourage people to report it as incorrect information. If everyone does it then it may be enough for show we don’t want this and don’t want to be seen as the fools the White House actually is.

  • @kitnaht@lemmy.world
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    -132 months ago

    Honestly, since it’s between North America and South America – I’m kind of indifferent about it. It being called Gulf of Mexico or Gulf of America isn’t going to really change anything.

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        2 months ago

        I dunno - why do you change your style of clothes in different seasons?

        Because you want to. Does it need a greater explanation than that?

        I’m down to clown when it comes to criticizing Trump for shit, but this realistically isn’t going to do anything except make people big mad, for reasons they can’t actually explain. If “your” candidate (whoever that is) wanted to do it, you’d make excuses for why it was a perfectly okay thing to do. I’m just reasonable and realize it doesn’t really fucking matter. In 4 years it’ll change back to Gulf of Mexico, and nobody will even remember it was a thing in 20.

        So why let this rage bait drive you?

    • @Not_mikey@slrpnk.net
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      62 months ago

      it’s between North America and South America

      You’re thinking of the Caribbean sea, the gulf of Mexico is bounded by the united states to the north, Florida and Cuba to the east and Mexico to the south and west.

      It being called the gulf of Mexico or gulf of America isn’t really going to change anything

      It will literally require changing every map and GIS database in the country. Think of all the work NOAA will have to do deal with this BS. Even besides the annoyance and cost of updating all of those it will cause confusion with the rest of the world who will still call it the gulf of Mexico.