Google Will Update Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' in Maps

[hendrik@palaver.p3x.de]

Wow. I did not expect to see the current amoutnt of boot licking by practically all of big tech and tech-bros. This can't be good. They certainly expect to get something in return from the current administration. Likely some dystopian end-stage capitalism?!

[7112@lemmy.world]

If it doesn't matter then why change it at all?

[rentlar@lemmy.ca]

Google maps classifies USA as sensitive country

Should be called "snowflake" country

[kitnaht@lemmy.world]

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?

[devfuuu@lemmy.world]

should have been 'gulf of muricunts'

[nwtreeoctopus@sh.itjust.works]

Just change every "X of Y" to "X of America."

Then we'll change the X, also to "America."

[jabathekek@sopuli.xyz]

but we already have dystopian end-stage capitalism at home

[nwtreeoctopus@sh.itjust.works]

If "my" candidate wanted to do it, I'd seriously reconsider their fitness for office.

[hendrik@palaver.p3x.de]

I don't think it's quite end stage yet. There is still some room left to become worse. Some freedoms left and some money in the pockets of regular people.

[shalafi@lemmy.world]

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.

[kolanaki@yiffit.net]

It really sucks that Google dropped "Don't be evil" from their mission statement.

[kolanaki@yiffit.net]

I wanna know how "Nihon" got turned into "Japan" in the first place. A lot of things are just from the foreigner mishearing; but how the hell did someone mishear "Nihon" as "Japan?" They don't even sound close!

[waddle_dee@lemmy.world]

It's from an old Portuguese recording of the Mandarin Cipan. So, yeah lol

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Japan

[darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

We have now decided that this someone is you.

[raynethackery@lemmy.world]

I mean if you want to be really stupid, call it the Gulf of Texas.

[vaggumon@lemm.ee]

If I hadn't had a stroke in november and am still trying to get my brain back to normal I would totally learn how.

[labbbb2@thelemmy.club]

by isolating themselves

From healthy people

[ohvenus_baby@lemmy.ml]

This is mid stage at best. We could be ultra taxed down to pennies as a civilization, and I don't fully mean taxes just cost of living/food, cost of goods, medical, etc. Living like the movie Elysium.

[charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works]

Google a little bitch

[not_mikey@slrpnk.net]

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.