Google says it will change Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' in Maps after government updates

[echodot@feddit.uk]

I'm trying to work out who this is for. Presumably his fan club will approve, but I don't think it was something that even they were particularly asking for.

[echodot@feddit.uk]

Nobody calls it that though. No one who is actually left-wing thought that calling them blacklist / white list was offensive.

[echodot@feddit.uk]

They're not required to change it. All the law does is officially change the name for official government purposes it doesn't require everyone in the US to start calling it that.

[echodot@feddit.uk]

Yes but thry changed their own name, not the name of some other bit of the world that isn't anything to do with them.

[echodot@feddit.uk]

If only does it with his remaining term is just randomly rename stuff, I think we will consider ourselves to have gotten off lightly.

[nutsack@lemmy.world]

why would that be Google's concern

[echodot@feddit.uk]

There is absolutely nothing that is too stupid for republicans.

It's the US had an actually functional political system they wouldn't get anywhere near power. They're all crazy and they don't care about anything that actually matters to people. But because there's only two parties they just go "biden bad" and everyone votes for them.

[smilingsolaris@lemmy.world]

One is propaganda made up by right wing nerds and one is the president of fucking america if you didnt catch how silly you were being right now

[andros_rex@lemmy.world]

Is this another of those things where someone wrote some mild Substack post about “maybe the phrase black list does imply black = bad” that maybe five people read before conservatives decided that it represents the ideological position of all leftists?

[andros_rex@lemmy.world]

Middle English usage of Turkye or Turkeye is found in The Book of the Duchess (written in 1369–1372) to refer to Anatolia or the Ottoman Empire.[45] The modern spelling Turkey dates back to at least 1719.[46] The bird called turkey was named as such due to trade of guineafowl from Turkey to England.[36] The name Turkey has been used in international treaties referring to the Ottoman Empire.[47] With the Treaty of Alexandropol, the name Türkiye entered international documents for the first time. In the treaty signed with Afghanistan in 1921, the expression Devlet-i Âliyye-i Türkiyye ("Sublime Turkish State") was used, likened to the Ottoman Empire's name.

Türkiye had historical usage and precedent; “the Gulf of America” does not. Admittedly, Erdoğa was probably motivated by the same base nativist urges. There’s also something substantially different in saying “we want our nation to be called this” versus “we want to rename international territory.”

[guitarson2024@lemmy.world]

Reminds me a lot of after 9/11 when they tried to change French Fries to Freedom fries. That stuck about as well as water on teflon.

[ilikeboobies@lemmy.ca]

Now US can start claiming islands just like China does with the South Sea

[daddy32@lemmy.world]

Sorry, unable to find it now either and my memory fails me. There's a chronically mislabeled place near where I live, but I don't want to doxx myself. So, please have this vaguely related fun story instead: https://www.thesun.ie/news/14465782/ghost-aldi-supermarket-tourists-lorry

[bemorecareful@lemmy.world]

Anytime I hear someone complain about cancel culture I bring up freedom fries.

[eezyville@sh.itjust.works]

I never said they were required to change it. I just wanted to put into perspective the power that Google has vs the power the US has. Also change the name of the Gulf of Mexico is not law. It did not go through Congress.

[merde@sh.itjust.works]

i never use android auto so my help would be based on what i've read.

i tried magicEarth after the above comment. It's not foss but it seems more practical for driving and it is said to be a.auto compatible.