Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps.
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That's literally what I said my dude, you're just arguing semantics over the use of "renaming"
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Google also removed the ability to suggest edits to specifically the Gulf.
Guess they knew ahead of time they'd get an influx of requests to change or back.
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Exactly. If there were perfectly interchangeable alternatives, there would have been a true competition and those companies wouldn't be holding the amount of power they do today in the first place.
Moving to alternatives requires some degree of effort and giving up on some microconforts. There's no other way. There's no fight without any pain. If we want to fight those companies, we must sacrifice those micro conforts, even if that means reducing tech use as a whole and doing a few things the "old fashioned" way.
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Following your logic Lake Michigan should be renamed Lake America. There's a bunch of lakes up there, do they all get renamed Lake of America? Seems confusing!
Here's a list of all the gulfs in the Americas:
North America
- Gulf of Mexico
- Gulf of Alaska
- Gulf of California (Sea of Cortes)
- Gulf of St. Lawrence
- Gulf of Honduras
- Gulf of Panama
- Gulf of Tehuantepec
Central and South America
- Gulf of Darien (Colombia and Panama)
- Gulf of Venezuela
- Gulf of Guayaquil (Ecuador)
Following your logic, they're all badly named because that's just named after the region they're in, not the content.
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It's not at all what you just said. Because it's not renaming.
I honestly don't know how to make this any simpler to digest for you. The EO changes the way the Gulf of Mexico is referenced in official correspondence for the Federal Government. It does not change the name for anyone but the federal government. That's not the same as renaming it. The US doesn't own it and can't rename it.
Google is a Government contractor and is required to follow US policy to keep those contracts, which is why they've also changed it...
Truly I can't make it any simpler.
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There is an international maritime treaty that has taken a firm legal stance. Trump is defying it.
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Dems and useless virtue-signaling. Name a better duo
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You are ignoring it, because you won't address what I said about Denali and forts named after Confederate generals.
You apparently didn't even bother reading what I wrote.
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But it kinda makes sense to be called Gulf of America since it's located in North America.
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It also kind of makes sense to leave the name in place since the world has been calling it the "Gulf of Mexico" mid-1500s. The original name was in reference to the Aztecs.
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Can you site something for what you're talking about?
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I said it renames the part the US controls, this argument of renaming the entire thing is a figment of your imagination, or you're replying to the wrong message. Replace "renamed" with "named" in my sentence and then you have no leg to stand on. Your example is stupid, china is not "a part the US controls", please do not engage in replying to my comments if you're just going to strawman me.
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Whatever. Enjoy your rant. It's going to be a fun four years for you
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I feel like people who care about something this stupid are either shills for trump or just too damn stupid to see a bigger picture. I'm the latter case I guess I have to give it to Trump: he threw a bone that idiots couldn't pass up.
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I said it renames the part the US controls
Okay, and yet again (and for the last time) this is incorrect. It doesn't rename anything.
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It's also the country that has the majority of the coastline
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I mean it's Mexico. I wouldn't really consider them "liberal".
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Check out c/[email protected], they have some software recommendations for degoogling.
Since you have a Pixel you should be able to install GrapheneOS, which removes a lot of Google services and is a lot more secure.
I would also recommend FreeTube, which is ad-free and has the feature to download videos like YT premium. You can even import your subscriptions.
Welcome to the rabbit hole of degoogling.
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They hadn't removed that ability as of Thursday evening, because I was able to give feed back. My guess is they got a rash of hate messages similar to mine and decided to remove it because of that. I hate them so much right now, but Google is unfortunately the forefront service for my online life. So much I do with Google apps that I really can't get in any one other place.
