Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps.
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Can you site something for what you're talking about?
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in their jurisdiction (Mexico) it is actually the "Gulf of Mexico" in Google Maps, they don't get the "Gulf of America" name.
I'm in Europe and for me it says "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)". 🥴
I've heard that in Germany it's "Golf von Mexiko (Golf von Amerika)". That's really annoying. I can vaguely understand it having the parenthesized name in English. Say in 3 years some kid in England is doing a report about something in the US and the Gulf of America comes up. Maybe you'd want the kid to be able to find it on the map. But, maybe it's fine if the kid has to look it up somewhere else, realize that's the stupid name, then search for Gulf of Amerikkka.
But, it doesn't make any sense to do that for other languages. Just like we don't get Finland (Suomi) when searching for Finland, Finns shouldn't get something like Meksikonlahti (Gulf of America). They aren't going to be exposed to / hearing the Finnish translation of the English name, so it's not helpful in any way to have that parenthesized version.
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Yes, that is one way to show that you never actually read the post.
You conflate not agreeing with not reading, because if someone reads your posts, they have to agree, right? So if someone doesn't agree, it simply means they didn't read your post.
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You conflate not agreeing with not reading, because if someone reads your posts, they have to agree, right? So if someone doesn't agree, it simply means they didn't read your post.
You neither agreed with what I said nor disagreed with what I said. You did not address what I said at all. I will give you one last chance, but I doubt you will bother:
“Mount McKinley” is “just a name” for what is supposed to be called Denali. Ask an indigenous person if they think changing the name of a sacred mountain to the name of a man responsible for one of them many genocides of their people is “just a name.”
Then ask virtually any black person if they don’t care about Trump and Republicans restoring Confederate generals’ names to military bases. Find out if they think it’s “just a name.”
So, since you've claimed you addressed it and all you keep saying is, "it's just a name," is your contention that Mount McKinley and Fort Bragg are just names and those people of color shouldn't get so uppity about them?
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You neither agreed with what I said nor disagreed with what I said. You did not address what I said at all. I will give you one last chance, but I doubt you will bother:
“Mount McKinley” is “just a name” for what is supposed to be called Denali. Ask an indigenous person if they think changing the name of a sacred mountain to the name of a man responsible for one of them many genocides of their people is “just a name.”
Then ask virtually any black person if they don’t care about Trump and Republicans restoring Confederate generals’ names to military bases. Find out if they think it’s “just a name.”
So, since you've claimed you addressed it and all you keep saying is, "it's just a name," is your contention that Mount McKinley and Fort Bragg are just names and those people of color shouldn't get so uppity about them?
Since you have completely hijacked this from talking about the Gulf, as I said, call it what you want. I'll probably continue to call it Denali, because it's just a name.
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Since you have completely hijacked this from talking about the Gulf, as I said, call it what you want. I'll probably continue to call it Denali, because it's just a name.
Enjoy your privilege.
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That's just a list of conventions? I could have looked that up. You're talking about a specific one right?
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Did you really just call Taiwan a Chinese province?
It IS a Chinese province. Did you really not know that?
Nobody recognises Taiwan as an independent state.
Not even the hypocrite US meddling warmongers. -
It IS a Chinese province. Did you really not know that?
Nobody recognises Taiwan as an independent state.
Not even the hypocrite US meddling warmongers.Please inform these countries that they do not exist.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries-that-recognize-taiwan
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I'm curious - how would they just "have phones switch", and if that's actually possible, to which "open non Google platform"?
This is absolutely possible, and how? Depends on lawyers, but technically its absolutely possible
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