Google maps has officially changed the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America"
Google maps has officially changed the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America"
We live in the stupidest fucking timeline
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this is so fucking embarrassing dude holy fuck please someone nuke us
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I thought changing the names of things was woke
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How about just Florida when the cheeto is there golfing?
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We believe in systemic solutions here
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There’s a got dang
in the White House!!!
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Dumbest empire in the history of the planet
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They used to have to build a fleet of ships, sail for months, and then hold territory to be able to do this. Now some person behind a desk changes a parameter.
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You mean the West Cuban Sea?
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If someone says this to me in real life I will literally slap them
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only permissible if they are blaming the gulf of america on the disaster a hurricane that grew in it caused
- Lathe Time
US media will switch between Gulf of Mexico and Gulf of America based on the context being reported. Extreme hurricanes devastate coastal cities? Those came from the Gulf of Mexico. New oil drilling platforms extract record amounts of fossil fuels? They're located in the beautiful Gulf of America, baby
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UK version
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utterly bitchmade nation
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This feels like a compromise that Keir Starmer personally came up with
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I welcome this change but encourage the people at Google to go further. Why, for example, not also add Gulf of Atlantic in square brackets after the regular parenthesis
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In the US and I get this if I'm zoomed out a bit (and it looks like this is how disputed islands are labeled also, if you check Malvinas/Falklands for example) but if I zoom in a bit it's just "Gulf of America"
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On Norwegian Google Maps
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Are the different tech moguls just competing over who can lick trump’s boot harder?
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yes
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Omg I'm looking at the pull request for this change right now and there's almost 100 comments on it
Most of it are random software engineers from various ethnicities suggesting better translations for the non-English changes
People were debating exactly what the geographic boundaries/regions are for the which version you would see to decrease the odds of overall public backlash worldwide
Some people were trying to protest the change and citing laws and saying Google shouldn't kowtow to Trump
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this change is worldwide?
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Depending on where the app detects you are, google maps shows different borders and names. So to some countries, it'll show "Gulf of America", "Gulf of Mexico", or even "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)". This is just based on what they perceive to be the most popular politics are in that particular country/government
A famous example is that the borders of India are slightly smaller or bigger depending if you're in Pakistan, India, or China due to all the border disputes those 3 countries have the region
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What you mean pull request? I thought gmaps was closed source. Maybe wikipedia comments?
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It is closed source. I have access to the PR
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This will show those fucking Mexicans no one messes with the country that funds their cartels and consumes their fentanyl because life is a bleak hellscape without substances!
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Gulf of Cuba, USA, and Mexico, Gulf of CUM for short.
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Google Maps in eSStonia:
Xi, launch the rockets. Al-mawt li-AmriKKKa
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Danish Google does the same.
Death to America.
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Damn, we have a comrade from one of the fascist Baltic states? Stay safe!
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That font is awesome though
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In GAuSStria too
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lmao
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"You must change the name, big daddy said so!"
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Reminder that Google enthusiastically reached out to the IDF immediately after October 7th in hopes of selling them all sorts of AI tools; tools presumably used to kill thousands of Gazans.
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Based OpenStreetMaps doesn't do revisionism
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I can finally remove the yellow filter from my photographs of the gulf
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Let's go look at Ukraine
oops we forgot to update that one.
It's apparently listed the "Gulf of America" in Japanese too.
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I had to check for myself.
I hate it here.
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I decided to read the Wikipedia talk page for the Gulf of Mexico and it seems they're not going to change it at least for now, but it is still very funny to read the pro-change arguments being presented.
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Deeply stupid, but I genuinely think the Empire is doing the most harm to itself and its soft power by doing shit like this.
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I wonder what Tim Apple's gonna do.
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Still Gulf of Mexico as of now, same with Bing maps.
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Gulf of América*
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I mean, there is oil there...
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This is just a ploy by big map to sell more maps and globes
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Death to Google
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Finally uninstalled Google Maps. Installed Organic Maps, instead. (f-droid).
You just couldn't resist sucking up to Trump, could you Google? Remember when your company motto was, "don't be evil?" That was 20 years ago.
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Gulf of Amerikkka
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Next up: New Mexico -> New America and New England -> New America. In fact, we should change every single name on the map to "America".
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Who wants to take bets on the !alwaysthesamemap@lemmygrad.ml countries being the ones who have the parentheses.
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