Don’t forget the other random renaming he did, Denali. It’ll always be Denali to myself and the climbing community.
- It sounds snappier than McKinley
- It actually had that name before. It wasn’t just pulled out of thin air to be PC.
- McKinley had nothing to do with the area, he was gov of Ohio. He never even visited it, it was just named after him to curry favor with him.
Well that’s OK. It’s not uncommon for different countries to name bits of land and water differently from everyone else. Take Germany for example. The locals call it Deutschland. The French call it Allemagne. Or there are the Falklands, known by the argybargies as Las Malvinas. If Donny McFart in North Mexico wants to call that bit of water the Freedom Gulf or whatever then good for him! As long as he realises it works both ways.
Except no one in the US except for McTrumpy calls it the Gulf of America
Argybargies? Is that a new racial slur i haven’t heard of?
As slurs go it’s pretty low tier. A bit like the French calling the English “rosbifs”, if they even still do that.
I can’t believe I still have it but I’m going to start actively changing emails on all my old accounts on services I had registered with gmail before I switched.
You can change the maps to suck up to the Orange Idiot, but you can’t make people actually call it that.
How’s that boot taste google
Google maps classifies USA as sensitive country
Should be called “snowflake” country
When they do it, We need to encourage people to report it as incorrect information. If everyone does it then it may be enough for show we don’t want this and don’t want to be seen as the fools the White House actually is.
Guess they’ll do anything to appease the new self appointed co-dictators of North America…
Gulf of Performative Nonsense
Gulf of Pretention
This has “freedom fries” energy all over it.
No, see y’all’ve got it backwards. It’s the Gulf of America, not the Gulf of the United States of America. He’s making it more inclusive!
/s
just when you think this timeline can’t get any stupider.
Pace yourself, we got almost four years to go. At least.
Wow. I did not expect to see the current amount of boot licking by big tech and practically all of the 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?!
but we already have dystopian end-stage capitalism at home
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.
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.
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.
Wait until folks find out Greeks call Greece “Hella” and Hungarians call Hungary “Magyarország” (Land of the Magyars)
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! Not even from a thick Japanese accent!
It’s from an old Portuguese recording of the Mandarin Cipan. So, yeah lol
Wait…are you saying if I go to Japan, and learn the language, they’ll refer to it as Nihon, and think I’m a stupid American for saying Japan instead?
@Lost_My_Mind @shalafi English speaking Japanese call it Japan whole speaking English. Things have different names in different languages.
Baka Gaijin, but yes.
someone needs to make a Firefox plugin that reverts the change.
I’ve made a couple of Firefox extensions just for personal/fun stuff, might give this a shot.
We have now decided that this someone is you.
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.
Just change every “X of Y” to “X of America.”
Then we’ll change the X, also to “America.”
First thing first, rename the country as American America of America.
That (if taken literally)… would also make Elon “the CEO of America”.
Maybe a CSS would work, stylus is fairly easy to use
