- cross-posted to:
- aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum wrote a letter asking Google to reject the U.S. decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America on its mapping service.
Google is pretty well known for displaying certain ‘contested’ things with different names in different countries.
It will change only for those viewing from the US I believe, not the rest of the world.
That this should even be ‘contested’ is a joke, but Google views this Trump-pandering as the price of their seat at the top table for this new administration, and they’re quite happy to do it.
If we have to rename it, my vote is for the “Gulf of CUM” (Cuba, USA and Mexico)
That’s fair isnt it? 💦
As a US citizen I want it left as the Gulf of Mexico.
I’d be down for gulf of cum
No no, we’re still talking about the map.
I know
While we’re renaming things can we also rename NAFTA to CUMFTA
I’m down
So then in 4 years if a dem gets elected everything gets changed back… then a few years later if a rep gets elected…flipflop forever?
Reread what you replied to. He wants it to be called the same thing it has always been called and what the rest of the world calls it. No president should be able to arbitrarily rename shit every 4 years. It dissolves the utility of giving things names.
I agree and it wasn’t a reply, just a thought that it could technically flip back and forth…ridiculously. which is very sad. It will always be gulf of Mexico and denali to me.
Do you still think there will be an election in four years?
There will be concepts of an election. Just like in Russia.
It sounds like their is only one English language version of Maps, so Canada, UK, etc. will also change.