“Gulf of Trump” just go for the gusto you fucking spinless pussies.
“Gulf of this will bring down the price of eggs”
I know it’s not deliberate, but phrases like ‘spineless pussies’ are why women don’t feel welcome on lemmy.
Is lemmy truly a left-leaning platform? Or is it yet another tech-bro circlejerk that cares more about the aesthetics of inclusivity? You all can’t have your cake and it eat it too.
It’s only the Gulf of America in the United States lol
The United States of Northern Mexico?
WTF?
Time to ditch Maps then.
Why not get right down to it and call it exactly what they want it for?
Gulf of Oil…
Where did this gulf of America thing come from anyway. It just seems so left field. Was it a hot topic among the MAGA or something?
It just seems like he woke up one day and had an idea 💡
Someone was saying they want to rename it to work around the laws preventing drilling in the Gulf. It sounds really stupid, but that is on par for this shit show of an administration.
So call Greenland Northwestern US and bingo! you can drill? Is that really a thought process in those heads?
Why would the name have any bearing on the laws that govern what can, and can’t be done there?
This is so freaking dumb I can’t even.
They’re on this stupid renaming kick. Renaming all the “woke” names back to the “original” white slavers and racists these places originally honored. There are few enough brain cells and energy in government and this is what Trump is making them waste it on. Gulf of THE AmericaS would make sense but obviously the intent is to claim it as the US’s.
You know what, sure whatever. It burns their political capital and it doesn’t actively oppress people
Pussies
Why is anyone using twitter anyway? Bring back blog post press releases
So many important issues affecting America right now … and the country and its government is fixated and pouring so much energy, manpower, knowledge, education, experience and capability into … renaming something on a map that no really gives a shit about.
Yeah, I’ve been meaning to switch to OpenStreetMaps for a while now and this was the impetus to drop what I was doing and download it immediately. Fuck Google. So sick of this mask off tech plutocracy bullshit.
Edit: I’ve tried it a few times yesterday and today, and I like it. Works with Android Auto in my car, guidance voice isn’t annoying, directions are accurate. Only complaint is I’m not sure how to search up a business and have the app map me to the nearest location. I need to dig deeper and figure out if I just haven’t found it yet.
I would 100% drop GMaps if I could hit the directions button on a Google search and have it bring up OSM instead. Google Maps has been bugged for me for years and the maps app never gets the address from a browser search. I have to search for the business or address in the maps app itself for it to work.
“The Trump administration has passed a resolution saying that Mexico will now be called ‘America South’ and Canada ‘America North’. Google said it will follow the government’s lead in changing the names on it’s maps app.”
This idea originated as a Stephen Colbert joke in 2010. As always I’m sure some will call this some sort of self-aware troll by Trump, but what are the odds of that.
Given Colbert took the absurdity of conservatism in the US and cranked it up to 11… I’m not surprised it’s becoming reality now.
Vote to change it to Gulf of Luigi
I support this.
But we should probably at least have a conversation with Mexico about it, since something like half of their country borders it. IDK, I failed geography.
I cannot believe they bent on this at all. This isn’t the will of the people or a problem we asked to solve it is the asinine rantings of a fucking baby. Why the fuck am I stuck in this timeline holy shit.
Everyone report an error every day.
Give it negative reviews
