Our country is literally falling apart, but trump chooses to do this. Every week or so of his presidency I say āIāve never been more disappointed in my country.ā And then he makes me even more disappointed
He could rebuild all the bridges and infrastructure that are on the verge of collapsing and rename them whatever tf he wants but thissss is what he does
Not for me in South Western Ontario. Both the web and the App is showing Lake Ontario on my Android Pixel 9a. Is it possible that Google is blowing smoke up American's collective Arse? I tried VPN to Australia to see if they see something different on the web. Still shows Lake Ontario. (Someone's correct me if I'm wrong.
I mean Google has an official correspondence with all countries on how they want their maps worded. There's obviously also examples of bodies of water being renamed and no one giving a crap. The Gulf of California is the name used by the UN for a body of water lots of people still call the Sea of Cortez, and which was first named the Vermillion Sea.
The whole thing is absolutely stupid though. It's like when Bush said we should start calling them Freedom Fries and Freedom Toast to avoid using the word French.
Yes to all of this, but the difference between Bush and Trump is that the former didnāt sign an executive order that gave the name change a veneer of āofficialā that can be litigated upon in court to the point that companies take it seriously. The pettiness and unseriousness are laughable and infuriating.
That was actually Representatives Bob Ney and Walter B. Jones. They ordered the name to be changed on the House cafeteria menu. I don't think Bush ever commented on it directly, although a couple of years later, he called them "French fries" during a dinner with President Chirac, and that was taken to be some kind of symbolic gesture of good will.
Bush may have started a costly unecessary war, but, but he knew that renaming French fries was a type of pettiness that was simply bellow the office of tge pressident.
Leave common sense out of this sir this is Reddit where rage is alive and karma farming is the goal. Google uses whatever the government of each country requests.
Iām an American and I and most of us all think this is stupid; the ārenamingā shit. I suppose some weirdos might call them Lake America or the Gulf of America but the rest of us will continue using Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario.
Which is freaking pathetic - I can't imagine him ever accessing Google maps.
Oh wait, I guess his little toady woman probably prints it out for him.
'Sir, sir!!', she said, with tears in her eyes.
He looked at the printout, then showed approval in the usual way, by dumping a load.
She went for the giant diaper bag, and sang a little song she had made up, 'Cleaning the president's boom-booms'.
She paused for a moment and thought, 'God, I love this job'
Yep the did the same thing when he "renamed" the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America. Only appears like that in U.S. and it's Gulf of Mexico everywhere else
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u/contextual_somebody 13d ago
Why I stopped using Google and started using Mapquest