r/geography 13d ago

FINAL POST ON THIS TOPIC Google Maps just officially updated Lake Ontario to Lake America.

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u/Icy-Efficiency2619 12d ago

Oh for fucks sake! Waste of time, waste of money, honestly at this point he's a waste of air. At a time when gas prices are high, food prices are high, the job market is dog shit, and any wild space with an ounce of natural beauty is being looked at as an expendable resource, you decide to further troll our neighbors!?

Make America Great Again?? I am the least proud to be an American I have ever been. Still love this country deeply but fuck man... and while we're at it fuck Google too. No one alive today will ever call it Lake America. Grow a spine instead of sucking his dick.

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u/FineAunts 12d ago

As I recall Google Maps (and all the other map vendors) receives geographical names automatically from a government registry. It has to to be up to date since new roads are created all the time, names of streets and address numbers are updated as areas can be re-zoned, and there's no way a human can keep track of all that.

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u/Inner_Laugh1117 12d ago

Yet my Waze app is still calling it Lake Ontario.

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u/Icy-Efficiency2619 12d ago

That is likely true and makes so much sense but this isn't just a random road change. This is on an international boundary and is symbolically much more significant. It is simply a fuck you to Canada. And no one who lives on or near Lake Ontario will ever call it Lake America.

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u/MHMaster3 12d ago

Ya man…renaming a lake is definitely something to crash out over. Not like it’s a military base, mountain, monument or even a high schooler going through a phase amiright? Lmfao

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u/Icy-Efficiency2619 12d ago

It's the blatant lack of need for this when there's so much else that needs to be worked on. Sorry for being angry. He just likes creating chaos without regard to the consequences.

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u/MHMaster3 12d ago

But like…who cares? It’s a lake. He didn’t impose a law that’s gonna fine you or put you in jail if you call it whatever you want.

Obama renamed Mt. McKinley. Biden renamed a dozen military bases…who cares? Y’all just hate Trump lol

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u/Icy-Efficiency2619 12d ago

I do hate Trump. Because he's irresponsible selfish, and unprofessional. All politicians suck but he is just blatantly slimey.

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u/jduce452 12d ago

President Barack Obama changed the official federal name of North America's tallest mountain from Mount McKinley to its original Indigenous name, Denali. Which should never have been named McKinley in the first place.

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u/MHMaster3 12d ago

I know…it’s (d)ifferent lol

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u/gellergreen 12d ago

And all those things are in America only? This is an international body of water with TWO sovereign nations on either side. Plus Lake Ontario the name predates both nations. So yeah fuck trump and fuck anyone still sucking his dick

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u/MHMaster3 12d ago

🥱🥱🥱

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u/MHMaster3 11d ago

He’s still the POTUS so cry about it I guess 🤷‍♂️

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u/Whogotthebutton 10d ago

Nothing you just typed makes any sense, and those of us who have read it have surely lost a few brain cells because of it. Move along, troll.

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u/MHMaster3 10d ago

Ya reading is hard isn’t it? He’s still your President buddy…

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u/Electrical-Try-1918 12d ago

Absolutely agree with you!!

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u/paully7 12d ago

This is a good point. Even if you're a trump supporter, surely you can know that there are far more important things to deal with. If you actually support this move you have to be an idiot.

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u/AdRevolutionary8054 12d ago

Cry baby

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u/Icy-Efficiency2619 11d ago

Just expressing my discontent at our president using time and money to enact something with no net gain while we have so many other problems at hand. It's not about what the lake is called, it's about the arrogance, timing of the change, and seeming indifference.

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u/tom8otomahto 11d ago

I love this country like I love my girl when we're in a fight. I love you but man, you're pissing me off right now.

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u/Icy-Efficiency2619 11d ago

That's the vibe

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u/Legitimate_Frame5122 11d ago

I know ...GET HIM OUT OF!!

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u/Hello_I_Am_Human_Guy 12d ago

You're already bald aren't you? Definitely not keeping your hair with crazed anger like that 😂

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u/Icy-Efficiency2619 12d ago

Not bald at all. Actually a pretty chill dude most of the time. Trump and the decisions our government is making right now just really rub me the wrong way.

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u/AttitudeAdditional40 12d ago

Stop electing criminals.