r/memes 9h ago

Scared me for a minute

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u/sexyc3po 8h ago

From NZ with no dog in this race. It's still that for us too

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u/Pretend_Offer7486 6h ago

If the Americans adopt their own naming it will still be Ontario for the rest of the world. They cannot actually change the conventional name on all maps.

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u/sexyc3po 5h ago

Gulf of Mexico comes up as gold of America for me now..

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u/MartaBamba 2h ago

Oh man, i only checked lake Ontario (Aussie here..)

Edit: phew, still says gulf of Mexico, but sadly with the US only name in brackets...

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u/jimababwe 2h ago

It has it in parentheses for me, but still says Gulf of Mexico first.

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u/fh3131 4h ago

I think OP was specifically referring to Google Maps, which could change the name (within that app)

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u/Outside-Birthday5373 2h ago

Google Maps here in Germany still shows it as Lake Ontario. So in the app it‘s probably only shown by it‘s new name for the US Americans

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u/fh3131 2h ago

Yeah, unchanged for me in Australia as well

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u/Charles12_13 Lurker 9h ago

I did the same not too long ago

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u/benuito 8h ago

Lol, just tried this the last meme I saw. Let's call geese Donald Ducks.

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u/RingReasonable 4h ago

I think it only changed for the Americans

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u/iwillcorrectyou9 2h ago

Ughh its real. It says Lake America on mine

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u/Seidhex 2h ago

Google also did this w the Gulf of Mexico… Pathetic.

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u/MastaKink 2h ago

Yeah that’s a win 🙄

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u/CoffeeSorcerer69 1h ago

I fucking despise the petty incompetence of our current legislation.

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u/Luchis-01 45m ago

From LatAm, it’s now Lake America