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Google maps has officially changed the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America" (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 week ago by DengistDonnieDarko@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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We live in the stupidest fucking timeline

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[-] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 117 points 1 week ago

this is so fucking embarrassing dude holy fuck please someone nuke us

[-] SchillMenaker@hexbear.net 51 points 1 week ago

I thought changing the names of things was woke

[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 48 points 1 week ago

xi-plz

[-] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 25 points 1 week ago

How about just Florida when the cheeto is there golfing?

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[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 82 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You mean the West Cuban Sea?

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 80 points 1 week ago

Dumbest empire in the history of the planet

[-] HelluvaBottomCarter@hexbear.net 61 points 1 week ago

They used to have to build a fleet of ships, sail for months, and then hold territory to be able to do this. Now some person behind a desk changes a parameter.

[-] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 68 points 1 week ago

On Norwegian Google Maps

A map of the Gulf of Mexico that reads "Mexicogolfen (Amerikagolfen)"

[-] Cammy@hexbear.net 56 points 1 week ago

both-sides

[-] mar_k@hexbear.net 39 points 1 week ago

not a single international body or government besides the US domestically has approved anything besides "gulf of mexico," so this is just plain american cultural imperialism. fuck google

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[-] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 33 points 1 week ago

Canadian Google maps is doing the same shit

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[-] argon@lemmy.today 62 points 1 week ago

UK version

Google Maps screenshot of the Gulf of Mexico being named "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)"

[-] coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net 35 points 1 week ago

utterly bitchmade nation

[-] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 27 points 1 week ago

Yeah that's C*nada too

[-] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 26 points 1 week ago

Gulf of Canada too???? doggirl-shock

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago

Hudson Bay? NOPE! That's MAPLE BAY to you, YANKKKOID eh!

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[-] grendahlgrendahlgen@hexbear.net 26 points 1 week ago

This feels like a compromise that Keir Starmer personally came up with

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[-] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago

In the US and I get this if I'm zoomed out a bit (and it looks like this is how disputed islands are labeled also, if you check Malvinas/Falklands for example) but if I zoom in a bit it's just "Gulf of America"

[-] hamid@vegantheoryclub.org 58 points 1 week ago

If someone says this to me in real life I will literally slap them

[-] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago

only permissible if they are blaming the gulf of america on the disaster a hurricane that grew in it caused

[-] DengistDonnieDarko@hexbear.net 43 points 1 week ago

lathe-of-heaven Lathe Time

US media will switch between Gulf of Mexico and Gulf of America based on the context being reported. Extreme hurricanes devastate coastal cities? Those came from the Gulf of Mexico. New oil drilling platforms extract record amounts of fossil fuels? They're located in the beautiful Gulf of America, baby freedom-and-democracy

[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 1 week ago

Those same platforms cause an environmental disaster? You'd better believe that's happening in the Gulf Of Mexico!

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[-] duderium@hexbear.net 58 points 1 week ago

Are the different tech moguls just competing over who can lick trump’s boot harder?

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[-] AcidLeaves@hexbear.net 53 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Omg I'm looking at the pull request for this change right now and there's almost 100 comments on it

Most of it are random software engineers from various ethnicities suggesting better translations for the non-English changes

People were debating exactly what the geographic boundaries/regions are for the which version you would see to decrease the odds of overall public backlash worldwide

Some people were trying to protest the change and citing laws and saying Google shouldn't kowtow to Trump

[-] blame@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago

this change is worldwide?

[-] AcidLeaves@hexbear.net 45 points 1 week ago

Depending on where the app detects you are, google maps shows different borders and names. So to some countries, it'll show "Gulf of America", "Gulf of Mexico", or even "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)". This is just based on what they perceive to be the most popular politics are in that particular country/government

A famous example is that the borders of India are slightly smaller or bigger depending if you're in Pakistan, India, or China due to all the border disputes those 3 countries have the region

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 22 points 1 week ago

"Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)"

From Brazil with a phone configured in English and got this.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

can confirm, configured to portuguese

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[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 53 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This will show those fucking Mexicans no one messes with the country that funds their cartels and consumes their fentanyl because life is a bleak hellscape without substances! frothingfash

[-] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 43 points 1 week ago

Gulf of Cuba, USA, and Mexico, Gulf of CUM for short.

[-] Kuori@hexbear.net 42 points 1 week ago

catgirl-disgust hate it here

[-] charly4994@hexbear.net 41 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Let's go look at Ukraine

oops we forgot to update that one.

It's apparently listed the "Gulf of America" in Japanese too.

[-] SexMachineStalin@hexbear.net 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Google Maps in eSStonia:

Xi, launch the rockets. Al-mawt li-AmriKKKa

[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago

Danish Google does the same.

Death to America.

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[-] nothx@hexbear.net 35 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I had to check for myself.

I hate it here.

[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 34 points 1 week ago

[-] picklemeister@hexbear.net 33 points 1 week ago

pain

[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 32 points 1 week ago

pathetic

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 31 points 1 week ago

I wonder what Tim Apple's gonna do.

[-] PKMKII@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Still Gulf of Mexico as of now, same with Bing maps.

[-] Dessa@hexbear.net 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I can finally remove the yellow filter from my photographs of the gulf

[-] Yuritopiaposadism@hexbear.net 28 points 1 week ago

"You must change the name, big daddy said so!"

[-] Fishroot@hexbear.net 27 points 1 week ago

Gulf of América*

[-] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 26 points 1 week ago

I mean, there is oil there...

[-] mar_k@hexbear.net 26 points 1 week ago

lmao

[-] Des@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago

firefox add-on to fix this. can't verify if it's safe

[-] pinguinu@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Based OpenStreetMaps doesn't do revisionism

[-] Carl@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago

I decided to read the Wikipedia talk page for the Gulf of Mexico and it seems they're not going to change it at least for now, but it is still very funny to read the pro-change arguments being presented.

[-] CleverOleg@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Reminder that Google enthusiastically reached out to the IDF immediately after October 7th in hopes of selling them all sorts of AI tools; tools presumably used to kill thousands of Gazans.