We live in the stupidest fucking timeline
this is so fucking embarrassing dude holy fuck please someone nuke us
I thought changing the names of things was woke
How about just Florida when the cheeto is there golfing?
We believe in systemic solutions here
There’s a got dang
in the White House!!!
Dumbest empire in the history of the planet
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.
You mean the West Cuban Sea?
If someone says this to me in real life I will literally slap them
only permissible if they are blaming the gulf of america on the disaster a hurricane that grew in it caused
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
Those same platforms cause an environmental disaster? You’d better believe that’s happening in the Gulf Of Mexico!
that’s not exactly lathe, that’s just what crackers already do 24/7 about any given thing that exists
UK version
utterly bitchmade nation
This feels like a compromise that Keir Starmer personally came up with
I welcome this change but encourage the people at Google to go further. Why, for example, not also add Gulf of Atlantic in square brackets after the regular parenthesis
Yeah that’s C*nada too
Gulf of Canada too???
Hudson Bay? NOPE! That’s MAPLE BAY to you, YANKKKOID eh!
Around here we call it Wînipekw
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”
On Norwegian Google Maps
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
Not even NATOpedia is doing this bullshit
nor tim apple (at least yet)
Canadian Google maps is doing the same shit
Same for me in Spain.
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.
lmao
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
this change is worldwide?
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
“Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)”
From Brazil with a phone configured in English and got this.
can confirm, configured to portuguese
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
if that were the case it’d say “Gulf of Mexico” throughout latin america. but they’ve set it to include both names in every country besides the US and Mexico
also i have a hard time thinking of a country/govt where the popular politics would have any support for including anything but the name it’s had since the 1500s. maybe far-right america stans like poland and hungary?
if that were the case it’d say “Gulf of Mexico” throughout latin america. but they’ve set it to include both names in every country besides the US and Mexico
The decision is made by a bunch of white Americans in Silicon Valley though
So this is what’s taking all the dev time away from being able to display pride and black history month!
What you mean pull request? I thought gmaps was closed source. Maybe wikipedia comments?
It is closed source. I have access to the PR
Are the different tech moguls just competing over who can lick trump’s boot harder?
yes
Based OpenStreetMaps doesn’t do revisionism
“You must change the name, big daddy said so!”
Gulf of Cuba, USA, and Mexico, Gulf of CUM for short.
Google Maps in eSStonia:
Xi, launch the rockets. Al-mawt li-AmriKKKa
That font is awesome though
Danish Google does the same.
Death to America.
Damn, we have a comrade from one of the fascist Baltic states? Stay safe!
In GAuSStria too
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!
