‘Gulf of America’ arrives on Google Maps

[Genady]

"The body of water formerly known in the United States as the Gulf of Mexico is now listed for US-based users of Google Maps as the Gulf of America."

(‘Gulf of America’ arrives on Google Maps | CNN Business)

I'm not US-based. This is how it is listed for me:

[joigus]

I hereby propose Gulf of Chicxulub. In memory of the most significant event that took place thereabouts. We primates owe a great deal to cosmic happenstance. Much more than to presidents --either lippy or sleepy.

Edited February 11 by joigus
minor correction

[geordief]

1 hour ago, Genady said:

"The body of water formerly known in the United States as the Gulf of Mexico is now listed for US-based users of Google Maps as the Gulf of America."

(‘Gulf of America’ arrives on Google Maps | CNN Business)

I'm not US-based. This is how it is listed for me:

I heard that Google is moving its HQ to Cripplecreep Avenue.

[npts2020]

1 hour ago, joigus said:

I hereby propose Gulf of Chicxulub. In memory of the most significant event that took place thereabouts.

Most "impactful", anyway...     

(ducks for cover)

[exchemist]

What a farce. And how extraordinarily childish. 

[TheVat]

Somewhat like the childish thinking that, a couple decades ago, brought us "freedom fries."  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_fries

Since the linguistic attack was on France, I guess one could call it a tour de farce?  

6 hours ago, npts2020 said:

Most "impactful", anyway...

Har!  Can't have an extinction joke with the "stink."  

[CharonY]

Liberty  Cabbage

Quote

During the First World War any reference in the USA to things German was deemed unpatriotic, and this included foodstuffs. An alternative name had therefore to be found for sauerkraut, and the choice fell on liberty cabbage. The image appealed to was presumably of America as the land of the free, defending the liberty of the world against German tyranny. Similar inspirations were liberty sandwich for ‘hamburger sandwich’ (compare Salisbury steak) and, beyond the gastronomic sphere, liberty measles for ‘German measles’.

https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100104899

[exchemist]

1 hour ago, TheVat said:

Somewhat like the childish thinking that, a couple decades ago, brought us "freedom fries."  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_fries

Since the linguistic attack was on France, I guess one could call it a tour de farce?  

Har!  Can't have an extinction joke with the "stink."  

Haha yes, I remember rather resenting that, having recently married a French woman. When it all started going wrong in Iraq I used to tease American colleagues by asking them if they would like to rename them clusterf*** fries. 😆

[iNow]

It’s better than the Gulf of Trump, and also better than returning army base and mountain range names back to those which honor slavery and stealing lands from native peoples. 

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/11/nx-s1-5293246/hegseth-fort-bragg-liberty-name

https://alaskapublic.org/news/politics/alaska-legislature/2025-02-07/alaska-legislature-formally-opposes-trumps-renaming-of-denali-as-mt-mckinley
 

Mostly though they’re just tossing this shit out like catnip to keep us and the media distracted while the really heinous shit is happening behind the scenes. 

[J.C.MacSwell]

Still not Lake New York...I guess Trump is waiting to see if Ontario becomes part of the US...

[dimreepr]

On 2/11/2025 at 9:17 PM, TheVat said:

Somewhat like the childish thinking that, a couple decades ago, brought us "freedom fries."  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_fries

Since the linguistic attack was on France, I guess one could call it a tour de farce?  

Har!  Can't have an extinction joke with the "stink."  

McCarthy must be spinning in his grave as America votes for a Putin, wannabee... 😉 

[exchemist]

 

2 hours ago, J.C.MacSwell said:

Still not Lake New York...I guess Trump is waiting to see if Ontario becomes part of the US...

Well, you jest, but……

😁

 

[J.C.MacSwell]

To appease and honour Trump, Canadian maps will rename the largest Great Lake after the Trump Administration...

Lake Inferior

Do it Google!

Edited February 14 by J.C.MacSwell

[exchemist]

39 minutes ago, J.C.MacSwell said:

To appease and honour Trump, Canadian maps will rename the largest Great Lake after the Trump Administration...

Lake Inferior

Do it Google!

Perhaps Google should be renamed Grovel, while they are about it.

[CharonY]

The only way the world can become more stupid is by whatever is likely going to happen tomorrow.

[CharonY]

10 hours ago, CharonY said:

The only way the world can become more stupid is by whatever is likely going to happen tomorrow.

I stand corrected. It isn't tomorrow yet and it got worse. I shouldn't have read the news.

[exchemist]

I see that Associated Press has now been refused access to White House press briefings and travel on Air Farce 1, because they have reiterated, in their style guide, that the Gulf of Mexico is to remain described as the Gulf of Mexico, because that is how it is known to its worldwide audience. 

[npts2020]

2 hours ago, exchemist said:

I see that Associated Press has now been refused access to White House press briefings and travel on Air Farce 1, because they have reiterated, in their style guide, that the Gulf of Mexico is to remain described as the Gulf of Mexico, because that is how it is known to its worldwide audience. 

IMO it is just an excuse to get rid of one of the main sources used by virtually every mainstream news source in the US to replace it with one easier to manipulate...

[dimreepr]

7 hours ago, CharonY said:

I stand corrected. It isn't tomorrow yet and it got worse. I shouldn't have read the news.

No one should read the news, if they want to hold onto sanity, we should eat our breakfast in front of a mirror...

[iNow]

2 hours ago, dimreepr said:

we should eat our breakfast in front of a mirror

Doing so suggests they lacked sanity on to which to hold in the first place 

[dimreepr]

21 hours ago, iNow said:

Doing so suggests they lacked sanity on to which to hold in the first place 

Depends on who one trusted... 🤒