Same story as with the gulf, they show the bullshit only to Americans.
They’ve been willing to play ball with authoritarian regimes for a long time.
That said, it looks like this in northern Europe
The gulf viewed in Canada:
How dare Trump try to fuck with the lyrics of The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Wait, the Edmond Fitz sunk in Superior… How is the pedo pres fucking with the lyrics?
Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings In the rooms of her ice-water mansion. Old Michigan steams like a young man’s dreams, the islands and bays are for sportsmen. And farther below Lake Ontario (America) Takes in what Lake Erie can send her.
Thank you. I used to work overnights at the aquarium here in Duluth, that song played on repeat and I’ve never, ever listened to the lyrics.
Yeah, Americans are cowards.
More proof Alphabet, Google, and its employees support pedophilia, are fascists, and deserve to answer for their crimes.
lol what a fucking joke.
It shows “Lake Ontario” here in the UK, but “Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)” as well. Not sure why there is a difference- certainly I’ve never heard anyone use the phrase in brackets in conversation.
Which is the only reasonable way. A map has to be useful, it’s not their fault a government has changed things.
Their government didnt change things. They chucked a hissy fit and made unfounded demands, Google decided to appease the crybabies rather than having an ounce of integrity.
On a practical level, if a government decides to refer to it by whatever name in advisory notices and alerts, it’s useful to have the map reconcile with that name
No reasonable people are using their bullshit names for the Gulf of Mexico or Lake Ontario and no one should be encouraging it.
They took away HOMES, and now we have SHAME.
I, too, enjoyed that Bluesky post.
You could also just cross post the original post: https://lemmy.world/post/51291608
Nah… It’s only there for the Americans
Who fuckin cares? It’s all colonized land named by the people that stole it.
Ontario is the original name of the lake, at least as an anglicized form of Oniatarí:io, the Iroquoian name of the lake.
Ah well that sucks then. I retract my original statement. I just figure it came from the Canadian province name which I did not know had indigenous origins.
I maintain that caring about what it is called on google maps or Trump renaming it is pointless.
So is everywhere on earth.
This is apologism for colonialism, Nazism, and Zionism. Kindly fuck all the way off.
Where shall I fuck off, O Lord? Bearing in mind I’ll probably be colonising there in thy esteem?
Still Lake Ontario here.
They just do whatever local law tells them to. I bet it shows a different name in non-Trumponia regions.
It’s an “executive order”, not a law. Google has no reason to make the change other than to kiss the diaper.
But but but… yankistanis told me that US corporations are separate from the government, unlike Chinese ones, and don’t have to follow unlawful orders.
It’s all a lie?
Its not a law. All it is, is a request for the head of the US geological survey to ask their dept use a specific name on something.
It has zero legal weight.
