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The government can fuck right off with their Newspeak.

As someone who worked in mapping, many people don't realize how much this kind of BS actually comes up.

The map you see in Google / Apple maps isn't the map the whole world sees. What you see is what's culturally / legally appropriate for viewers in your region.

For example, in parts of India it's legally required that Jammu and Kashmir be displayed as being part of India on their maps. On Pakistan's maps it's legally required to be weirdly ambiguous, with a strange open border that doesn't properly close. The rest of the world gets dotted lines indicating it's complicated.

For most of the world the body of water between Korea, Japan and Vladivostok is labeled as "The Sea of Japan", but users in Korea will see "The East Sea". Is the body of water around Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, UAE, etc. the Persian Gulf or the Arabian Gulf? Depends on where you are when you ask that question.

This even has a strange effect when all the countries involved agree that a certain geographic feature is the border, but that geographic feature is a river. Some rivers, especially ones like the Amazon river keep shifting. Sediment piles up, erosion happens, and the river shifts. The river is still the border, but now someone has to go in and adjust the political border to match the river's new position.

So, if Trump does do something official to rename the Gulf of Mexico, the online mapping companies (and any offline ones that are left) will probably follow the rule and rename it... for their American users. The rest of the world will still see it as the Gulf of Mexico. It will just be yet another one of those funny exceptions the companies have to keep track of while displaying maps for a certain subset of users.

I forgot that apple was a department under the president

Small dick energy.

I'm waiting to hear what they want to do with New Mexico

Probably a good time to try and sell maps and globes to red school districts.

Is this what small government looks like? I thought these guys were all about reducing regulations and allowing businesses to do as they please, free from government restrictions.

Whoever obeys Nazis, I will boycott your platform. Plain and simple.

Google also didn't. Oof.

As a Trans person I feel soooo bad /s

Pretty sure it's called "Gulf of How The Fuck Does This Lower Grocery Prices"

Hey everyone, I just signed a lemmy order changing the name of maralago to gaping jizz hole. Enjoy!

For people always calling the others "snowflakes" and "easily triggered", they sure do have a thin skin.

They want an efficient government not wasting time and resources on unnecessary things ...

They get a government crying over the name of a body of water.

Fuck, I honestly thought this was the Onion. Somebody get me out of this timeline. I withdraw consent for this simulation!

Ahem. Umm, conservatives are angry that others are not calling something what THEY want it to be called?

Hmm. So.... I just feel like... perhaps, there's a similarity here. Some people... want to be referred to a specific way... but usually conservatives have a problem with that.