Mexico Threatens To Sue Google Over Gulf Renaming (apnews.com) 358
Mexico has threatened legal action against Google after the tech company refused to fully restore the name Gulf of Mexico on its mapping service, escalating a dispute sparked by U.S. President Donald Trump's move to rename the body of water. Google Maps currently displays the water body as Gulf of America within U.S. territory, Gulf of Mexico within Mexican borders, and Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America) elsewhere, according to a letter from Google vice president Cris Turner to Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum.
Mexico argues the policy violates its sovereignty since the U.S. controls only 46% of the gulf, while Mexico and Cuba control 49% and 5% respectively. The historic name Gulf of Mexico, dating to 1607, is recognized by the United Nations. The dispute has strained U.S.-Mexico relations, with the White House barring Associated Press reporters from events over the news agency's naming policy.
Mexico argues the policy violates its sovereignty since the U.S. controls only 46% of the gulf, while Mexico and Cuba control 49% and 5% respectively. The historic name Gulf of Mexico, dating to 1607, is recognized by the United Nations. The dispute has strained U.S.-Mexico relations, with the White House barring Associated Press reporters from events over the news agency's naming policy.
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Re:No legal standing (Score:5, Insightful)
Trump can change the name [nytimes.com].
Can Trump change the name? [theguardian.com]
Trump's executive order directs the Secretary of the Interior to change the name. He has the legal authority to do so.
Who owns what percent of it is completely irrelevant.
Congress can overrule the president (laws trump executive orders).
No other country is obligated to recognize the change, and so far, none has.
Google is (quite reasonably) displaying the official legal name of the gulf in each locale.
Mexico would be wise to ignore this stupid distraction and focus on substantive issues.
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Having authority is one thing. But a key factor here is thar the renamings are supremely stupid. Traditionally congress and the states have huge inputs on this. Ie, Alaska tried for decades to rename Mt McKinley to Denali, but Ohio objected, and the board on naming things backed off of Alaska's request. (Note, McKinley was named that when McKinley was still a candidate; he wasn't even president yet, just some fanboy miner called it that)
Renaming it back is just because Trump is piqued. Alaska doesn't wa
Re:No legal standing (Score:5, Insightful)
But a key factor here is that the renamings are supremely stupid.
That's the point.
This is a distraction.
The stupidity is a feature.
Everyone is focusing on this and smugly talking about how stupid Trump is, while paying less attention to the real issues.
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Right now, I'm trying to get things sorted out with medicare for a relative, while there are still people who work there. Oh sure, some people say they won't lay them off, but they just took a crosshair to medicaid, so SS and Medicare are very likely on their list as the wackos have been bitching about those for decades.
MAGA supporters stop getting their payments or grandma can't get meds and dies, then there's going to be a huge shakeup in the midterms...
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Heard anyone complain about egg prices recently, which have been going up and up during Trump's reign?
Yes. Everywhere. Sometimes in person, at least daily in the media. Where the fuck have you been?
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Alaska tried for decades to rename Mt McKinley to Denali, but Ohio objected, and the board on naming things backed off of Alaska's request.
I guess that's Ohio's reward for voting for Trump. I guess that's not the best reward, but someone is happy.
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"Congress can overrule the president (laws trump executive orders)."
In some things, not all. Unconstitutional laws aren't laws at all and violating the separation of powers is unconstitutional, congress can delegate power or appropriate funds to the executive but any attempt to direct it's behavior beyond that isn't legal.
On the other hand there is a legal theory for every position but the reason congress is rushing to repeal the impoundment act isn't to help Trump, it's to keep the Supreme Court from setti
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Google is (quite reasonably) displaying the official legal name of the gulf in each locale.
No they aren't. That's what they do for most places, including the Sea of Japan (east sea in Korea) or the Persian Gulf (Arabian Gulf for Arab countries).
In the case of the Gulf of Mexico, Google made an exception: they call it Gulf of Mexico in Mexico, Gulf of America in the USA, and Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America) elsewhere. So yes, the rest of the world is stuck with that name that nobody uses, even tough it's in parenthesis. Bad decision from Google.
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No other country is obligated to recognize the change, and so far, none has.
Google is (quite reasonably) displaying the official legal name of the gulf in each locale.
Mexico would be wise to ignore this stupid distraction and focus on substantive issues.
That is the crux of the matter, in a few years time when President Musk has finished wrecking the US or has been locked up for trying, people will still be calling it the gulf of Mexico.
However Mexico isn't being stupid by opposing it as it's generating huge amounts of free publicity for Mexico. It's saying "Hey Brit/German/Frenchman/Australian, you know that holiday you were thinking of in the US... forget it and come to Mexico, we speak better English than they do and with 90% less crazy"... same for b
Re:No legal standing (Score:5, Insightful)
I distinctly remember that chips at one point in the U.S.A. where temporarily called “freedom fries” rather than the already quaint name “French fries” [they originate from Belgium], because France wasn't interested in joining the war in Iraq, which was silently reverted again.
Re:No legal standing (Score:5, Informative)
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Americans completely flipped out and called them cowards and surrender monkeys.
"Cheese eating surrender monkeys", I seem to recall.
As opposed to the cheeseburger eating surrender monkey that is the current US president.
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Why do the censor sock puppets have so many mod points?
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Was France really the only country? I distinctly remember far more were, and weren't willing to join the attack and the U.N. adopted a resolution against it.
Of course, it's often used as an argument now about how much milder the response was compared to what Russia is doing right now.
Precedence in the Land of Memnesia? (Score:5, Interesting)
Bush was well aware that American enthusiasm for war would precipitously drop if body counts were to become daily news. Something he witnessed on TV from the sidelines during Vietnam. In the end, he moved the body count to allied troops and subcontractors.
Canada was prepared to help America, evident by the kilometres long trains of desert camo armoured vehicles that were crossing rural Canada on 9/12. Witnessing all of that hardware roll down the tracks like a solemn funeral train of Hilbert proportions hit me in the gut harder than watching the planes fly into the towers online during class. I'd never seen trains so long. Even during harvest.
It brought visceral seriousness and focus to the chaos in New York that was initially seen as a retaliatory attack by Chile for America's attack on a previous September 11th and followed by confusion as reporters tried to make sense of the events repeating "no one expected such an attack".
Having flown out of Denver a few years earlier on the morning of Columbine, I clearly remember the boys had planned to drive to DIA, hijack a plane, and fly into the world trade center. I felt lucky not to have been one of their victims and found the disbelief more disorienting than the attack. Privately , I was grateful it wasn't the drones that had been populating my nightmares.
Canada demured to join in the Road to Baghdad. Instead, they sent peacekeepers who quietly did the groundwork in Afghanistan. The shocking body counts early on from friendly fire ensured Canada wouldn't be alienated through name calling and tariffs as were the French and was kept from the spotlight which focused on the American flag carried into the fray by iconic American cowboys on horseback.
As an American, the jokes about the French army are embarrassing because they betrayed our country's profound lack of historical grasp. Frightening considering Dante's account of the journey to hell involves first wiping the memory by crossing the river Styx.
Re: No legal standing (Score:5, Insightful)
It's depressing that in this world of pre-packaged everything that common words are no longer common. The people who are able, or desirous of being able to do things that were once common are becoming scarce. Who would bother to know a word for a process they have no interest in, and will never perform?
Preparing and cooking a meal used to require some basic knowledge. Now you can go your entire life without knowing pretty much anything about your food other than where to shove it into your body.
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Mexico doing that over this would not be a move that would go well with it's citizens. They use it's aplenty services I would assume.
It's a power play and loyalty test (Score:3)
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Re: It's a power play and loyalty test (Score:5, Insightful)
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Much of the point of Project 2025. What's scary about that document is not just the policies it wants to enact, but the methodical ways it seeks to achieve this. Instructions to new hires about what to do, such as to not retain any paperwork, have meeting outside the office to avoid the laws about record keeping, how to hit the ground running. Remember, Trump denied involvement or knowledge about projecft 2025, yet their playbook was enacted on day one.
https://www.propublica.org/art... [propublica.org]
(also https://www.p [project2025.org]
Re: It's a power play and loyalty test (Score:5, Insightful)
Can you back this up? What gestapo? What laws did the federal workers violate? I know there's this stupid story about "Biden Crime Family", but it's pure myth for campaign purposes. There was no coup with Biden, he was lawfully elected by all the rules, Trump lost fair and square, even if Trump whined like a baby about it for the next four years.
the person with constitutional authority is NOT and NEVER a dictator. Beiong elected does not make one king, and Trump needs to learn that. Presidents must follow the law, even if the supreme courts kissed his ass and said that Trump (and Biden, and Obama, and Everyone) has some form of LIMITED immunity.
Being elected president does NOT overturn all laws. A new congress does not mean all existing laws go away and we start with a clean slate. It matters not if the president whines "I have a mandate!" because the president never has a mandate. The people vote for a president, but the people do not vote on any national referendums. There is no referendum done about whether to ignore congressionally created departments and shut them down illegally. There is no referendum about firing all federal workers who are duly authorized and paid for from congress. There is no referundum done about what laws the president can ignore in his expedience to consolidate supreme power.
Biden never assumed total control. Biden backed down when congress said "no". Biden did not break multiple laws per day like Trump is doing. if there's a crime family, it's name is Trump.
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He asked you "Can you back this up". You didn't.
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"Drop fact check sites"? You mean I shoudl check sites that don't try to figure out the facts? Should I do my own research to figure out that the earth is flat too?
Anyone today who thinks that Biden stole the election from Trump, an election where Trump's own hand-picked election chief said it was the fairest election on the planet, is either delibertely lying or is possibly stupid enough to require full time home care.
willful (Score:3)
Your attempt to bury discussion of the Trump crime family's criminality to help them evade consequences is a willful attempt to aid and abet enemies of these United States, and as such it is treason.
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And Trump pardoned his father in law before Biden was president, and then has the nerve to complain that Biden pardened his son. Neither one was a good look, but Trump was either hoping his fan base doesn't care about facts (likely) or that he just is getting senile (also likely).
Also reasons for the pardon was that Trump was saying deliberately during campaigns that he wanted to prosecute his enemies (explicitly disallowed under federal law). Trump may or may not think the legal actions against him were
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Yeah. Totally *NOT* because Trump is a rabid dog and his corrupt and illegal government wouldn't have gone after them in EVERY WAY POSSIBLE.
Sources, please? What is all this illegal stuff? So I can debunk all your bullshit? Can be even BEGIN to compare it with the corruption on the scale of Trump? No? Lol, typical.
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My theory is that certain people figured out how to use Trump as a channel for their pet agendas during the last 4 years.
Well, he certainly fills the role of "useful idiot"
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The problem is that the people who hand him the memos to sign do know what they're doing. Trump is being used as a puppet. (I keep looking for the strings, but maybe he's got internal servos)
(And who is the guy who is handing him the stuff to sign and speaking quietly what they're for? He honestly looks like a sibling of Stephen Miller, a clone created for organ harvesting purposes. When they stand next to each other they look soooo much alike. Is the administration nepotism now extending beyond just t
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He's on public display with full transparency pretty much daily. He definitely does not have dementia.
He's clear, focused, and candid and he's keeping his promises with ever increasing public support.
Re: It's definitely a Google maps test (Score:2, Funny)
Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)
Not Gulf of America. However, if you request directions from Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America you will be informed that it is unable to find a route!
As if Google Maps wasn't unreliable enough, this will likely break it even more in some unusual ways.
Typo, it is labelled Golf of America (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Typo, it is labelled Golf of America (Score:5, Funny)
Golfo del Gringo Loco
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In the US, it is "Gulf of America". In Mexico, it is "Gulf of Mexico", in the rest of the world, it is "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)", but we still call it "Gulf of Mexico".
Re: It's definitely a Google maps test (Score:2)
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However, if you request directions from Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America you will be informed that it is unable to find a route!/quote>
Even the holy AI has not been able to invent a time machine.
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Google Maps can't find gulf of america
Yet I can visually see it as 'Gulf of America' on the map. What the hell is Google doing over there?
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The true "Gulf of America" (Score:2)
The true "Gulf of [the United States of] America" is the gulf between our various political factions.
Re:The true "Gulf of America" (Score:5, Insightful)
Actually, the true Gulf of America is the wealth inequality.
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Actually, the true Gulf of America is the wealth inequality.
That's part of the political divide.
Democrats are more likely than Republicans to see inequality as an important issue.
Democrats divide Americans into the 1% and the 99%, which means a Democrat earning $150k feels solidarity with the homeless while putting all the blame on people earning even more.
Republicans divide Americans into the 60% "makers" and 40% "takers". So, a Republican construction worker earning $40k sees himself as a
temporarily embarrassed millionaire [cribchronicles.com], held down by the freeloaders in the unem
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$150k is much closer to $0 than it is to $400bn (Space Karen's wealth).
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Get a job, bitch.
Re: The true "Gulf of America" (Score:2)
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It would be better if we at least shared the goal of the betterment of the nation and humanity as a whole. Disagreements about how to get there can at least be sanely debated and outcomes objectively measured.
Does electing people suffering from gender dysphoria to represent the Health department in government, sound sane to you?
Does cheering for men in women’s sports while defending the need for pregnant men emojis and destroying the definition of a ‘woman”, sound sane to you?
Does defunding police departments and decriminalizing crime, sound sane to you?
We tried to have sane debates. No liberal Democrat would listen. So we had elections instead. With predictably sane results. Go figure.
Only renamed the US area (Score:5, Informative)
The order renamed the area bounded by the US and the Continental shelf "extending to the seaward boundary with Mexico and Cuba in the area formerly named as the Gulf of Mexico"
That area is recognized by both countries to be under US jurisdiction by treaty. Mexico could retain the Gulf of Mexico name in their waters without conflicting names.
Re:Only renamed the US area (Score:4, Insightful)
If google had any balls they would have told him to piss off and do something useful like bring down grocery prices like he promised on the first day. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/0... [nytimes.com]
Re: Only renamed the US area (Score:5, Insightful)
...says anonymous coward (Score:4, Insightful)
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Hear hear!
It should vary (Score:2, Informative)
The US can call it "The Guld of Trump's Dick Waving Trophy" if it wants, the rest of the world will call it whatever they always have.
Google should respect this, and show the locally appropriate name. Which is presumably what they typically do when a jackass with power isn't threatening everyone around him if they don't accommodate every stupid stunt tried to pull or whim he has.
Can't you guys just get to your civil war and get it over with? The Republicans are going to boil you like the proverbial frog,
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Are we winning yet? (Score:5, Insightful)
Inflation is up https://www.reuters.com/market... [reuters.com]
19 century diseases are making a comeback https://www.kumc.edu/about/new... [kumc.edu]
The head of the health department and longtime heroin junkie https://www.yahoo.com/news/fac... [yahoo.com] wants to send people to "wellness farms"
An unelected immigrant is rifling through the treasury and now the taxpayers records. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/0... [nytimes.com]
I thought you guys wanted the government out of your personal business?
With 4 airplane crashes under his watch orange jesus is firing air traffic controllers. https://www.usatoday.com/story... [usatoday.com]
Orange jesus fucked up and fired everyone in charge of the country's nuclear weapons https://www.wtae.com/article/t... [wtae.com]
Now he's trying to call them back.
Boomers are still giggling at all these stories but shit is about to get real for you. Your medicaid is next on the chopping block. https://www.newsweek.com/steve... [newsweek.com]
Re:Are we winning yet? (Score:5, Insightful)
Reality abides. You can put an antivaxxer in control of health policy and you can silence critics, but polio won't respect your politics. Or measles, mumps, or rubella. Chickenpox isn't so bad, but it's still annoying. COVID is still bad, though not quite as bad as it was a first. Influenza never really stopped being bad, it varies a lot.
People are going to get sick and die, and when it gets bad enough they'll rediscover respect for vaccinations. When my parents were children, they'd quarantine you in your damn house if you got sick with certain things and everyone was supportive of it because they were terrified of catching whatever you had. That attitude will come back.
The same truth applies to many other things. You can act like tariffs are a tax on foreigners, but Americans will pay. You can act like immigrants are a problem and kick them out, but you'll have a labor shortage. You can claim your (former) allies are taking advantage of you and bully them economically and threaten them militarily, but... they're not going to be your allies any longer and you'll find out what 'soft power' was after you've lost it.
As a citizen of a country that's going to suffer for American ignorance and belligerence, while half its population CHEERS, if you don't get your shit together America, I hope you fail hard and fast so most of it stays inside your borders.
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Trouble is, the wrong people are going to die. When diseases spread, children (who don't make the decision about their own vaccination) and people who can't vaccinate due to medical reasons will get thrashed. The healthy parents who are getting the benefits of vaxes they themselves received as children will mostly be fine.
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Very very small children maybe but for the most part children are less likely to die from illness than adults. It's the elderly and the already sick who would die.
So you got to understand something (Score:4, Interesting)
So they think 20% of the country is trans women. But given that women make up half the population that effectively means they think that They think 40% of women are trans.
Try to imagine the level of the mind who can somehow come to that conclusion. The poll was fairly accurate and well conducted. Those people are real and they're out there right now in a absolute state of terror because they think they've gotten almost 50% chance of hitting on a trans girl every time they go to a bar.
There really is nothing you can do with that kind of crazy. It took 10 years of non-stop propaganda scaring the shit out of them but they are now absolutely quaking in their boots at the thought of transsexual women. And if they can be convinced of something is ridiculous as that try to imagine what else they can be convinced of.
Honestly though if we just do something about voter suppression and all those old Jim Crow laws then all of this solves itself
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About 50% of the population is trans now, Trump declared by executive order that everyone is now female. If you identify as a man, you are now a trans man.
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It's a fact that Trump declared that sex is determined at conception.
Arguably, THAT is trolling. But pointing it out is not.
Re:So you got to understand something (Score:5, Insightful)
According to a pew research poll The average Trump voter believes 20% of the country is trans.
Funny, a quick search says that it is actually left-leaning voters who vastly over-estimate the percentage of trans people (10-30%, while the actual number is around 0.5%).
That might be because on the left you are more likely to have trans people in your circles, but still. That's a long way off.
(no I'm not a Trump voter at all. I just realized a long time ago that in political discussions, usually both sides are wrong.)
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Deny, attack reverse victim and defender. That's what you're doing there.
How?
I had my doubts about the claim and google'd a bit. At first I thought 30% must be overblown or selective. Nope, it's not. No denying there. The surprise to me was that this overestimates are, as I remember one article said "across the political spectrum". I didn't expect that, and I posted about that.
You're trying to derail the conversation away from the simple reality that we are in the midst of a giant moral panic where people are freaking the fuck out over nothing.
Yes. And on both sides. The right-wingers run around like headless chickens shouting that the world will end if trans people can use the bathroom of their choice (or whatever). But the left-wingers are als
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From whitehouse.gov: people with autism, asthma, auto-immune disease, and ADHD are a "dire threat to the American people and our way of life."
https://www.whitehouse.gov/pre... [whitehouse.gov]
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A small but rather important distinction.
It says the rising number of children being diagnosed with those conditions is a dire threat to the American people. It DOES NOT say the people with those conditions are a dire threat.
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They're only upset that it's being diagnosed, and they're only upset about that because they might have to release some funds for medical care. If they cared about the rise of adverse health conditions they wouldn't be cutting research funding.
Re:Are we winning yet? (Score:4, Insightful)
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Unfortunately for you the MAGAs who make up the majority and elected the majority representatives in every branch of government disagree with you.
Your party obstructed Trump's last Presidency with a bunch of bullshit impeachments for made up garbage. That will likely ultimately allow him to be elected for a 'third' [but really second] term. But the real joy will be when they use RICO to make your entire party conspirators in those federal crimes and they all go to jail.
Lol he's not serving a third term without a constitutional amendment. At most he can serve half of a third term. If for some bullshit reason he still tries to hold power for a third term, I hope someone with decent aim steps up.
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The people you think are "your team" are not actually on your side. You're about to learn this lesson, good and hard... and then we'll tell you to get over it.
Re: Are we winning yet? (Score:3)
I saw some headline saying Netanyahu was signing on to relocation. Frankly, that possibility is too frightening to have read the article. No doubt Ukraine will give up its territory once under threat of being nuked by both Russia and the U.S. if they don't, though.
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People in those areas were attacking each other last month and now they're not. That's a win.
Re: Are we winning yet? (Score:3)
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Replacing wars with US-sanctioned genocides is not an improvement.
Re:Are we winning yet? (Score:5, Insightful)
If you have to shut something down to do an audit, you don't have a clue what you're doing.
It's amazing you think it's cheaper and more favorable to nuke a US city than it is to hire a couple more auditors and to go a little slower though the government. It's been a month. There's 4 years left. There's plenty of time to do it right without nuking ourselves.
Why do you want to give the rich more tax cuts?
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The USA is fucked and I don't think the Dems can repair it this time; they didn't finish the last repair. So you'll get what you deserve and probably still be delusional enough to blame everybody else for your near total fuck up.
The US empire has died; it's just not realized it yet, there is a delay but for the delusional, they'll grab even more tightly to tired MAGA/Italian/German propaganda line.
You can deny reality but it'll eventually happen because what you FEEL has no impact on reality.
Irony seems red
Henceforth (Score:2)
The Gulf of Denmark!
Re: Henceforth (Score:4, Informative)
https://denmarkification.com/ [denmarkification.com]
Mexico (Score:2)
Play retarded games (Score:2)
I asked Claude what to do (Score:2, Offtopic)
It sure took a long time to convince Claude that since its knowledge stops at April 2024 such amazing upheavals could actually have taken place ini the past month. Here's what Claude had to say..
Claude after a bit..:
I appreciate you bringing this up, but I need to clarify something important: to my knowledge (as of my last update in April 2024), there has been no official renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to "Gulf of America" by any U.S. President. Such a major geopolitical action would have been widely report
Sample posts from Claude ;) (Score:2)
Wow. Just wow. Social media campaigns driven by LLMs are definitely going to be a thing.
Claude asked if I wanted him to make some sample posts so I said yes..
The first campaign focused on historical accuracy but it seemed weak since apparently a lot of people don't care. (posts added at the end). But then I asked, "Can you please make posts that focus on making Google want to backtrack on this, or embarrassing the White House and MAGAs for doing this?"
I'm impressed. Also, a little scared at how well this th
I assume Mexico knows it is part of the Americas (Score:2, Insightful)
America is a continent, not a nation. With the Gulf being shared by two countries in the Americas, calling it the Gulf of America seems perfectly fitting.
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No, "North America" is a continent. Which means your perfectly fitting name would be Gulf of North America. But what are the odds of Trumpsters supporting that?
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The Americas is a single continent that comprises both North and South America. North America is not a continent on its own, nor is South America.
As for support from the current administration - why would it matter? The name is what it is no matter what angle you view it from.
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False. Though some are improperly taught that way in both 5 and 7 continent models North and South America are typically treated as separate and not a single continent. https://www.worldatlas.com/art... [worldatlas.com]
The truth is easily found by looking at the plates which define the continents and as you can see north and south america are distinct plates and move independently from one another.
https://www.britannica.com/sci... [britannica.com]
I like our neighbors. (Score:2)
Burma, Zaire, and Turkey all laugh (Score:2)
Sorry, Myanmar, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Turkiye.
In Australia the media keeps renaming landmarks to Aboriginal names, and no-one knows what they're talking about. So they end up listing both names, which wastes everyone's time.
narcs (Score:2)
I've lived with a person suffering from Narcissistic personality disorder (which is NOT the same as the common narcissism that so many streamers and TikTokers exhibit). This is something I've seen plenty of times: It's a test. "can I enforce my personal truth on the world around me?"
It's surprising that Google of all carved in so quickly. Don't they have entire departments of psychologists? Or are they using them only to craft advertisement for maximum effect?
Alas, they're not the only ones. Apple Maps does
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You don't get to be one of the richest companies in the world by not being evil...
Most of the tech bros bent the knee very fast because, well that's where the money and the power is. This isn't new, of course. There's a reason most of the phone companies bent the knee back in the day on warrantless wiretaps, for example. The ones that didn't and asked for legal warrants were summarily fired from government contracts. I was in the US when that happened, Qwest was fired from Los Alamos (this also happened sho
Re:Trolling masterclass (Score:5, Insightful)
>The Left has been creating celebrations intended to offend their political opponents for decades now (pride month, ${ethnicity} history month, etc...),
If that's what you got out of those events, they failed to get to you. Do you really not get the difference between trying to teach tolerance and gleefully spreading hatred?
I mean, obviously you don't, that's what drives you to right-wing politics, after all. Fear and hatred of the 'other', greed, selfishness, ignorance. All the best attributes of humanity, right?
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I am not the slightest bit sorry to inform you that you're the problem. You are, in fact, a raging asshole full of unjustified hate for people around you, and belligerently ignorant about it to protect your beliefs.
People like you destroy communities. People like you are responsible for the US tearing itself apart.
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It's both a troll and a distraction.
He signed a zillion XO but 99% of the focus is on this silly renaming shit that means nothing so all the rest just slips through.
It's a really good political strategy.
If he'd just done the XO that mattered they'd be torn apart in the news. Here we are talking about renaming bullshit instead when we're about to see a major change in how citizenship is granted plus 300 other things with barely a peep.
There were a couple other renames and some other silly shit he signed. T
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Whooooosh!
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