DeGoogle Yourself

Can someone explain the 4D chess going on here? AFAIK this was just tweet diplomacy, the US hasn't passed anything about this. So why would google want to handle all the complaints and backlash they'll take for this?

Yes, Tim Apple bent the knee, but the company seems to be holding steadfast.

Edit God dammit, they changed it. Cowards.

Organic Maps:

🙃

I'm trying to, but Proton made me throw up in my mouth a little.

Now I have the option to do everything I was doing, but poorly AND spread across 3 vendors.

This move makes zero sense to me. Why, change it? It's not it's official name or international recognized name so wtf

In Taiwan it says:

Gulf of Mexico(Gulf of America)

It's even weirder because America doesn't mean just the United States

Geographically, America is too ambiguous of a name for the Gulf of Mexico

Wouldn't the Gulf of California also qualify as being the Gulf of America?

The Caribbean Sea?

Basically every river system from the Mississippi and and the Amazon are also "American" from northernmost point of North America to the southernmost point of South America, it's all "America"

Naming the Gulf of Mexico "America" is almost as bad as naming a country "earth"

To be fair:

I'm American and my phone is set up in the US with region being the US.

Planet America, orbiting the American sun, in the galaxy called America

Wake up people, it's always been the Gulf of America. /s

Meanwhile on Openstreetmap:

name Golfo de México

name:en Gulf of Mexico

official_name:en_US Gulf of America

Showing just enough acknowledgement to confirm they've discussed the executive order, but they aren't going to follow it.

When will Lemmy users stop talking about politics. It's getting old fast