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[–] 58 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Same story as with the gulf, they show the bullshit only to Americans.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 weeks ago

    lol what a fucking joke.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    How dare Trump try to fuck with the lyrics of The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Wait, the Edmond Fitz sunk in Superior... How is the pedo pres fucking with the lyrics?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 weeks ago

    More proof Alphabet, Google, and its employees support pedophilia, are fascists, and deserve to answer for their crimes.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    Which is the only reasonable way. A map has to be useful, it’s not their fault a government has changed things.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    They took away HOMES, and now we have SHAME.

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    Nah... It's only there for the Americans

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago

    Still Lake Ontario here.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago

    Yeah, Americans are cowards.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

    Who fuckin cares? It's all colonized land named by the people that stole it.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Ontario is the original name of the lake, at least as an anglicized form of Oniatarí:io, the Iroquoian name of the lake.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 weeks ago

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    You could also just cross post the original post: https://lemmy.world/post/51291608

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    They just do whatever local law tells them to. I bet it shows a different name in non-Trumponia regions.

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