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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.

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.

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

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

Are eggs cheaper because of this?

How does this lower the cost of housing?

Anyone else remember "freedom fries"? That's what we were supposed to call french fries when conservatives were upset that the French were not supporting the US invasion of Iraq.

Real question here: It is titled “Restoring Names that Honor American Greatness.” - Has the Gulf of Mexico ever been named "Gulf of America" in any reasonable historical context, or is this just the usual made-up "fact" from Donald the Jester?

Apple is not beholden to executive orders... No private company is.

Wait, that really happened? I thought the gulf of Mexico renamed shit was just memeing. Google maps still shows the proper name instead of the tantrum name.

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

Should list it as "Gulf of Cuba" and watch their heads explode.

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

The government can fuck right off with their Newspeak.

Executive orders have no control over non-government entities. They are just official instructions given to lower executive office departments on how to operate.

Republicans upset that nobody respects their name change? Huh. Snowflakes.

Who's gonna tell him?

The earliest known use of the name America dates to April 25, 1507, when it was applied to what is now known as South America. It is generally accepted that the name derives from Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer, who explored the new continents in the following years on behalf of Spain and Portugal, with the name given by German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller.

— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming_of_the_Americas

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.

The senator for North Mexico needs to stop being such a snowflake.

Small dick energy.

Wow Colbert was the original one to make the suggestion!

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.

With all the other bullshit, I missed this EO being made. Jesus fuck.

Google Maps still calls it Gulf of Mexico also. And they still call that mountain "Denali". It isn't just Apple that didn't drop everything to push out a software update to hundreds of million of devices in less than 24 hours for nonsense.

This is foreshadowing dark times ahead.

I forgot that apple was a department under the president

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

Use "Oblast" instead of state for every single red shithole.