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Google maps has officially changed the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America" (hexbear.net)
submitted 4 months ago by DengistDonnieDarko@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
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We live in the stupidest fucking timeline

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[–] argon@lemmy.today 62 points 4 months ago (8 children)

UK version

Google Maps screenshot of the Gulf of Mexico being named "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)"

[–] grendahlgrendahlgen@hexbear.net 26 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This feels like a compromise that Keir Starmer personally came up with

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

I welcome this change but encourage the people at Google to go further. Why, for example, not also add Gulf of Atlantic in square brackets after the regular parenthesis

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