Google Maps Renames Lake Ontario to Lake America(nytimes.com) |
Google Maps Renames Lake Ontario to Lake America(nytimes.com) |
The U.S. Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) has formally changed the name for "Lake Ontario" to "Lake America" in the United States. Since we update Google Maps to reflect name changes in official government sources, which is GNIS for the U.S., people using Maps in the U.S. will see "Lake America," those in Canada will continue to see "Lake Ontario," and those outside of the U.S. and Canada will see both names. These updates follow our long-standing policy for bodies of water with names that vary from country to country, and are starting to roll out now.
There's no "moral weight" to throw around. Until Google spins up a well-regulated militia, they do what the guys with guns tell them to do.
But it's super complicated, and in this particular case does the state have some special right to name the body of water it's adjacent to that pre-empts the federal government? I dont know. Probably not, but I think the argument would need to be more explicit about what that right is rather than just claiming states are sovereign.
Thats how they could have pushed back against a dictator. Every finger you give him is a hand you lose.
"those outside of the U.S. and Canada will see both names"
When I search for Lake America, the pin sets itself directly over the same lake with the text "Lake America: The smallest of the five great lakes."
I hope this was intentional.
Yes, the other 70% of us do find it embarrassing.
Hopefully once Trump is gone there'll be a Roman-style "Damnatio memoriae" where all his vanity, and childish idiot, renaming is undone.
Trump renamed the lake. Google just updated the label.
The American dream reduced to an idiocracy.
Trade war on your number one neighbor makes negative sense, unless you note that it has kept Epstein out of the news, despite forthcoming financial and other disclosures in civil suits. Senator Ron Wyden is hot on the financial trail, much as the financial trail brought down Al Capone, and it's to note that there have been some "no trial, no publicity" settlements by banks.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49510464#49511011
Emmanuel Goldstein's work: From 1984 by George Orwell.
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Trump said it himself. He could shoot someone on the street and they will still vote for him.
They don't hate hypocrisy, or pedophiles, or corruption, or big government or anything like that at all.
They hate "the weak". They hate a society which doesn't let them "Win". They won't stop doing that. Voting for Trump and watching him break things makes them feel powerful. They feel like "I did that"
Next up, he renames the Atlantic Ocean to Ocean of the Americas.
But a remarkable demonstration of how rotten America has become, simply because it is so stupid.
He got elected with 49.8% of the popular vote, even though he had already been in power and people knew reasonably well what his policies would be.
The signs of his corruption and sociopathic personality were there long before he got elected the first time. e.g. history of refusing to pay contractors who'd worked for him.