ipsc shooter, shitposter
America has nukes. This is America’s world and everyone just lives in it.
(Deeper context, America’s nuclear doctrine is madman theory where we will absolutely use nuclear weapons if pushed, to get our way, so the rest of the world is our hostage)
In $BAD_COUNTRY reporters who don’t toe the party line get arrested
It’s a good point though. It’s all calvinball.
2 and 3 are not really viable and Google already had a policy in place for disputed territories. For example look at Kashmir, it gets rendered differently if you are in India vs Pakistan, so I mean Google employees just shrug and implement the same thing. If America wants to have a temper tantrum and call it the Gulf of America, like fine whatever, it’s stupid, just mark it in the system as such and move on.
Google has far more serious topics that its employees should strike, and have struck over.
It’s like being in India and looking at Kashmir. Google just draws shit for each group so they all stop crying
Google is full of lanyard wearing freaks that are only doing the rename in Maps because Trump’s people filled out all the proper forms.
In the U.S., the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) has officially updated “Gulf of Mexico” to “Gulf of America.”
https://blog.google/products/maps/united-states-geographic-name-change-feb-2025/
So this is just lanyard on lanyard violence
I mean yes from the outside you’d think “it’s just a forum” but I mean if you spend multiple hours a day on it and connect with tons of people that share your world view, yeah it means a lot.
Wild. Anyway, glad to see you here comrade
Literally the week of the 2024 election, something snapped in the collective minds of the admins and mods of Hexbear. They just woke up one day and decided to implement a ton of changes that I argue destroyed the site.
I deleted my account on Hexbear and took a break. I would still browse a little bit while not logged in, but eventually settled on joining an instance that was federated with Hexbear so I could still follow some of the communities, but with some emotional distance.
Actually Google maps changes itself based on the country it is accessed from.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/02/14/google-maps-political-borders/
So I imagine that it’s the Gulf of America when accessed from Burgerstan
https://blog.google/products/maps/united-states-geographic-name-change-feb-2025/
Europeans going absolutely apeshit, realizing that they were just a client state the whole time.