2026-09-17 06:27 UTC
Somebody told me that the US government renamed Lake Ontario to Lake America, and I didn't believe it because it's the most stupid, insensitive, and meaningless thing you could do. But it's real. And Google is happy to just capitulate and plop it in there.
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@sixohsix@icosahedron.website 2026-09-17 06:29
Which is to say... it's not like Canada hasn't arrogantly renamed geographic landmarks in the past (e.g. Tunnel Mountain in Banff). But I thought we globally got over that shit over a hundred years ago.
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@cpsdqs@icosahedron.website 2026-09-17 06:51
@sixohsix@icosahedron.website the most baffling part of this, to me, is that it shows that even when you’re in e.g. germany. it’s not like they show local names of anything else. all the labels are translated. beijing still shows up as ‘peking’. feels very ‘apple gives trump a golden statue award’ levels of going above and beyond