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Nine months later, is still the "Gulf of Mexico" to news outlets
- jack_tripper 1y agoThat's why I'm surprised Trump didn't sign an executive order to rename the 'Canada goose' bird to 'America goose'. Is he asleep at the wheel, or how did he miss this opportunity?
- macspoofing 1y agoOr Lake Ontario to Lake New York.
- ethersteeds 1y agoI always said Canada geese are stealing the American workers' job of last resort: sleeping in the park. He really should do something.
- cncjchsue7 1y agoSlow news day? The economy is about to fall off a cliff.
- Alifatisk 1y ago> When the Associated Press announced that it would stick with Gulf of Mexico, Trump blocked AP reporters from the Oval Office Isn’t more people concerned with how much Trump thinks its fine to poke around with the freedom of press?
- reactordev 1y agoGood, renaming it was not the smartest of moves to begin with. Considering it’s a gulf because of the gulf, which is down in Mexico. Our border with it is really like the outer wall of a harbor. It’s only there to guide you towards the end.
- cubefox 1y agoSeems to be a pretty even split: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fhow-did-the-us-let-this-gulf-be-named-after-mexico-is-v0-yk7vjax3iprc1.jpeg%3Fwidth%3D640%26crop%3Dsmart%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D222e3841a2e7d7c4c14acd9341dd86886c9a9a39 https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.... "Gulf of North America" would make more sense, because most people regard (just) "America" as synonymous with "USA". Though that name would perhaps be more appropriate for the Hudson Bay, which is farther north.
- akagusu 1y agoOnly people from US think in America as synonymous with USA
- Dilettante_ 1y agoThat's not true. I live in Europe(Germany) and I as well as everyone I know personally says "America" when we mean "the USA" and mean "the USA" when we say "America".
- reactordev 1y agoThat’s brand awareness right there. We got em. I visited Germany a few years ago and I can confirm that they called me “The American” and referred to the US as America. My colleagues explanation was “There’s Romanians, from Romania. There’s Hungarians from Hungary. There’s Americans from America.” I laughed a bit when he said it.
- cubefox 1y ago
- candlemas 1y agoI went to a minor national park over the summer (Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park) and there was a map of the United States showing all the national parks in the country with a "Gulf of America" sticker placed over "Gulf of Mexico".
- IAmBroom 1y agoI really badly want to hear that the sticker was cheap-looking, and even peeling.
- foofoo12 1y agoLet's just call it for what it is, The Gulf of The Dead Cat. "The dead cat strategy is a kind of misdirection where somebody will say something so ridiculous or do something so outlandish that it takes your attention away from where they don't want you to look. ..." 1 minute summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3NvncA_oh0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3NvncA_oh0
- greatgib 1y agoIt is really concerning that this post was flagged. It looks interesting for me and not specially politically oriented or "partisan" but a fun fact with stats. Maybe I'm missing something, but I have the feeling that it was flagged unfairly to mask the disturbing reality shown by numbers.
- akagusu 1y agoThere is a sustainable censorship campaign running on HN. Everything that makes government looks bad or is contrary to government beliefs gets flagged
- timdaub 1y agoHey I'm working on a product related to flagged content. Would you be willing to talk to me?
- greatgib 1y agoI guess why not :-)
- satisfice 1y agoHas anyone checked if Trump thinks he’s talking about favorite sport? I can understand if he wants to call it golf of America.
- yanoleaf 1y ago5 years later, I still make new repos with "master" branches and call it the "master bedroom"