There has also been no word on if the state of Indiana was consulted.
Glad to see the reporter having some fun with this.
Absolutely top notch bit of trolling.
This is great. Maybe officials from all over will rename places had make google add all the different names as per their policy. Imagine taking an interstate road trip and having place names keep changing on google maps as you cross state lines.
I can’t wait to hear UK announce some changes to their official maps.
Does New England sound better than Virginia? How about New Albion?
I’ll take New Albion. It’s time for a change. England had their turn.
If Canada renames Lake Michigan/Illinois to Lake Ontario 2: Electric Boogaloo, would Google label it as Lake Michigan (Lake Illinois (Lake Ontario 2: Electric Boogaloo))? What if Québec wants to spread some French to it too?
Edit: updated Lake Manitoba to Lake Ontario 2 because it’s funnier
The proclamation has been forwarded to Google to ensure the world’s maps reflect this momentous change
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California should declare Lake Tahoe to be called Tahoe Tahoe.
Use this opportunity to retake the Baja Peninsula.
Lake on California side
Tahoe on Nevada side
(It’ll look right on certain maps)
Idaho is now YOUdaho
Uranus is now OURanus.
Always has been.
Uranus Mychoice
In all seriousness, language and word choice are a very big part of propaganda and influence. It’s not an accident that we are discussing “death tax” instead of “inheritance tax”, or that you see reports of “looters” vs “survivors/scavengers”.
So true. We’re manipulated daily through the power of words… what to buy/where to buy it, what to wear or eat, who to vote and not vote for, what to think and believe, how to live, now how to die even, etc. We need to open our ears more and really listen to what’s being told to us.
Something I found very eye-opening was the Wikipedia editing guidelines/style guide. Specifically, they had (have?) section on weasel words.
Once you see these types of manipulations laid out, you start to see them everywhere.
Sorry, what are weasel words? Never heard that term. One I find fascinating is the way music and lyrics are paired together… people will happily ingest and dance and sing along to some of the most destructive lyrics, as long as the music is pleasurable to them.
The World looking at the US: … HWUATTTTT!!!
This is the funniest shit I’ve read today
Honestly these micro-dick edge lords renaming things has been a pleasant diversion over the last few weeks.
We the Australians shall invade the USA and reclaim it for the crown. Hencforth it shall be known as “New Australia”.
You could just call it New Australia anyway. Double up and change your maps. Apparently nothing stops you
I should send an email to the prime minister. Its easy to guess as it just follows the pattern of all the other members.
I quite like the name “Kraft VegemiteTM presents New Australia”.
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New New South Wales.
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That’s what we are renaming Texas
Please do this.
U don’t get our free healthcare tho
Well that’s fucked up
We say the same every time u guys have a school shooting.
Whatever happened to Ameristralia? Wasn’t that a thing back on The Old Site for a while?
The Atlantic ocean is now “the moat”.
“The Pacific” is now “NordVPN Presents: The Pacific”
Interesting, the lake’s name was changed from Illinois to Michigan around 1720. Time to take it back! https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-ee8c-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
For the record, I do delare, that the Best Lake be named for the Best State. So now, hence forth and forever, Lake Superior shall be known as Lake Minnesota.
And Canadians, if you have a problem with that, shoulda renamed it faster.
We already did — it’s named after Canada. Why did you think it was called Lake Superior?
you can’t just un-rename something I just renamed like that! that’s not allowed- it’s against the rules I just made up!
(also… Canada isn’t a state/province… do you really want BC getting in on this?)
As a resident of BC… I already have!
And I declare my toilet as “Baby Ruth presents: The Northern South Texas Community Pool for Doodoos, Nudity, Lemmy, and Dead Legs”
I mean, it’s your toilet… call it what you want… but “the baby ruth presents: the Northern South Texas Community Pool for Doodoos, Nudity, Lemmy, and Dead legs” might be a little unwieldly…
honestly as a non-American, this would unironically make things less confusing: the largest city on that lake is Chicago and I always have to consciously remember “that city is in Illinois, but the lake it is on is called Lake Michigan”.
Illinois has a pretty small coastline with it though. Michigan and Wisconsin completely dwarf Illinois’s coast on the lake (and Michigan by a lot)
Yup, I realize that too when looking at a map of it. Still, the only place on that lake I can name off the top of my head is Chicago and several times in my life already, my brain already went “and that’s on Lake Michigan, so it’s in Michiga– no, riiiiiight, it’s in Illinois”.
How could you forget about the famous trash city of gary Indiana?
I name the lakes based on their names and not cities near them. Always have. Lake Superior. No big city. Lake Huron. Port Huron? They’re massive bodies of water. Not ponds. They stand on their own.
