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Whose Gulf? (lemmy.world)
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[-] Zugyuk@lemmy.world 60 points 2 years ago

The Gulf of Cuba United States Mexico

[-] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

This is the objectively correct answer

[-] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago

Better add in the I for international waters.

Gulf of I.C.U.M.

[-] Jumi@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I jizzed in the Gulf

[-] forrcaho@lemmy.world 34 points 2 years ago

Who's: a contraction for "who is".

Whose: belonging to whom.

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

I’m embarrassed I made that mistake. I absolutely know better. Thanks for the correction.

[-] forrcaho@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Now I wish I'd sent a DM instead. No need to embarrass you in public, oops. Oh well, next correction I'll be more discreet.

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

No worries! Your correction was appropriate. I think the edit just took a while to sync across instances. I was embarrassed because I take pride in my writing. It could have been between us, or broadcast globally, and I’d have felt the same.

Thanks for the consideration. Have a good night!

[-] drdalek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 2 years ago

This is just distraction politics. Easy to talk about and have an opinion on, while completely dismantling the country with the other hand.

[-] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago

Trump: Someone get me a sharpie

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Throw in a couple of hurricanes for good measure. We can always nuke ‘em.

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago

And if you measure it in miles of coastline...

Mexico - 1,743 miles.
US - 1,680 miles.

https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2025/02/12/us-google-change-gulf-of-mexico-to-gulf-of-america-after-trump-executive-order/78461485007/

Other sites round up the US portion to an even 1,700, which is STILL short(!)

[-] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Does this fully take into account Louisiana? I feel like those river deltas and swamplands add up to a massive amount of what could be considered coastline.

[-] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 18 points 2 years ago
[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

If they’re both infinite that’s just 50/50 right?

[-] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 years ago

More like ♾️/♾️, so closer to 1.

[-] datendefekt@feddit.org 4 points 2 years ago

Isn't 50/50 = 1 = ♾️ / ♾️?

[-] wischi@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

I'm fairly certain that's not how it works 🤣

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Could be part of the "rounding up", same for the Florida Keys.

[-] MsPenguinette@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

I never knew there were international waters in the gulf. Interesting!

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

I bet those two pockets have seen some shit.

[-] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 years ago

"I ain't seen nuthin."

[-] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Seem kinda pointless to me, might as well divvy them up

[-] _chris@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

The text of the EO actually only orders renaming of the portion of the gulf that is shown as the American EEZ on that map.

But, much like with everything else in society, the companies who bent over backwards renaming as fast as possible were too dumb to read the actual assignment and / or instead just wanted to gargle the ring.

[-] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 years ago

I doubt Donald Trump read the EO either. And those companies know this, and they know he's a small and petty man.

This whole thing doesn't matter much, it just makes the US looks stupid. It's not the job of these companies to oppose the guy Americans voted for even when he's making the country look stupid. It was the duty of American citizens to vote wisely to prevent guys like Trump from having power, but that didn't happen, so here we are.

[-] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 years ago

Gulf of Embarrassingly Tiny Hands

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

I dunno, but google removed the ability to suggest edits when I looked last.

So I suggested a correction for mar a lago. It should be Turd-o-Lardo

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You can report Google search results by tapping the three dots to the right of the results.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Well no I can’t because I don’t have that spyware on my phone.

And you shouldn’t either.

Edit to clarify, the website has a different interface.

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

You don’t have a web browser?

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world -5 points 2 years ago

Bro.

Read what I said and you’d realize I don’t need your totally unsolicited advice.

In order to make it clear: in order to suggest a change to mar a lago, I’d have to know how to do that.

[-] buwho@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

"Gulf Uck Yourself"

[-] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

the gulf is the pride america left behind

[-] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 years ago

I say we call it uh...

The Burning Sea.

[-] Kanda@reddthat.com 3 points 2 years ago

There's two international waters, but only one for each nation. Clearly this is the Gulf of international waters

[-] thenextguy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

The Gulf of the Americas?

Maybe it should have corporate sponsorship like football stadiums.

[-] ohellidk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Gulf of idk

[-] Pussydogger@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

EEZ and teorritorial claims are completely different things!

[-] HorreC@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

if you really wanted to be like this needs renaming, why the fuck didnt you go with "The Gulf of the Americas" not that it touches both north and south. But Gulf of North America doesnt have a nice sound to it

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