Why is India the only country with an ocean named after it?!?!?
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All in the eye of the beholder, like the English Channel is not called that in France
For now!
Well, we did rename French Fries.
Oh, and the “Rose Bowl Presented by Prudential” is what you will it called these days. I’m not sure what hold the Bowl people or Prudential have over a newspaper company. Less access or something “unless you call our stadium this or our Bowl game that”?
I’m still calling the Lakers’ and Kings’ arena “Staples.” I get the same access as I did in the past, unless negative access is a thing.
The U.S. Board on Geographic Names is a federal interagency organization that is responsible for maintaining uniform geographic name usage throughout the federal government. The board operates under the interior secretary. The board’s Foreign Names Committee is responsible for standardizing foreign place names. The committee is composed of representatives from federal agencies, including several appointees specializing in geography and cartography. Members are appointed every two years.
Trump can certainly decide what names are used by the Federal Government. I don’t think he has any sway over what names other countries or US private citizens use.
A recent example of the board’s work includes approval of replacement names for all features that included the word “squaw,” which is used as a derogatory slur toward Native American women.
and …
Is there a precedent for officially renaming a gulf?
In 2020, the Foreign Names Committee within the BGN weighed in whether to rename the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Gulf — a fraught debate among Arab nations.
Iran has long insisted on the body of water being called the “Persian Gulf,” but Arab nations have preferred the term “Arabian Gulf.”
The committee determined that “Persian Gulf” was still appropriate based on its policies in favor of using conventional and widespread names, but added that the use of the term “Arabian Gulf” is acceptable in informal federal communications with Arabic-speaking military and government partners in the region.
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Totally agree. The US can call it anything they want but the rest of the world will not recognize the name change.
I’ll add: Meta allowed graphic pornographic ads to proliferate on platforms, and blocked media outlets that reported on their censorship.
Those 404 Media stories are now “not found”?
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Change to:
“The Gulf, Literally and Metaphorically, between Persia and Arabia.”
They could just fight it out. We’ll keep their oil in escrow, for safe-keeping.
Perhaps Trump will decree that the Persian/Arabian Gulf be renamed “Lake MAGA”.
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If this were Canada, you’d have a tax payer group moaning loudly about how much money is going to be wasted on the changeover to the new name.
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I’ve been noticing that a lot of OF type posters on Instagram seem to be getting pretty bold on slipping in nudity on their reels.
The fembots and sex workers are overrunning many social media platforms, but this is about actual paid advertising that Facebook is serving up and making money on.
From the article " the same advertiser was running around 800 ads across all of Meta’s platforms in November, the vast majority of which are just different close-up images of vaginas."
While they are promoting explicit pornography, they are censoring news orgs that report on their inappropriate censorship as violating their standards.
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FINALLY a reason to join Facebook!
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One of the biggest names attached to the project is Brett Ratner, who will return to the director’s chair after living in relative obscurity since 2019, when several women accused him of sexual abuse and misconduct — claims he has denied.
One actress told the Los Angeles Times in 2019 that Ratner forced himself on her sexually, while others described his inappropriate conduct. A different woman accused him of rape in a Facebook post, but later retracted the allegation. How he joined the project is for now unknown, but Puck’s Matthew Belloni posits that he came as part of the package on the insistence of TrumpWorld, with which Ratner has maintained close ties.
What is OF in this context?
Video clip playable here: https://x.com/Acyn/status/1876753074091638809
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Ah, makes sense in context.
I guess this is funny if you are the potential invader rather than the invaded.
I can now identify with Estonia, Latvia or Lithuania having Russia as a neighbour. No fun living next door to a militaristic country when an idiot runs it.
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