• @qarbone
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    It’s still called “the Gulf of Mexico.”

    Some dumb bully gave it a dumb nickname and they’re acting like he legally changed it’s birth certificate.

      • @JayJay
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        Trump tried to rename the gulf of Mexico to the gulf of America.

          • XIIIesq
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            It’s pretty funny tbh, I’m waaaay too politically fatigued to get bent out of shape over things like that.

        • Echo Dot
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          28 days ago

          Surely if it was anything, the gulf of America would be off the coast of Florida, surrounding the islands.

    • The Menemen!
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      It is not a country. So there is nothing like a UN defined name. So no one can force any country to name it the way they want. Don’t think it’s Trump decision. Maybe the U.S. Board of Geographic Names?

      Like you call it Persian Gulf, other countries call it Gulf of Arabia, and Turkey actually even calls it Gulf of Basra. (Btw, you legally have to call it Türkiye nowadays. It actually “changed it’s birth certificate” at the UN. Doubt you care about that.)

      • @qarbone
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        29 days ago

        Do you call it the “Gulf of America”?

        • The Menemen!
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          Nope. In non of my languages is that the official name. But tbf, I am not sure if I ever called it anything. It is quite far away from here.

    • @[email protected]
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      199 days ago

      I came here specifically to comment this. Not even a Chicagoan but it will always be Sears Tower. I don’t give a shit who owns the naming rights.

        • @Jtotheb
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          Yeah it’s funny the nostalgia that gets attached to the old sponsor. But I think it’s because you forget the company. Nobody gives a shit about Sears anymore so I think it’s one of the best examples. It’s just what people call it, and refusing the new name isn’t defending Sears’ honor, it’s taking a stand and claiming practical ownership over something in your community. It’s eschewing the idea that someone’s virtual monetary exchange that’s represented on a couple of spreadsheets and in a bunch of advertisements news articles somehow matters more than what the actual people call something

          • @[email protected]
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            I think you’ve got the right idea. Sears Roebuck built the building but it’s not about the company, which doesn’t exist anymore anyway. It’s an iconic Chicago landmark, a marvel of modern engineering, and one of the most recognizable buildings in the world. Just as impressive today as it was when it opened 52 years ago. Building naming rights change hands all the time but virtually none of them carry the history or status of Sears Tower.

            On one hand, a name is just a name. On the other, a name can carry a lot of connotations. We live in a capitalistic society where even the moniker on a building has a price tag and skyscrapers are “disposable” if you have enough money. I think there’s some collective resentment to the idea that decades of history and “tradition” can be erased by writing a big enough check. Not to mention the fact that people don’t like change, in spite of the fact that everything around us is changing constantly. I suppose resentment over renaming such a well known landmark is easy for us to collectively resist as kind of a catharsis.

            • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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              28 days ago

              It would be like if Amazon bought the Empire State Building and demanded everyone call it Amazon Tower

    • TheLowestStone
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      269 days ago

      We all forgot couch fucker because they’ve made him sit quietly in the corner since the vp debate.

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    Facebook to Meta at least makes sense. They didn’t change the product name; they just separated the company running the website from the website. And I mean, let’s be real… Facebook is a stupid name for a conglomerate.

    • @[email protected]
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      89 days ago

      Facebook doesn’t even let you do what it was originally intended for. Judging other people’s worth solely on looks.

    • @SpatchyIsOnline
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      Everyone seems to forget that Google did exactly the same thing with Alphabet… And then continued to just keep putting all their products under the Google name anyway

    • Ben Hur Horse Race
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      whatever is what is properly referred to as Metropol I will get arrested there calling it Metropol to the current occupamts

    • @SkyezOpen
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      Is it still a magical place? Have not been in many years.

      • @[email protected]
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        18 days ago

        It doesn’t change much year to year, but I still love going on the regular. I’m a sucker for the miniature train village. The 21+ nights are cute and unique.

      • @[email protected]
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        39 days ago

        No, it’s now Daniel G. and Carole L. Kamin Science Center after they made a $65mil donation last year.

        • Ben Hur Horse Race
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          fuck i wish i would have known i woulda done 70m and called it Mike Tomlin’s Butthole Center

    • @BonesOfTheMoonOP
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      Apparently Acrisure Stadium in Pennsylvania.

      • Liz
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        Here I was thinking someone renamed an obscure physics thing I didn’t know about.

        • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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          28 days ago

          It’s also the name for the force that keeps ketchup in the bottle. You’ve got to overcome the Heinz Field before it will come out, and that will inevitably end up with more ketchup than you wanted.

  • @BroBot9000
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    139 days ago

    If someone calls it X I’ll call it twitter but if somebody still is on there calling it Twitter then I’ll insist on calling it X. You can’t fool yourself, you are still on Elon Musk’s X.

    • @Absaroka
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      49 days ago

      You know, I was going to shit on you because it was a completely different stadium. But then I realized I often call the new home of the NY Giants Giants Stadium.

      • @Protoknuckles
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        29 days ago

        Right? Like, in my heart, the Mets play at Shea. They can put the stadium on the frigging moon, the Mets play at Shea!

  • @atomicorange
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    Don’t care who buys it, or if it’s been demolished or moved or replaced or whatever. It’s still Mile High Stadium.

  • @ZaphodWilde42
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    99 days ago

    How about the Tappan Zee bridge in NYC?

  • Zier
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    Donald Drumpf. His family changed their last name from Drumpf.

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