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  • Google added that the name Gulf of Mexico will remain displayed for users in Mexico. Users in other countries will see both names, the company said.

    Yeah. "Both Names" for other countries is a bit lame but better than just Gulf of America everywhere.

    The Denali / McKinley thing is pretty awful though. I hadn't realised Trump had changed that too.

  • Sure ok but to make that point you have to skip over all the other significant impediments to this plan.

    You need to build, staff, and supply a local manufacturing plant for toothbrushes.

    This is no small thing and not something that can be created overnight. It's not even as simple as "building" a factory... you need the supply chain, and most of the requisite supplies probably come from China - plastic to make the brush head, plastic to make the handles, machines to form the plastic, and technicians to maintain those machines. If you want to invent all these things locally and avoid the retaliatory tariffs from China, that's going to take decades.

    During those decades consumers will be buying the tariffed Chinese toothbrushes wondering why the fuck everything from toothbrushes to shampoo to laundry powder to televisions costs twice as much as it does in any other country.

    So my whole point is, there's a "threat" to Chinese producers but it's not very likely to materialise because the US will lose the political will to maintain the tariffs long before locally made products appear.

  • Hah. We've never had "concentration camps", that's a specific term referring to a specific thing.

    It's true that Australia's treatment of asylum seekers in recent decades has a lot to criticise.

    I'm not really certain why you're so fixated on my heritage and the associated ethical misadventures of my compatriots?