EpeeGnome

If it's walkable, then it would be a solid giant, not a gas giant. What were they smoking?

That's my read on it too. Trying to have it both ways, and not exactly succeeding at it.

It's my understanding that the executive does not have the authority to unilaterally change official geographic names. As of my writing this, the name “change” has NOT been adopted by the United States government. Congress granted that authority to the US Board of Geographic Names in 1890. Unless accepted by the US BoGN, it changes nothing. I suppose Congress could rename it if they passed a bill that the president signed into law overriding that authority for that specific case, but until they did so, it’s not official.

Here is the link to the US Geographic Names Information system page showing the current official name of the Gulf of Mexico: https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/search/names/558730. Note the list of accepted variant names, which still doesn’t include “Gulf of America”.

Google are saying here that they will only change it on maps if it's made official by the US Government, which has not happened yet. That's why they haven't made any change yet, and won't unless Trump gets the US BoGN to do his bidding.

I don't even have to click the link to know that's Captain Holt of Brooklyn 99 undercover as a heterosexual man, because that was my first thought on reading the post.

Nah, he just does this every so often. He'll say something surprisingly sensible and moral like this when speaking of the cuff or reacting to new events, and then quickly backtrack on it when he remembers what the GOP want him to say. He knows his usual stances on topics are wrong, he just forgets to keep that to himself occasionally. It's extremely frustrating being one of his constituents.

I give it 24 hours, give or take, for Senator Spineless to remember who his masters are and publicly backtrack on this comment. It's weirdly not rare for him to say something good and sensible like this, but it's unheard of for him to not quickly denounce such statements in favor of the party line.

The solution to this is simple. She just needs to ask him to play a porn character of a cop. Then she'd get the performance she was hoping for. Just be careful to be specific so he doesn't end up play a porn actor playing a cop, because then he'd be asking an imaginary director about his blocking, accidentally forgetting his lines, and requesting to cut and start the shot over.

The name "change" hasn't even been adopted by the United States own government, because the president does not have that authority. Congress granted that authority to the US Board of Geographic Names in 1890. I suppose Congress could rename it if they passed a bill that the president signed into law overriding that authority for that specific case, but until they did so, it's not official.

Here is the link to the US Geographic Names Information system page showing the current official name of the Gulf of Mexico: https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/search/names/558730. Note the list of accepted variant names, which still doesn't include "Gulf of America".

I just checked there, and they have not renamed it, nor have they listed the new name as a recognized alternate name.

Whether of not an executive order can override the government agency specifically granted that authority by congress is of no concern to them. By law, the Board of Geographic Names is the final authority on geographic names. If they don't go along with this change, then the Trump admin would have to file an inter-government lawsuit about it.

He doesn't need to redefine violence. His follow up comments show that they will just claim that any violent Jan 6th criminal they pardon didn't really do any violence, and was convicted for a crime they didn't commit and any video evidence to the contrary is just fake new.

When I was in highschool we edited that file in the programming lab. Wrote an auto running batch file to replace it when the floppy disk was inserted and managed to sneak the disk into every machine without the teacher noticing. The computers where arranged around three walls of the room, and we knew that his standard procedure at the end of the day was to go to each one and issue the shutdown command, then circle back around to power them down. That afternoon when he turned around he must have been greeted with his own employee ID photo grinning back at him around the room in 16 color bitmap glory.

The next day he sternly waved us over the moment we walked in, then just laughed, said "put it back," and waved us away. He never bothered to even ask how we got ahold of his employee photo from the school network.

It's the only way to season food. If you're good enough, you can just imagine the flavors, but I still have to rummage the spice cabinet and sniff to get the dish to taste just right.