What's with all the bizarre spelling changes in the news?

This is how you know Fox News and Breitbart aren't really any different than the rest of the mainstream news; they move in lockstep with this bizarreness. For generations, we've written and pronounced Kiev. Now, everyone's stumbling over each other on who can write Kyiv and say "keev" faster than their competitors.

We saw the same thing happen when Osama bin Laden was suddenly changed to Usama bin Laden, although nobody outside of the news really caught on to that one. And earlier, Moslem for some unknown reason changed to Muslim. (And "headscarf" or turban changed to hijab. I don't care what the brown people call it; we already have a perfectly functional English word for it.)

I'm also a bit irritated that people started saying Mumbai instead of Bombay. Nothing changed in any Hindi language; for some reason we decided that we needed to change it in English. Why? And why did the Ivory Coast suddenly not get translated out of the French anymore. Cote d'Ivoire, even without the diacritics on the o is a pain in the butt.

It's come to my attention (not for the first time) that I have little patience for people's foolishness. This usually comes to a head when I get caught up in discussions on the internet, where people for some reason feel that showcasing their foolishness isn't actually foolish. After having to call out some idiots in the comments at Breitbart for saber-rattling against Russia, China and Iran when it's clear that none of them want anything from us other than for us to leave them alone, and that we've got problems enough at home to clean up before we worry about anyone else and that it's clear that our most significant geopolitical enemies are actually Mexico and Israel, not Russia or China at the same time that I lost patience with being told that I must be trolling because I think that people who think a minor inconvenience in a video game, like too-bright lines on the inventory for SWTOR is some kind of life or death struggle and they're talking about the new inventory screen literally harming them are the real trolls, I decided that nothing good can come of any of these discussions other than that I'll lose my temper with these stupid people and say something that I'll probably regret saying. Better to just avoid them altogether. Better to avoid the internet, mostly, or at least discussion on it, and better to avoid people.

That's one thing that the covid-nannying nonsense has taught me the last two years. I'm perfectly OK staying at home and not going in the office or much of anywhere else where I have to socialize, because my socialization needs are shockingly minimalistic.