Gregory's ServerAn important skill for navigating the internet is reading a generalized statement and knowing whether or not to append "in the US" to it in your head
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 @schratze I remember when I was a little boy, we didn't have cable TV at home in a small town in Costa Rica, when I had the opportunity to watch "History Channel" after a few programs I understood quickly that they were broadcasting shows of "The History of XZY in the US" without saying "in the US"   @patterfloof @donelias @schratze They hated that so much they tried to spin off WWII documentaries to another channel. It didn't work, obviously.  @schratze det gode med å bruke nesten kun norsk er at jeg ser sjeldent skit som gjelder kun landet fra helvetes dyper @schratze eigentlig skal det være helvetes djup men jeg er for trøtt for å bry meg jeg skal på et fly om en time @schratze takk men jeg skal Dessverre til fr*nkfurt og jeg veit ikke hva folk driver med der engang (har bare 4 timer der)    @schratze Counter-point: An important skill for posting on worldwide social media is making a statement and knowing whether or not you should add "in <name of country>" before clicking Post.  @Cal @mazunki @schratze Depending on how deep you want to go down the rabbit hole you can read https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9413 and probably a bunch of things which have been written on the robustness principle.   @simon_brooke  @stuartb @simon_brooke @schratze @HighlandLawyer @stuartb @simon_brooke @schratze Yip, classic UK weather forecast will say "Rain in Scotland and the North". They don't need to specify where the North is, because of course England is the default. 😒  @z3z @HighlandLawyer @stuartb @simon_brooke @schratze @z3z @HighlandLawyer @stuartb @simon_brooke @schratze @punishmenthurts @z3z @HighlandLawyer hey, in Britain we famously think that a week is a long time... in politics. @punishmenthurts @z3z @HighlandLawyer @simon_brooke Having driven in both places yes, driving a hundred miles each way in a day is something I do fairly often in the US. I've done 700+ miles in a day before now. Driving Bristol to London or Birmingham seemed a lot harder. I've lived in places in the UK where some of the buildings have existed longer than the US - I do still make jokes about a short course on US history being all that's needed. @llondel @punishmenthurts @z3z @HighlandLawyer I've owned and lived in -- and indeed you've visited me in, Dave -- a house older than the United States! @simon_brooke @llondel @z3z @HighlandLawyer @simon_brooke @punishmenthurts @z3z @HighlandLawyer This is true, fun times, those visits. Cambridge has been there over 800 years, and parts of the church in my village near there date back to the 1200s. @punishmenthurts @HighlandLawyer @simon_brooke@mastodon.scot @schratze@todon.nl And for those of us in the black hole, "in London".  @schratze Exempli gratia: "Socialized Healthcare will never work." For people living in a developed country, that statement is blatantly false. It works everywhere democracies implement it. But yeah, if you append "in the US," we get it. It will never work in the US. And that's because the owners of the US will do everything in their power to sabotage every attempt to make it work. And not for any other reason. |
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