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Nov 12 at 8:47pmWeb
Show threadTrinsecNov 12
@nixCraft To be fair.. stupid questions deserve dumb answers. This was done perfectly. ;)
Show thread❄️SnowyIn🇨🇦❄️Nov 12

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I lost count of Americans who ask that sort of stupid question to we Canadians.

Hell, *while online*, I've been asked if we have electricity and no they were not trolling!
I replied, "no Sweetie don't tell anyone but I run a loooonng extension cord over the border! "
It's only funny the first time, and after decades of ignorant questions is downright annoying.

Show threadTrinsecNov 12
@SnowyCA @nixCraft I think it's pretty much an obvious display of the state of US education.
Show threadCody Boone FergusonNov 12
@trinsec @nixCraft @SnowyCA maybe but at least this person capitalised Internet correctly. But I read some years back that a significant percentage of American adults could not read more than a children’s book. And although there might or might not be some methodology questions there’s that study that shows 7% American adults think chocolate milk comes from brown cows. Sadly don’t have a hard time believing that but who knows.
Show thread❄️SnowyIn🇨🇦❄️Nov 12

@trinsec @nixCraft

I used to give them a pass by saying that but with the internet available, I now call it a choice, a wilful ignorance.

Show threadEdwin G. Nov 13

@SnowyCA I’ll start replying with… I access the Interweb with the energy generated by my pet moose running on my treadmill-generator.

Oh and we decommissioned the Internet in 1992… when the great Maple In The Sky invented the Interweb which we access in our igloos!

(To the random person, yes we have electricity, we have the Internet… and actually, you buy electricity from us!)

Show thread❄️SnowyIn🇨🇦❄️Nov 13

@EdwinG

Excellent replies, Edwin. 👍

Show threadIanNov 12
@nixCraft Boomer thought he was typing in Google.
Show threadBart Champagne ON6BC Nov 12

@nixCraft
It's funny 'cause it's true!
Well, partially true: Germany indeed has no internet, a leftover after the great War.

I'm from Belgium and we have many great engineers, probably the greatest engineers ever, and one of them is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cailliau.
Thanks to him we have internet!

It's a fine-tuned process involving carrier pigeons, originally described in https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1149 but totally unreliable.
That's why we are running the updated version from https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2549.html !
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Robert Cailliau - Wikipedia

Show threadCody Boone FergusonNov 12
@nixCraft reminds me of some hilarious (stupid) questions I saw on Quora like one American asking why they speak the American language in England. Well they don’t exactly but this person was using English universally. Some of the replies were brilliant. Quora seems to be a source of really stupid and also reprehensible questions (like some have asked how to get their daughter to go down on them).
Show threadRafał 🇵🇱🇺🇦🇲🇽🇩🇰🇬🇱🇪🇺Nov 12
@nixCraft Yes we have. RFC 1149 and newer RFC 2459, are European Internet standard protocols.
Show threadBart Champagne ON6BC Nov 12
@r4f4l @nixCraft
Great minds think alike? 😉
https://mastodon-belgium.be/@ChampersBE/115538764619984174
Show threadCarlos SolísNov 12
For those keeping track, they're respectively "IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers" and... uh... "X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and CRL Profile"? Guess you meant RFC-2549, "IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service", instead.
Show threadRay McCarthyNov 12
@nixCraft
We use donkeys in Ireland. Pigeons end up in pies. No-one eats donkeys.
Show threadBonkersNov 12
@nixCraft I type this reply in Morse code, as I could only afford one key for my keyboard.
Show threadWintermute_BBSNov 13
@nixCraft Fax! We use Fax for everything! That's why we are the world champions of recycling. Each toot is about 5 cm of paper, now do the maths ...
Show threadDarth Hideout 🏳️‍🌈Nov 13
@nixCraft Can the pigeons type?
Show threadhallunke23 🇺🇦Nov 13

Do Americans have access to education?

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