• Swarfega@lemm.ee
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          8 months ago

          Don’t worry. I was only joking.
          America is #1 at lots of things, like… erm… yeah. Lots of things.

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            8 months ago

            … Definitely at claiming to be #1. #1 bad or good. Doesn’t matter. #1 lol.

            Nobody has loved or hated America more than America.

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        8 months ago

        All of the USSR was +7 IIRC. Most changed it after independence, notice how the Baltics, Belarus and whatnot have previously unassigned three-character numbers instead of two like most of Europe (except microstates). They only got their numbers in the 90s, and no shorter ones were available. +37 just became available since east Germany didn’t exist anymore.

        Same with the former Yugoslavian countries, all of YU used +38, when they split up they had to split up +38 too.

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      8 months ago

      It’s the award for helping foster the growth of the technology. America is a Petrie dish for tech and they use their people as agar.