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		freitzkriesler2 on July 23, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Government URLs that don't end in .gov "turns out .gov is exclusively for the US, not sure I feel good about that, particularly as .com and .net are very much not just for the US. I get it, you invented the internet, but the special status you have over it is a little frustrating." I bet America having +1 as our country code bothers you too :P America numba 1! /S

Aaron2222 on July 23, 2023 [–]

Hate to break it to you, but Canada uses +1 as well[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_Canada

freitzkriesler2 on July 24, 2023 | [–]

That's because the Canadians haven't accepted the fact that their provinces are just new states waiting for annexation.

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