Not funny and not about programming.
It’s funny to the right crowd, but not programming.
Can someone explain this for folks whose existence is outside the US
It’s not important to the joke.
Knowing what the different States are and different cities (for the title text) is pretty important. As someone who is from outside the United States, I wouldn’t’ve been surprised if “Pennsylvania Wiring” was really a standard of wiring.
It would’ve been the exact same gag if these were Italian or Japanese or whatever.
Are not standardised
Wait are the us plugs not standardized???
They are, the joke is that non standardized plugs would be a logistical nightmare…
Oh okay, sorry im pretty bad at getting jokes
Yeah, none of this is real. The idea is that a standards organisation would find that idea of state-specific plugs scary enough to put in a haunted house, since it would be an extreme example of what they work to prevent.
It’s just not a good joke.
You just weren’t smart enough to get it
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ExplainXKCD to the rescue :D
I think the joke would have been better and more understandable if it had used different corporate names rather than states. But, of course, that might have been legally problematic.
