Yes, that too.

Oh, good, then she can keep on adorably expounding upon things.

Yay~

And by the time Edie runs out of things to say, Annie will have a decent idea of how the internet works.

Yay! "I think we may just have a lower tech level. Not by that much, maybe a few decades, but still significant."

"That sounds plausible. What's your calendar system like?"

"Three hundred and sixty five days in a year, thirteen twenty-eight-day months, there's some fiddling to make it all reliably line up. The year's 1802."

"Three hundred and sixty-five days a year, twelve months with a number of days apiece best described through mnemonic poetry, and the year's 2017. What does your calendar count from?"

"An emperor imposed it on enough of the world that it stuck."

"Ours counts from an arbitrary religious event. People changed it from 'year of the lord' to 'common era', theoretically, but they didn't change the numbers."

"Well, it would be really inconvenient if they did, wouldn't it?"

"Yeah, it just annoys me because I'm not that religion."

"Oh."

"There's a bunch of cultural and historical reasons why it's particularly annoying, but I think it would probably be better to get that from a source less likely to break out into tangential ranting mid-explanation."

"Okay."

"I mean, I can try explaining, if not knowing bothers you."

"...not knowing how to navigate a subject you have strong feelings about bothers me."

"Yeah, that's fair. Um, okay, so, I'm Jewish, is my religion, and historically a lot of people have been prejudiced against Jewish people, and Christianity is sort of a much more popular offshoot that has historically not been kind to us although any given Christian is unlikely to be prejudiced against Jewish people today. And the supposed birth year of the founder of Christianity is supposed to be year one, I think."

"Okay. What's your religion like?"

History of Judaism lecture!

"- so it's more of a cultural thing than a theological one?"

"In a lot of ways, yeah. You get people who call themselves 'Jewish atheists' and  mean it."

"What about you?"

"In terms of what I specifally actually believe? I'm pretty much agnostic."

"Okay."