It says “hot surface do not touch” in full, actually. Braille uses single characters to represent some common letter combinations (“touch” is “t” + “ou” + “ch”). The words “do” and “not” are each contracted to a single letter (“d” and “n” respectively).
Birds have peckers
My father (who was in the armed forces) once got asked to fetch “the keys to the indoor mortar range”
A common “reason” for why student loans shouldn’t be paid off by the government is that it would be unfair to everyone who has already paid off their student loans.
Italy, Spain and Austria are in purple. “Mixed” means that there was a mix of left and right in various regions of the country.
SponsorBlock automatically skips the entire sponsorship as soon as it starts, so a lot of the time you wouldn’t even know it was there if you didn’t see the green section of the playback bar.
It’s not just for sponsorships, either. You can set it to skip intro animations, reminders to subscribe, self promotion, etc.
“Bulum” means “instrument”, so it literally means “bum instrument”
Well, the button says “pull to start” and the sign says “do not push” so we’re good to start it, right?
Gurkhas are generally very short. The average height of a Nepalese male is 5ft 4.5in according to Wikipedia
The British Army still has Gurkha regiments to this day, along with the Indian Army. And they’re still badass - if you want an example, check out Dipprasad Pun
Some Men Have Extra Ovaries
I love this song. The intro sounds so other-worldly.
The Blower’s Daughter by Damien Rice is a favourite of mine.
It’s a Hamilton reference.
I didn’t know about that community, but I also don’t see why I shouldn’t post here? The beauty of the Fediverse is that there can be many places that serve the same purpose.
TL;DR RuPaul and his husband lease the mineral rights of their 60,000-acre ranch in Wyoming to oil companies, and allow those companies to frack there. News Article, Wikipedia
Yeah, data could be skewed for countries with very low populations. That could be why Greenland is left out, despite data being available from the wikipedia page that the data is taken from.
That would be correct. There are clearer ways that the data could have been displayed
The photo on the left is with makeup; the photo on the right is without. On the leftmost image the lips are more saturated and have more defined edges, and there is more shadow around the eyes.