The sun accounts for more than 99.99% of the mass of the solar system
If presented with an old 1970-2000 era landline phone, I can call someone by rapidly hanging up in the pattern of their phone number.
Used to do this in payphones as a kid. The numpads were disabled when no coins were inserted, effectively disabling tone dialing. But pulse dialing still worked.
I am pretty sure I could do it sans phone and only the handle, by rapidly pulling the plug out of the socket and putting it back in.
Never thought to try it when I had the chance.
Often the rj-12 handset cabling would not plug directly into the rj-11 jacks. If they did, I’d be surprised to learn they’d work on the wire as-is.
Yeah, you’d have to change the plug.
In case anyone is wondering, this is how old phones with rotary dials worked: you wound the dial to the digit you needed and the built-in mechanism would automatically wind it back; as it did it would momentarily disconnect the line as it passed each digit generating pulses that the exchange would count. If you still live somewhere where landline phones exist odds are this still works because the exchange maintains backwards compatibility with pulse dialling.
Up until about twenty years ago virtually every supermarket had a phone by the checkouts with a single pre-programmed button for a local taxi company; we used this trick all the time to call home, our mates, etc.
You’re welcome to dial into my Modem on which Doom is listening for a connection at 40c3 :3
The “brat” in “bratwurst” doesn’t come from “braten”, which means to fry. It actually comes from the old German word “brät”, which means finely chopped meat.
That’s so brät
You are telling me Wurstsalat Crew did lie to me?
Like 15% of people can rumble their ears and make a sound only they can hear
I always just assumed this was a thing anyone could do, Is there some other name for this i can look into?
Auto-Earatic Affixation
I’m convinced people that “can’t” just don’t know how.
It’s the same movement as closing your throat off so you can open your mouth underwater, and you just push “up” past that till it puts pressure on the eustachian tubes, and the rumble is your muscle fibers contracting against that which resonates on your eardrums.
Anyone can do it, it’s just hard to explain
That’s a minor sound when I do it if I understand correctly. Audible but light. I can flex the muscles in my jaw/tongue as one would to attempt to pop ears, but pushing out from the back of the mouth and pulling my jaw backwards. I think it slightly restricts blood flow and makes it turbulent past the ear. Sounds like pulsar tinnitus (probably not relatable) but constant as long as I hold it.
Yeah, that’s it.
I think some people just do the “water lock” thing to close their jaw off naturally to try and stop a yawn, and that’s how they “discover” they can do it.
That’s odd, I can do either of those things independently. Maybe it’s just wired that way for some people?
It also makes several values in EEG charts go up
Oh thats interesting, i wonder what causes it, the thinking of doing it or actually doing it
Mine sounds like a snare drum.
@ascend it’s easier for me to do when I squeeze my eyes shut and yawn. I don’t know why
Ooh, I can make a little rumble thunder happen if I do that! But why would anyone want to? And weirdly, just yawning doesn’t really do it, but squeezing the eyes while yawning does. Huh.
I often do it to dampen unpleasant noises. Car alarm? Siren? I make my ears go Frrrrrrrrrrrr. It helps a lot.
“Loanword” is a calque, and “calque” is a loanword.
Whats a calque
It’s a loanword from the French “calque”
A compound word that enters another language via direct translation of its parts.
As an example, “loanword” comes from German “Lehnwort”, with Lehn = loan and Wort = word.
Grostesques are mythical or fantastical creatures carved into the sides of building. If they have been designed to drain water away from the building, they are called gargoyles .
That’s not useless! I’m totally using this to impress someone, someday.
The English horn is neither English nor a horn.
rats can’t vomit
flamingos are pink due to diet. otherwise they’d be grey
If they didn’t diet they’d be fat and fall over
This is also the reason they sleep with one leg up. If they raised both, they’d fall.
An electric eel is not an eel.
A mountain goat is not a goat.
A maned wolf is not a wolf.
A mountain chicken is not a chicken.Also, there is an animal called the Headless Chicken Fish.
Rocky Mountain oysters are not oysters
I’d argue that’s a useful thing to know.
Also, there is an animal called the Headless Chicken Fish.
Let me guess; it’s a species of antelope.
A koala is not a bear.
It is a marsupial which is a different branch of the mammal tree.Toilet duck is not a duck
Spanish fly is not a fly
Spruce goose is not a goose
Capitalist pig is not a pig
The sun will explode. Eventually. Interesting and fascinating, yes. Useful? Nope.
None, because knowledge and the search for it is an end unto itself, so all facts are useful to learn and know.
Fair enough, but what is the least useful fact you know?
My newly least useful fact is that knowledge and the search for it is an end unto itself, so all facts are useful to learn and know.
One of the people that worked in Turkish translation of the “alice in wonderland” for Zambak magazine has the cool birthday “January 1st, 1969.”
Damn that’s useless! Also, nice!
The synths that were used in the first doom reboot’s music were made from samples of an actual chainsaw running.
Fun fact 1: Polish people are honoraribly black after they fought alongside the Haitians against the French (they switched sides as the only reason they were there was because France sent them there)
Fun fact 2: Alaska was almost purchased by Lichtenstein
Fun fact 3: Singapore was given independence against their own wishes
Fun fact 4: Abraham Lincoln read some of the works of Karl Marx as he wrote for his favorite newspaper
Alaska is the eastern most state of the USA.
Yeah, but it settles in its final location to the south…
I am not sure what that means. Does that mean it is also the southern most state?
It’s the edge of the world and all of Western civilization
The sun may rise in the East, at least it settled in a final location
It’s understood that Hollywood sells Californication
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlUKcNNmywk
The joke being if Alaska is “The east” it’s where the sun rises, then goes 99% around the planet to Cali
Pretty sure it’s “a finer location”.
Probably.
I hate how unreliable lyrics website have become.
Used to be some random human bothered copying it from the CD insert, now it’s automated closed captioning half the time.
For 27 years I have been singing this as “at least it settles in a _fun_location”, like “you guys may get the sun rise but of course it wants to settle down in California” and I thought that was such a clever line.
Now I don’t know how to feel.
A lot of 90s music sounds deep because we attribute meaning to it and our memories of the times…
Then you see the lyrics and nope, it was just the heroin
Canada is simultaneously to the north, south, east and west of the US.
That is awesome!
What about Hawaii?
The Hawaiian Island chain is a lot bigger than most realize and stretch for miles and miles but the Alaskan Island chain actually goes over the International Date Line. That is what makes it the “eastern” most state.
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