Skua

That's the default "kbin is down" message, I wouldn't put much stock in the specifics of it

an Idaho

Have your own reddit account with an inoffensive name, copy the comment, paste it as a reply to another instance of the same question, quote your own reddit account in the article. Foolproof!

Edit: not sure what's going on with these markdown links. I'll try to work it out

Wikimedia Commons users to the rescue! For the top five largest empires in history:

• British empire. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:British_empire.png which benefits substantially due to some very short-lived occupations like Ethiopia and the southern two thirds of Somalia after pushing Italy out during WW2

• Mongol empire never held anything that it didn't have at its territorial peak, so that one is easy

• Russian empire. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Russian_Empire-en.svg I honestly had no idea about Djibouti, and by the sounds of it it was more one mad Russia guy and his mates who were soon kicked out by the French navy

• Qing dynasty. I'm pretty sure this one is also the same as its territorial peak, but it's much harder to check due to the far longer history than the Mongol empire. Light green on this map is claims which were never actually controlled.

• Spanish empire. This one is horrendously complicated since it includes the Iberian Union with Portugal and Portugal's colonies at the time, and also the Holy Roman Empire, southern Italy, and the Netherlands due to Charles V and the other Habsburgs. It also includes Louisiana (as in the area of the Louisiana Purchase, not the modern US state), as well as large claimed areas that were not meaningfully controlled like the interior of Brazil or the Pacific Northwest of North America. This is certainly the biggest proportional increase, with Louisiana alone putting it above the Qing dynasty, but I don't think it catches up to Russia.

In the context it's usually seen as a male given name for English-speakers, it does descend from Scottish Gaelic that later spread across the UK, so your instincts weren't wrong, just misplaced for this specific context

My dude you can lay off the bald eagle juice, nobody actually thinks the UK will or wants to try to invade America

pfft we won the Falklands War while shipping jets over there on the top of requisitioned civilian cargo ships, we'll be fiiiine

~~A shitload har har har~~

Apparently the average UK adult defecates about 100g per day, and that's the first link that showed up so I'm going to go with the UK numbers in that one study. According to wikipedia there were 11,346 ascents as of July 2022. Assuming two weeks from base camp to summit and back, based on Tom Kilpatrick's article on The Manual, that means 1.4 kg of shit per climb for a total of almost 16 metric tonnes or 17.5 short tons

It takes about a week to go from base camp to summit to base camp. Even the fastest ever time on this route is over eighteen hours

No luck, unfortunately. It appears that little to no fermentation took place; I still just have some water sweetened with honey. There has been a lot of heavy rain recently, so I suppose it's quite possible that too much wild yeast had been washed off by that

I assume this is a reference to the various ethnic groups in the Congo Basin who are notably shorter on average than most humans, such as the Batwa and Bambuti. The different groups are often collectively referred to as "Pygmy peoples", but I don't feel super great about the way that sounds

I have some bad news for you about the environmental effects of burning lots of oil