@schratze but the same can be said about anything basically. Animals, plants, etc

@schratze @flaubau I don't think majority of names of common popular birds are? Not even in English probably; and in Russian the only other name I can think of is cuckoo. And I have just checked etymology of like 15 birds I could remember and the only one tracked to onomatopoeia is goose (although a couple more come from general words on sounds topic). Names derived from e.g. colors seem to be more popular.

@schratze @flaubau apparently russian word for rook (bird) is also derived from onomatopoeia for its call

@schratze @flaubau except if you refer to rook in chess, then it's yet another word (meaning longboat) and is female.

@schratze @flaubau rook is male but it's a completely separate word without any dark associations or connotations. The word is similar to e.g. thrush or woodpecker (both are male too) in shape.
Jackdaw is female but, again, completely separate word, just a regular bird name. The word is similar to e.g. jay (which is also female) in shape.

@arichtman @whangdoodler @leguinian_utopia @schratze are you sure I should google it and not search for it on e621?

@schratze @flaubau fun fact is that in Russia, the word for "crow" and "raven" is the same, the only difference is grammatical gender (female for crow, male for raven).

Another fun fact is that the crow in the movie "Crow" (including the movie title) was translated with male grammatical gender (i.e. as "raven").

@whangdoodler @leguinian_utopia @schratze I googled "raven size" and holy mother of jesus what the actual hell

@futurebird @gotofritz also if a decision to make a strike, and a decision about coordinates of that strike, is made solely on the basis of the information provided by intern or by some python script cobbled together without very stringent quality control, then heads of everybody involved in making a decision to rely on such intern or python script for such purposes should roll. I don't see why it should be different with LLM.

(I'm not saying that wars are good or that conducting strikes on the basis of more reliable information is good. But this specifically is such an obvious violation of all possible norms of conducting wars, it's only possible if those conducting the war don't give even a slightest shit about civilians.)

@rune @Stoori @schratze only until the next elections! (looking at the polls... )