Sometimes, if I use Google, I'm surprised that their "AI overviews" have actually gotten pretty good at answering factual questions.
Other times, it will confidently tell me that a goat doesn't have a bite force because goats aren't predators.
(and if I feel like I really need to break the spell, then I'll ask a question in Danish. That reliably induces some kind of LLM brain aneurysm.
"hurr-durr, your piece of terrible heavy metal lyric is actually from a 1940s resistance song! I've credited it to an actual wartime songwriter, and the melody was by a fictional composer I just made up! And I can't even get grammar right!"
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@datarama it's a dangerous spell, I strongly recommend installing a summary blocker...
But I also chew tin cans apart with no bite strength. Just use my pure rage.
The best answer it has ever given me in a Danish query was when it told me in broken grammar that the second-largest reptile in Denmark was "the eagle, also known as the eagle, which is a large lizard."
("ørnen, også kendt som ørnen, hvilket er en stor øgle.")
Or when it decided to give me a lecture that there is no such thing as a largest Danish lizard, because there are no large lizards in Denmark.
@datarama
Looks at wiki.
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has someone edited this?
Danes go for a hike to digest all the pastries, and see a frog warbling in the pine branches?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_tree_frog
as linked from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_amphibians_and_reptiles_of_Denmark
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@channelOwen am Danish, can confirm.
(but I can't see that snippet.)
@datarama
i realised afterwards that the links would make my question clearer, so I added them.
I can repost them, does wiki popup in EN or DK for you by default?
I assume you could read a EN link if necessary.
@datarama
I can't use "trtle in english" with Danish locale :-(
@channelOwen I can't see the text about digesting pastries or seeing tree frogs warbling in branches, but I *have* met Danish tree frogs, and it's quite likely that at one of those times there were pastries in my belly. :-)
(I've met all five* species of native Danish reptile, and most of the amphibians.)
*) Arguably six. The European pond turtle has two tiny isolated populations here, and they used to be widespread until the Pre-Roman Iron Age, when they apparently went extinct due to the cooling climate. We don't know if those two populations are long-lost remnant populations that survived and went unnoticed since back then, or descendants of someone's released or escaped pets. They're not considered invasive either way, - unlike the introduced American terrapins who can wreak absolute havoc on pond life.
@datarama
i dont really hike, but I wouldn't associate frogs with trees.
The list page listed "european tree frog".
I thought amfibs like that lived in Amazon delta or north Aus jungles or something .
@channelOwen The only continent that doesn't have tree frogs of some kind is Antarctica. :-)
They do require humidity (like all frogs, they drink through their skin and can dry to death), and they have to find a freshwater pool to reproduce, but they often live in light woodland areas near ponds and lakes. They generally avoid dark forests because they need sunlight to stay warm.
The European ones (at least the North European ones; I'm less familiar with the others) don't usually climb tall trees, but usually stick to low trees, bushes and the like. They are preyed on by birds and grass snakes.
This is what they sound like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYxBEhl_VPw
I don't know if I'd call it warbling, but they do mainly call out in the spring - that's their mating season. Usually the males show off their vocalization skills both to serenade females (who seem to mostly be attracted to males by their voices, rather than their looks!), and to upstage each other. (They do sometimes fight, but a lot of frog disputes are settled by croaking contests.)
@Craigp I usually use Uruky rather than Google.
But sometimes a couple of decades of ingrained muscle memory wins out.
@Craigp fun fact: Usually goats don't actually chew or eat weird things; most goats are pretty picky eaters. They will, however, pick up and *taste* virtually anything that doesn't smell like poison.
