[–] 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Edit: This seems to be wrong, see the thread for context.


If by chunks you mean individual letters of the latin alphabet.

Otherwise no, lorem ipsum is pseudo-latin, meant to emulate letter frequency and word length of latin, but not actual latin words.

  • source
  • parent
  • context
  • [–] 3 points 6 days ago (3 children)

    How is a parent in bumfuck nowhere, Russia, supposed to do that, exactly?

    I am as pro-Russian-exit as probably most here, but that is a delusional proposition. That's like saying you were an office clerk in Wyoming, and could end the Iran attacks anytime. You and the Russian rando have pretty much the same leverage in my books.

  • source
  • parent
  • context
  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

    Curious. Maybe they are called that in some regions after all.

    Edit: see parent comment, the following apparently is false.

    It's just that "Lachmöwe" is a notorious false friend in German, hence my assumption.

  • source
  • parent
  • context
  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

    Fyi, it's called a "black-headed gull".

    And "Lachmöwe" in German does not mean "laughing" gull either, but "puddle" gull, (Lache im Sinne von Pfütze, kleines stilles Gewässer)

    Edit: well, egg on my face. Its latin genus name is ridibundus, meaning laughing, and the German name is a transliteration of that. So it's a false false friend that I (and other biologists I know) seem to have fallen for. Wikipedia references an ornithological work from 1971 for the "laughing" interpretation.

    TIL

  • source
  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    An off-brand one i found on residential waste 6 years ago (broken lidar motor, 5 quid in spare parts) has internal maps. They really don't have to be fancy pants for this in this year of our lord 2026 where disposable vapes have the chips to run a webserver.

  • source
  • parent
  • context
  • view more: next ›