Get good loot from a toolbox in Fallout? Gotta check them all now
When I was a kid I pressed the "return coin" button on a vending machine at a rest stop and 50¢ came out. Gotta check every single vending machine now.
Have you found many?
I do this too, and yeah you’d be surprised how many times there’s money in the coin slot
Can confirm. Coin slot returns saved me from bankruptcy! Sadly much less common now with the advent of contactless card payments.
Technically, any amount of money would save you from bankruptcy
If you owed $1k then $1 wouldn't save you
My dad said when they were kids they'd check the payphones for coins in the change slot, so sometimes kids would spit in them to fuck w people
Us: hahaha silly dog.
Also us: oh a waterfall, I'll check behind it.
Also also us: oh a lottery ticket that I know for a mathematical fact has such a tiny chance of winning that I'm literally more likely to be struck by a shark and eaten by lightning, well I'll try my odds, who knows?
Those who do not check behind the waterfall do not deserve to see the fairy wonderland behind it.
I understand, Dusty. I would inspect the magic pie bush every day too. Who turns down a free pie?
If I knew where that bush was, I'd periodically put pies in the bush just for Dusty.
Dusty is clearly a good boy or girl.
My cats did the same thing when they found a mouse. They would stand guard where they first saw it for over a month afterwards.
My wife's Yorkie once chased a mouse into a kitchen cupboard. After moving apartments and a decade later, if you asked him "where's the mouse?" He'd run to the kitchen and stare at the cupboards
Me watching Dusty find the pie I left for him in the bushes
This is seen in human society, and is called a Cargo cult
More recent scholarship on cargo cults has challenged the suitability of the term for the movements associated with it, with recent anthropological sources arguing that the term is born of colonialism and prejudice and does not accurately convey the nature of the movements to which it refers.
1950s pseudoscience bullshit.
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It wasn't pseudoscience, it was just given a colonial-centric name that reinforces the view of uncontacted or even just aboriginal peoples as "savage" or "uncivilized". The described phenomenon is a real thing.
Yeah, fair, just figured it was a relevant term
This is my dog after she discovered she could pick her own blackberries. Too bad blackberry season isn't year round because she sure expects it to come back every day.
I wish. Berry season is the best. I love European blueberries (bilberries).
I absolutely love the natives huckleberries we have here in the US Pacific Northwest. They're also related to blueberries but have some tartness to them.
I once had a program fail to compile, but when I compiled it a second time it worked. No idea why, best guess is some kind of caching or dependency issue that got resolved by restating the compiler.
Now every time a program fails to compile and it's not immediately obvious what the problem is, I instinctively compile it again just in case. Well more like three or four times.
I might just be a dog though.
Our neighborhood has the Magical Chicken Wing bush. The dog thoroughly inspected it for months afterwards, and still checks on it now and then just in case.
It is a well defined psychological principle called Pavlovian response.
Probably closer to intermittent reward than Pavlovian conditioning! But yeah, definitely already "well defined" by psychology haha
I would suggest that the stimulus was strong enough to condition after one trial, due to the repeat behavior.
There is a part of the dog training book "Total Recall" by Pippa Mattinson that refers to this.
Pie-in-a-bush is her way of explaining the Jackpot reward training method.
Very surreal to see it realised so.
Used to find porn mags in bushes back in my day. They were magic pie bush bushes I tell ya
When the Munich public transport introduced new trains around 20 years ago some of them had porn images stuck to the inside of legs of some of the benches. You can be sure that teenage boys find them.
The numbers quickly dwindled but it took the company years until they had them all removed.
My parents were big hippie environmentalists back in the '70s and they were always so proud of their son (me) for volunteering at the local recycling center every Saturday. Fortunately they never found out that I did it for the porn. I had like four or five copies of every porn magazine published in that decade.
My dog once found a biscuit* in a bush near our home, from that day onwards he always checked the bush for a biscuit, there never was another one, the bush became known as "The Biscuit Bush"
And what if he found a new species of bush that grows pie huh?
This isn't even remotely close to being a meme.
Most memes on Lemmy seem not to be. I've given up complaining about it, aside from right now.
I agree but I think we're a minority at this point.
I think you would call this transductive reasoning. Rather than using information to put together a theory and work off that theory you work directly off the evidence
for example hearing a bell and dinner being ready and coming to associate the bell with dinner without ever learning why the bell means dinner
found pie in the bush, there might be pie in that bush
Found money in Vietnam once, and was forever looking at every piece of trash on the sides of roads thereafter.
There's a Norwegian prog rock band called Magic Pie, I haven't seen their bush yet though
Nothing like some prog rock and bush.
The fridge won't be empty this time.
The owner should put treats in that bush for Dusty to find.
I think it's just regular Operant Conditioning, but the reward of finding half a pie was so strong that the association will stick to this bush for a lot longer than if it was a smaller one.
