I'm not sorry
you are not immune to BITES YOU BITES YOU BITES YOU BITES YOU BITES YOU BITES YOU BITES YOU BITES YOU
you are not immune to BITES YOU BITES YOU BITES YOU BITES YOU BITES YOU BITES YOU BITES YOU BITES YOU
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The person I reblogged this from is someone I enjoy seeing on my dashboard.
Fuck you #TARGET . i just want some God damned shoes
I just want some god damned clothes
i never want to contribute to toxic positivity so i want to acknowledge that sometimes things just suck and there isn’t a bright side. the best thing you can do in those times is take care of yourself as much as possible. maybe that means just brushing your teeth, drinking some water or calling up a friend. you don’t always have to be grateful for where you are in life. sometimes you have to get through some hard shit first, but i know that you’re capable of doing it.
Every time I see your blog I think of the posts in my village Facebook asking people to look out for their cat who likes to play in the road. They can’t think of ANYTHING to stop her!
sorry but if the cat dies it is not there fault, a cat is an animal just like you or your dog and being outside is what they need to do!
Do you let your dog come-and-go as they please, leaving your property to wander who knows where on a whim? Do you let your dog cross roads without you?
go fucking die in a hole
This is the funniest possible response 10/10
imagine you're frolicking in a field, prancing through long grass, singing "falalalala~", occasionally picking a flower. etc, etc. but a guy in the same field is watching you, about 20 paces away. he lowers his opera glasses (which he was using to watch you) and starts clutching his head and screaming with blind rage because of how much you're pissing him off. that's what it's like to be on the internet.
An obsidian mirror found at Catalhoyuk, 8,000 years old
“get the fries, you’ll need the energy in the coming days”
Cmon man
calling every instance of showing certain emotions "emotional labor" needs to stop. I just saw a post that was like "reminder that you do not ever need to be a good or kind person" like. Yes you DO???
Anonymous asked:
Do you think those cat/dogs learning to talk with buttons thing is actually accurate? I know even primates apparently dont know how to parse human words (with regards to sign language) so i struggle to understand why dogs or cats suddenly understand complex english
They don’t actually understand what the buttons mean. These animals aren’t capable of processing language like we humans do and they tend to react more to your tone and visual cues then the actual words you’re saying.
The buttons are just very basic operant conditioning. I very basic form of cognition in animals. They press the buttons because they are rewarded for doing so, not because they actually understand the meaning behind the buttons.
You can see in those videos (they do usually edit it out, but sometimes the creator of these videos just outright admits it) that it can take their pet something like 15 - 20 minutes to respond via the buttons.
Claims that the pets are asking questions ect. feel very staged / trained (like the below for example). Remember these videos are all coming from people on tiktok and people will do anything for a bit of internet fame. Scientific research has shown that dogs do not pass the “mirror test” but the mirror test is a very outdated way to show self-recognition in animals.
You compare this to the language studies done by Pepperberg with African Grey Parrots like Alex; in which they were able to ask questions they weren’t already trained to ask, form sentences they weren’t previously trained to do, display self-recognition (via asking what colour they were), could understand syntax and form their own words eg. Alex called apples “banerries”, a combination of "banana" and "cherry", two fruits he was more familiar with.
I prefer not to touch on koko the gorilla because that research is already pretty widely criticised with a lack of actual data, and there was evidence of the Clever Hans effect (her trainers' unconscious cues were prompting her to display specific signs).
I lecture on this, and my students are always very disappointed when I have to explain this.
Thing is, it IS communication. Dogs are clever enough to learn, via operant conditioning, that certain words are linked with certain events or behaviours - pretty much anyone who has ever owned a dog can tell you that they learn what “dinner” and “walk” will lead to without you teaching them. These buttons definitely allow clearer communication between dog and owner. But that’s not quite the same thing as them understanding the words themselves.
One of the early examples from Stella, the pioneering dog with these buttons, was her owner asking her what order she wanted to eat, play, and go for a walk. Stella responds by pressing those three buttons, and the owner claims this is her expressing her preference. But here’s the problem: dogs have never yet been found to have sufficient cognition to understand the concept of future states vs present properly. If we believe Stella was genuinely weighing up her options and deciding she wanted to go for a walk before she has dinner and then spend the evening playing, then we are assuming she is capable of an unscientific level of future planning that her species lacks the neurology for. What’s more likely is that she’s simply repeating the words she just recognised in the moment - she knows that “eat”, “play” and “walk” are all good things, and so she repeats them back in the hopes she’ll get them. She has no concept of what order they’ll come in. She’s just hoping for all three, and also, she knows that her owner gets weirdly happy when she presses the buttons, and Stella is the goodest girl who deserves many treats.
The problem is that humans are very taken in and very easily fooled by words. We know what words mean, and we have trouble with the idea that an animal using them doesn’t. One of Stella’s videos shows her pressing the buttons for “good” and “bye” when one of her owners leaves the house, which was suggested as evidence she was creating the word “goodbye”. It’s straight-up nonsense - that’s a ridiculously advanced level of cognition and linguistic capability that dogs are absolutely not capable of, but if you want to see a talking dog, you’ll see a talking dog. Stella pressed two unrelated buttons, and they happened to sound like an English word - so, that’s what the human brain sees.
But, these boards are absolutely a great communication tool between dog and owner, since they do give the dog the ability to communicate a basic level of wants and desires in the moment, and that’s a good thing! They just aren’t speech, and it’s easy to see something that isn’t there.
on tragedy, fate, and inevitability.
oresteia, robert icke // theatre of the oppressed, augusto boal // song of achilles, madeline miller // the book thief, markus zusak // antigone, jean anouilh // revisiting mockingjay ahead of the hunger games prequel, entertainment weekly // romeo and juliet, shakespeare // h of h playbook, anne carson // war of the foxes, richard siken // the road to hell (reprise), hadestown // planet of love, richard siken // they both die at the end, adam silvera