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not trying to be rude but i love posts on here where i learn a completely new thing that immediately gets refuted in the same post. net zero information

kermitlesbian

remember 2013 when you could just say something like "pornhub is just How It's Made for babies" and everyone would be like "hoLY COW ARE YOU ON drUGS xD THE NIGHTBLOGGERS ARE HERE" *122 supernatural gifs* *30 links to a scam website* *random selfies of people reacting to the post*

solarsyrup

bulletnotestudies

drinking a can of soda is better than not drinking anything at all. “junk” food is better than no food at all. just rinsing your mouth out with mouthwash is better than no oral hygiene at all. changing into a different set of pyjamas is better than not changing at all. getting up just to sit down on the chair across the room for a bit is better than not getting up at all. changing just your pillowcase is better than not changing your bedding at all. cracking a window open is better than getting no fresh air at all.

if you don’t have enough spoons for full tasks, smaller adaptations are better than nothing at all. it’s okay if you don’t have the energy to actively fight today. just staying afloat is enough. you are enough.

museum-of-artifacts

An 2000 years old Egyptian floor mosaic depicting a dog and a knocked-over gold vessel. Read about: http://bit.ly/Egyptdoge

trr3rr

Human’s have loved Guilty dog face forever

tiktoksthataregood-ish

acasualbitch

callese

issasideblogbruh

🗣🗣🗣

tiktoksthataregood-ish

tygermama

finally a house with the correct amount of books in it

chaotic-archaeologist

A professor gave us an extra credit option: take a picture of yourself outside, doing something that you would not usually do. We were told not to take it too seriously. Here is my entry:

I maintain that sticking my head in the mailbox is not something I do on a regular basis.

chaotic-archaeologist

Love that some of you are reblogging this. You looked at a picture of a guy with his head in a mailbox and went "yeah"

chaotic-archaeologist

Can't wait to see if everyone did something like this or if they had a normal reaction. I will keep you posted.

arospacecase-moved

[ID: a photo of a pale person wearing a black t-shirt and jeans with his head in a mailbox /END ID]

chaotic-archaeologist

Hello to everyone asking for an update!

The professor has said that he will put all submitted pictures into a powerpoint to be shown in class tomorrow (Tuesday, March 9th). I am very much looking forward to seeing the reaction from him and from the rest of the class. I promise to keep you informed.

chaotic-archaeologist

Update: the professor saved my picture for last. I was told that I had "truly embodied the spirit of the assignment" and that I had gone "above and beyond."

Also, to everyone who is worrying about whether or not I got my head out, I was gifted with a very small head, and while I got out just fine I would NOT recommend this if you have a large head or even a normal sized head.

chaotic-archaeologist

Hey you guys should make this into a meme.

thesadboisguidetolife

Hows this?

chaotic-archaeologist

Perfect

charaznablescanontoyota

on one hand i understand the frustration with the fact that duolingo is only Now putting up yiddish as a language when they have fictional languages like klingon on there but on the other hand part of the reason why is that they literally for years could not pick a specific dialect of yiddish and ended up actively employing yiddish scholars to work in bits from academic+historical yiddish as well as contemporary vernacular yiddish and basically had to build the entire thing ground-up rather than being handed some showrunner’s language bible

anyway it’s actually really interesting to read about how they built the yiddish program for duolingo yall should check it out

byrneing

today my therapist told me that sometimes negative feelings like guilt, anxiety, self loathing, etc are like the hiccups. they’re uncomfortable, we don’t like them, there’s no way to turn them off; they can even be incapacitating for a while. we don’t always know where they came from or when they’ll go away, so sometimes instead of focusing on why we feel a certain way we need to get better at recognizing its temporary nature, keeping perspective, and enduring discomfort. i feel like a lot of self-improvement rhetoric is about pinpointing specific causes for negative thoughts/behaviors so you can eradicate them, but people with chronic mental illness really need to work on allowing themselves to experience these feelings without going into a downward spiral.

honoriaw

thank you for this

I want to think on this

I think this may help

softcore-revolutionary

Lol I conveniently have hiccups now

queerpontmercy

my therapist often reminds me that “why do i feel like this?” can sometimes be a dangerous question to ask yourself alone and leave you digging through all the times you’ve felt guilty/rejected/ashamed before. it’s easy to spiral that way if you’re not careful. with practice, i’ve started asking myself “what do i need to get through this?” the answers to that one are a bit more useful in the moment, and the shift has also helped me be kinder to myself when these feelings come up.

thenatsdorf

Billi speaks. (via billispeaks)

noctomania

billi want food

billi get food later?

billi want food!

billi mad.

billi want drugs.

moki-dokie

okay but this method of teaching dogs and cats a way of communication is frankly astounding. Watch more of billie’s videos and Hunger4Words (the creator of this sytem) and it’s pretty stunning. yes, there’s a lot of wishful thinking because cats and dogs don’t have quite as complex brains when it comes to language, but the fact remains these animals are a rudimentary form of bilingual. they have their own language (body/scents/vocal) and now they’ve learned to use a very basic form of our language. i’ve seen so many people, linguists even, dismiss that this is just more complex reward association but i mean. dogs have been with us for about 32 thousand years. they’ve evolved alongside us for that long. they are honed in on us. hell, even cats have been our close companions for at least 8 thousand years. that is more than enough time for either one of them to grasp the very basic concepts of our words (especially considering cats literally talk/meow because we talk. that is not a normal thing they do when wild/feral).

so yeah. this is fucking cool.

synthicyde

Once you’ve seen their videos (and Bunny’s as well) it becomes impossible to call it a complex reward association thing. They stop rewarding the animals at a certain point. It just becomes a means of communication. Unless answering a dog’s question qualifies as a reward but then at that point I think we’ve stopped dismissing this system and instead revealed that human language is just a complex reward association system.

problemstarchild

YES THANK YOU. I’ve been obsessing over animals participating in this experiment for months and none of my friends are as interested in it as me, or they want to dismiss it as wishful thinking.

But even if you want to think of it as an action-reward system, I feel like there are enough videos that evidence that it’s not just about that to the animals involved, which — yeah, okay, wishful thinking, BUT! Billi’s owner posted a TikTok recently where she asks Billi what she wants — a question Billi comprehends — and Billi just responds “Happy Billi”.

The first time in the history of cats that the answer to this question has been nothing 😹

Also, I’m fascinated with the fact that three of the dogs who are using AAC to communicate have demonstrated an understanding of water in the abstract. Typically, a handler will model the word “water” with water in the bowl. I remember the first time I saw that Christina Hunger video where Stella accidentally broke her “beach” button — it wasn’t immediately able to be fixed, so the spot on the board remained vacant. Stella strung together the words “help water outside” after looking at the place where the “beach” button should be. Up until then, for me, it was just kind of a neat thing.

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Then Bunny displayed several uses water in the abstract. When her owner declined to take her to the beach, Bunny tried to get around the no by asking instead “please water walk”. (Can’t find this video right now though I promise I tried.)

She also responded to high tide flowing beneath their house by saying “water sound”, and later the same night when it rained, “water outside”.

Same day. Different references to water related events. She’s generalizing🥺 #doggyanthem #fyp #dogsoftiktok #bunnythedog

There’s also Polly on TikTok, who has used “water” and “play” while outside, presumably to get some hose or pool time in. She also strung together the words “water treat,” resulting in a homemade pupsicle.

I guess you could say she was a...hot dog 🥁buh dum tss🥁 #canineaac #aac #dogsoftiktok #cockapoo #pupsicle #hunger4words #theycantalk #talkin

It’s just neat to me that they recognize water as water in different states (ice, the ocean, in a bowl, rain) enough to use it to indicate things they want or hear or see! I think Bunny also called a baby seal a “water hippo” at one point (because she has a button for her squeaky gray hippo toy). Like, Bunny has pretty much figured out times of day and is now trying to figure out “yesterday” in relation to “today” and “tomorrow”. How do you model “yesterday” to a dog??? She’s also self-reported injuries to her paw three times — two of those were barbed foxtails embedded between her toes that her owner didn’t know about!

Definitely check out the other participants if you’re interested! Bunny has learned the most words so far, probably, but Billi has a lot, too.

jenniferrpovey

They have also done experiments with horses, who generally do not understand verbal language as well as dogs and cats, due perhaps to their relatively limited vocalizations. (Horses communicate primarily through body language).

They were able to train horses to ask for a blanket when they were too cold and ask for their blanket to be removed when they were too hot.

Now, in this case there is a direct reward (temperature correction), but they were given the choice between blanket on, blanket off, and no change, and chose what an outside observer would consider to be the correct option. (And furthermore, it demonstrated the basic understanding that blankets are, indeed, warm).

So even in animals that struggle to understand more than a handful of words, symbolic communication still works, which demonstrates that rather than being “stupid,” horses are merely non-verbal/non-talking and perfectly capable of communicating when given an alternative means to do so.