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    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.

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    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.

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      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.

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            I don’t think there is another agreed upon name? Regardless the idea shouldn’t be attacked because it’s poorly named.

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              no I agree I don’t think it’s racist to reference the fact that people from non industrial societies don’t understand how our supply chains work. Why would they. That’s not them being dumb it’s them not having detailed knowledge without being taught. It’s not reasonable to expect someone to deduce the existence of Bristol from a blue vase

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    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.

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    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.

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      I wish. Berry season is the best. I love European blueberries (bilberries).

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        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.

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    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.

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      Probably closer to intermittent reward than Pavlovian conditioning! But yeah, definitely already “well defined” by psychology haha

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    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”

    • Cookie if your American 🍪
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      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.

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          I never learned how that happened. We suspected that someone might have sneakily applied them during production or before delivery, as the trains were brand-new.
          I doubt they were “official” stickers 😉

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      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.

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      I found them in local bushland (Australia) in the late 80s

      I presume they were hidden by older boys who didn’t dare take them home where a parent may find them

      I also didn’t dare keep them at home long, that book of bush went back into the bush

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    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.

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    Found money in Vietnam once, and was forever looking at every piece of trash on the sides of roads thereafter.