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
But of you only had $999 and had to cone up with $1000 by the end of the day…
This isn’t 1980s Hollywood rich guy poor guy rules.
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.
A vintage meme sir but it checks out
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.
trouble is people are only familiar with the old name
I don’t think there is another agreed upon name? Regardless the idea shouldn’t be attacked because it’s poorly named.
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
Yeah, fair, just figured it was a relevant term
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.
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.
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.
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 🍪
What type of biscuit was it?
Bush biscuit
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.Why did the Munich public transport introduce porn trains? I’m not complaining, just curious.
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 😉
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.
And what if he found a new species of bush that grows pie huh?
Found money in Vietnam once, and was forever looking at every piece of trash on the sides of roads thereafter.
