Get good loot from a toolbox in Fallout? Gotta check them all now
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?
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.
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
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.
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.
People just dump any garbage because moderators are either non-existent or don’t care, and the bulk of the community mindlessly upvote literally any crap that gets posted here.
Meanwhile other communities lack content that these posts would be a proper fit for, and the same people supporting garbage posts here use that lack of activity in other communities as an excuse to continue the garbage posts here.
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
