My definition of understand requires reasoning. They never learn the meaning of words. They just know they'll get a treat if you make that sound and they do the thing. That's not understanding language, it's just responding to stimuli. Whether the training process is somewhat? similar to how a baby learns to talk is irrelevant.
Like, your comment is reading, "Dogs understand language. They just don't have the mental capacity to understand language."
Nope. People are allergic, people don't like hair in their food, and a significant number of people are afraid of dogs, often due to related trauma. Certified service dogs and that's it, full stop. Anything else is just inconsiderate. The assumption that everyone wants to interact with your dog everywhere is a large part of my issue. A dog has zero place in a restaurant unless it's specifically a dog friendly spot lmfao.
Maybe subjective, but cats keep to themselves unless they really like you or you go out of your way to interact with them. Dogs are all up in your business immediately. Exceptions to the rule and all, but that's been my experience. The cat ain't gonna jump on you or hump your leg when you come over. And as you said, cat owners aren't taking them out and making them the public's problem.
Idk if I'd call being able to discern a few commands by the way they sound "understanding language"; people tend to personify the ways their pets act. You couldn't take part of one command, splice it into a different one, and expect the dog to act accordingly unless you repeatedly trained that "new" command into them, for example. But that's a different argument, and depends on how we're defining "understand," and not a hill I'm willing to die on lol.
Oh don't get me started, I was on the elevator with a guy in NYC who had two beautiful huskies. Yeah, your little one bedroom is perfect for them dude.
It's an issue of enforcement rather than whether they're "allowed" to or not. I've been to many houses where the response to the dog jumping on a guest is "Hey! Don't do that!" Pets the dog. They think it's a child learning English, not an animal with no understanding of language. Even when I worked retail close to 10 years ago, people bringing their dog into the store was a regular occurrence. We had a policy against it, I just wasn't paid enough to care. And if I said anything, I'd get the "iTs My SuPpOrT aNiMaL" BS anyway. And whether it's legal or not, I've seen it, several times lmao. I was at a restaurant in Boston just a few weeks ago and a guy had his dog in one of those sling baby carriers across his chest.
Lol exactly. It's often like the same exact 4 accounts on that trending page too. And it's always these topics:
Trump
Musk
Current war
LGBT
Linux
It's just politics and Linux. Which is fine if you like that, I like Linux, but not this much. Being completely overwhelmed by political takes was part of why I left Twitter, with the blue checks being boosted. I'm so tired of seeing that same dude in a suit with a white beard bitching about [insert today's controversial political topic] every time I open it. It's like he has residency on the page.
Same. And I really gave it a chance, but it's just not better unless you're using it as a small chronological feed of people on your local instance. Which I know some people enjoy. I know interesting people and posts are on there, I know there are hilarious people on there, because I follow some of them. But the vast majority of them I discovered by random chance, it took a long time, and I'm still too bored by the app to bother opening it. Not to mention, if some important news is trending, I don't see it right away. Which is something I'd always valued twitter for. I could pretty much be "in the know" within seconds of opening the app.
The people are there, the content is there, there's 100% a discoverability problem
Oh I know, and I fully agree with getting rid of that. I'm not looking for ideal, I'm just looking for SOMETHING better than "oh you aren't finding interesting content? Subscribe to hashtags that get spammed with BS by thousands of bots per day. Or search some obscure websites for 'trendy' mastodon users to follow. Or y'know what, this instance probably isn't for you, research a bunch of other instances and see if something works better."
The experience right now seems like one, to me, that a very small niche of people would enjoy. And that's fine if they want to stay that way, just wish there was something better. And I think it'll come with time.
I can't, given I don't have the time or webdev experience. So I'll comment about features I think would be nice in the currently most popular fediverse twitter clone.
I've seen it several times on the east coast of the US. So I'd be kinda surprised if it doesn't happen elsewhere. Same with stores, I assume it's usually a case of it being against policy, but the host making minimum wage not wanting to deal with the "THIS IS MY SUPPORT ANIMAL" ridiculousness. I don't see it often, I just think it's a good example of this narcissistic attitude.
I mean, they're everywhere, I've given them a chance all my life lol. I'm just increasingly convinced that I personally never want one, and that "owning and expecting people to tolerate an untrained dog" is a character flaw that I just won't ever jive with. The number of "literally trying to climb inside of my mouth" type of dogs far outnumber the "chill lil dude who's nice to hang out with" type of dogs, in my experience. If you couldn't tell, I am a cat person lol.
If it's based on what I like and repost, and recommends things that people with similar likes and reposts enjoy, that information is already out there. No extra data collection required. Doesn't need to be mandatory either, just a separate feed.
I'd really just prefer a recommendation algorithm. I tried curating it for months and I rarely go on mastodon. Because I'm either seeing 100000 posts that I'm not interested in to find one decent one, or reading posts from the very few people I know I like and closing the app in 2 minutes. I'm honestly not a fan of the purely chronological approach.
Oh I thought he got more annoying after they let him on the crew and he turned into a know-it-all Mary Sue. But it's also been a while since I've watched lol.
Are you just making things up? I can't find anything about railroad crossings tearing up fire hoses. From the fireman who posted the image:
Hey, this past week our funny photo went viral throughout the whole world. Thousands of shares and likes in many different countries! Once and for all: the picture was taken in Belgium, in a small village called Bornem. After a minor intervention, we had some time left near the railway to make this picture. Since there were no trains running at all for a week due to maintenance works, we can state that our joke was a real success! Thanks to our entire team, 2nd sqdn Firefighters Bornem!
My definition of understand requires reasoning. They never learn the meaning of words. They just know they'll get a treat if you make that sound and they do the thing. That's not understanding language, it's just responding to stimuli. Whether the training process is somewhat? similar to how a baby learns to talk is irrelevant.
Like, your comment is reading, "Dogs understand language. They just don't have the mental capacity to understand language."