#Rewards Offers

[beansnpeets]

Thinking about human behaviour compared to animal behaviour again.

It's funny to hear people (the older gens) complaining that "kids these days are lazy, they don't wanna work, etc." What do we get for busting our asses? There is no reward. Many will never own homes. Many are unemployed, trying to find work, and nobody will hire them because they don't have a million years experience and a masters degree OR they want people to work for minimum wage??? People are giving up because there is no reward. Why would we do all this for nothing?

Same as a dog that won't recall when you haven't reinforced it with a reward. Your dog isn't going to do what you tell it to if there is no incentive. No, your dog SHOULDN'T listen just because you're boss and it should respect you. That isn't how it works. They don't think that way. And honestly neither do people.

When we went hiking Sprocket wasn't always taking treats gently from me when I recalled her or she checked in and I rewarded and my one friend told me to stop giving her treats. I told him I won't work for free so why should she. And he said "I do things for free all the time because I want to do them," and I didn't say it then, but I wish I had, but if you like doing it, that's the incentive. It's a self-rewarding behaviour. Just like anything else a dog does, like chasing a squirrel or sniffing things or getting into the trash. Heeling instead of going off to sniff stuff or recalling off of something they want to chase is something you have to reinforce. You have to give them something better so they make the choice you want them to make. They won't make it just because they *respect* you. They won't willingly recall off of exciting prey out of RESPECT. You need to give them a tangible reward for that. You cannot possibly expect your dog to listen just because and then punish them for disobeying you.

Yeah, Sprocket bit my fingers a couple times. The one time pretty hard. But she was excited. She knows how to take gently and I reminded her and she tried very hard to be gentle most of the time. I wasn't going to stop rewarding her for checking in with me and recalling while we were off leash hiking in the woods. I want her to know that coming back to me is good and in the event of an emergency I would like her to not blow me off.

[cubbihue]

Does Mr. Turner like rubbing his “son’s” successful career in Dinkleberg’s face??

He does! He brags about Timmy's success to every person within the neighborhood's vicinity. Mr. Turner loves how successful his son is! It really secures his reputation at the neighborhood HOA meetings they host at their house.

Timmy's worked very hard to gain more successes than failures. The more successful he is, the greater his family's social standing!! And the less he gets to overhear his dad ranting to the neighborhood about his failures.

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[evilkaeya]

what I really love about skk is how they seem to gravitate towards each other for no reason. Me personally if I was put in a situation with my arch nemesis I'd try to avoid them as much as possible. You put Dazai and Chuuya in a room full of empty chairs and they'd still sit next to each other and if you ask them why they're sitting together they'd be like he came and sat next to me I sat here first though

[theladyofbloodshed]

It’s very nice that all of the wicked citizens in the hewn city keep it secret that Eris attended solstice and didn’t tell Beron

[everynicorobin]

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[discordiansamba]

@mayplesyrup replied to your post “thinking about that non-bender zuko gets adopted...”:

Did June know Ursa? Also is Zuko still the Blue Spirit?

​June and Ursa have never met in their lives- it's really just a coincidence that June ends picking Zuko up. Or to be more accurate, Zuko's the one who just starts following June around.

He will still become the Blue Spirit! Katara and Sokka talk him into helping them free Aang from Pohuai, but any bounty hunter worth their salt knows that going up against the Fire Nation is bad for business- so he does the logical thing and decides to wear a mask.

(June just sees the Blue Spirit's wanted poster and rolls her eyes. Ugh. That's my idiot.)

[dougdimmadodo]

Ribbon Seal (Histriophoca fasciata)

Family: Seal Family (Phocidae)

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

Found in arctic regions of the northern Atlantic Ocean, the Ribbon Seal can be immediately distinguished from all other seals thanks to the distinctive banded fur of adults (typically black-and-white in males, while females can be black-and-white or brown-and-white), the purpose of which is something of a mystery (it has been suggested to be a form of camouflage, but how such a striking pattern would be any more effective as camouflage than the countershading seen in many other marine mammals is unclear.) Ribbon Seals spend the majority of their lives in the open ocean where they live solitary lives and feed on squids, octopuses and bony fishes such as cods, pollocks and eelpouts. During the later winter and early spring, however, large numbers of Ribbon Seals haul themselves onto masses of sea ice that are disconnected from the mainland to mate, give birth and undergo seasonal molts. During the mating season males will court females by producing grunts and roars using an inflatable sac in their throat (with each male courting and mating with several females), and after mating females are capable of delayed implantation (meaning that they can delay the development of fertilized ova until the ideal conditions to give birth in are met, in this case when sea ice is at its most abundant, to allow an embryo to develop.) After a gestation period of around 10-11 months a female Ribbon Seal will give birth to a single pup which is born with soft, fluffy white fur that (though suitable for providing camouflage and insulation) is not water tight, forcing them to remain on the ice they were born on until their adult coat develops (at which point their mother will guide them into the ocean and teach them how to hunt.)

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Animal Advent Calendar - Day 18

Image Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/41698-Histriophoca-fasciata

[whipitgod]

metro boomin instigating all of this and then sitting back while the entire world attacks drake at his command is my kind of hating!

[inksandpensblog]

The difference in production quality is really something.

[imjustalazycat]

first batch of lovely fishes <33

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[sidetongue]

here him comes

[chiscribbs]

Hey guys, some quick notes:

The plot is on pause today, since I need to focus on completing my submissions for the main bracket (and maybe take the opportunity to answer some asks that have been piling up). Any on-going interactions will be saved in drafts and responded to tomorrow or a little later.

In the meantime, since the next round of polls is just around the corner - allow me to provide some incentive to vote my kiddos through!

For each round that Grown Apart AU wins, I'll post some special behind-the-scenes content! Including (but not limited to):

Main character profiles

An ACT I relationship chart

Never-before-seen character designs

Inside info about Big Mama's Assistant

One of the completed ACT I story beats

Childhood snippets

GA SHELLDON's concept art

If any of these sound like things you'd be interested in seeing, then please consider casting your vote for Grown Apart in the @tmntaucompetition!!!

Thanks and happy voting! ❤

[theguardianace]

wait im kind of curious about player stats in project sekai

choose the one most applicable/highest! (and brag in the tags hehe)

[torchwood-99]

I feel like the moral of Eowyn's and Pearl Took's story is that it is inadvisable for one family member to be singularly responsible for the caretaking of another.