• cheery_coffee@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Side note: the boiling frog analogy is actually false, when the frog gets hot it will jump out of the water regardless of how slowly you increase the temperature once it hits a critical heat threshold. Also in the original experiment they had removed the frogs brain (because science?).

    It is true in human psychology though – humans will not notice small enough changes. Like when my cat slowly creeps onto my lap and I don’t notice her.

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      1 year ago

      when my cat slowly creeps onto my lap and I don’t notice her.

      Every damned time. Replace ‘lap’ with ‘counter’ and ‘notice her’ with ‘stop her from knocking something off’ #ragdoll

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        1 year ago

        I’ve trained my cats to not go on the counter, which means 15 minutes after I go to bed I hear a cat jump down off of it.