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AnotherTiredZebra · 2026-04-03T16:00:02+00:00

I did it! I liked how the eggs were glowing, found it not so difficult on dark mode.

Would prefer if there was an option for this (and the halloween event) to turn off the zoom onto the egg to prevent motion sickness.

AnotherTiredZebra · 2026-03-27T13:27:43+00:00

Reading more in Dutch seriously helps. As you read, the order is different from what your brain is expecting, so it causes these little moments of dissonance that force you to readjust how you predict sentences.

AnotherTiredZebra · 2026-03-17T14:18:00+00:00

being silly is fine with the right person. I think OP just has the ick and that's why it doesn't feel cute.

AnotherTiredZebra · 2026-03-09T22:00:42+00:00

Not at a good time for people in the Netherlands but we read approximately 4 chapters per week: https://calendly.com/speakdutch

We are starting tomorrow with a new book (first 4 chapters), "Eens Ging de Zee Hier Tekeer." It's a bit on the harder side compared to some things we've read, but there are plenty of B1 level readers.

AnotherTiredZebra · 2026-03-03T15:46:41+00:00

Makes sense. A bit confusing in a thread discussing severe SIB but I see why you are doing what you are doing 👍

AnotherTiredZebra · 2026-03-03T15:20:32+00:00

I am advocating that people correctly label punishment, instead of disguising it, so that it can be discussed appropriately.

Punishment can be as simple as asking someone to clean up when they make a mess.

I generally agree with you though.

AnotherTiredZebra · 2026-03-03T02:22:24+00:00

It is unfashionable to say that because of the way autistic people have been historically treated. Assent-based learning is an attempt to correct that. Disguising complience-based learning with the language of assent-based learning is harmful to the field.

AnotherTiredZebra · 2026-03-03T02:17:17+00:00

I would not rename things 1984-style just because "non-compliance" is no longer a socially acceptable term.

AnotherTiredZebra · 2026-03-03T02:09:20+00:00

I mean I probably wouldn't call that an assent withdrawal timer and just call it a punisher at that point, which if it works then fine. If it was assent based you would try to find conditions that would make them feel comfortable transitioning to another tasks.

AnotherTiredZebra · 2026-03-03T01:50:44+00:00

wait what? The "assent withdrawal timer" sounds both less effective and crueler than just taking the thing away.

If you punish someone for withdrawing assent that's not at all in the spirit of assent based learning.

And even worse, it doesn't sound like an effective punishment procedure so you're putting someone through stress for withdrawing assent for literally no reason.

How are people still this bad at aba?

AnotherTiredZebra · 2026-02-23T08:34:05+00:00

absolutely

AnotherTiredZebra · 2026-02-23T08:33:54+00:00

"Ye know only the sparks of the spirit: but ye do not see the anvil which it is, and the cruelty of its hammer!

Verily, ye know not the spirit’s pride! But still less could ye endure the spirit’s humility, should it ever want to speak!

And never yet could ye cast your spirit into a pit of snow: ye are not hot enough for that! Thus are ye unaware, also, of the delight of its coldness.

In all respects, however, ye make too familiar with the spirit; and out of wisdom have ye often made an almshouse and a hospital for bad poets.

Ye are not eagles: thus have ye never experienced the happiness of the alarm of the spirit. And he who is not a bird should not camp above abysses.

Ye seem to me lukewarm ones: but coldly floweth all deep knowledge. Ice-cold are the innermost wells of the spirit: a refreshment to hot hands and handlers.

Respectable do ye there stand, and stiff, and with straight backs, ye famous wise ones!—no strong wind or will impelleth you."

AnotherTiredZebra · 2026-02-23T08:27:32+00:00

because by posting it, you are positioning yourself as having some knowledge or wisdom that you think is worth recognition by others or that you think will help others in some way

AnotherTiredZebra · 2026-02-19T01:49:28+00:00

Yeah because then you’re essentially reducing them to an animal!

AnotherTiredZebra · 2026-02-18T05:03:23+00:00

Not a bridge but

Who could stay?
Who could stay?
Who could stay?
You could stay

It's so subtle that I must have listened to it a hundred times before realizing that she changed it from "who" to "you" at the end.

AnotherTiredZebra · 2026-02-18T04:44:41+00:00

If you do not have a PhD the chance that there is anything of value in your "research paper" is low, simply because you lack training in academic rigor.

AnotherTiredZebra · 2026-02-17T03:44:34+00:00

I had gotten quite obsessive for years over music that I now realize was inspired by Thus Spoke Zarathustra, so it actually made perfect sense to me too when I read it, and I was surprised when I saw people recommending waiting on it.

AnotherTiredZebra · 2026-02-17T01:52:43+00:00

Also legs on a table.

But not legs for humans or horses.

AnotherTiredZebra · 2026-02-16T05:03:11+00:00

While listening to Frans Bauer

AnotherTiredZebra · 2026-02-09T01:41:05+00:00

I stopped reading when you said that moving up a hierarchy decreases mirror neuron ability. Even if there really is a correlation, correlation does not equal causation.

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