Jerkface (any/all)

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  • In the 80s I went to a public event featuring the California Joy Stick; “Joy” referring to the brand of dish soap. There’s probably a more common name for it. It’s a device made of a large fabric loop on a stick with a nut for holding the loop open. You dip it in a solution of water, dish soap, and glycerine, and then open the loop to the breeze or walk with it. You can create bubbles tens of metres long, and wide and tall enough for a person to stand inside. I’m surprised it isn’t still a thing people do, you could easily make one.

    There was a bubble making competition. Most of the competitors seemed to be quite casual, but most of them found it fairly easy to be competitive.











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    That’s it’s relationship to voltage and current, but does not define what resistance is. It’s incorrect to say this is what resistance is because fundamentally resistance isn’t actually a function of voltage and current, its a property of the object itself irrespective of current and voltage; an object has resistance even at zero current and voltage.


  • Visualization and symbolics are not the only way we comprehend numbers. My mind has the ability to recognize astonishingly broad temporal intervals with remarkable accuracy. I can express the interval using numbers. Does that mean I am able to fully comprehend a number like in “90 minutes?”

    I am able to remember sets of things, and distinguish all of the members of that set, up to very large numbers. It would not be unusual for a teacher to be able to call to mind every one of a couple hundred students currently attending their school. If I can manage a set of a particular size in my mind (whether or not I can visualize all the members of that set simultaneously) do I not have some comprehension of that number? What if every student is assigned an integer from a contiguous series, and I can remember each student’s id number?

    Some people cannot visualize at all. Do they fail to comprehend every number?