Random thoughts

[AArdvark]

Why is a river otter like an ice cream stand?

(not a joke, believe it or not)

[AArdvark]

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Breaking - it was discovered that the driver of the vehicle is a dog that loves irony.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Why is a river otter like an ice cream stand?

(not a joke, believe it or not)

I dunno. Why?

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

I am sure I am the zillionth person to come up with this next one, but whatever, I did come up with it.



That never would have happened if that baby was armed.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

However, DuoLingo did clarify that they would be moving their headquarters to Amish Country.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

This one is for Flack.



Upon thawing, the baby mammoth immediately hopped in a truck and drove like an asshole on the way to the good McDonald's.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

I want a microwave oven with a 'hamster' setting on it. I do not want to ever put a hamster in a microwave, I just want a preset button marked 'hamster'. Sort of a conversation starter thing.

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Well, Ron Gilbert is working on a new game, so your wish may come true! Tweet at the man!

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Ok last one, and this one sucks.



I know we give them a ton of shit sometimes, but you gotta give them credit: the forecast Saturday was dead on.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Re: seat belt reminder. As soon as the car was paid off those wires under the seat got cut.

Why disable a system designed to help you do something that saves your life?

Yeah man, why wouldn't you guys do whatever you could to show self-discipline and live a long life?

[AArdvark]

Why is a river otter like an ice cream stand?

Otters indicate a healthy river ecosystem. Ice cream stands indicate a healthy neighborhood

[AArdvark]

I fasten my seatbelt every time I get in a car. There is no need for some pointless ding bell nag system

[AArdvark]

Now that I think about it, I don't want my appliances to play little happy tunes when I turn them on or off. I do not want my circular vacuum robot to make happy sounds when it goes back to the charging dock. I want them to be quiet and do as I tell them.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

I fasten my seatbelt every time I get in a car. There is no need for some pointless ding bell nag system

It's important to me that you grok why I quoted that and said what I said.

[AArdvark]

It was a dig at Fatsterno in his girl costume, I grok-ed the sarcasm. Im just still annoyed at my appliances.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

I understand. We are communicating better now.

[AArdvark]

So I was thinking about negative numbers. It's a spare-time thing, what can I say. You can have negative numbers but not negative things. Well, not exactly. A negative thing means the absence of something. So.. a negative thing is defined by it's space. Let's say I have an empty beer glass, a common enough occurrence. Well, an empty beer glass means I actually have 12 negative ounces of beer, because the beer is defined by the glass. Another example is an empty parking garage, which would be a bunch of negative cars, right? You get the idea. So now, let's say I have a 12oz can of Quint beer (wink) and I pour that beer into my glass of negative beer...it now equals zero beer, right? But it doesn't. It's still positive beer. Where do the negative beers go? Were they ever there to begin with? How do I sleep at night thinking about this stuff?

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[Tdarcos]

So I was thinking about negative numbers... Another example is an empty parking garage, which would be a bunch of negative cars, right?... So now, let's say I have a 12oz can of Quint beer (wink) and I pour that beer into my glass of negative beer...it now equals zero beer, right? But it doesn't. It's still positive beer. Where do the negative beers go? Were they ever there to begin with?

I will answer your question, or give you the understanding of why the answer is what it is, but first, the background.

Negative numbers can appear only in mathematics, and not in the real world or in physical reality because they are strictly a theoretical concept. Mathematics has no existence in the real word, and no content (mathematics can only be verified by other mathematics). Mathematics is theoretical, because none of its concepts exist in reality; they only exist in the minds of human beings.

Mathematics has no relation to reality. Full stop. Mathematics in certain forms can be very useful to describe some aspects of reality, e.g. Pi * the distance from the center of a circle to the edge will tell you, in whatever measurement system you used (feet and inches, or centimeters and meters, etc.) the area occupied by a circle, mathematics itself is not part of reality.

While mathematics provide useful results in the real world, it only does so because people interpret the results. Even though the rules of math may provide only one possible valid conclusion to a particular mathematical expression, e.g., 2+2= can never have any valid answer except '4', this is just a convention, or a rule people have chosen.

Let's try this. Go out into the world and find me a 4. Not the printed symbol, not four items, not a 3D image of the number, but an actual 4 in reality, You cannot, because there in no such thing as a 4 in the world. Mathematics is all abstract, it has no physical representation in reality.

Let's try the following. You have a cat with four kittens. You need to move them, so if you can only carry one at a time (they are very[/i\ feisty) how many trips would you make? Four. Now, if a cat needed to move the same kittens, how many trips would it make? Five. Cats can't count, so the only things it understands is 'kitten present' or 'kitten not present'. So it starts with the first one, repeats three times, then picks up the last one. The cat has no idea of the concept of the 'zero' and does not realize that in taking the last kitten, there are now no more kittens; it can't think that abstractly. So, having retrieved the last kitten, it goes back and discovers no kittens present.

Yes, mathematics provide useful tools to assist us in interacting with reality, but as an abstract discipline, it has no existence in reality.

So now, having explained this, the answer to your question is: there are no negative beers. In the real world we have only 'exists' and 'does not exist.' Negative numbers are a part of mathematics, which includes them, which makes them an abstract concept.

[AArdvark]

So, you're saying that I can't have tea AND no tea at the same time?

About the cats.....if I have a cat I have to have a litter box, right? So now, let's say the cat runs away. I still have a litter box but I do not have a negative cat? Doesn't the box imply the presence of a cat, and by not having a cat to use the box means a negative cat. Didn't Schrodinger prove this experiment a while ago?

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Let's try this. Go out into the world and find me a 4. Not the printed symbol, not four items, not a 3D image of the number, but an actual 4 in reality, You cannot, because there in no such thing as a 4 in the world. Mathematics is all abstract, it has no physical representation in reality.

What if Vark can find you something close to 4, like 3.14159. Would you agree that exists as a physical representation in reality?