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Quite a day.
I feel like an ass for overreacting about all my feels.
However, I love my best friend more than anything, and I’m really glad we got things sorted out a bit. She is beyond words amazing, and smells nice most of the time, and makes lovely mating call noises, so I can’t ever ever ever lose her (or have her lose herselfffff)
If you end up seeing this at some point, please just smile, a little bit at least. You have a bootyfull smile. And now I’m falling asleep so sgwjajsbmalaknnm nsnann
Replaced the butter with cannabutter and doubled the amount for dinner tonight. (Taken with instagram)
Holy shit holy shit
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The Candle Problem
Given a book of matches, a box of thumbtacks, and a candle, how can you fix the candle to the wall so that its wax won’t drip onto the table below?
See Answer Below
Pin the box to the wall, put the candle in the box, and light it.
In experiments, Gestalt psychologist Karl Duncker found that most subjects instead tried to pin the candle directly to the wall or to use melted wax to affix it there (neither worked). Duncker called this “functional fixedness” — a “mental block against using an object in a new way that is required to solve a problem.” In this case, subjects had “fixated” on the box’s function as a container, which prevented them from considering it as a platform. If the box was empty at the start of the experiment, they were more likely to find the correct solution.
In a 2000 study, psychologists Tim German and Margaret Defeyter found the 6- and 7-year-olds show signs of functional fixedness, but 5-year-olds appear immune to it: “Rather than taking into account only the properfunction of an object, they adopt and agents-goals view of function in which any intentional use of an object can be its function.”
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