It’s asking about the coffee not the coffee cup.
If your coffee has a hole in it that’s weird.
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Just enjoy the meme you fuckin nerd.
I can't enjoy it if it's obviously based on lies.
Plus look at that fucking coffee cup handle and tell me you like it, I dare you.
I had a very cool class in research epistemology and the exercise was basically to answer the question, do liquids have a shape and if yes, which is it? How would you prove it?
It was the source of the most deranged but valuable discussion I've ever had.
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Anybody ever think about how humans are just very oddly shaped donuts?
That's not entirely true. We don't have just one hole going through us. Our holes branch. We have 3 intakes (2 nostrils, 1 mouth) and 2 outputs (1 anus, 1 urethra). If you simplified us down topographically, it'd be like you formed a donut around a starfish with the arms sticking out and then you just deleted the starfish.
We also have a bunch of doors on the holes.
So... you're saying we're houses.
...topologically. Geometrically, I'm more of a saggy tent myself
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I’m 50 and this is deep
Silly topologist.
Coffee is a liquid, it can adjust to any shape.
You must be shapeless, formless, like coffee. When you pour coffee in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour coffee in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour coffee in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Coffee can flow and it can crash. Become like coffee my friend.
- Bruce Lee (the hipster barista down the block)
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It's the same shape, just reshaped
genius!
Well, for one, that's a coffee mug, not coffee. But I suppose coffee can also be in all of these shapes.
I see no coffee here.
I’d eat a coffee mug shaped donut, but a waffle would hold up better. An elephant ear is fine as well, but a crepe is right out.
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This is exactly why my local Dunkin Donuts stopped serving topologists.
Same! Now they serve coffee and donuts instead.
Ha, if you can even call them that!
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Is "topologist" a job? Like someone who specializes in telling you how many holes and knots exist in a given object, How to "untie" seemingly knotted things that actually topographically have no knots? Do you clock in for that, or is it a 1099 freelancer thing?
you can be a mathematics professor who specializes in topology, but that's probably about as close as it gets from what i know
3D artists can specialize in topology where they make sure to clean up the models that other artists sculpt to optimize them for animation and performance. Depending on the use case you need different approaches to a models topology and it can get very complex actually. So yeah, it is people's entire jobs to do this and they probably get paid more than us.
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Incidentally, this is also the only thing most people know about what topology even is
Meanwhile, physicists: "Matter is basically just empty space and tiny particles moving very fast, a hole is just even emptier space"
Hmmmm, 7 donuts
Topology is one of those sciences that is hyper-niche to the point that it seems like it would have very limited scope, but when you take a closer look it's actually studying something fundamental.
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Reminds me a bit of the evolution of the eye
What the hell is that handle on the mug. You can maybe fit one finger in that thing!
Who the hell wants a ceramic donut?
or a soggy cup-shaped donut with coffee soaking through it
if someone could find a way to make a coffee mug out of a donut that doesnt leak and you could eat it afterward i would love that.
It would probably have to be… glazed
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