If a container is empty when full, it just means it has zero capacity.
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That would be full when empty
both
Hence Schrödinger.
What kind of “container” has zero capacity?
The kind that's accidentally made solid or given too thick walls in cad.
Eugenia Cooney's stomach, probably.
is the set of all empty sets, still a set?
Does the empty set contain itself?
it is not an element of itself, but is a subset of every other set
"Empty" is a verb and "Full" is an adjective.
I didn't even understand the joke at first because I read it correctly.
English is an adventure.
Every language is like this. English gets more crap because ~60% of the world speaks it
English has a LOT of homophones AND it barely inflects anything. That's certainly not "every language".
Yrah the fact that words in english barely ever change form regardless of context is quite different compared to many other languages.
I'm sure all languages get proportionally similar amounts of flak, but crucially it's in their own language. You don't see anyone making fun of Korean because you (presumably) don't speak Korean and don't go to the same kinds of forums where such mockery is more likely.
Source: I speak Hebrew and we make fun of Hebrew all the time.
Would you like to buy a vowel
If they're as useless and ambiguous as they are in English, we're doing fine without them, thanks :)
f thy'r s slss nd mbgs s thy r n Nglsh, w'r dng fn wtht thm, thnks :)
Checks out.
Most western languages are way less ambiguous than English. But yeah, every one has some stuff like this.
Do you have just the original photo?
hell yeah ty
Me after eating a whole pizza solo