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[-] Honytawk@feddit.nl 2 points 3 hours ago

Try holding an entire mug of coffee with a donut

[-] MattW03@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago
[-] Magnus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 day ago

Who the hell is asking coffee or a donut?

[-] JandroDelSol@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

when someone at work is making a coffee run and can only afford one thing per person

[-] voytrekk@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 day ago

Ya, give me both please.

[-] mech@feddit.org 15 points 1 day ago

It's the same shape, just reshaped

genius!

[-] RedSnt@feddit.dk 7 points 1 day ago

Reminds me a bit of the evolution of the eye

[-] reddifuge@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

They better all weigh the same.

[-] Bluewing@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Shape has little to do with mass. Unless you want it to be so.

[-] yyprum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago

Meanwhile, physicists: "Matter is basically just empty space and tiny particles moving very fast, a hole is just even emptier space"

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 13 points 1 day ago

Well, for one, that's a coffee mug, not coffee. But I suppose coffee can also be in all of these shapes.

It’s asking about the coffee not the coffee cup.

If your coffee has a hole in it that’s weird.

[-] xthexder@l.sw0.com 29 points 1 day ago

I take my coffee black-hole seriously.

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[-] kurwa@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

Ah but you see, coffee in this mug would have a hole in it:

[-] tempest@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago

That's one of those fun things until you have to clean it.

[-] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 day ago

This looks like hell to clean

I could fuck that coffee cup.

[-] Honytawk@feddit.nl 2 points 3 hours ago

Hmm, nice and warm

[-] kurwa@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

I believe you

[-] athatet@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 day ago

Just enjoy the meme you fuckin nerd.

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[-] joenforcer@midwest.social 57 points 1 day ago

Anybody ever think about how humans are just very oddly shaped donuts?

[-] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[-] i_love_FFT@jlai.lu 1 points 3 hours ago

Considérons that our lungs and intestines are porous on a molecular scale... And also our sweat pores... Plus are blood vessels (connected to previously mentioned holes)…

Humans have a changing topology depending on the size scale at which you're working.

[-] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

I mean that is true of basically all structures and materials. It's just the coastline problem. How long is the coastline? Depends on the level of precision you apply and the exact time you measure. Theoretically it is infinite if you keep getting more and more granular with it. That's not helpful or meaningful for general purposes though.

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[-] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 day ago

Silly topologist.

Coffee is a liquid, it can adjust to any shape.

[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

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)
[-] sqgl@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

The ocean is the same as the Hadron Super-Collider, just reshaped.

[-] MarriedCavelady50@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 day ago

I’m 50 and this is deep

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

This is exactly why my local Dunkin Donuts stopped serving topologists.

[-] Phlimy@jlai.lu 14 points 1 day ago

Same! Now they serve coffee and donuts instead.

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[-] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 day ago

I see no coffee here.

[-] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 day ago

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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[-] billygoat@catata.fish 12 points 1 day ago

The Animorphs book covers are getting weird…

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