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[–] RizzRustbolt 3 points 1 day ago

Turns out it was FOOF.

[–] FuglyDuck 20 points 2 days ago

Opportunistic Lab Intern:

“While you’re all debating if it’s half full or half empty I drank it. Now it’s empty.”

[–] BlackWalnut 72 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

a true engineer gets a mindworm and precisely calculates and trials the minimum size of glass needed to contain the liquid without spilling

[–] [email protected] 73 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Bad Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
Good Engineer: The glass is 66% full with a 25% safety margin.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This glass has a safety factor of 2

Re: good engineer: this is the thing that frustrates me amount marketing/labeling for travel mugs or cookware; the listed capacity is the absolute brim capacity not the practical capacity. Want to put 16 oz in a 16 oz mug you’re gonna have to sip 3 ounces out first in order to put the lid on. Want to serve 2 qt soup? Gotta use the 3 qt pot.

[–] pufferfisherpowder 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yes!! So unbelievably annoying. Okay. Thank you. The total volume of this cylinder is 473ml. What the fuck can I use this for?! What I want you to tell me: total volume and total practical volume. Dumb af

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

Real engineer: it's full. Approximately 50% water, and the rest air.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Mechanic: The glass is not leaking. Returned to service.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"The glass was built to the wrong specifications"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Glass functioning as intended. Any deficiencies that arise are due to the failure of the customer to provide appropriate design parameters.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Backyard tinkerer and wannabe Engineer: I'll just use this glass jar I used to drain some gas as the thing to drink my water now ..... this is water right?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Not if you need to stir it.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago (5 children)

The beaker is always full, when it's half full of water, it is also at the same time half full of air. THE GLASS IS ALWAYS FULL

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 4 points 1 day ago

for some reason that was never acceptable answer when I gave it. i think they were just jealous they didn't think of it.

[–] dvlsg 11 points 2 days ago (3 children)

But what if I pour vacuum into the beaker?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Then it would be full of dust bunnies

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I'd like a bagel with everything

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Full of vacuum

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Hopefully, otherwise it may end bad: https://what-if.xkcd.com/6/

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[–] cosmictrickster 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Realist: who’s cleaning all these glasses?

[–] MataVatnik 5 points 2 days ago

Fucking real

[–] NocturnalMorning 35 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My mother in-law is a lab scientist. She says this is accurate.

[–] MataVatnik 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You don't even know the half of it

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Ah, it's this time of the year again. linked-list (version 3)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (3 children)

My lab is pretty easy to guess, it's either 18 MΩ water, 100% EtOH, or 16M HNO3. 66% chance it's not acutely dangerous, not bad for a lab!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Sticky, Silky, and Danger Syrup! Sounds like a cool lab.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

Scientist Russian Roulette: Drink the mystery breaker. They all have water, except for one that's hydroflouric acid.

[–] stupidcasey 8 points 2 days ago

Ahh found that label!:

99.985% Pure.

Nitrogen (N₂): 39%

Oxygen (O₂): 10.5%

Argon (Ar): 0.465%

Carbon dioxide (CO₂): 0.02%

Water (H₂O): 50%

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I thought the half full, half empty thing. Was about the flow of water. If you're emptying the glass, at some point the glass will be half empty. If you fill the glass, at one point the glass will be half full.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

It's a thought experiment with a static partly filled glass of water, it isn't in a process. It is intended to show the different ways of describing the amount of water.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

100% Full with 50% volume occupied by Dihydrogen monoxide molecules and 50% volume occupied by a mixture of molecules in gas form, colloquially refer as "air", which contains, according to the statistical data recorded by analyzing the gas molecules in the air in the Earth's Atmosphere, 78.08% nitrogen, 20.95% oxygen, 0.93% argon, 0.04% carbon dioxide, and small amounts of other trace gases.

🤓

(I have no idea what I'm saying lol)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

Scientific paper writer

[–] madthumbs 8 points 2 days ago (10 children)

After a long romp, a fairly new g/f went into my kitchen, grabbed a 1 gal bottle of white vinegar from the fridge, poured herself a glass and tried to chugged it while I was still in bed recovering. -She had the nerve to think I tried to poison her (for half a minute)!

Read and use labels. lol

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why do you keep vinegar in the fridge? I keep the gallon jug in a cupboard and smaller container just on the counter

[–] marcos 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Why do you keep vinegar in the fridge?

Imagine the trouble if it rots!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That beaker does not look half full to me. Many like 1/3rd full, or at least somewhere between that and half full.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago
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