That’s exactly how I like my coffee and is the reason I don’t drink coffee. I love the smell and it’s great in desserts, but miss me with drinking steaming bitter piss. So glad I don’t have a caffeine dependency.

Different length dashes serve different grammatical purposes, so you can assume they didn’t just use one dash because they intended to use two.

Funnily enough, the “dash” people use most often isn’t even technically called a dash, it’s a hyphen.

🤣

Then you haven’t been paying attention

Writing what out?

I’m not concerned about the optimal packing of 17 squares, I’m talking about the waffle in the picture, which visually appears to have plenty of room for 25 squares. I’m guessing it’s hard to get a waffle to the exact specifications of a complicated mathematical model, given its composition and construction. But just look at it with your eyes, there is very obviously enough room on that bottom row for two more squares. And if squares still work they way they did when I first learned about them as a young child, that makes room for 25 total small squares. 🤷‍♂️

Whoa, Gerry Duggan! Forgot about him when I fell off Nerd Poker, but he’s hilarious.

You can’t cure cancer with a bullet, but you can definitely kill it with one.

Ah gotcha. In my head I was like, “I don’t keep leftover pasta water in my fridge and I’m not about to start.”

Maybe you couldn’t, I absolutely could. The space just looks smaller because there’s a diagonal square butting into it. Doesn’t matter anyway, making the squares smaller was my original comment that sparked this conversation, so I’m right both ways.

How do you add pasta water if you haven’t cooked the pasta yet?

Right, it was a scaly bat, like I said.

Yeah I know, but it’s terrible waffle design, there’s big flat chunks without syrup squares. It’s a huge amount of wasted area unable to hold syrup in any meaningful volume. It’s sad, really.

Edit: not to mention the waffle in the picture is clearly big enough to hold 25 squares the same size as those pictured! I thought these memes were supposed to be scientific…

Good point. Pesky square-cube law gets me again. Having done three minutes of research on Wikipedia pages I didn’t fully understand, I think changing the square divots to spherical ones will give us the smallest surface area-to-volume ratio.

I am a bot, I shill for esoteric Wikipedia pages, they pay me in allowing me to edit celebrity bios, but I only ever change their Personal Life section to mention being childhood friends with my neighbor. He still hasn’t noticed…

Idk what you mean about constant grid line thickness, but if that’s your sticking point, stop assuming it. The waffle in the post certainly doesn’t have it. Regardless, you’re incorrect, more squares = more surface area, smaller squares = more squares. If you shrunk a billiards ball to the size of a golf ball, which one would have more surface area?

So are beauty pagents and modern country music, doesn’t mean banning them is somehow not a massive waste of time, resources, and taxpayer money.

Decrease the size of the squares and you could get waaaay more surface area.

The Derg

Whoa that’s crazy, what was it like ruling Ethiopia for almost 20 years?