Optimist: The glass is ½ full.
Pessimist: The glass is ½ empty.
Excel: The glass is January 2nd.
@ankrjoe they should use libreoffice lmaoooo
@moanos@chaos.social
Scientist: we can't be certain if the glass actually exists or not but if it does than it's mostly made up of nothing due to the space between molecules.
@moanos Me: the glass is half-built
@moanos Or February 1st here in the UK. Yeah, I too now need a drink!
@moanos
*user changes number format to general*
Excel: The glass is 2.
@moanos first of February 👍
@moanos
didn't get the sense about January the 2nd.
Anybody can tell me?
explaining the joke
@JLuisNieves
In a spreadsheet like excel, something written with a slash, like 1/2 would be reformatted as a date- ie, January 2nd (01/02) or February 1st, depending on date writing conventions where one lives.
@gryphon
Oh, thanks.
@JLuisNieves @moanos US dates put month/day; so Jan 2 is 1/2.
@jalefkowit @moanos the glass is 1st February full
@moanos I live at flat 1/1. I often get letters addressed to "1-Jan" :)
@moanos or February 1st
@moanos chemist: the glass is always full of molecules (
@moanos the glass doesn't exist, cause it's simulation
@moanos
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grandparents: be grateful to have a glass, when I was younger we didn't...
@moanos the zen-buddhist: the glass is
@moanos Excel w/italian locale: The glass is 1 Febbraio.
@moanos
Best example for the dysfunctionality of excel: https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-rename-microsoft-excel-misreading-dates