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[โ€“] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago (8 children)

A proper engineer would make the tag absorbent and use the principle of capillarity to transfer the water to the bag (and the other way round once tea flavoured) to cover this case.

Users can't avoid being stupid, but a proper engineer should be able to cover all cases.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

So you're saying it should wick the water from the cup to the table like an oil lantern. That seems like a good way to have half of your cup on the table.๐Ÿ˜‚

If you get it to travel up the string, gravity will definitely do the rest. It seems like such a passive aggressive way to design a product and I'm all for it.

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