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[–] Blackout@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This guy has never heard of quantum ducks

[–] alwaysevjo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] RagingHungryPanda@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What you didn't know is that the universe is mostly ducks. Dark matter? More like duck matter!

[–] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 7 points 1 year ago

Duck Tales? More like Everything Tales!

[–] tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago

How crispy we talking?

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is a single cell within a duck a duck or is it itself not a duck?

[–] kerrypacker@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] dudinax@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

Inclusive or gets them every time.

[–] gon@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago
[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] TrismegistusMx@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is a picture of a duck a duck?

Is the life of a duck a duck?

Is your perception of a duck a duck?

[–] NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] misterdoctor@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

This is where the science begins

[–] RoadieRich@midwest.social 8 points 1 year ago

On the internet, no one can tell you're a duck.

[–] Fish@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What about some sorta duck-goose hybrid?

[–] Ddhuud@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It depends on your definition of duck

[–] TheDankHold@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Makes sense to me

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 5 points 1 year ago

There's a linear algebra joke that can complement this one and goes like this:

Everything in the universe is either a duck or not a duck, but almost everything that is not a duck, if examined very closely or in really short time intervals, it behaves as a duck and you can apply duck methods to it.

[–] UnverifiedAPK@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Shard@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Heretic! How dare you!?

What about a platypus? It could be considered part/half-duck. Or even duck-like!

[–] Hyggyldy@sffa.community 5 points 1 year ago

Fewer than 5% of adult cats have a driver's license.

[–] dudinax@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

Hey buddy, you ever here of a loon?

[–] BmeBenji@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The fun thing about the existence of infinity is that there is an infinite number of possible points on the line between “duck” and “not duck”

[–] lemmington_steele@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

depends how you define duck; you can very much make it a binary. ultimately every term is just a construct

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[–] downpunxx@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Schrödinger would like a word

[–] Norgur@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Just because we can't know if something is a duck or not, doesn't mean there are other possibilities.

[–] outer_spec@lemmy.studio 4 points 1 year ago

wrong. duck fetus

[–] MBM@lemmings.world 4 points 1 year ago

More like law of excluded middle amirite?

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

Mathematical constructivists hate this meme

[–] planish@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Very strong Law of the Excluded Mallard vibes here.

Aren't you forgetting Goduck's Incompleteness Theorem?

[–] Shard@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait. Could Quantum ducks in a superposition state exist? And how would those be a duck or not?

[–] Kleysley@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This wouldnt work because if quantums are grouped together they lose their quantum properties. Thus a duck in a superposition can unfortunately not exist :)

[–] OtakuAltair@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Source? I'll continue to believe in my quantum super-duck until proven otherwise!

[–] SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Schrödingers duck

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[–] kkard2@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] CAPSLOCKFTW@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Infinity is only a concept, nothing is infinite.

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[–] Yondoza@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What about a fertilized but unhatched duck egg? That's kinda both a duck and not a duck.

I think you'd consider a roast duck a duck, but what about a duck drumstick? Would you say that's not a duck? If so, how much of the roast duck needs to be connected for it to be a duck?

🦆

[–] Norgur@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Since this is indeed a binary system, every part of "Duck" is also "Duck". So a duck salad is not duck, bit the meat in it is "duck".

[–] Spudwart@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Except muscovies. They are both duck and not duck.

[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Well when you put it that way...

[–] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If a duck was about to hit his head on something, how would you warn him?

"Hey duck!" ?

[–] CascadianGiraffe@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

They are called ducks because they duck.

https://www.pond5.com/stock-footage/item/67244-ducks-are-performing-head-bobbing-mating-dance-high-definiti

information in this text has not been peer reviewed

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What about the cells the form the wall around the heart of the duck? Is that a duck?

They are duck

Not individual ducks but a collective duck

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[–] Volfkha@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You may see a duck, but Stanley sees a bucket.

[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Surely you mean a ducket?

[–] 0x2d@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago
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