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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This guy has never heard of quantum ducks

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 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!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Duck Tales? More like Everything Tales!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

How crispy we talking?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] dudinax 6 points 1 year ago

Inclusive or gets them every time.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 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?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Heretic! How dare you!?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Makes sense to me

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] kogasa 4 points 1 year ago

Mathematical constructivists hate this meme

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

wrong. duck fetus

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Schrödinger would like a word

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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”

[–] [email protected] 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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

More like law of excluded middle amirite?

[–] dudinax 4 points 1 year ago

Hey buddy, you ever here of a loon?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What about some sorta duck-goose hybrid?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It depends on your definition of duck

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Very strong Law of the Excluded Mallard vibes here.

Aren't you forgetting Goduck's Incompleteness Theorem?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Infinity is only a concept, nothing is infinite.

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[–] [email protected] 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?

[–] [email protected] 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?

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[–] [email protected] 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".

[–] [email protected] 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?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

They are duck

Not individual ducks but a collective duck

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[–] [email protected] 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!" ?

[–] [email protected] 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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Well when you put it that way...

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

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Surely you mean a ducket?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Except muscovies. They are both duck and not duck.

[–] erez 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, so that's what duck-typing means!

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