Spyke

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

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qaz
lemmy.world

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

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gonzo0815reply
sh.itjust.works

What about parts of a hot dog?

What if I ate a hot dog?

You wouldn't claim a hot dog is not a hot dog anymore after I took a bite, right?

If parts of a hot dog are a hot dog, when do they become non-hotdog in my intestines?

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If a hot dog is no longer a hot dog after you take a bite, what is it? It's still a sandwich consisting of a sausage in a bun; you're just masticating now.

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Is a picture of a duck a duck?

Is the life of a duck a duck?

Is your perception of a duck a duck?

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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.

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lemm.ee

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”

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lemmy.world

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

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lemm.ee

You can make the term a binary, but binary doesn’t really exist in the real world. Your DNA is part duck just by nature of being a vertebrate.

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I believe that every arbitrarily descriptive line can be crossed by dissecting the nature of the things on either side of the line.

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Very strong Law of the Excluded Mallard vibes here.

Aren't you forgetting Goduck's Incompleteness Theorem?

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

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sh.itjust.works

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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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".

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lemmy.world

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

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lemm.ee

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

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lemmy.wtf

Oh? Nothing is infinite? What about the universe? Sure it ends somewhere. But not for long.

Oh, also, my hatred for myself is pretty infinite.

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Even hating yourself is finite when you have enough hatred

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lemmy.ml

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

"Hey duck!" ?

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