https://xkcd.com/2898

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“Some people say light is waves, and some say it’s particles, so I bet light is some in-between thing that’s both wave and particle depending on how you look at it. Am I right?” “YES, BUT YOU SHOULDN’T BE!”

  • @CazzoBuco
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    10 months ago

    Middle implies middle. If you are leaning towards a side, then you’re side-leaning. You can’t have your cake and eat it too, centrist, that’s what everyone makes fun of ya’ll for.

    • @AeonFelis
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      1310 months ago

      It’s “somewhere in the middle”. You are putting to much emphasis on “middle” and not enough of “somewhere”.

      • @CazzoBuco
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        -710 months ago

        Somewhere in the middle means there’s a middle and side-leaning, yes.

        • @[email protected]
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          710 months ago

          This is why people hate pedants. You’re technically correct, it’s just a useless distinction that only exists to make you feel better.

        • @AeonFelis
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          10 months ago

          Somewhere in the middle means it doesn’t have to be dead center - it just has be between the two extremes and not exactly one of the extremes. To put it in numbers, somewhere in the middle between 0 and 1 is not just 0.5. It can also be 0.4. Or 0.7. Or 0.00000000001.

    • @[email protected]
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      410 months ago

      a lot of us don’t actually think the answer is always the middle ground between two stances.

    • @Jarix
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      310 months ago

      If i have a very plain boring hamburger. Bun cheese patty bun, are the cheese and patty in the middle? Middle doesnt always mean center, center doesnt always mean exactly in the center between 2 points either because thats why the term dead center exists

    • @RedditWanderer
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      10 months ago

      It’s hilarious he had to make us a little drawing making up his own scale that fits this narrative.

      • @[email protected]
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        710 months ago

        It’s an abstraction of a caricature I’ve seen. Point A was civil rights, point B was the KKK, and the middle ground guy was like “what if we only kill half of Black people?”