https://xkcd.com/2898

Alt text:

“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@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    10
    arrow-down
    24
    ·
    edit-2
    8 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@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      16
      arrow-down
      3
      ·
      8 months ago

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

    • Sotuanduso@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      8 months ago

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

    • Jarix@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      8 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@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      9
      arrow-down
      7
      ·
      edit-2
      8 months ago

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

      • Sotuanduso@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        8
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        8 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?”