xkcd #3076: The Roads Both Taken

https://xkcd.com/3076/

When you worry that you're missing out on something by not making both choices simultaneously by quantum superposition, that's called phomo.

https://explainxkcd.com/3076/

133 points · 3 comments · view on lemmy.world

3 Comments

YungOnions@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Is that not missing an 'I'? As in

I travelled both though I be one traveller...

Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 1y

It's an adaptation from "the road not taken", by Robert Frost, which does the same

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y

There’s already an “I” earlier in that sentence, so it’s not necessary necessary, especially in poetry, but it would absolutely be clearer with another.