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.
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.
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?
65 Comments
Blackout@kbin.social · 25 pts · 3y
This guy has never heard of quantum ducks
alwaysevjo@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
Schrödinger's Duck
dr_rugby@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
Came here to write this... Man you're good.
RagingHungryPanda@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 3y
What you didn't know is that the universe is mostly ducks. Dark matter? More like duck matter!
VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf · 7 pts · 3y
Duck Tales? More like Everything Tales!
tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social · 14 pts · 3y
What about half a duck?
rmuk@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 3y
How crispy we talking?
qaz@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 3y
Is a single cell within a duck a duck or is it itself not a duck?
kerrypacker@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y
Yes.
dudinax@programming.dev · 6 pts · 3y
Inclusive or gets them every time.
gon@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 3y
platypus
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 3y
detard@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Came here to make the same joke. Am not disappoint.
gonzo0815@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 3y
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?
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
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.
TrismegistusMx@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3y
Is a picture of a duck a duck?
Is the life of a duck a duck?
Is your perception of a duck a duck?
RoadieRich@midwest.social · 8 pts · 3y
On the internet, no one can tell you're a duck.
NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social · 8 pts · 3y
Now this is science.
misterdoctor@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
This is where the science begins
Fish@midwest.social · 6 pts · 3y
What about some sorta duck-goose hybrid?
Ddhuud@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
It depends on your definition of duck
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br · 5 pts · 3y
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.
SharkEatingBreakfast@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 3y
What about a platypus? It could be considered part/half-duck. Or even duck-like!
Hyggyldy@sffa.community · 5 pts · 3y
Fewer than 5% of adult cats have a driver's license.
TheDankHold@kbin.social · 5 pts · 3y
Makes sense to me
kogasa@programming.dev · 4 pts · 3y
Mathematical constructivists hate this meme
BmeBenji@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 3y
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”
lemmington_steele@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
depends how you define duck; you can very much make it a binary. ultimately every term is just a construct
BmeBenji@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 3y
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.
BA834024112@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 3y
Binary absolutely exists "in the real world".
BmeBenji@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 3y
I believe that every arbitrarily descriptive line can be crossed by dissecting the nature of the things on either side of the line.
outer_spec@lemmy.studio · 4 pts · 3y
wrong. duck fetus
planish@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 3y
Very strong Law of the Excluded Mallard vibes here.
Aren't you forgetting Goduck's Incompleteness Theorem?
downpunxx@kbin.social · 4 pts · 3y
Schrödinger would like a word
Norgur@kbin.social · 2 pts · 3y
Just because we can't know if something is a duck or not, doesn't mean there are other possibilities.
dudinax@programming.dev · 4 pts · 3y
Hey buddy, you ever here of a loon?
MBM@lemmings.world · 4 pts · 3y
More like law of excluded middle amirite?
Yondoza@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 3y
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?
🦆
Norgur@kbin.social · 3 pts · 3y
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".
UnverifiedAPK@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 3y
Platypus?
Shard@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
Heretic! How dare you!?
Shard@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
Wait. Could Quantum ducks in a superposition state exist? And how would those be a duck or not?
Kleysley@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 3y
OtakuAltair@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 3y
Source? I'll continue to believe in my quantum super-duck until proven otherwise!
Kleysley@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 3y
SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 3y
Schrödingers duck
kkard2@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 3y
everything is a bucket
NoName@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Spudwart@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
There’s more
CAPSLOCKFTW@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 3y
Infinity is only a concept, nothing is infinite.
Resistentialism@lemmy.wtf · 1 pts · 3y
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.
Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 3y
Even hating yourself is finite when you have enough hatred
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 3y
What about the cells the form the wall around the heart of the duck? Is that a duck?
sounddrill@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz · 4 pts · 3y
They are duck
Not individual ducks but a collective duck
blujan@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 3y
No they are not a duck, they are the cells of a duck.
NutWrench@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 3y
If a duck was about to hit his head on something, how would you warn him?
"Hey duck!" ?
CascadianGiraffe@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
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
Volfkha@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 3y
You may see a duck, but Stanley sees a bucket.
ALostInquirer@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 3y
Surely you mean a ducket?
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
Except muscovies. They are both duck and not duck.
Spudwart@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
No way, a space duck!
Climinteedus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Quack!
BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 3y
Well when you put it that way...
TIEPilot@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Ducking A!
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 3y
What about the duck-non-duck hybrids ?
0x2d@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 3y
no way
erez@programming.dev · 1 pts · 3y
Oh, so that's what duck-typing means!
Crashumbc@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 3y
Ok Howard...