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xkcd #2898: Orbital Argument (imgs.xkcd.com)

submitted 6 months ago by randomaccount43543@lemmy.world to c/xkcd@lemmy.world

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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!"

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[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 51 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I appreciate the origin story being included in this cliché, cuz it got repeated so often on Reddit that people seemed to forget it was said by a parody of an obnoxious heartless bureaucrat and repeat the phrase without irony.

[–] Huschke@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You know, you are technically correct.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Which is a kind of correct.

What kind we’ll never know.