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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    1 year 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
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      161 year 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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        31 year ago

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

      • @Sotuanduso@lemm.ee
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        81 year 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?”

    • @Sotuanduso@lemm.ee
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      41 year ago

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

    • @Jarix@lemmy.world
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      31 year 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